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I dont see WotC throwing good money after bad. And Strahds essentially a Dracula knock off. I dont see anyone paying money to license...

That gets you the tiny D&D audience, and probably makes the mainstream audience think “huh, that’s weird, why did they change Van...

Why wouldn’t they use Dracula, a similar but much better known and more popular—and copyright free—IP? There’s no advantage in using a...

What does the inside cover say?

Hard to say until we get more books. Also we're the books already in progress when they left?

Working my way through Tales from Earthsea (the book, not the terrible movie). This thing is fantastic so far.

Just finished Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp (she also wrote The Rescuers, on which the Disney film is based, a bit like Dodie Smith and...

Yeah I don't get why beyond that it's very "topical", very pandemic/post-pandemic, and maybe they've never read one of his books that...

Yes, I agree Ogres and Firewalkers (2020) and even Ironclads (2017) handled what sounds like similar themes well. And of course he’s...

I'd blame the pandemic but it was released in 2024, and Ogres, which was released in 2022, much closer to the pandemic, is also much...

If only! System Shock is, as fiction, quite superior to this. And System Shock is not exactly amazing, story-wise. Re: SHODAN, The...

Oh god the yachting crews. That was so implausible I'd mentally put it as being in another book. Yes I found that out later and it did...

These anachronisms are also my only criticsm for the book which moved it from 5 to 4.5 stars. I will also never forget the rich people...

I feel like this is an un-usefully overbroad definition of "use a platform", I think you should have to have at least actively used it...

I must sadly kinda disrecommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point. It's the only book of his I've read that I would say was...