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Fantastic. On my list now.

A lot of Orwell’s best work is in his essays. A couple faves: - Reflections on Gandhi - Charles Dickens

David Seddon, who narrates the audiobook version of Robert Rath’s The Fall Of Cadia, is having all kinds of fun with the demon voices. He makes them sound really eerie and downright unwholesome. Also, Rath does a fantastic job juggling a very large cast characters. Not the biggest I’ve ever seen...

Kuttner wasn’t as good as his wife, Catherine Moore, but that just means you have to settle for a lot of very good to excellent work from him. :)

Oh, Grimsbury looks great! Thanks as ever for the roundup.

It’s really, really good for that.

I had a major panic attack over political developments and am dealing some 40K fiction into the mix for distraction. It does that well for me, being something to think about that doesn’t connect to current troubles.

One of my favorite songs of the ‘80s.

They’ll pronounce it “paranoimia”.

These are from excavations in Nineveh, figurines with a dog’s name.

The last couple weeks…whoo. Two top-tier delights, an excellent short audio drama, and two DNFs. WTF? The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard. Top-tier reread. Set late this century as the world is heating (130 F midday in London, 180 F midday at the equator) and reverting to something like Triassic...

Yes, your comparison makes sense.

David went on to become a big fan of the game as it evolved. He’s the one who got me hooked on it, in fact. So it’s not like that was his last word.

David Dunham - who went on to create King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages - described his initial reaction to Hero Wars as “You develop your character’s qualities, engage with the environment in unique ways, encounter obstacles to the pursuit of your goals, and then a hand of bridge breaks out.”