Month: May 2016

In the mail: @HPLHS’s “The Horror at Red Hook.”

Listening to it right now, in fact.  This is much more than a word-for-word retelling of HP Lovecraft’s original “The Horror at Red Hook:” which makes sense, really. The original is a short story, after all: and they did a full hour version. You have to flesh stuff out.

It’s an interesting story to adapt for today, because this is one of Lovecraft’s more difficult stories for our modern age. It has a genuine power to it that we find rather objectionable – thus making is simultaneously attractive and repellent. It’s interesting to see HPLHS try to play this as straight as they possibly could.

This is why Full Frontal Nerdity got a Hugo nom.

This is brilliant.  And a time travel plot is an absolutely genius way to bring Harry Mudd into Abrams’s Star Trek series. I am totally in favor of them doing this, particularly since it will allow Abrams to skip over Star Trek III and go directly into ripping off Star Trek IV, which is the smart move there anyway. There’s so much more to mine in The Voyage Home.

Yes, I am a monster in human form. New around here, are we?

Tweet of the Day, This Would Solve Many Problems For Me, Too edition.

I really would like this feature, honestly.

I suspect that most people who do gaming or SF/fantasy/horror writing would feel the same. We ask some weird questions, sometimes. And sometimes we don’t realize that they’re weird, or maybe alarming, until they’re well out of our mouths.

Book of the Week: “The Awesome.”

Never discount the power of pimping out your book on Twitter: author Eva Darrows did so with (I think) her first novel The Awesome, I read it, and I enjoyed it. Basic premise: …think “Larry Correia writes a teen romance coming-of-age novel*” and you won’t be too far off. Admittedly, Correia probably has a much more jaundiced opinion of how well the federal government would do with an official agency that handles monsters than Darrow does, but I was still entertained by the book.
Continue reading Book of the Week: “The Awesome.”

On second thought…

…I’m just going to load up Steam, see if Far Harbor auto-downloads, and not care if it does or not because I’m going to bed.  Yes, I find this as unnatural as you do. But I got a field trip tomorrow and I may have a mild ear infection so eight hours sounds like a good idea.

So. MAYBE Cyberpunk 2077 in 2018?

That would be nice – but I’m frankly just guessing, based on this:

Kraków-based branch of CD Projekt Red, established in 2013 and best known for The Witcher series, is about to expand significantly. This news has been revealed by John Mamais, the future head of CD Projekt Red’s Kraków studio, in a Q&A session put through by the studio itself. As claimed by Mamais, to truly make use of the potential of a project as ambitious as Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red will soon increase the number of employees to 500, and Kraków-based branch, now consisting of about 30 developers, will expand to about 100.

If they’re expanding the staff now then they’re probably not going to have the game done either this year or next. 2018 is the earliest, right? – I’ve never worked in a video game studio, mind you. I may be making bad assumptions. I’d love to be told that this is consistent with a Christmas 2017 release…