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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 08:56 pm
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 02:57 pm
The Wolves Upon the Coast Grand Campaign, a bare-bones old-school tabletop roleplaying game by designer Luke Gearing.
Bundle of Holding: Wolves Upon the Coast
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 10:10 am
Classic SF was chock-full of dubious ideas; Martin Gardner supplied the antidote.
One Way to Immunize Yourself Against Pseudoscience and Other Nonsense
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 09:18 am
Only witches hunt demons, all witches are women, and Uroro cannot be defeated by any woman. Uroro feels entirely safe, right until the world's first male witch defeats him.
Ichi the Witch, volume 1 by Osamu NIchi & Shiro Usazaki (Translated by Adrienne Beck)
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 09:09 am
What hope has 10th century Icelandic culture against an armed and moderately educated 20th century American?
The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson
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Monday, February 16th, 2026 02:07 pm
Downcrawl and Skycrawl, twin toolkits from designer Aaron A. Reed that help you create spontaneous tabletop roleplaying adventures in the Deep, Deep Down and the Azure Etern.
Bundle of Holding: Downcrawl-Skycrawl
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Monday, February 16th, 2026 11:00 am
Still not reading much, but I did read some books during the past two months!
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (2025)
Listened to the audiobook for my book club. This is the first book in a while that grabbed me in a page-turney way, and I enjoyed it a lot! I'm sure it can be picked at, and we did so during book club, but for me it was mostly notable in being a book I was immersed in while reading, which for me these days is rare.
The Sleeping Soldier by Aster Glenn Gray (2023)
When I first started reading this, my feeling was that "yeah, I read a lot of posts on the author's DW about this book, and I guess the book is exactly what I was expecting it to be". Like, in a way I felt as though I didn't even have to read the book. But this feeling passed when I got into the particulars of the characters and their relationships so that they felt real to me, so that it wasn't just about the Idea of the book any longer, and then I thoroughly enjoyed it. (The Idea of the book being, if you haven't heard of the book before, the contrast between what was allowable in male friendships in 1860 and 1960.)
I also listened to about half of The West Passage by Jared Pechaček (2024), also for book club. I feel like the book had a lot of Gormenghast DNA, and I enjoyed the weird worldbuiling, but I didn't end up finishing it.
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (2025)
Listened to the audiobook for my book club. This is the first book in a while that grabbed me in a page-turney way, and I enjoyed it a lot! I'm sure it can be picked at, and we did so during book club, but for me it was mostly notable in being a book I was immersed in while reading, which for me these days is rare.
The Sleeping Soldier by Aster Glenn Gray (2023)
When I first started reading this, my feeling was that "yeah, I read a lot of posts on the author's DW about this book, and I guess the book is exactly what I was expecting it to be". Like, in a way I felt as though I didn't even have to read the book. But this feeling passed when I got into the particulars of the characters and their relationships so that they felt real to me, so that it wasn't just about the Idea of the book any longer, and then I thoroughly enjoyed it. (The Idea of the book being, if you haven't heard of the book before, the contrast between what was allowable in male friendships in 1860 and 1960.)
I also listened to about half of The West Passage by Jared Pechaček (2024), also for book club. I feel like the book had a lot of Gormenghast DNA, and I enjoyed the weird worldbuiling, but I didn't end up finishing it.
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Sunday, February 15th, 2026 07:12 am
Ben Reich plans a perfect murder in a world where getting away with murder is impossible.
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Saturday, February 14th, 2026 09:10 am
Nine books new to me: 3 horror, 4 mystery, 1 non-fiction, and 1 science fiction, although I am not sure about the proper categorization of some of those books. Only one is explicitly part of a series.
Books Received, February 7 to February 13
Poll #34218 Books Received, February 7 to February 13
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Which of these look interesting?
