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JBurning Chrome by William Gibson. A collection mostly of pre-Neuromancer short stories, including several that built out the Sprawl...
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Jjian replied to the thread What are you reading in 2026?.The Wood Beyond the World is a fantastic title and also reminds me of Narnia, specifically the Wood Between the Worlds in The Magician’s...
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JI've been continuing to read the fantasy novels of William Morris and, so far this year, have finished The Wood Beyond the World and...
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JEurgh. Spider-Man clone saga. So many changes introduced over a long run of stories, only for each and every one of them to be...
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Jjian reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Friday Worldbuilding Fun: Supers Appear in Different Eras and/or Settings with
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Some more from the MLU: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Witch’s Letter Leonard Tolstoy: War Machine and Peace Miguel Cervantes: Doom... -
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Something popped into my head: The Marvel Literary Universe. Imagine classic literary fiction, but with supers. Emily Brontë...
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Homelander has mass-murdered the chat
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“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering vamp; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for...
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And now HR is involved.
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Jjian replied to the thread Friday Worldbuilding Fun: Supers Appear in Different Eras and/or Settings.Mr Earnshaw: Here’s a feral orphan I picked up in the woods on my business trip, children. Please make him feel at home. Children: Put...
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Keeping it short because off-topic - I think it's always been a major issue but the way the press operated before 24 hour news and the...
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I feel like the Marvel and DC takes on this kind of thing have been really, really bad and frankly lazy examples of what you could do...
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Marvel 1602 was really good. If you can find it in a used bookstore or some other way that doesn't give Neil Gaiman any money, I'd...
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I recall several What If. and Dark Knights where they did this. Supers as knights in medieval times and Superman landing in Germany...
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Jjian replied to the thread Friday Worldbuilding Fun: Supers Appear in Different Eras and/or Settings.Is that Wayne Reynolds art? Awesome. I think Kenneth Hite did a few of these. I quite liked the Marvel Roman one (the Pythagoreans -...