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Not once it’s dead, no.

Me too. I think I read her readership is about 60/40, but I’d have to check.

Okay, Paul, your family are just troublemakers. :). Seriously, I’m having a hard time thinking of anything to compare to romance categories like stories about virtuous young Hispanic women working as secretaries who find true love and can retire to be Christian home-makers. Didn’t make thst up...

It’s complicated. Some genres very strongly appeal to one sex. Some appeal mostly to one sex. Some have evenly mixed readership. In some cases, publishers have a strong sense of their readership and market accordingly. In other cases, marketing is aiming at some basically imaginary audience. In...

Iall is apparently enslaved by the idea they must not related to an ideas in anyway that someone influenced by Objectivism might call being enslaved.

When I could play with others anything like regularly, I’d sometimes get a new edition for the sake of working from materials others could also get easily. But that’s no longer a concern, so I get to acquire or not for personal reasons.

It depends. If the new version seems to have changes I regard as improvements, yes. If not, no.

Chivalry & Sorcery and Superhero 2044, both 1977 My personal grip of the moment: Magic. No magic in fantasy fiction worked like this until we got fiction copying from D&D. It’s system doesn’t actually reflect the Dying Earth stories, and it’s a lousy starting point for anything else. Almost any...

I’ll keep that in mind, when I have some extra free brain, thanks. (No sarcasm, either.) it’s tricky when, for instance, I want to learn a lot about what’s up with Karsa’s people but not even a little bit more about his raiding. But I have a high-capacity Kindle and no need to throw the ebooks...

Well, damn, that’s a disappointment. If you’re on Bluesky, you could ask Ada Palmer or Jo Walton for a recommendation - they’re waist-deep in the subject.

Bleakness doesn’t bother me - I read Dostoyevsky, Ballard, W.S. Burroughs, Ligotti, and so on. It’s the mix of specific bad acts that ground me down. I’ll go read something restorative like Naked Lunch or Ballard’s Crash. :)

That’s what I see from others, too. I love the world history, a lot of the cultures, and the interrelated magic and gods. A lot it’s captured my imagination in ways fantasy hasn’t for me in a while. But I really need some other story. This will sound sarcastic, but I mean it: Malazan made me...

I’ve bombed out the Malazan Book of the Fallen, at least for now. I DNFed book 4, House of Chains. I cannot handle this level of rape on top of all the other violence. Dunno what I’m going to read next. Probably random short stuff for a little while. I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I hate...

yes, though not nearly as much as he should be.

I would so do this with QuestWorlds, were I of a mind to do it.

Lovecraft’s prose puts him in a tradition that includes the pulps, gothics, Poe, and like that. But his content is a particular fusion of elements that could barely have come together any sooner than it it. Maaaybe the late 19th century. But many later readers don’t at all grasp the extent to...

I hope you have fun with them. :)

Was someone using it? I’m sorry, it was just sitting there and looked abandoned.

So for those who don’t know, this is going on: https://conan.com/titan-books-to-publish-original-conan-fiction/ https://screenrant.com/conan-barbarian-short-stories-titan-books/ https://screenrant.com/titan-books-conan-barbarian-solomon-kane-novel-new/ I’ve read three of these and found them...

Hey, neat! Please tell us some about the PCs and how their adventures are going.