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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-04 08:58 am

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia



Ninety years after her grandmother's family was stalked by a witch, international student Minerva Contrera's studies land her in a similar position.


The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-04 02:49 am
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Got halfway to the bus stop to go to the pool and realised I didn't have my shoulder bag. Sprinted home, got it, and made it to the bus.

Got off the bus at the other end, realised Sophia's bag didn't have her swimming costume in it. Got a bus home, grabbed it, now in a taxi.

Fingers crossed that nothing else comes between me and drop-off and work!
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-03 10:34 pm

Every time I run something

I embrace new tools. In Fabula Ultima, for example, the order in which characters go in combat varies. I found it hard to keep track of who'd gone, so I went out and got poker chips and little round labels. Now, I can just toss the chips representing characters into a bowl once they've gone. Order!

OK, except it turns out I can't tell blue from green under the ceiling light in the room where I DM and the names on the labels need to be bigger.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-03 08:56 am
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Blight (Sleep of Reason, volume 2) by Rachel A. Rosen



Director of the nation formerly known as Canada Quinn Atherton is determined to deliver much mass murder as it takes to achieve peace, order, good government. Why do so many ingrates object?

Blight(Sleep of Reason, volume 2) by Rachel A. Rosen
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-02 11:51 pm

My alt-Mummy film

The inspiration being the 1999 Mummy movie is not without problematic elements.

Imagine an Egyptian film company wanting to make a movie about idiots waking a horror in Canada that only the Egyptian lead can resolve.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-02 02:46 pm
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Bundle of Holding: The Dark Eye MEGA (from 2023)



The June 2023 Dark Eye Megabundle featuring the English-language edition from Ulisses Spiele of the leading German tabletop roleplaying game of heroic fantasy, The Dark Eye.

Bundle of Holding: The Dark Eye MEGA (from 2023)
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-02 08:52 am
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-02 10:20 am
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Time marches on

As of this morning (2nd of July), we are now closer to 2050 than 2000.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-01 06:02 pm

2025 CSFFA Hall of Fame Inductees

The quotation below is a quotation


CSFFA (The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association) is proud to announce the 2025 CSFFA Hall of Fame inductees.

Clint Budd, fan, convention organizer, modernized CSFFA and created the CSFFA Hall of Fame
Charles R. Saunders, author, journalist, and founder of the “sword and soul” literary genre
Diane L. Walton, editor, mentor, and a founding member of On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic

More information here.


Congratulations to the Inductees!
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-01 01:58 pm
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"Sophia, will you pose with your brother for a photo?"

"I will, but I'm very angry about it!"
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-01 09:10 am
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-01 09:02 am
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The Dreamstone (Ealdwood, volume 1) by C J Cherryh



Only the brave, the arrogant, the naïve, or the desperate Men trespass in Arafel's Ealdwood. Into which category does the latest visitor fall?

The Dreamstone (Ealdwood, volume 1) by C J Cherryh
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-01 08:58 am
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July 2025 Patreon Boost



Jealous of all the people who support Aurora-finalist James Nicoll Reviews? Want to join them? Here are your options:

July 2025 Patreon Boost
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alierak ([personal profile] alierak) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-06-30 03:18 pm

Rebuilding journal search again

We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-30 03:44 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Broken Tales



The English-language rulebook and supplements for Broken Tales, the tabletop fantasy roleplaying game of upside-down fairy tales from Italian game publisher The World Anvil Publishing.

Bundle of Holding: Broken Tales