Monday, October 3, 2022

Microreview [Book]: Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West by Aidan Mohler

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A must buy for any JRPG fan. There's something special about starting up a new Japanese role-playing game (JRPG). Whether it’s the promi...
Friday, September 30, 2022

6 Books with Wil McCarthy

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  Aerospace engineer/startup founder Wil McCarthy, formerly of WIRED and SyFy, has won the Prometheus once and the AnLab award twice.   He’s...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Microreview [book]: The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg

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The magic of names, a quiet romance, queer self-discovery and an impending tragedy The Unbalancing is the first published novel set in R.B....
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

I think you should actually worry quite a bit, darling

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Besides rehashing The Matrix for tradwives, there's very little that this transparent fable has to say about any of its themes I'm ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Microreview: The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham

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 S pace Nazis set loose a plague of zombies and well-worn tropes in this epic military sci-fi. Tomorrow marks the start of  Conflux , Canber...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Nanoreview: The Paper Museum by Kate S. Simpson

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A promising recipe with an underbaked execution and very little to chew on Young Lydia lives in a future where paper is obsolete (why?) and ...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Microreview: Last Car to Annwn Station

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Last Car to Annwn Station takes what is now a famous trope in Urban Fantasy --the presence of Faerie in the Twin Cities, and puts his own, W...