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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-28 08:55 am

Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams



How could a man die in front of Atocha Chief of Police Loren Hawn when that man died twenty years before?

Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-27 03:19 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Cthulhu Reborn



Nearly two dozen Mythos investigations in many eras from the open-license Cthulhu Eternal tabletop roleplaying game line produced by Cthulhu Reborn.

Compatible with your favorite Lovecraftian percentile-based systems)

Bundle of Holding: Cthulhu Reborn
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-27 09:09 am
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Clarke Award Finalists 2020

2020: Boris Johnson proposes an unbuildable bridge between Scotland and Ireland, Universal Credit successfully sends stress levels soaring, and the Tories handle Covid as skilfully as they did Brexit.

Poll #33767 Clarke Award Finalists 2020
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40


Which 2020 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
1 (2.5%)

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
34 (85.0%)

Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4 (10.0%)

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
12 (30.0%)

The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
1 (2.5%)

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
18 (45.0%)



Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2020 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-10-26 08:07 pm
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Life with two kids: Very wet test subjects

There's research that if you leave people in a room with an electro-shock shock device long enough to get bored they will deliberately shock themselves.

In other news I took Sophia's phone away from the kids while they were in the bath and now they're repeatedly pouring cold water over themselves while shrieking like baboons.
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-10-26 01:45 pm
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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 am

Database maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-10-25 10:29 am
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Photo cross-post


One of these children won at Ticket To Ride: First Journey, the other...did not.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-25 09:20 am
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Books Received, October 18 — October 24



Eight works new to me. Three fantasies, two horror, two SF, and one hard-to-classify RPG. One of the SF books is pretty horrory, so maybe that should be three fantasies, three horror, one SF, and one hard-to-classify RPG.

Books Received, October 18 — October 24

Poll #33761 Books Received, October 18 — October 24
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48


Which of these look interesting?

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Abyss by Nicholas Binge (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)

Testimony of Mute Things by Lois McMaster Bujold (October 2025)
27 (56.2%)

Morsel by Carter Keane (April 2026)
4 (8.3%)

The Cove by Claire Rose (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)

Outgunned by Riccardo ​“Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini (December 2024)
6 (12.5%)

And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer (May 2026)
16 (33.3%)

Lightning Runes by Harry Turtledove (March 2026)
8 (16.7%)

A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo (May 2026)
24 (50.0%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
37 (77.1%)

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-24 08:57 am

Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala



High school student and semi-professional tarot card reader Danika Dizon assists her PI mother to look for a missing person... a teen who vanished after Danika gave her a tarot card reading.

Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-23 11:41 am
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Bundle of Holding: Nightmares Underneath (from 2023)



The August 2023 Nightmares Underneath Bundle featuring The Nightmares Underneath, the old-school horror-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game from Chthonstone Games.

Bundle of Holding: Nightmares Underneath (from 2023)
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-23 08:51 am
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Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner



Faraday, Oregon, seems to have a missing persons problem. Its problem is much worse.

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner