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Soooo, I’ve got a box of chocolate bunnies A Soldier of Orange and Flesh & Blood here, and they seem an excellent argument for Verhoeven’s writing ability.

The 3e campaign setting, 3e Underdark, and 3e Faiths & Pantheons and 3e City of the Spider Queen in a fight to the death for the third slot.

One for Snarf, and possibly other obsessives:

Always up for some good wholesome urtication.

I recommend them. Particularly the audiobooks, to hear people’s and places’ names right.

Hey’ Dude! Anderson can’t be wrong about his favorite of his movies. Maybe if he said it was also his best, but not as described here.

Post-apocalyptic tales come in (at least) two flavors: 1. The worst began and will continue indefinitely, maybe forever, and only the worst can ever really flourish. 2. The worst happened and things will remain bad a long time, but now people can start choosing better again. The Postman is...

Oh, no. My regular reading diet includes a fair amount of emotionally demanding stuff, both fiction and nonfiction. I am eagerly awaiting the final volume of Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater Saga and am probably going to reread the Book of the Nee Sun soon, but I’m going to get behind with a few...

More or less gaming-related rambles are relaxing as long as I make sensible choices and maintain a useful-to-me ignore list. :)

Neat stuff, @Alzrius - I love the level of self-reflection going on, and aim for it myself. I got an ice bucket of bad news this week and am overhauling my reading plans to match. There’s a thing called a calcium score test, a CAT scan that measures the level of plaques in your coronary...

@pemerton , your example doing-stuff roundup is amazing. I love that kind of thing in my games. Discussion of related actions is often a goad to my imagination as well as a handy reference.

Agreed a lot. Being very clearly past its era makes it easier for me to treat it as its own thing. So does being older myself, better read, and all that. I like to think of Imperial ships’ bridges with teak and chrome. :)

For me in particular, Traveller fell off the map of games I sought out to play and run for two major reasons (with the usual halo of smaller ones). 1. Falling behind the times in both reality and sf. Now, I had an unusual position in the ‘70s and ‘80s: Dad worked with Jet Propulsion Labs’ Deep...

I gotta take a week off for some periodic paperwork and chores - no crises, thank goodness, just stuff that will likely leave me tired and grumpy and not wanting to look at the screen or post responsibly. Happy reading, y’all.

Big books? Big series? This is the song of my people. The Sun Eater Saga by Christopher Ruocchio is my current fin of this sort. Seven big volumes - the seventh is coming in November - and several interstitial novellas and four volumes of related short stories. What began as excellent but...

That’s in my queue. Glad you enjoyed it so much.

Gotta like that. August was a month of really big books for me, four ranging from 27 to 47 hours. September has been a month of smaller ones, and heavy on nonfiction ranging from history to moral philosophy. We’ll see what October turns out to be.

This is where I plug paleontologist Peter D. Ward as an excellent science writer, too. Out Of Thin Air, Under A Green Sky, The Medea Hypothesis…a lot of very accessible fascinating work.

I’m mildly interested in that. Are there any particularly good starting points? I’m one of those people who’s sort of a hardcore fan of a Star Wars that never quite existed. I thought at the time that Empire went off the rails with the Skywalker family stuff, which undercut the kind of drama it...