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Gareth Hanrahan’s two fantasy trilogies are both excellent. I think they’re both complete on Audible but am too lazy to go check. They’ve got the great recent Moorcock omnibus run, starting with Elric of Melnibone from 2022. They’ve got all three volumes of Aliette de Bodard’s marvelous...

One more Pink Floyd tidbit. The album released as A Momentary Lapse of Reason went untitled until practically the last minute. The band and production crew tried out a lot of possibilities, but none seemed to do the job. Finally David Gilmour went to one of his long-time friends and offered him...

Poul Anderson was such a good writer. There’s a direct line between my reading him and majoring in history. From “Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks”, one of the Time Patrol stories:

Also, I learned the reason some of the sax solos on The Wall and subsequent albums sound like they wandered in from a Supertramp album (not a complaint) is they did, borrowing Supertramp’s sax player between and then after their albums. I really enjoy books of the song by song format, with full...

Pink Floyd had six backup singers on The Wall, five men and one woman. The woman was Toni Tennille. That’s the Tennille of the Captain & Tennille.

A desperate across the planet to retrieve the frozen head of Loren MacGregor before the villains can get it for their sinister doomsday-redux plan.

Prior art can begin with the Outdoor Survival map, cited in OD&D.

Good point. I should have included them.

Dad once showed me draft specs from ranging system module designs (his work at NASA) from the ‘60s and ‘70s with joke elements tucked in. A recurring gag that some of his office mates really liked to include was Write Only Memory. You couldn’t get anything out of it, but you could be sure...

I have the impression that a small number of Savage Worlds players dabble in Primeval Thule each year, along with Totems of the Dead. Savage Worlds and Fate have more or less uniquely extensive libraries of settings that are worth peoples attention and a significant chunk of player base that...

It’s possible that “dead” is just plain a wrong word, because games aren’t organisms. They’re communities. Extinction can happen, but it’s rare. What happens more often is isolation, where the existing population of fans seldom if ever interacts with anyone else and almost nobody stumbles into...

I love to be surprised, but also to be delighted, which means I’m usually looking for a fusion of familiar and new elements. Mechanical Dream and Xer0 had too much novelty and not enough familiarity for me - couldn’t get a good mental foundation to build on. Tekumel is right on the edge for...

I’m not quite sure there’s never a reason bro play Devil’s Advocate (outside actual beatification and canonization investigations) they can’t be done as well or better by slightly shifted phrasing, but I’m sure it’s true for almost all cases, at least. Example: “Some people, like A and B, say X...

So much great work nominated. Creatively, the field is once again in excellent shape.

It’s time to eff the ineffable!

Kids these days can’t come up with good controversies like we did.