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Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong (October 2026)
14 (33.3%)
Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore by Riley Black (October 2026)
18 (42.9%)
Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe (October 2026)
7 (16.7%)
Null Entity by Seth Haddon (July 2026)
5 (11.9%)
Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm (September 2026)
10 (23.8%)
Savvy Summers and the Po’boy Perils by Sandra Jackson-Opoku (July 2026)
8 (19.0%)
Revenge of the Final Girl by Andrea Mosqueda (October 2026)
10 (23.8%)
Lucy Kline, Necromancer by Tom O’Donnell (September 2026)
6 (14.3%)
They Say a Girl Died Here by Sarah Pinborough (August 2026)
7 (16.7%)
Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.4%)
Cats!
33 (78.6%)
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Friday, February 13th, 2026 05:59 pm
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Friday, February 13th, 2026 09:10 am
Lila Macapagal's quest to keep her aunt's ailing restaurant afloat is greatly complicated when a pesky foodblogger dies mid-meal... with Lila as the most likely murder suspect.
Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery) by Mia P. Manansala
Thursday, February 12th, 2026 08:37 am
A sample issue of New Edge Sword & Sorcery, whose 2026 funding drive goes live today.
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Volume I, Number 3, edited by Oliver Brackenbury
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 02:03 pm
The revived May 2022 Neon City Overdrive Bundle featuring the fast-playing cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game Neon City Overdrive from Peril Planet.
Bundle of Holding: Neon City Overdrive (from 2022)
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 09:08 am
Humanity faces its final threat: the common house cat!
Night of the Living Cat, volume 1 by Hawkman & Mecha-Roots
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 01:36 pm
A couple of days ago, the box with the 30 T12/48 long-tube florescent bulbs arrived. Yesterday, Lisa came and (with me holding things as directed) replaced all of the bulbs in the fixture.
( Let's Light This Up, Shall We )
We put the four older bulbs into the box and stored it away in a closet. The burned-out bulbs are waiting for me to have an opportunity to take them to Lowe's, where they have accepted such bulbs for safe disposal in the past. That is of course another problem with these things: you shouldn't just put them in the dumpster, and they are too long to fit anyway.
( Let's Light This Up, Shall We )
We put the four older bulbs into the box and stored it away in a closet. The burned-out bulbs are waiting for me to have an opportunity to take them to Lowe's, where they have accepted such bulbs for safe disposal in the past. That is of course another problem with these things: you shouldn't just put them in the dumpster, and they are too long to fit anyway.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 04:33 pm
I'm writing a story for What Elegant Stars, an anthology of stories about space opera and fashion (or textiles!) that's Kickstarting right now.
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 03:03 pm
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 08:52 am
Two orphans escape their dismal island home for adventure in a slowly dying world.
Scarlet Morning (Scarlet Morning, volume 1) by ND Stevenson
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Monday, February 9th, 2026 10:41 pm
Because having wondered what the Tangent Online 2025 recommended reading list looked like--or more accurately, how many non-recommended reading list words would precede it, nothing compelled me to go look.
(The preamble is about 6000 words)
(The preamble is about 6000 words)
Monday, February 9th, 2026 11:37 am
On Sunday morning, the 2025 WSFS Business Meeting Chair, Jesi Lipp, sent the WSFS Marketing Committee the minutes of the 2025 WSFS Business Meeting. A few hours later, I, on behalf of the committee, posted the minutes and updated the WSFS Rules page.
The Minutes are very long — 239 pages, including all of the appendices and committee reports. Even I, the biggest parliamentary nerd you're apt to ever meet, find my eyes glazing over, and I frankly skipped over much of it.
Also updated is the Business Passed On, which is what last year's meeting gave first passage and what will be up for ratification this year in Anaheim. Even this is ten pages long.
If you're curious about this, you might want to go look now, because it might take you a while to grind through it all in time for this year's meeting.
The Minutes are very long — 239 pages, including all of the appendices and committee reports. Even I, the biggest parliamentary nerd you're apt to ever meet, find my eyes glazing over, and I frankly skipped over much of it.
Also updated is the Business Passed On, which is what last year's meeting gave first passage and what will be up for ratification this year in Anaheim. Even this is ten pages long.
If you're curious about this, you might want to go look now, because it might take you a while to grind through it all in time for this year's meeting.
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