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May 18, 2022
Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower: on sale this weekend!
The Kindle’s only 99 cents, for a full book’s worth of post-apocalyptic fantasy! The promotion starts Friday, and goes on for a week.
…Although I’m not going to object if you buy Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower now. There’s a Tom Vargas novella in there (“The Case of the Vanishing Visitor”) that isn’t necessary if you plan to buy TINSEL RAIN, but the story is definitely referenced in the upcoming novel. As well as being fun to write.
Buy my books! …Wow, that sounds fairly pitiful when I put it that way. “Feel free to take a look at my stuff, as long as ‘take a look’ means ‘take out your wallet’?”
Nah, it’s more honest the other way.
#commissionearned
GREEDFALL II coming out in 2024.
Nice: “Publisher Nacon and developer Spiders have announced GreedFall II: The Dying World for consoles and PC (Steam). Specific consoles were not announced. It will launch in 2024.” It’ll be a prequel to the first game, which makes sense because the first game got everything resolved in a pretty comprehensive fashion.
I’ve played the first Greedfall, and I liked it: it’s an alchemical-swashbuckling RPG with an interesting take on the Age of Exploration. Interesting combat, and you couldn’t just button-mash your way out of problems, but also not impossible to play unless you were seventeen and hopped up on energy drinks. Interesting factions, and a general lack of These are the white hats (including the natives); I look forward to playing the sequel, when it comes out.
Via @DeclannFinnBooks.
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05/18/2022 Snippet, SCENES FROM THE ZOO.
Title tentative. All I know is, I sat down and wrote 2K words on this story today without trying very hard.
Patreon!The human child screamed, and leapt.
George Smith did not recoil in horror. After all, the girl was only playing on a toy called a ‘Slip-n-Slide.’ She and her friends were taking turns diving on the water-drenched plastic sheet, to slide down it until they zoomed past the edge and onto the midsummer grass. There was nothing objectively or subjectively terrifying about the playing. If his own species had thought up this item themselves, he would have probably done the same thing as a child.
He thought about his childhood, and then made a mental note.
Aside from the shrieking, the neighborhood was peacefully quiet. This part of the Observational Area was devoted to satellite communities serving a hub city (the humans would say they lived in Joisey, south of Gotham), and it was the weekend. The kids’ parents would be busy on their lawns, or doing ‘cook-outs’ of various meats and vegetables, or tinkering with their personal vehicles. It was, in other words, a veritable snapshot of the old United States of America, during its Late Middle First Republic period.
Which was the entire point.
The THE AMAZING MAURICE trailer.
Strictly speaking, that should be THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, but nobody checked with me first.
Having read the book (written by Terry Pratchett, obviously) in question: this show does look like it tracks with the print version reasonably well. I’ll mostly be watching it for the rats. The rats in the book are excellent. I just have to figure out how to see it, because this looks like a British production…
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May 17, 2022
Quote of the Day, …You FOOLS. You Mad, Arrogant, Fools edition.
God help us all: “According to this new report, the [Hulu] creative team is “returning to the core comic books for their take” [on a new LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN movie].” They are aware that the comics were written by Allan Moore, yes?
:pause:
Allan… Moore? The fellow who has a certain… uncritical willingness to trod sensibilities into the dirt? I enjoy his work, think it very good – and will forbid it to my children. Until they are, say, twenty-nine or so. Yes. That should be old enough.
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Item Seed: The Cut Lass.
The pirate talk was nice. It was also in Annapolis during a perfect evening, which may have been a little more important. Chesapeake piracy and a glass of cider; life was good.
Cut-Lass-Google-DocsDownloadThe surprisingly thirsty SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW trailer.
‘Thirsty’ is the term the young’uns use these days, right? We would have just said ‘horny.’ Because it’s that, too. So much so that Twitter slapped on a content warning.
You'll like her when she's angry.
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) May 17, 2022
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, an Original series from Marvel Studios, starts streaming August 17 on @DisneyPlus. #SheHulk pic.twitter.com/3e946gsSvh
I’m not going to judge: there but for the lack of an Amazon fetish, go I. If this gets somebody’s motor running, ain’t none of my business. But maybe don’t watch this with the kids?
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, I know. But the contingent of fans that will start breathing funny over this trailer is out there. They exist. They have disposable income. Like Thanos, this was… inevitable.
Pirates tonight!
Dinner shall involve pirates. I shall say nothing else, except that I expect that a beer may be involved at some point. We’re playing it by ear.
So if posting is light tonight, that’s why.
Tweet of the Day, I Am A Lifetime @HPLHS Member Myself edition.
Nine members away from 5000! pic.twitter.com/ehBjWbo0CL
— HPLHS (@hplhs) May 17, 2022
I find membership congenial, and it does on occasion offer discounts on HPL Historical Society products. But I mostly like it for the sheer look of the thing. Besides: who knows? If the Great Old Ones ever do come back, perhaps membership will get me special consideration. Although I’m not whether that’ll mean just getting last, or first…
