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Oh, I always read the intro. I can't think of any time when it's simply been 'here's a book by my friend'. They're often written about authors who are dead, for example, or remote. My version of Sword at Sunset has a brief intro by Jack Whyte, who h…
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Welcome aboard, Loz!
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(Quote) Hmm, that's weird - there's a kindle edition of the second and third books in the series, but the first seems to only be available in Dutch. There's an audio for all three, and print, of course. Maybe from your library via overdrive? https…
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Alastor? I thought that worked out amazing - I went and bought a whole bunch of Vance after that.
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National Trust event? Interesting.
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Actually, we did read Wool by Hugh Howey - that was definitely PA. @clash_bowley There are quite a few about re-building, and I really enjoy those, too. David Brin's The Postman does this.
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(Quote) No, this novel is from 2018 - apparently it does for the Donner party what The Terror did for the Franklin Expedition. https://locusmag.com/2018/05/john-langan-reviews-the-hunger-by-alma-katsu-and-the-teardrop-method-by-simon-avery/
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I just now finished The Barrow by Mark Smylie, a fantasy novel set in the Known World setting that he used for his Artesia graphic novels and the Artesia: Adventures in the Known World RPG. This is, honestly, one of my favourite RPG settings ever pu…
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Thanks @Michael_S_Miller ! I really enjoyed this one, too. It's been playing hard to get for a long time, so take advantage of the new print run while you can.
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I found this very cool site devoted to all things Arthurian. There are articles, a mailing list, a journal, links to maps, and links to Arthurian books, fiction and non-fiction. So many rabbit holes! arthuriana.org/ (Image)
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@dr_mitch Wasn't The Girl With All the Gifts just apocalyptic? I mean, the apocalypse in that book is still happening, right?
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(Quote) Woops! Haha - that's embarrassing. @Ray_Otus led me astray, I swear! (Quote) To be clear about Glorantha, it's an original fantasy setting where Bronze is the main metal, but other than that it's not especially 'bronze age'. It draws from m…
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(Quote) He even lists IHW in the inspiration section of his book.
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(Quote) Which will leave room to include the info from the lost 'companion' :smiley: !
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You can tease if you want. It's called Mythic Babylon, published by the Design Mechanism as part of their Mythic series for their game, Mythras. Already published are Mythic Britain (dark ages), Mythic Rome (republic, iron age), and Mythic Constanti…
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OK, good enough. Paul and I are in the final stages of just such a project, but it won't be out until next year and it's more book that you usually want. But it does have city states up the wazoo. Here's the best of the rest: Red Gods of Babylon l…
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First tell me what you mean by 'bronze age', please.
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@dr_mitch Slow because you aren't really enjoying it, or slow because that's how you want to read it? Me, I thought it was amazing. My wife didn't care for it that much - she read most of it but never quite finished. I'd still love to do this as a …
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(Quote) LOL. If only I'd written my review sooner...
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I'd play it if someone wanted to run it, but I probably wouldn't run it myself. I am interested in reading more about the setting though. I bought Gatecrashing, and will one day get Sunward and Rimward, I expect. You know - the geography books.
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@rossum Thanks, @dr_mitch I think the film will get around the limitations of the setting by having a lot of close-ups of the characters when in threatening situations. This is a standard horror style of filming anyway (lets viewers experience the …
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To play naval military scenarios in the vein of Horatio Hornblower or Captain Aubrey. @clash_bowley could not doubt give you a hundred scenarios - he wrote a whole series of books to do just this, beginning with In Harm's Way for Napoleonic adventur…
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Thanks, @Ray_Otus !