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The Good Society Bundle featuring Good Society, the Jane Austen-inspired tabletop roleplaying game from Storybrewers Roleplaying.

Bundle of Holding: Good Society (from 2024)

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What could possibly go wrong with playing along with an unhappy teen's delusions?

Babel no Toshokan by Tsubana

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The New Madrid Fault teaches a memorable lesson about the transience of things.

The Rift by Walter Jon Williams

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A bundle for Mists of Akuma, the tabletop roleplaying campaign setting of Eastern fantasy noir steampunk from Storm Bunny Studios for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition.

Bundle of Holding: Mists of Akuma

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You may be surprised to learn that "Canadian thriller" is not an oxymoron.

A Brief Survey of Canadian Political Thrillers

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Orson finds Trump's approach to Greenland unacceptable and would like the President to keep focus on core American missions, like trade wars and ethnically cleansing Minnesota.

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Can America's well-financed, highly-experienced, heavily-armed war machine hope to prevail against a numerically insignificant, poorly-armed, American teen movement?

Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy

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Seven books new to me. four fantasy, one horror, one ostensibly non-fiction, and one romance. Three are series. Yeah, there does seem to be a shortage of science fiction.

I had a bunch of stuff come in just after the cut-off time for these. Next week will look very different.

Books Received, February 14 — February 20

Poll #34247 Books Received, February 14 — February 20

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Which of these look interesting?

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I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder (May 2026)
3 (6.5%)

In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir by Francis Fukuyama (September 2026)
5 (10.9%)

A Divided Duty: An October Daye Novel by Seanan McGuire (September 2026)
15 (32.6%)

Wickhills by Premee Mohamed (September 2026)
18 (39.1%)

Hallowed Bones: A Sons of Salem Novel by Lucy Smoke (October 2026)
2 (4.3%)

Falling for a Villainous Vampire by Charlotte Stein (October 2026)
6 (13.0%)

I Am the Monster Under the Bed: A Novel by Emily Zinnikas (September 2026)
14 (30.4%)

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

Cats!
38 (82.6%)

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A successful businesswoman has the opportunity of a lifetime offered to her, only to have an old friend greatly complicate matters.

The Friend Zone Experiment by Zen Cho

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TTRPG campaign idea.

PCs are field agents in charge of finding and dealing with arcane occupational safety violations. That six-sided summoning pentagram? Flagged. That storeroom where the universal solvent is next to the lemonade? Flagged.

That deadly-trap-filled dungeon abandoned by its creator when the maintenance fees got too high? Red tagged.

This isn't the same as my recent FabUlt campaign. That was about discouraging the worst excesses in a world run by oligarch mages and there weren't really regulations. This would be set in a regulatory state, and would be more an exploration of normalization of deviance.

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Against the gleefully hypocritical, exploitative Shine, the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Slow Gods by Claire North

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Evil Milhouse enraged.

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The Wolves Upon the Coast Grand Campaign, a bare-bones old-school tabletop roleplaying game by designer Luke Gearing.

Bundle of Holding: Wolves Upon the Coast

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Classic SF was chock-full of dubious ideas; Martin Gardner supplied the antidote.

One Way to Immunize Yourself Against Pseudoscience and Other Nonsense

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Only witches hunt demons, all witches are women, and Uroro cannot be defeated by any woman. Uroro feels entirely safe, right until the world's first male witch defeats him.

Ichi the Witch, volume 1 by Osamu NIchi & Shiro Usazaki (Translated by Adrienne Beck)

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What hope has 10th century Icelandic culture against an armed and moderately educated 20th century American?

The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson

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Downcrawl and Skycrawl, twin toolkits from designer Aaron A. Reed that help you create spontaneous tabletop roleplaying adventures in the Deep, Deep Down and the Azure Etern.

Bundle of Holding: Downcrawl-Skycrawl

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Ben Reich plans a perfect murder in a world where getting away with murder is impossible.

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

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Nine books new to me: 3 horror, 4 mystery, 1 non-fiction, and 1 science fiction, although I am not sure about the proper categorization of some of those books. Only one is explicitly part of a series.

Books Received, February 7 to February 13

Poll #34218 Books Received, February 7 to February 13

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Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong (October 2026)
14 (32.6%)

Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore by Riley Black (October 2026)
18 (41.9%)

Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe (October 2026)
7 (16.3%)

Null Entity by Seth Haddon (July 2026)
6 (14.0%)

Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm (September 2026)
10 (23.3%)

Savvy Summers and the Po’boy Perils by Sandra Jackson-Opoku (July 2026)
8 (18.6%)

Revenge of the Final Girl by Andrea Mosqueda (October 2026)
10 (23.3%)

Lucy Kline, Necromancer by Tom O’Donnell (September 2026)
6 (14.0%)

They Say a Girl Died Here by Sarah Pinborough (August 2026)
7 (16.3%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.3%)

Cats!
33 (76.7%)

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BROWNSVILLE, TX – Tech visionary Elon Musk astounded observers when he set aside more than a decade of unfulfilled vows to colonize the Red Planet in favour of the seemingly more modest goal of failing to colonize the Moon.

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Page Summary

james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Good Society (from 2024)
james_davis_nicoll - Babel no Toshokan by Tsubana
james_davis_nicoll - The Rift by Walter Jon Williams
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Mists of Akuma
james_davis_nicoll - A Brief Survey of Canadian Political Thrillers
james_davis_nicoll - If I am reading this correctly
james_davis_nicoll - Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
james_davis_nicoll - Books Received, February 14 — February 20
james_davis_nicoll - The Friend Zone Experiment by Zen Cho
james_davis_nicoll - All Regulations Are Written in Blood
james_davis_nicoll - Slow Gods by Claire North
james_davis_nicoll - MP Matt Jeneroux leaves Conservatives to join Liberals, citing 'national unity crisis'
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Wolves Upon the Coast
james_davis_nicoll - One Way to Immunize Yourself Against Pseudoscience and Other Nonsense
james_davis_nicoll - Ichi the Witch, volume 1 by Osamu NIchi & Shiro Usazaki (Translated by Adrienne Beck)
james_davis_nicoll - The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Downcrawl-Skycrawl
james_davis_nicoll - The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
james_davis_nicoll - Books Received, February 7 to February 13
james_davis_nicoll - Elon Musk downgrades empty Mars Colony pledge to empty Lunar Colony pledge

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Bundle of Holding: Good Society (from 2024)

Babel no Toshokan by Tsubana

The Rift by Walter Jon Williams

Bundle of Holding: Mists of Akuma

A Brief Survey of Canadian Political Thrillers

If I am reading this correctly

Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy

Books Received, February 14 — February 20

The Friend Zone Experiment by Zen Cho

All Regulations Are Written in Blood

Slow Gods by Claire North

MP Matt Jeneroux leaves Conservatives to join Liberals, citing 'national unity crisis'

Bundle of Holding: Wolves Upon the Coast

One Way to Immunize Yourself Against Pseudoscience and Other Nonsense

Ichi the Witch, volume 1 by Osamu NIchi & Shiro Usazaki (Translated by Adrienne Beck)

The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson

Bundle of Holding: Downcrawl-Skycrawl

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

Books Received, February 7 to February 13

Elon Musk downgrades empty Mars Colony pledge to empty Lunar Colony pledge

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