Shores of Night

This is a meme that's been bouncing about on social media sites a lot recently. I decided I did not really care to drag it out over a month, and have opted to do the whole thing in one go. 1) Vampire the Masquerade 2) Vampire the Masquerade 3)  Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4)  Blood and Smoke: The Strix Chronicle 5)  Runequest 6) Mage the Ascension 7) Nobilis/Unknown Armies 8) Urgrim Thingrimson 9) Meh - none 10) Truth Until Paradox for Mage and Mindjammer 11) Over the Edge 12) Whispering Vault 13) Chapel, my first SLA Industries character who died from flipping a brick off a mine. 14) Mindjammer and Golden Sky Stories 15) an AD&D 'power paladins' 16) SHOCK a soft SF game 17) A FUDGE based game of Squirrel Assault Squad 18) Either Storyteller or BRP 19) I don't really read published adventures, but probably Tatters of the King for Call of Cthulhu 20) Call of Cthulhu/Vampire... if I'm still gaming 21) The Laundry Files 22) Blue Planet 23) ...

Today we have Cara McKee, of the Oh We Do blog ( http://ohwedo.blogspot.co.uk/ ) talking about her reading list and the problem of too manh books. Cara is a blogger, writer and Mum living in Scotland. I have a mountainous backlog of books to read. I have never in my life reached the bottom of the pile, but at the moment it is really high. Someone suggested I switch to Kindle. The trouble is I already have... and I have plenty of books backed up to read on Kindle as well. I blame Facebook. Partly because the shiny blue bauble on my 'phone and my tablet, tells me when I've got notifications, and I can't, I just can't, avoid looking. But mainly because Facebook helps me communicate with friends from all over, and one of the things I communicate about is books. If something sounds interesting, I keep my eye out for it. One of the books on my Kindle is The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers. Recommended by Steve, and boosted to close to the top of the p...

A sequel to Saturn's Children, Neptune's Brood takes place in the far future, following Krina, a mendicant scholar as she tries to locate her sibling Ana who has gone missing on the water world of Shin Tethys, light years from New California, Krina's home. What follows is a tale of finance, fraud, piracy and plunder. Stross uses the novel not only to explore the problems of the humans in space but also to cock a snook at a great deal of the internet. As a result there are jokes about piracy, memes and internet mannerisms. Marrying this attitude with a clever plot, Neptune's Brood is a pacey, read more interested in balance sheets than blasters. The novel in part addresses one of the author's obsession with how unlikely human colonisation of space is. As a weak and fleshy species the hard vacuum of space is probably an environment that humans will not prosper in. As a result, these novels feature robots who are not only autonomous, suited to life in hard vacuum...