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Fate makes a handy framework for this. The survival horror chapter of the Fate Horror Toolkit also works for survival nom-horror, with some really ingenious sub-systems: https://fate-srd.com/fate-horror-toolkit/chapter-6-high-cost-living The same mechanics would slide well into any game where...

I read Thomas Ligotti and Eugene Thacker and history. I do grimdark. But I do appreciate advance comments like that, because sometimes I need something else at a particular moment. @Parmandur I’ll be interested in your reaction. Katabasis is here in my queue too.

I agree so much. Various regulars here have favorite authors whose works do nothing for me. So I don’t comment on them. Who needs it? Likewise, folks have been very kind in my rambling on about weird books and subjects, and I appreciate it. I’m pretty good on philosophy, including a bunch of...

Well, okay, then. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/542469/plan-9-from-outer-space-the-game-a-science-fiction-gothic-horror-cult-film-rpg-with-everything-needed-to-play

This is why they’ve become essential for me, or at least the #1 reason for it. My brain is finicky, and too many fine books on my shelves tsk literally 5-10 times longer to read then the same text in a configured-for-Bruces reader. My Kindle library runs to several thousand volumes, about half...

So true about volume lengths. Amazon has the Henderson omnibii; dunno who else does.

There’s a matching volume, Believing, with all of her non-People stories.

That sounds like a Howard Waldrop story to go with his “Heart of Whitenesse”, which is about Christopher Marlowe as if he were Philip Marlowe. Oh yes. I love that kind of book. There’s now Ingsthering, an omnibus of all the People stories.

Yeah, the Thomas Aquinas fandom is certainly something. True. Probably. I try to allow room for exceptions to my pessimism. There are a couple brief hints of speculation that exploded reactor was doing something unusual - different fuel and/or methods, so that it wasn’t just generic...

This is great stuff. Thanks for the link!

This has been baffling me ever since my teenage first encounters with various fandoms. “Hi, I spent a bunch of money in this thing, can anybody tell me about it?” I was raised to ask that question before the spending part. Is it just that I never had huge quantities of free spending money? Did...

I’m starting my current 100-book challenge with Children of the Atom by Wilmar Shiras. This is a 1953 fixup novel collecting a series of stories about super-intelligent children born to the survivors of a 1938 atomic power test disaster. Shiras’ work is repeatedly cited as a likely but not...