June 30th, 2025
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I survived another dance season. Go me.

21 works reviewed. 11 by women (52%), 9 by men (43%),1 by non-binary authors (5%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 8 by POC (38%).

More details at the other end of the link.
June 29th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll at 10:43pm on 29/06/2025
Final show: a 5.5 hour bhangra show that was only 6.5 hours long.

Among my final achievements this season, discovering as I hoisted the last of many garbage bags into the dumpster that the bag was leaking coffee. My last achievement was ducking to the men's to wash my hands, discovering someone had plugged the sinks and turned on the taps, and stopping the flood in time.
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Jerry's romance with the brilliant, beautiful, eccentric Selena is book-ended with death: first, Selena's husband's, then Jerry's.

To Walk The Night by William Sloane
June 28th, 2025
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Three books new to me, all fantasy (Although the Stross is an edge case), and only one is clearly part of a series.

Books Received, June 21 — June 27


Poll #33298 Books Received, June 21 — June 27
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Which of these look interesting?

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Until the Clock Strikes Midnight by Alechia Dow (February 2026)
18 (32.1%)

The Regicide Report by Charles Stross (January 2026)
34 (60.7%)

The Beasts We Raise by D. L. Taylor (March 2026)
5 (8.9%)

Some other option (see comments)
3 (5.4%)

Cats!
36 (64.3%)

June 27th, 2025
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A schoolgirl abandons the UK's post-Brexit educational system for the comparative safety and comfort of a magical school designed to turn out magical soldiers in the war on eldritch horrors.

Vanya and the Wild Hunt (Vanya, volume 1) by Sangu Mandanna
June 26th, 2025
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People adopt very different strategies when it comes to making up for mistakes.

Five SFF Stories About Making Amends
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What could possibly go wrong with a little harmless Satanism between friends?

Golem100 by Alfred Bester
June 25th, 2025
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His Majesty the Worm, a megadungeon-crawling fantasy roleplaying game from Josh McCrowell at Rise Up Comus.

Bundle of Holding: His Majesty the Worm
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Each would-be pet owner gets three simple rules for taking care of the exotic animals Count D supplies. How hard could it possibly be to follow three simple rules?

Pet Shop of Horrors, volume 1 by Matsuri Akino
June 24th, 2025
niqaeli: a pedestrian path lined by trees and shrouded in mist (the path less travelled)
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Silverside Station attracts the rich, the famous, and the bizarre, as well as two Allowed Burglars bent on flamboyant larceny.

House of Shards (Drake Maijstral, volume 2) by Walter Jon Williams
June 23rd, 2025
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Bestiaries and DM sourcebooks from Andrew Cawood at Cawood Publishing for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (2014) and compatible tabletop roleplaying games.

Bundle of Holding: Cawood Monsters

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