After much waffling, I picked up Foundation for reading material. It's another one of those "classic sci-fi books" from before my time that I never read when it would have made more sense to do so. I think if I'd read it in high school or thereabouts, it would have felt insightful rather than just observational ( Read more... )

Le Chevalier d'Eon is an anime series I started watched probably years ago now, but didn't really get into. I picked that back up and watched it through to the (fairly tragic, I must say) ending ( Read more... )

Ah, what to say ( Read more... )

So, yeah... Twin Star Exorcists has fallen off my radar. It just doesn't distinguish itself into being "worth watching" in my book.

I started watching Mayoiga, which I suppose is more mystery/supernatural/psychological. It starts with a bus full of people dedicated to leaving society behind and going to a rumored lost town. I want to say it has ( Read more... )

The third (and I presume final) book in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne (previous one commented upon here) is a gloriously epic story of a catastrophic mess. One of the big things that struck me in the previous novel was the unreliable narration - human characters are stuck dealing with immortals who may be truthful, lying, or just biased. That ( Read more... )

The Cosmere/Mistborn adventures continue ( Read more... )

Alas, I often suffer from post-story depression. Oh, it's not crushing, but getting to the end of a series or novel or game is punctuated by a feeling of emptiness and "what now?" But what can you do?

So, Ashes of the Tyrant is the... fifth Brimstone Angels novel? Somehow, it doesn't feel like that many, but I guess that's right. I still love this ( Read more... )

I find it a little odd that the whole central point of argument in a game I'm playing (the synths in Fallout 4) should also be mirrored in a book I pick up. But there it is.

The Mechanical is the start of a series depicting an alternate history pitting mostly the French-in-exile against a Dutch nation that's taken over most everything else (Europe ( Read more... )

It's one of those books that frequently shows up on a "science fiction you should have read"-type lists, and with some publicity over a TV version (being put out by Amazon, I think it was?), it came to mind again, so I figured I'd give it a try ( Read more... )

So, back when I read The Alloy of Law, I thought the faux-Western age deserved more fleshing out and the stories introduced there were not finish. Well, apparently I wasn't the only one to think that, as Shadows of Self is a sequel. Reading it nearly four years later sort of sucks, but Sanderson had to go finish The Wheel of Time and whatnot, so ( Read more... )