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The White Ribbon Runs the Red Lights - Blake Michael Nelson - Part of his Signalverse series of short superhero novels. I saw a recommendation for this series from Lawrence Watt Evans and decided to check it out. This book appealed to me most, so I picked it up - most of the books are...

The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Classic sci-fi era meets modern sci-fi, military adventurism, first-contact, space mystery - this has it all.

i was 15/16-ish. 1977.

Finished up The Traitor, the last book in The Covenant of Steel by Anthony Ryan. One of the best fantasy series I've read in many years. Low-magic grim and gritty war story.

Been a big hurdle for me as well, which is one reason to never, ever find out anything about any creative's personal life :) After the Sad Puppies business - whereupon he took a giant messy crap in someone else's living room and expected people to thank him for it - and his various screeds, I...

The Grace of Kings (Dandelion Dynasty, The) by Ken Liu (Author) - #1 in the four book Dandelion Dynasty series. Very good book, and I would say that the first book does an excellent job of being a stand-alone book as well, in case getting into a four-book (and these are not small books)...

The vast majority of Appendix N was written before 1970. Gygax's personal taste shouldn't be the baseline.

The first LGBT+ representation I can remember seeing is in Chaosium's adventure At Your Door (1990), set in modern day Not-San-Francisco. One of the lawyers you encounter has a young man as his live-in, and in the side-adventures, the two Wiccan dudes are described as 'discrete lovers'.

The current Nightwing series is a delight. Nightwing 1: Leaping into the Light is where I'd start. Word's Finest and it's soon-to-be-out companion Teen Titans book are set in the 'recent past' where Dick is still Robin, and Batman and Superman are best buddies.

Interesting that alignment is such a big discussion point. Chuck it entirely.

Back to reading SF! I started off with Mickey 7 and it's sequel Antimatter Blues - it's been highly touted and there is a movie or show adaptation coming soon. I hope they get it right because this show absolutely will live and die with the 'voice' of Mickey. His personality carries the entire...

I think that in general, things should not be 'scrubbed' but you absolutely must be sure that when you do present such content that it is not presented in a way that perpetuates stereotypes; this can occur through simple inattention to the actual source material. When you build out everything...

Once they have some cast and a director, etc, on board, it might be worth paying attention to. Otherwise, with all the money problems WB is having lately, this sounds much more like hand-waving to placate the nervous investor class, and keep them from dumping WB stock. This is something it would...

Finishing up Elizabeth Bear's Lotus Kingdoms series. It's a great ride, with multiple viewpoints across three major factions. There are some interesting ideas for D&D magic, since we get 3-4 different schools of thought on what magic is and how it works and where the power of a wizard comes...