Thomas Shey
Legend
Hmmm. That might be worth a read. Is it generalized or aimed at particular systems or kinds of system?
What are you reading in 2025?
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Hmmm. That might be worth a read. Is it generalized or aimed at particular systems or kinds of system?
Nellisir
Hero
So, yeah. I read Lies Weeping, then Port of Shadows, then Lies Weeping again. My sense, given that 18 years passed between Soldiers Live (2000) and Port of Shadows (2018), is that Mr. Cook has "new ideas", in essence, or in other words is involved in a bit of retroactive detailing, which is honestly totally ok. It's still very much his voice, and if anything I like it better.
If you haven't read Port of Shadows but are thinking or intending to read Lies Weeping, do so. It was kinda fun reading them in reverse publication order, so I'm not going to say it matters which is first.
I'm dipping in and out of Unfinished Tales of Numenor & Middle Earth. It also occurs to me that I might not own a copy of The Silmarillion, so I'm going to grab one of those soon. (It occurred to me this year that most RPGs expand and elucidate their campaign worlds through geography, whereas Tolkien does so through characters and their actions - it's obvious in hindsight, but a totally different way of approaching things, and honestly more historically "accurate" for whatever that's worth. It's caused me to rethink some of my own hobby worldbuilding. Another arrow in the quiver, as it were.)
Have started Anima Rising, by Christopher Moore. I enjoy his stuff a lot. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse is on deck. It was lent to my gf and I by a friend's SO like a year ago, and my gf read it in a day and a half, so...
If you haven't read Port of Shadows but are thinking or intending to read Lies Weeping, do so. It was kinda fun reading them in reverse publication order, so I'm not going to say it matters which is first.
I'm dipping in and out of Unfinished Tales of Numenor & Middle Earth. It also occurs to me that I might not own a copy of The Silmarillion, so I'm going to grab one of those soon. (It occurred to me this year that most RPGs expand and elucidate their campaign worlds through geography, whereas Tolkien does so through characters and their actions - it's obvious in hindsight, but a totally different way of approaching things, and honestly more historically "accurate" for whatever that's worth. It's caused me to rethink some of my own hobby worldbuilding. Another arrow in the quiver, as it were.)
Have started Anima Rising, by Christopher Moore. I enjoy his stuff a lot. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse is on deck. It was lent to my gf and I by a friend's SO like a year ago, and my gf read it in a day and a half, so...
I enjoyed the heck out of Anima Rising. I particularly appreciated how much better it treated the characters who weren't white men than Sacre Bleu did. (Of the Moore I've read, that's the closest comparison, I think.)
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