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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 9560697" data-attributes="member: 3649">Red Sonja - Consumed - by Gail SimoneAcclaimed comics writer Gail Simone's first prose book. Liked it; liked it a lot. It's what you want from Red Sonja, which is what I'd expect from someone who's written her in comic form before. She shows up, bad decisions and chaos ensue, darkness is put to the sword, and much ale is consumed (not the point of the title). Burning Paradise by Robert Charles WilsonHonestly, I'd skim this one for the background material.  The initial premise is neat: It is 2015 but the world is more like the mid-Sixties in tech level. There was a WW1 but nothing big after that:: no WW2, no Cold War, No Hitler, No massive genocides, no atom bomb and arms race, etc. No space race, either. We have not put a satellite in orbit. Computers are the size of refrigerators. There is crime and there is saber-rattling and there are small conflicts here and there, but in general the world is peaceful and prosperous. The reason for this is that the ionosphere is a living creature. It is not sentient per se or if it is, it's a level or type of sentience we really cannot detect. It keeps it's existence secret and monitors all radio traffic, which effectively means all communication except for speaking and snail mail. All it really 'wants' is to breed and die. It came here millennia ago and it's children and on the way to distant stars and planets as we speak. It's kept our tech level at a manageable level instead of giving a toddler the loaded nuclear gun. There are people who know it's true nature and want to destroy it. Two chapters in and you'll know the ending of this book, if the title doesn't technically give it away.The Forest of Lost Souls - Dean Koontz. I guess every so often you're going to deliver a clunker no matter all the great stuff you've done in the past. I haven't read the majority of Koontz's work but I'll tell you - I'm on the fence on whether or not he even wrote this. It's a pretty good book up until the ending chapters and then the wheels just come right off. It's like it was meant to be twice as long and then Something Happened and he had to end it right in the middle. There's no overt supernatural element here no matter how often it's semi-teased save for The Old Fortuneteller, who might simply be amazingly perceptive about people. Some of the character work and background material is interesting and could serve for some character inspiration for your RPG.</blockquote>

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