What was excellent, kind of a big one:

* A lot of people including me had never really heard of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, when the most thriving black community in America was attacked by a mob, backed by police, with a lot of weapons, and private planes dropping firebombs, and acres of shops and houses were destroyed and a hundred or more ( Read more... )

Knives out was great fun ( Read more... )

( Assorted comments, some spoilers )

There is an emperor of the world. Like this modern, real world, except this guy magically underpins the very fabric of the universe. He took over, about 6000 years ago, overthrowing some other ruler about who little is known. He has powerful allies, beasts, planets, sometimes humans but not usually ( Read more... )

So, yes, that was ever so well done! I don't have much more to say, really. I mean, gosh, what a difficult adaption, but they did it very well ( Read more... )

I've watched about a third of the way through the first series, so my thoughts are a bit premature.

Grim remakesI quite like the trend of grim remakes. I think there's two main things I like. One is the same thing as fanfiction, of putting the same characters into a new setting often brings out new stuff out of the same premises, which is really ( Read more... )

I finally read the new novel by Shamus Young (who did the DM of the Rings screencap webcomic ( Read more... )

For the first time for, um, a very very long time I returned to a book I was interested in but didn't finish the first time ( Read more... )

Doctor Who, Ep iI love everything it's doing, featuring northern england, featuring a little group of different people who are not all white, #13's manic energy, spending some time making do without a tardis ( Read more... )

So. Neal Stephenson's recent-ish doorstop about the moon blowing up and the earth becoming uninhabitable, and humanity jump-starting a space settlement to continue the race until the earth's surface recovers. He did write short books once, but not for decades now IIRC ( Read more... )