nuala

Raven: A Gothic Horror RPG – the core rulebook, scenarios, & GM Screen in both English and Spanish versions!

Bundle of Horror: Raven

james_davis_nicoll

So many different ways of measuring history and the passage of time...

Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars

james_davis_nicoll

For what purpose has someone summoned a ten-story-tall mountain spirit to Aftzaak, City of Books?

Magus of the Library, volume 8 by Mitsu Izumi

james_davis_nicoll

When the target world proves too inhospitable for colonization, colonists make a desperate bid to return to Earth on a failing starship.

Disgraced Return of The Kap’s Needle by Renan Bernardo

james_davis_nicoll

Many supplements and adventures for Troika!, the acid-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game from Melsonian Arts Council.

Bundle of Holding: Troika Warehouse

andrewducker

I done found me a tree goblin!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

james_davis_nicoll

2001: Labour narrowly wins a second overwhelming victory, Simon Darcount finds his calling, and Jeffrey Archer distracts people from that time he was accused of stealing three suits.

Poll #33257 Clarke Award Finalists 2001

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61

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Which 2001 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
41 (67.2%)

Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
26 (42.6%)

Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
18 (29.5%)

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
28 (45.9%)

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
20 (32.8%)

Salt by Adam Roberts
5 (8.2%)

Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2001 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Salt by Adam Roberts

james_davis_nicoll

Nine tales of science fiction by Poul Anderson.

Homeward and Beyond by Poul Anderson

andrewducker

Water safety day!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

andrewducker

It was about ten seconds later that we realised how terrible Crocs are for climbing.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

james_davis_nicoll

Ten books new to me: 4.5 fantasy, 1 horror, 1 mystery, 3.5 science fiction, of which only two are identified as series.

Books Received, June 7 to June 13

Poll #33251 Books Received, June 7 to June 13

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53

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Which of these look interesting?

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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews (March 2026)
20 (37.7%)

The Swan’s Daughter: A Possibly Doomed Love Story by Roshani Chokshi (January 2026)
13 (24.5%)

Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology edited by Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney (June 2025)
27 (50.9%)

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins (January2026)
4 (7.5%)

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (September 2025)
30 (56.6%)

Red Empire by Jonathan Maberry (March 2026)
3 (5.7%)

The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O’Keefe (June 2025)
14 (26.4%)

The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode (April 2024)
14 (26.4%)

The Poet Empress by Shen Tao (January 2026)
6 (11.3%)

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (June 2025)
25 (47.2%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
34 (64.2%)

andrewducker

Two weeks after seeing the CGI Lilo and Stitch at the cinema I'm watching the original with the kids. And it's so much better. The direction, the writing, the acting are all just much higher quality.

The remake felt much clumsier. And I don't really understand why.

Edit: Just realised that they entirely cut the Ugly Duckling part from the remake. Why would you do that? It's key to Stitch's arc!
And all of the bits where Lilo how to be like Elvis.

In fact, nearly all of the bits where Lilo talked to Stitch and built a relationship with him.

andrewducker

1. Australian politicians do not mince words: (tags:australia politics video )
2. An Australian piece on why 25 degrees really is hot in the UK: (tags:temperature architecture climate uk australia video )

firecat

My fave is the semicolon; however, I refuse to cede em-dashes or any other punctuation marks to ChatGPT.

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen? How very dare you! — have in turn blazed across social media spaces populated by the kind of folks who will tell you, unprompted, that they have a favorite punctuation mark and what it is. (It is very likely the em dash.) — https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/ai-cant-have-my-em-dash/

james_davis_nicoll

The embittered Martian aerialist and the nonconformist live a thousand-plus years apart, in different solar systems. What, then, connects them?

A Rebel’s History of Mars by Nadia Afifi

Reading

That should buff right out

Bundle of Horror: Raven

Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars

Magus of the Library, volume 8 by Mitsu Izumi

Interesting Links for 18-06-2025

Disgraced Return of The Kap’s Needle by Renan Bernardo

Interesting Links for 17-06-2025

Bundle of Holding: Troika Warehouse

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Clarke Award Finalists 2001

Interesting Links for 16-06-2025

Homeward and Beyond by Poul Anderson

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Interesting Links for 15-06-2025

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Books Received, June 7 to June 13

Confused by Disney ineptitude

Interesting Links for 14-06-2025

Hey AI — hands off my em-dash

A Rebel’s History of Mars by Nadia Afifi

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