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I’m starting my current 100-book challenge with Children of the Atom by Wilmar Shiras. This is a 1953 fixup novel collecting a series of stories about super-intelligent children born to the survivors of a 1938 atomic power test disaster. Shiras’ work is repeatedly cited as a likely but not...

Rovelli is a pleasure to read.

Tying in with the Critical Role campaign, there will be player and DM books for Spawn of Fashan 5e.

🎵 it was 50 years ago today That Mr. Stafford taught the world how to play. 🎶

A couple BookTubers convinced me I’d like to go ahead and read some Victorian literature. They were right. I’ll be weaving some more in with my 2026 reading.

Finished Middlemarch by George Eliot this morning. It is a hefty thing - 32 hrs in audio - and worth every moment. Eliot puts a whole community under scrutiny, examine all the people around a trio of romances and marriages under the lens of she’s relentless, but also deeply compassionate, and...

There are some people on my ignore list for that. Agreement shouldn’t be wearying.

Promethean: The Created. The PCs are constructed beings - like Frankenstein’s monster, the golem, animated mannequins, etc - questing to grow a soul and become human. It’s pretty bleak, but there’s room for good outcomes. Deviant: The Renegades. The PCs were normal people before being warped...

CoC the system definitely doesn’t need combat, but CoC adventures and campaigns pretty much all assume you do, and lots of it. There’s a real lack of good examples to draw on. I would pounce on a book about CoC without fighting that had examples and helpful discussion. Various universal systems...

Wikipedia on James Ellroy: He often employs a sort of telegraphese (stripped-down, staccato-like sentence structures), a style that reaches its apex in The Cold Six Thousand. Ellroy describes it as a "direct, shorter-rather-than-longer sentence style that's declarative and ugly and right there...

Yes, this is a particularly good example. The origin stories are pretty terrible, as are too many of the stories written. But the ones written earlier were right up there with Our Lady of Darkness and The Big Time. @Reynard , I’m enthusiastic about Ttiphy, if that helps place it. :)

It helps with a lot of these to get hooked on it in one’s midteens, when one is stupid and gullible less experienced in the world and prose. Particularly if those midteens were several decades ago. There are modern authors who carry forward the core concepts but with more clues about various...

I Ching hexagram 61: inner truth revealed.