The Crummy.com Review of Things 2021
Books
The crummy.com Books of the Year are: Endless Frontier by G. Pascal Zachary, Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, and Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe and Patty Civalleri. All good stuff.
Film
As is traditional, Film Roundup Roundup has been updated. I had no problem coming up with a top ten for you, thanks in large part to '80s Month, which brought in a lot of classics I'd never seen:
The Color of Money (1986)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Ruthless People (1986)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Private Benjamin (1980)
Bob le Flambeur (1955)
Trading Places (1983)
Speed (1994)
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Games
The Crummy.com Game of the Year is the fairly obscure Uurnog Unlimited, which sets up a traditional platforming challenge and lets you break it however you want. Runners-up:
Slipways and Dicey Dungeons, as well as good old Spelling Bee and Wordle, which Sumana and I like to play collaboratively.
I spent less time in 2021 than in 2020 playing games, and more of that time on the best games of other years, especially Noita. My Noita fun ended with a bang, when I ended up in an incredible seed (470656790 -- try it out!) which basically let me legitimately see everything in the game I wanted to see.
My Accomplishments
My story "Mandatory Arbitration" came out in Analog, and I sold both of my non-bad 2020 stories: "Stress Response" and "When there is Sugar", to appear this year. (I actually just sold another story, but that happened in 2022, so more on that later.)
The Constellation Speedrun is still proceeding forward in a very un-speedrun-like manner. I wrote three stories in 2021: "The Coffeeshop AU" plus two Ravy Uvana stories, "The Letter of the Law" and "The Scent of the Governed."
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