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Reading Cassandra’s stories can give you many such moments, yeah. :) Probably the Cassandra Khaw book least likely to give you a complex is Hammers on Bone, a modern-day Cthulhu Mythos that gives a look at the other side of an exchange in Lovecraft. Highly recommended.

Oh, they reminds me: Neil Peart’s travel books are all great. He loved being out on the road in his motorcycle, seeing new sights, meeting people and discovering what’s interesting about them, the whole deal. Combine that with the inside view of being part of Rush, and you get these uniquely...

Mesoamerica: I’ve read Aztec Thought And Culture and loved it, though it’s more academic and presumed you know more already. I can’t speak to the others yet. Edit: is The Aztecs published by Reaktor? If so, I’ll recommend it sight unseen; the whole line is great for introductory info and...

@SkidAce , that’s awesome. Thank you.

Getting back into the reading groove is great!

Peter H. Wilson’s books on the Holy Roman Empire and on the Thirty Years War are amazing. Huge - each is more than 30 hours long - and meticulously organized so that I almost never got lost, with great narration. Everything by M. David Litwa is worthwhile, bringing all kinds of fresh light to...

I remember finding it a big letdown for pretty much the reasons you did.

It’s like we’re all geniuses! Genii. Genuses.

This is why I read a fair amount of Warhammer 40K fiction instead of a similar volume of technically better f&sf that heavily features sexual violence.

This is much too close to all-purpose, like all-spice except no pie was ever improved by it.

I’m a big fan of in-world groups that lie across class lines, and vice versa. This sounds very pleasing.

I know a bunch of people who immerse easily and deeply into Starfinder’s style of science fantasy. And plenty who don’t. Immersion is a weird and complicated thing; I find it best to be happy for those who want and get it for a game, sad for those who want but don’t get it, and pretty much let...

The goddess of defenestration never closes a door without opening a window.

Great opening sentences, today featuring Peter H. Wilson’s Europe’s Tragedy: The Thirty Years War—

This is all well and good, but it has nothing to do with - totally fails to engage with - what I want to talk about, which the possibilities for low-tech bicycling in various climatological, geographical, and ecological conditions. I can’t wait for you to finish your tedious irrelevancy, so I’ll...

Since 2005, D&D has been primarily a mix of Late Classic Maya and Southern Yuan dynasty bolter porn. Everyone knows this and I trust I won’t have to say any more about it.

You’re probably right. Shorter series would be nice, though.

I would love to see Prince Valiant support, like the PV equivalent of the Great Pendragon Campaign.

Yes, they grow and then stray that large all winter, too.

For me, at least, mind control is part of a distinct realm of experience people normally never enter, and I prefer that using it bring its innately eerie nature into play. In my daydreams, all magic (psi, etc) would have the quality Dan Simmons evokes in his novel The Hollow Man: This is...