Recent content by Eyes of Nine

https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/winners-and-stats/ I have heard good things but have not read the best novel winner...

Ah, the foreshadowing...

And yes I know who Starbuck is lol (wait, Melville's or Adama's?)

I agree most wars are won with coffee, but defense budgets being what they are (here's your realism), probably more "powered by Folgers"...

agree

Ooof, I used to work for a Michael Sloan, who is related to the hobby game industry, so for one brief second I thought "uh oh..."

Huh. TIL there's a lot of nerd stuff out there that I have no connection with. But love that others do... Yes, echoing pukunui - thanks the explanation

Letting my mind wander along fantasy trails and avenues while backpacking or long hiking is a favorite passtime. I may still someday run or write my element bending mashup with Pullman's golden compass (at least the little partner critter-daemons part) rpg. Or maybe it'll just stay out on the...

Haven't read Metrophage, but I'm slowly slowly working my way through the Sandman Slim novels. Kadrey is kind of underrated I think.

And of course GURPS Cyberpunk

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 it. I felt like it was too sad. But this time reading it, I took a much different message away. That in spite of things looking really bleak, you keep going...

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

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 little rodents that'll eat through your pack to get at anything that smells remotely like food. The hard plastic bear box is a great storage location for the food...

Oh! I never thought about mountain lions attacking you in the night as you pee. Great! I love backpacking, but as your ongoing saga shows, there's a ton of little things that we take for granted in our daily lives that when backpacking are potentially dangerous (the water thing is another!)