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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-21 08:55 am

The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis



The story that began the grand tradition of picking on a teenager's work.

The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-20 04:25 pm
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-20 02:04 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Ghastly Affair



A bundle for Daniel James Hanley's tabletop roleplaying game of Gothic and Romantic Horror in the decadent, disastrous age of Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon, and Lord Byron.

Bundle of Holding: Ghastly Affair
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-20 12:40 pm
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alierak ([personal profile] alierak) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-10-20 10:11 am

AWS outage

DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-20 08:54 am
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Clarke Award Finalists 2019

2019: The Tories somehow find someone worse than May to be Prime Minister, UK pleas to the EU for a Brexit negotiation do-over on the grounds “our negotiators were fucking numpties” fall on deaf ears, and Tory MPs reject multiple Tory Brexit proposals, for which UK voters rebuke the incompetent Tories with a massive majority.

Poll #33744 Clarke Award Finalists 2019
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31


Which 2019 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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Rosewater by Tade Thompson
7 (22.6%)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
2 (6.5%)

Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
23 (74.2%)

Semiosis by Sue Burke
10 (32.3%)

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
4 (12.9%)

The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley
1 (3.2%)



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

Which 2019 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
Semiosis by Sue Burke

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-19 09:24 am

Man Plus (Man Plus, volume 1) by Frederik Pohl



Mars being unfit for humans, there is no alternative but to make humans--or at least a human--fit for Mars.

Man Plus (Man Plus, volume 1) by Frederik Pohl
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-18 09:11 am
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Books Received, October 11 to October 17



Seven books new to me. Well, six and one replacement. Four fantasy, one historical, one horror, one science fiction. Two appear to be part of series.

Books Received, October 11 to October 17


Poll #33737 Books Received, October 11 to October 17
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50


Which of these look interesting?

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Boys With Sharp Teeth by Jenni Howell (July 2026)
6 (12.0%)

Behind Five Willows by June Hur (May 2026)
16 (32.0%)

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher (August 2026)
33 (66.0%)

Heir of Storms by Lauryn Hamilton Murray (June 2026)
4 (8.0%)

City of Others by Jaren Poon (January 2026)
20 (40.0%)

Starry Messenger: The Best of Galileo edited by Charles C. Ryan (November 1979)
7 (14.0%)

How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva (January 2026)
18 (36.0%)

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

Cats!
34 (68.0%)

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-16 12:16 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Eclipse Phase 2E (from 2022)



The tabletop science fiction roleplaying game of transhuman survival from Posthuman Studios.

Bundle of Holding: Eclipse Phase 2E (from 2022)
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-16 08:47 am

The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury



The American orbital transfer station offers employment to Byron McDougall, a chance for Charlie Bond to search for an alternative to MAD, and for Diana Osborne, escape from her violently abusive father.

The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-15 10:13 am
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Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse



Growing up is hard enough without the entire world falling apart around you.

Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-15 09:19 am

The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran



Why do Cheolma Rehabilitation Hospital patients keep plummeting from the 6th floor, and why do none of them bleed when they hit the tarmac? The explanation is outside Detective Suyeon's field of expertise.

The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-14 08:53 am
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Point of Honour (Sarah Tolerance, volume 1) by Madeleine E. Robins



Fallen Woman turned private investigator Sarah Tolerance is hired to recover a fan. Carnage ensues.

Point of Honour (Sarah Tolerance, volume 1) by Madeleine E. Robins
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-13 03:21 pm

I ran an errand

During which I encountered:

* A person supine on the sidewalk, having apparently been struck by a car exiting the expressway. There were EMTs so I didn't interfere.

* A person driving their RC car on the LRT tracks as the train was approaching, who seemed put out that I told him to get off the tracks.

* An angry screaming apparently deranged guy between me and where I needed to be to catch the bus.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-13 01:57 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Huckleberry



This all-new Huckleberry Bundle presents Huckleberry, the mythic Wyrd West tabletop roleplaying game about tragic cowboys in a world doomed to calamity – unless you save it.

Bundle of Holding: Huckleberry
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-10-13 10:51 am
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Clarke Award Finalists 2018

2018: Tories vote to pitch the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, PM May’s Brexit progress is strangely uneven, while Prince Harry and Meghan Markle conduct an experiment to determine the depths of British racism.

Poll #33722 Clarke Award Finalists 2018
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7


Which 2018 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock
1 (14.3%)

American War by Omar El Akkad
2 (28.6%)

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
5 (71.4%)

Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
0 (0.0%)

Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
1 (14.3%)

Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař
1 (14.3%)



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

Which 2018 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock
American War by Omar El Akkad
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař