This series keeps popping up on my To-Read list! Might do it after Wind and Truth.

Nearly done with Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir! It’s quite good, and I’m glad I’d read somewhere here to go in with zero context. Would highly recommend.

Continuing to listen my way through the Otherland series by Tad Williams. Currently in book two, River of Blue Fire. It seems to me that he wrote all four books as one book and was told that was ~3000 pages wouldn’t sell well. I’m very much enjoying it. Williams writes in a detailed pace, which can seem slow at times, but I love his use of 20th century literature as the basis of all the VR worlds. They’re never the same as their origin and are wonderfully permuted.

Good to know - every time I think he’s jumped the shark, there’s a bigger shark! Have you read any other LitRPGs, and if so, how does this compare?

Nice! It’s quite quick, so it’s a low investment if it doesn’t float your boat.

I finished, I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman, last night. What a very surreal experience that I’m struggling to articulate. It left me very contemplative. It was clearly well written, but I’m not sure whether I enjoyed it. Intentionally too many unanswered questions.

A week or so back I knocked out The Gate of the Feral Gods, Matt Dinniman, which was, as usual, a good romp. I’m interested to see if this LitRPG gets boring at some point.

Is this a good indexer? Yet to explore Usenet and unsure how this fits into the landscape.

About halfway through The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones. I’m enjoying it in a somewhat depressed way. It’s absolutely well written, but I keep having to look things up to go, “ugh, yet another awful thing that was done to these peoples.”

I just finished The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker, which was such a nice and interesting book. The story was slow and well paced without feeling slow, and was clever in the use of seemingly bit characters weaving their way back into the plot. It was refreshing to have most of the conflicts and plot points be solved by expanded knowledge, rather than violence.

Next I’m going to read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones, which has good reviews.

Brian David Gilbert has always made cool stuff, but as he spun off from polygon he’s created some wild existential videos.