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I finished reading Sterling's Schismatrix. It was good sci-fi, but I wouldn't necessarily classify it as cyberpunk. Now I'm reading...

No, the Nantucket series is however tied to the Emberverse series.

No, it’s its own thing. It’s a different twenty-first century, and a different historical milieu.

And of course GURPS Cyberpunk

There's always

So while I was traveling, I finished Ursula K LeGuin's third Earthsea book, The Farthest Shore. I remember as a callow youth not liking...

Is this related to SM Stirling's Nantucket series?

On my list, he's a great hard SF writer. Lucky to be reading it for the first time, and your characterization of it is 110% correct, imo

Are you worried about Alzheimer’s? Kinda feel being able to publish at least 6 novels after the diagnosis is amazing which just goes to...

I decided to go back to my childhood and re-read the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. I had forgotten how formative they were about...

Yes, 100%. We always backpack with a bear box, even when we went to Santa Catalina Island, where there are no bears, but there are...

I'll totally agree with the boogeyman philosophy. Some of the good behavior that I'm sure it's helped to deter is scouts wandering off...

Oh! I never thought about mountain lions attacking you in the night as you pee. Great! I love backpacking, but as your ongoing saga...

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, was assassinated by the Israeli military along...

Here's the Monday Blues Map #178 map. This is a stand alone dungeon with two connecting levels (via a teleporter). Click to enlarge...