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The best starting point for Moorcock is Elric in publication order.

BookTubers who do these things are coming up on the 2025 Read What You Own challenge, with on official start date of November 5th. I tanked on my solo attempt earlier this year, but oddly enough, my increased level of stress makes me keen to try again. I like reading and enjoy having something...

No kidding. I could argue religious doctrine, major party politics, or compiler preferences for this much bitterness!

I was just reminded of something about naming versions while sorting and tagging books in my Kindle. If you’re following any current/recent fiction series where novels are flanked by interstitial novellas and short stories, it’s become very common for them to get decimal numbers. One novella...

Color me curious how that goes. I’ve been thinking about staking out required reading time before picking up my phone for anything but medical business

I give you Clive Barker, at the beginning of Weaveworld: Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the...

I’d put Chivalry & Sorcery 1st edition up against it and win :) but yeah, it’s an amazingly dense book.

The Starving Saints, by Caitlin Starling. Oh, wow. Okay, let me expand on that. This is medieval fantasy horror in the vein of C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry and Clark Ashton Smits Averoigne: medieval culture but its own religion and history, and there’s magic. The characters are trapped in a...

I just learned today that the audio version of Little, Big is narrated by one John Crowley, who apparently is very good at it. Gonna have to check that out.

I presume Charlie would much prefer it not be. :)

I think so too. The revelations at the climax of The First Law and An Age Of Madness are like textbook examples of catastrophe and eucatastrophe.

Sure. Sorry about that. My apologies. I was not at my best last night and didn’t bring the level of self-scrutiny and rewording the subject demands.

In fact, though, the opposite is true. John Scalzi gained readers and customers for his stands on various issues of the day. So has Larry Correia, for a strongly opposed set of views. The customers each one loses are made up by others who find the author laying out what they think should be...

It’s crucial to the overall development of. Abercrombie’s story, through the three trilogies, that a bunch of people do rise to the challenges of their times. Often they’re as surprised themselves as th reader is about who they turn out to be.