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That sounds like a Howard Waldrop story to go with his “Heart of Whitenesse”, which is about Christopher Marlowe as if he were Philip Marlowe. Oh yes. I love that kind of book. There’s now Ingsthering, an omnibus of all the People stories.

Yeah, the Thomas Aquinas fandom is certainly something. True. Probably. I try to allow room for exceptions to my pessimism. There are a couple brief hints of speculation that exploded reactor was doing something unusual - different fuel and/or methods, so that it wasn’t just generic...

This is great stuff. Thanks for the link!

This has been baffling me ever since my teenage first encounters with various fandoms. “Hi, I spent a bunch of money in this thing, can anybody tell me about it?” I was raised to ask that question before the spending part. Is it just that I never had huge quantities of free spending money? Did...

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.