What are you reading in 2025?

[Ralif Redhammer]

After having it in my library for many years, I'm finally digging into Gibson's Neuromancer.

It's been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. Like LOTR, it's a book I keep returning to as the decades pass.

Somewhere I have "Sticks" anthologized. Find that and read it. (I can poke around and find out where I have it, if you need.)

Sticks is good. KEW has a talent for building dread slowly but surely, infusing small things with fear at first.

Just finished reading Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson. Great old fantasy book that was direct inspiration for some of what ended up in AD&D 1e. Trolls, Nixies, Law vs Chaos, bunch of other stuff pulled directly from this book. A fun, older read similar to Vance.

Three Hearts and Three Lions is what I consider the most concentrated work of Appendix N, having so much that made its way into D&D.

 

[Mistwell]

Three Hearts and Three Lions is what I consider the most concentrated work of Appendix N, having so much that made its way into D&D.

On that note, what would you say are some others that have concentrated work that made its way into D&D, other than Vance?

 

[TheAlkaizer]

It's been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. Like LOTR, it's a book I keep returning to as the decades pass.

I like it so far. It's very obvious that it's a foundational work for the genre of Cyberpunk.

It's not exactly what I thought it was thought. I was expecting something very straightforward. But it's actually a more challenging read than I was expecting.

 

[jian]

Finished Wearing the Lion now. As you might expect from John Wiswell (Someone You Can Build a Nest In) it’s a tour de force about family, found family, trauma, how family can and does hurt you, and overcoming your self-loathing through loving and being loved. Hera and Heracles are the two protagonists in this retelling of the Greek myths, and both are equally compelling. The presentation of Hera particularly as someone who is just angry and hurtful all the time because of the complete @$$hole who is her husband, but who is also the goddess of Family and finds a way to forgive herself and others through that, is really excellent.