Recent content by Autumnal

There’s more overall story there than is visible at the start. Trust me, would I lie to you? I finished Wolfhound Century. It remained great. It does end on a cliffhanger, but then I look forward to reading more about this place and these people.

I’d hoped this would be my last book of 2025, but missed it by a hundred fifty pages or so: Wolfhound Century, by Peter Higgins. This has been my library for years, and finally I go to it. Wow, it’s great. It’s a police procedural whose investigation leads to matters of politics and revolution...

From Richard Kadrey: And from Ben Monroe:

Pendragon is a possibility. The sets of personality traits for cultural virtues is a very handy thing, and the passions are great for anything with heavy melodrama. (Thinking here of a late friend whose character in Stafford’s campaign had Suspicious 20 and Loyalty (Arthur) 22. He saw threats...

Those are really weird labels. Like, Gibson has been vocally anti-capitalist his whole career, and so is Bacigulpi. If Dick isn’t a philosopher, nobody in sf is, b ii t since are structured societies a thing to philosophers to seek? le Guin concerned with order but Lem and Mieville not? WTF?

I finished The Darkness That Comes Before, by R. Scott Bakker. I really enjoyed it, and look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy. I’ve seen reviewers comment that William Gibson has a good ear for subcultures’ dialects, which is how his inventions ended up as prominent element of actual...

I’m taking a few days off - the general site level of irony and cynicism got me down, and I need my emotions free for other things. I expect to be back before the end of the year for wrap-up thoughts and seeing what the rest of y’all got up to.