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Ohhh yeahhh. Very, very true.

On the flip side, it would also help to have reminders like “he’s really good on history related to X - pay attention” and “make sure to save any mechanics she posts related to Y, since you like using them”.

The best part of Arkham Asylum for me was some of the amazing blue and blue-green hues in Dave McKean’s palette. Overall, it just didn’t work for me. But overreach is a thing that happens sometimes when very talented people, which those two are, go experimenting.

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Hmm. So many possibilities. Norstrilia, by Cordwainer Smith, for the beauty of the language and the deranged genius of its world building.Roadside Picnic, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, for its vision of the unknowable embedded in the practicalities of modern life. The Big Time, by Fritz...

I’ll be looking forward to your thoughts on this. I reread Hyperion and am halfway through The Fall of Hyperion. It’s been interesting, in several senses. Simmons’ prose is absolutely as good as I remembered, and so are the good parts of these books. The overall cosmology and story, the...

It boggles me that so many people struggle with 2014 and 2024. I have to wonder what the D&D community would make of the editions of Frankenstein (1818 and 1831), or editions of Shakespeare, or Zelazny’s “Damnation Alley” versus Damnation Alley (and countless other such cases), or works with...

Glad to help complicate your life. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(graphic_novel)

I remember feeling that way about Batman: The Cult at the time. I doted on Starlin’s cosmic series like Warlock and Dreadstar, so it was a huge disappointment. Never had the urge to reread it. Speaking of the 1970s and cosmic stuff, though, in 1978, Samuel Delany and Howard Chaykin worked...

No question that some of Simmons’ work is vile trash. But his best work influenced both my taste and my writing style. Life is complex: it has real parts and imaginary parts. Hey! Want a change of pace? Check this out: