Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Tipa I'll never stop trying to get people to read one of the most tragically forgotten masters of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Lloyd Biggle Jr. a review of Silence Is Deadly There’s this one Lloyd Biggle Jr book I never finished, and I keep picking up his books wondering if this is the one. … Read more
Finished William Gibson’s “The Peripheral”. A barely employed woman from a rural near future subs for her brother as a game beta tester and sees a gruesome murder in the game which seems set in a London of the far future. But, it’s not a game, the death is real, she’s the only one who … Read more
Took a chance on the film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “Radio Free Albemuth”. Really reminds me of one of those sixties or seventies science fiction movies — no real special effects, just telling a story. In this case, a story where an actor portraying Philip K. Dick himself is both the narrator and a … Read more
It was an odd chain of coincidences, we thought — Escobert sends us through a secret tunnel, straight into a kobold and cultist ambush. Then he sends us to a mill — straight into a cultist and mercenary, this time, ambush. ————- The burning mill behind us tossed our shadows at our feet as we … Read more
Spend enough time in a kobold suit, and you begin to understand them, a little. The sideways sneers from those who don’t understand. All the gnomes in the lab calling you a “scaly”. But you need to really know your enemy in order to truly ridicule them. Honor them, I mean. Really, two sides of … Read more