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On Monday 4 May 2020, the Tor.com ebookclub will offer The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson for free, one day only.https://www.tor.com/2020/05/01/sign-u...
Poor Maul. Reduced to a diversion. ;-P
Sword 26/24 CompleteLaser 12/24
Comics 14/24
Shorts 9/24
I've been catching up on some urban fantasy series which put me over the top for Sword.
This week's free ebook from Subterranean Press is Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shinerhttps://subterraneanpress.com/outside...
This isn't science fiction or fantasy, but a story of rock and roll in the 1960's
Interesting New Yorker article about plague literature by Jill LeporeWhat our contagion fables are really about
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
The reading list is not for the faint of heart:
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
The Plague by Albert Camus
Blindness by José Saramago
The Stand by Stephen King
Over on twitter, and perhaps elsewhere, Disney is being bantha poodoohttps://twitter.com/disneyplus/status...
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Apr 27, 2020 09:08AM
New video from Netflix featuring Joey Batey (Jaskier) reading 15 minutes from the first of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher novels, The Last Wish.https://youtu.be/0AQBanTw60w
Trike wrote: "Don’t make me come over to your house and cough at you."Arriving #MayThe4th on Disney+
The first paperback edition of Magician Apprentice has cover art by artist Kevin Eugene Johnson. The painting he did for the cover is athttps://www.comicartfans.com/galleryp...
I haven't read them, but the book was adapted by Marvel as a 17-issue series of comics, collected in three volumes:Magician: Apprentice Volume 1
Magician: Apprentice, Volume 2
Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar
This week's free ebook from Subterranean Press is Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire)https://subterraneanpress.com/news/fr...
If it bleeds, it can be logged... I mean, if it has a Goodreads record, l log it as a read, even short stories. I like to keep track of which reads are short, novelette, novella, etc, but my books read count includes everything.
Richard wrote: "I'm, luckily, starting a new job next week. My current contract as a software engineer was ending, so I am glad I got something during this weird time. So I'm not going to have the time I did to wr..."Richard, thanks for the effort you put in. Good luck with the new job.
I think Murderbot is bringing ebookclub.tor.com to its knees right now. Might be a good idea to try later in the day.
a video duet of S&L Veronica and Tom would be an acceptable substitute
so, now we need a video duet of S&L Veronica and Karl
A new online SF anthology about people remotely exploring the world...https://avatars.inc
Avatars Inc edited by Ann VanderMeer
Includes short stories by James S.A. Corey, Ken Liu, Sarah Pinsker, Aliette de Bodard and others. You can read the stories online or download EPUB or PDF of the full anthology.
Authors can submit a short story for a chance to win a new iMac Pro and other gadgets.
