WHY
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[Update]
I shut it down for an hour and everything works again.
Adventures in Tourism: Five SFF Stories About Travel
Sep. 23rd, 2025 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Oh, the joys (and perils) of visiting unfamiliar places and times...
Adventures in Tourism: Five SFF Stories About Travel
Funny thing about this singer
Sep. 23rd, 2025 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I don't think they exist. There are no non-generated images of the singer and their pace of output is suspicious. And their FB bio references ai.
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
Sep. 23rd, 2025 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Oxford sends its best to study World War Two in this (grinds teeth) Hugo-winning tale of sound and fury.
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
Bundle of Holding: Weird Wizard
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The SHADOW OF THE WEIRD WIZARD corebooks, supplements, and adventures.
Bundle of Holding: Weird Wizard
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September 22nd, 2025: Now I wish that my computer really DID have a Valu-Maxx Junior processor sticker. I for one LOVE to lower expectations!! – Ryan |
Clarke Award Finalists 201
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Which 2015 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
23 (63.9%)
Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
8 (22.2%)
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
6 (16.7%)
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
4 (11.1%)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
15 (41.7%)
The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
17 (47.2%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2015 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
Frostflower and Thorn (Frostflower and Thorn, volume 1) by Phyllis Ann Karr
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Frostflower can solve Thorn's pregnancy problem... but can the pair survive the attention of a fanatical farmer-priest?
Frostflower and Thorn (Frostflower and Thorn, volume 1) by Phyllis Ann Karr
Books Received, September 13 — September 19
Sep. 20th, 2025 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Really, more of Book Received. One work new to me, science fantasy.
Books Received, September 13 — September 19
Which of these look interesting?
Yalum by Matthew Hughes (September 2025)
10 (26.3%)
Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.6%)
Cats!
36 (94.7%)
Bad News From Alpha Centauri A…
Sep. 19th, 2025 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

There's a planet in the habitable zone... but not an Earthlike planet.
Bad News From Alpha Centauri A…
Finally all three good links for Demons of the Past!
Sep. 19th, 2025 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Finally it's straightened out, and here's the proper links:
#1, Revelation: https://www.amazon.com/Demons-Past-Revelation-Ryk-Spoor-ebook/dp/B0DN6Q6ZZ7
#2, Revolution: https://www.amazon.com/Demons-Past-Revolution-Ryk-Spoor-ebook/dp/B0DN6SVXF6
#3, Retribution: https://www.amazon.com/Demons-Past-Retribution-Ryk-Spoor-ebook/dp/B0DN6PL1ZT
This is the work I spent the most hours on over the years, rewriting it at least five times since its first draft in about 1982 or so (and the idea having been first thought of in the late 70s).
Sabrena Swept Away by Karuna Riazi
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Sabrena's life is full of struggles already. The last thing she needs is an other-worldly adventure. Life is, alas, not considerate of a teen's preferences.
Sabrena Swept Away by Karuna Riazi
t-rex in: a flight of fancy
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Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois by Gardner Dozois
Sep. 18th, 2025 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

A selection of Dozois' best, from the first half of his half century career.
Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois by Gardner Dozois
Government censorship
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Comedian says a thing. FCC Commissioner threatens to pull broadcast license of network if it doesn't fire comedian. How is this not PRECISELY government censorship?
This is what got him cancelled – not ill of the dead, but speculation about MAGA motives. “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said in his monologue.
twinkle twinkle little star, i'll just wait
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September 17th, 2025: In the other part of my life (writing comics for Star Trek and Marvel and DC Comics) I have four (four!) new books out today! If you head down to your local comic shoppe, be sure to check out KRYPTO: THE LAST DOG OF KRYPTON #4, and/or FANTASTIC FOUR #3, and/or STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS: SECOND CONTACT (the collection of my new run on the book!) AND/OR Deadpool/Batman #1, for a li'l 3-page backup story that brings back something I am really excited to see return! Thus concludes the pitch for Ryan's books here on Ryan's Webzone. :0 – Ryan |
Hip Replacement Recovery
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The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
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The Central Plaza Mansion tower offers palatial 900 square foot apartments for a mere ¥35,000,000. It is a deal too good for the Kano family to turn down... although they should have.
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Feast of Saint Janis & Ginungagap by Michael Swanwick
Sep. 16th, 2025 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

The Young People review Michael Swanwick's debut Nebula finalist stories.
The Feast of Saint Janis & Ginungagap by Michael Swanwick
Bundle of Holding: Dread Laironomicon
Sep. 15th, 2025 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

100 lair entries in two succinct pages apiece, from Aboleth's Sunken Lair to Wyvern's Nest.
Bundle of Holding: Dread Laironomicon
Clarke Award Finalists 2014
Sep. 15th, 2025 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Which 2014 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
71 (95.9%)
God's War by Kameron Hurley
25 (33.8%)
Nexus by Ramez Naam
10 (13.5%)
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
5 (6.8%)
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
1 (1.4%)
The Machine by James Smythe
3 (4.1%)
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Which 2014 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
God's War by Kameron Hurley
Nexus by Ramez Naam
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
The Machine by James Smythe
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September 15th, 2025: So earlier T-Rex suggested a new alphabet replacement, and I got an email from Michael L, who wrote: I took the liberty of finding you the first 26 Garfield comics with no text in them (barring bookkeeping text like dates and signatures ofc) so you don't have to worry about recursively putting Garfield comics inside Garfield comics in order to make them parseable. I thought this was both amazing AND PRACTICAL, and so with permission I now share this list here with you!!
– Ryan |
Transit
Sep. 14th, 2025 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Ha ha! I pick my routes to maximize alternatives in case of break-downs. I just disembarked and talked over to the LRT. Which, I discovered, was having a minor service delay.
My contingency plans can handle two delays, but not three. Good for me there were just the two. It did mean I was only a little early for work.
On the way home, just after I disembarked from the LRT, an SUV cut the LRT off so the SUV could reach the parking lot ten seconds earlier. If the train had not stopped, I'd have had to stick around, both as a witness and because the accident would blocked the sidewalk between me and the stop I needed to get to.
Less than five minutes after the LRT near-miss, three SUVs tried to turn into the same lane at the same time. I don't think they hit each other but there was a short discussion between the drivers before they all left. I'd have had to stick around for that as well, because it would have blocked the route my bus uses.
The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency, volume 2) by Frank Herbert
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Bureau of Sabotage agent Jorj X. McKie is assigned a legal and ethical trap: a planet of victims, who, whether rescued or left to their impending doom, present a danger to the ConSentiency.
The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency, volume 2) by Frank Herbert