Exclamation point because I didn’t order Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium: somebody must have seen it on my wish list. Whoever it was, thank you! I sat down and read it right away, and it was a pleasure to read. I very much liked getting this.
If you can secure your own copy, by the way, do so: it is full of fun references for Terry Pratchett fans. Including references to characters that are perhaps a bit obscure. Which is all part of the appeal.
Moe Lane
PS: Thanks again.
It’s hitting all the right beats.
DO YOU LIKE FUN? DO YOU LIKE B MOVIES? VAMPIRES? MUMMYS? EVIL MONKS? HOW ABOUT INDIANA JONES? BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA?
Look down at the incredible cover. Back at me.
YOU NEED FURY FROM THE TOMB IN YOUR LIFE.
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— PenelopeBabs (@penelopebabs) March 20, 2018
Continue reading Tweet of the Day, I Freely Admit That This Seems Targeted For Me edition.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I bought Thirty Days Later: Steaming Forward: 30 Adventures in Time specifically because it had two Harry Turtledove flash fiction stories in it. Ones that I’ve been meaning to read, too. They’re set in an alternate universe where sasquatches are real, sentient, and one of them is the governor of the state of Jefferson (a state carved out of northern California and southern Oregon). The world is developed a bit more in “Typecasting,” which is itself an enjoyable little story that you should read. Anyway, for four bucks I’ll buy flash fiction. Especially if the rest of it is supposed to be steampunk, which neither of the two Turtledove stories are but when Harry Turtledove gives you flash fiction you say ‘Thank you.’
Hey! I guess including the two stories worked, huh?
Continue reading ‘Thirty Days Later: Steaming Forward: 30 Adventures in Time.’
We’re getting a short story collection (Target Rich Environment) from Larry Correia in September, a new Honor Harrington (Uncompromising Honor) from David Weber in October, and a new series in the Black Tides Rising universe (The Valley of the Shadow) from John Ringo and Mike Massa in November. Plus I could have sworn that a new Heirs of Alexandria book was coming down the pike, but maybe not. These three from Baen are going to be worth it, right there. It’s been years since we had an actual Honor Harrington Honor Harrington novel. Can’t wait!
Sun Spots was a Call of Cthulhu RPG supplement from Kickstarter.
I love the modern era. It’s absolutely never been easier to do one-off publishing like this. It’s not even the money; it’s the satisfaction of being able to get or make the book you want. The first Renaissance printers must have felt like this, only now everybody can do it.
And as you can TELL from the COVER of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Volume 7: I’ve Been Waiting For A Squirrel Like You: Squirrel Girl is in the SAVAGE LAND with DINOSAURS and thus nowhere near any sort of shenanigans involving secret empires and Hydra and Captain America WHATSOEVER*. Which is good, because this is the only Marvel comic that I still buy and I would have been ticked off if they had dragged Squirrel Girl into that particular line of nonsense. But, hey: rush of oxygen to the brain, right? Continue reading In the Mail: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Volume 7
I’m still trying to decide how I feel about T.R. Fehrenbach’s Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans. It’s a good book, and it’s engrossing, but… I dunno. Something. Still, it’s what I’ve been reading all week.
I quite liked Ruthanna Emrys’ Winter Tide, albeit for slightly different reasons than perhaps the ones for why she wrote it. The attempt here was to take Lovecraft’s mythology and, well, turn it on its head; the basic facts would remain, but the motivations and whatnot would be different — and in a way that would present the Deep Ones as basically sympathetic characters who got the short end of a very nasty stick in 1928. There’s also a not-unexpected amount of social commentary about the imperfections of our grandparents’ generation (well, my grandparents’ generation), but you have to expect that from current literary fads. Continue reading Book of the Week: Winter Tide.
It’s probably going to be based on the Vimes novels: “Terry Pratchett fans may want to stay close to a television screen over the next couple of years: his comedy fantasy book series Discworld has become his latest work to be snapped up for a small screen adaptation. BBC Studios is developing a six-part series based on the long-running epic novel series.” At least, the working title is “The Watch” and that’s absolutely a tell, there. For those who don’t know — Continue reading Discworld TV series coming to BBC.
OK, I admit it: this is mostly a reminder to me to reread The Silmarillion. I get that most of my readers are going to be at least familiar with the book, and most of the rest of JRR Tolkien’s work. Still, you never know, right?
And so, adieu to The Great Book of Amber.
