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This is just about always the first one I think of when people ask about movies better than their sources (followed by Jaws and The Godfather). I really like the movie’s moral core.

De Bow’s Review was one of the most…I don’t have good adjectives for it. They set out to be the intellectual powerhouse of the slave states. This led them to host things like drapetomania, and a theory that slaves’ blood naturally circulated more sluggishly, so that hard labor and vigorous...

It has, particularly novellas. Amazon’s program of sets of 5-7 short stories as anthologies exists and flourishes, for example. Tor.com releases make good money as well as winning a lot of awards; similarly for other genres I know less about.

Loner Imperium and Loner Galaxy Drifter, two more supplements for my current favorite solo system. The first is one of the rare third-party supplements, covering th early Roman Empire )Five Good Emperors era in particular). It’s a joy, covering features of Roman life from debate and court cases...

There’s a fairly small list of things I actively refuse to engage with (usual suspects here), a fairly long list of things I’ve either got no curiosity about or have sampled and don’t wish to engage with any more, and a goodly number of things I’ve got no objection to and may well enjoy some but...

Catch-up time. I had to shelve a reread of the Book of the New Sun. Just too damn much stress right now. Four Lost Cities, by Analee Newitz. Fascinating and delightful, using four very different cities to discuss endings that aren’t necessarily calamities. I learned a lot and never felt...

Something rules-light, written by people who genuinely enjoy all thee trilogies and th ancillary stuff. It should worry much about grognards like, say, me; we can fem for ourselves. Th target audience should be th people of the latter 2020s who are enjoying Star Wars now, first and foremost...

Looking forward to reading about your experience. My Ironsworn play is also, and I’m curious about multi-player dynamics.

The goddess of defenestration never closes a door without opening a window.

Reynard, if you have time, re/read When Gravity Fails. It’s got a lot of stuff worth swiping, and you may as well use George Alec Effinger’s homework as not. :)

Some folks in this thread should read Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Allison. It’s all about ways of organizing narratives other than arcs, with many many examples, and is fascinating. It’s soeedednip me getting to my next few gaming sessions, because u want to...

I’d put some things together for the vibe from Shi’ar Imperial Guard to Legion of Super-Heroes: officially sanctioned supers representing a multi-ethnic/multi-species society, solving an escalating crisis set up by the Big Bad. Individual sessions might involve an apparently natural disaster on...

One more Wolfe bit before I move along, commenting on both the setting and Severian’s perspective:

Wolfe isn’t holding it up for unqualified admiration, either. But the language is so good. Sounds like I need to read some Aiken.

A bit more Wolfe: And even better: