I still get angry every time I remember a dish soap ad that featured a truly appalling "poutine", with (ims) processed cheese and a very runny gravy.
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Rerolled (The Last Session, volume 2) by Jasmine Walls & Dozerdraws
A friendly session of D&D for a worthy cause reminds former friends why they parted.
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Quite possibly true but When the Wind Blows gives it a run for its money.
Sheffield, March 5, before the Soviet ICBM arrives.
Happy Threads Day to those who celebrate it.
If it wasn't for Publishers Weekly's incessant hyping of AI, I would never have learned how to unsub from their mailing list.
The Paradox Men by Charles L. Harness
Is human redemption beyond even a nigh-godlike superhuman?
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This is an amusing theme for book reviews: books so unimaginably old, they do not have bar-codes. Gosh, image books that old.
*explodes into dust*
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Surely if such a thing had happened, it would have been the basis of one of the Internet's funniest tales?
Assuming for the moment that the issue is that my skull is unusually thick, it would explain why I've been able to shrug off so many head injuries.
Opaque-ish. Opaque enough that when they were trying to determine if I have metal embedded in my head, it took a bunch of tries and they still weren't sure.
Before the MRI, the tech told me if I did have metal in me, I should try very hard to have it emerge along the path of fewest vital organs.
My skull is opaque to X-Rays.
If Jordan is the only human Lantern, then maybe Guy got a Poglachian GL knock-off ring from G'Nort.
How many pages of equations can I include before it stops being a cozy?
Bundle of Holding: Ninja Crusade
This new Ninja Crusade Bundle presents The Ninja Crusade, the tabletop fantasy roleplaying game from Third Eye Games of ninja, conspiracies, and martial arts.
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SF about students?
Classic: The Fourth R by Smith
New Wave: The Book of Skulls by Silverberg
Post-NW: Doorways in the Sand by Zelazny
1980s: |Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by MacDonald
21st: We Speak Through the Mountain by Mohamed
Thank you!
Could someone with the first edition of Mayfair's DC Heroes let me know who was credited as its author?
I'm Waiting for You And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young
Two pair of linked speculative fiction stories.
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Middle Period Silverberg was my favourite: Open the Sky to just before Lord Valentine.
But he was the only one I could think of whose career spanned all four eras _and_ who was New Wave.
I, um, don't remember the details of that one.
When Herbert Huncke, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and Jack Kerouac went out carousing, one of them would wait outside each tavern. They preferred four Beats to the bar.
OK, here's a funny proposal:
Golden Age: Revolt on Alpha C by Robert Silverberg
New Wave: Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
21st Century: Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg
As soon as he gets back to the US, he's going to copy his notes and make arrangements to make them available to Weird Tales authors in the event of his death.
And his Cthulhu Mythos roll is now double-digits.
Whoot! Down one third of my character's SAN in one go!
Four Times Familiar Characters Faced Nuclear Armageddon
Stories about nuclear war don't usually feature popular, pre-existing characters...
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I meant "Your unborn grandchild will die face down in the sands of a country they neither find on a map or pronounce, for a cause that will never be explained to them because it makes no sense," supportively.
Heavy Time (Devil in the Belt, volume 1) by C J Cherryh
A rescue places two space miners in the cross-hairs of a ruthless corporation.
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Some clients have their own medics. It's not unknown for them to watch the show from the audience. It's a very good idea to ask them if they know how to get from where they are to the backstage area.
