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Good old games has Master of Orion 1 & 2 and Master of Magic for download.

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/master_of_orion_1_2

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/master_of_magic/

Jen and I will be back again this year! On the usual mailing list we suggested Thursday at 9 for the traditional McKnight Mad Mex Meetup, and received no dissent (and some acclaim) so that's the plan.

Let us know if you'll also be in town and you'll be there, or if there's heretofore unreceived dissent that we should receive.

It's that time of year again, boys and girls. Night Shade Book's half-price sale ( Read more... )

Thanks to my library I don't NEED to take advantage of this, but for those of you less fortunate Night Shade Books is offering ANY TRADE PAPERBACK FREE when you buy Laird Barron's short story collection The Imago Sequence which is delicious in exactly the same way that Cthulhu finds your soul delicious. Ok, maybe more so, as your soul is pretty ( Read more... )

So, in between non-renewable inter-library loans, I've finally gotten around to reading Palimpsest. Now that I've read the whole thing, and not just excerpts, I still recommend it, but with caveats ( Read more... )

So, I'm at the library, as I often am, and there's this book on the bottom shelf of the New Books section with the SF sticker on it, and the binding has a sort of old-school mid-nineties look to it, and I pick it up and it's volume 2 of some thing called The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne M Valente. I wander back to the stacks and see that they have ( Read more... )

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Night Shade Book accepting completed zombie novels until October 31, 2008. Not one second later. Details here: http://jlassen.livejournal.com/597517.htmlRead more... )