Five Stories About What Happens After You’ve Defeated the Big Bad
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Mission accomplished! Quest completed! Now what...?
Five Stories About What Happens After You’ve Defeated the Big Bad
Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 4 by Sakae Saito
Jun. 4th, 2025 08:59 amjames_davis_nicoll
Exuberant Youko and stoic Airi continue their tour through the remaining wonders of post-apocalyptic Japan. Carpe diem!
Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 4 by Sakae Saito
Interesting Links for 04-06-2025
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Young People Read Old Nebula Finalists: Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card
Jun. 3rd, 2025 02:25 pmjames_davis_nicoll
In an uncommon turn for famed author Card, he presents a very special boy in very difficult circumstances faced with great responsibility. What will the Young People make of it?
Young People Read Old Nebula Finalists: Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card
Two Comments
Jun. 3rd, 2025 09:01 amjames_davis_nicollThis sure is different from how RPGs were covered in the news in the 1980s.
It never occurred to me that people would be worried about playing wrong. Would-be gatekeepers complaining that people play wrong, sure. I am sure that started in 1974. But I didn't consider performance anxiety.
It never occurred to me that people would be worried about playing wrong. Would-be gatekeepers complaining that people play wrong, sure. I am sure that started in 1974. But I didn't consider performance anxiety.
Port Eternity by C J Cherryh
Jun. 3rd, 2025 08:50 amjames_davis_nicoll
Made-to-order slaves fear their eccentric owner will tire of and dispose of them... until a calamity renders the issue moot.
Port Eternity by C J Cherryh
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That was fast
Jun. 2nd, 2025 05:40 pmjames_davis_nicollblood work results in. I am immune to measles, mumps, and some other stuff I didn't not. Not Hep A or B, though.
Bundle of Holding: Pride Games
Jun. 2nd, 2025 02:05 pmjames_davis_nicoll
For Pride Month, an assortment of LGBTQ+-themed tabletop roleplaying games.
Bundle of Holding: Pride Games
Five SFF Works About Contests and Competition
Jun. 2nd, 2025 12:27 pmjames_davis_nicoll
It's not about winning, it's about doing your best! And also winning!
Five SFF Works About Contests and Competition
Clarke Award Finalists 1999
Jun. 2nd, 2025 10:59 amjames_davis_nicoll1999: Both the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales have their first meetings, the Millennium Dome (certainly not a name that will rapidly date) is completed, and hard-working programmers strive to limit the effects of the Millennium Bug, unaware success will be rewarded with mass amnesia.
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte
Poll #33190 Clarke Award Finalists 1999
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31
Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
View Answers
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
9 (29.0%)
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
3 (9.7%)
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
14 (45.2%)
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
24 (77.4%)
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
4 (12.9%)
Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte
0 (0.0%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte