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Five works new to me: two horror, one and a half science fiction, one half fantasy, and one TTRPG that's hard to classify. Two could be said to be series works.

Books Received, October 25 — October 31

Poll #33785 Books Received, October 25 — October 31

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Which of these upcoming books looks interesting?

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Dreamland by Olivie Blake (August 2026)
4 (30.8%)

Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey (May 2026)
3 (23.1%)

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three edited by Stephen Kotowych (October 2025)
5 (38.5%)

Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler (March 2026)
6 (46.2%)

Outgunned Adventure by Riccardo“Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini (October 2024)
5 (38.5%)

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

Cats!
11 (84.6%)

andrewducker

1. Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation are caused by your brain flushing itself clean: (tags:brain sleep )
2. Only 416 days until next Christmas!: (tags:Christmas )

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radiantfracture

I am trying to remember a quotation that may or may not exist.

It is a bit like Kiss of the Spider Woman's "This dream is short, but this dream is happy."

Something like "this is a (something) story for bad times."

Any contenders?

{rf}

james_davis_nicoll

James Nicoll Reviews saw its 3000th review on the 17th.

23 works reviewed. 12.5 by women (54%), 10 by men (43%), 0.5 by non-binary authors (2%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 10.5 by POC (46%).

More stats and a big chart here.

james_davis_nicoll

A stranger comes to Little Marigold.

M. F. K., volume 1 by Nilah Magruder

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thefridayfive

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andrewducker

This morning Sophia announced, as we were about to leave the house, that she couldn't find her school shoes.

Her black school shoes.

The ones that are and integral part of her Wednesday costume. For the school Halloween disco. This evening.

Jane and I frantically tore the house apart for fifteen minutes and checked *everywhere*. Eventually we forced her, crying, to put on her trainers, promising her that if her shoes turned up we would bring them in to her.

Because we left fifteen minutes late we missed the bus. And so it was that we were halfway through the walk to school when Sophia quietly said "Oh."

And then told me that she'd just remembered that yesterday she'd come home from school in her welly boots, leaving her shoes at her peg.

You'll be delighted to hear that I didn't murder her.

dewline

Putin has organized the automation of psychological warfare.

Current Mood: determined

james_davis_nicoll

A fairy's efforts to recover stolen arcane tools via illicit means produce spectacular calamity.

The Fairy of Ku-She by M. Lucie Chin

andrewducker

1. Covid and Flu both raise the risk of heart attacks by 3-5 times for weeks, and many other infections increase risks long-term: (tags:heart disease pandemic flu viaKenny )

james_davis_nicoll

The seventh all-new library of Sanity-shattering tabletop roleplaying ebooks inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos.

Bundle of Holding: Tentacles 7

james_davis_nicoll

The song version of The Great Nebraska Sea. Which seems to call for an actual musical.

Watch on YouTube

james_davis_nicoll

What dark purpose compels a girl and her android companion to wander post-apocalyptic Japan?

Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 6 by Sakae Saito

andrewducker

1. Labour Deputy Lucy Powell says EHRC's single-sex spaces draft is 'not right': (tags:LGBT transgender GoodNews bigotry UK labour )
2. Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows: (tags:games windows Linux )
3. A satellite runs Doom from orbit, using Ubuntu on Arm: (tags:space doom games )

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radiantfracture

There's a gorgeous windstorm going on. Beautiful for listening to, not so great for trying to hear the UPS truck.

Like a fool who thinks it's 2015, I ordered clothing online from the United States and have been fretting about it ever since. All shipping interfaces were as incoherent as you might expect.

But Blamo was having a deep-discount flash sale and I have been drooling over this non-species-specific sock-animal onesie for... a long time.

Sadly, that magnificent garment was not on sale and incidentally profoundly impractical. So I ordered this Completely Normal Cardigan(tm) instead:

... it happens to have this hood:

(Not sure why the resolution is so crap here.)

There did end up being tariff charges, but not that bad.

I... feel more whole as a person.

§rf§

PS I swear it did not have to be a rabbit.

mellowtigger

Well, I didn't have this event on my bingo card for this year. (That's an actual thing, and it's not long until I have to review it for accuracy from the news this year.) Wearing my "animal rights" cap, this news headline is just awful all around.

Law enforcement kills several monkeys after truck hauling them overturns in Mississippi.
According to authorities, the Rhesus monkeys were on their way to a testing facility in Florida after being at Tulane University. The monkeys were 40 pounds and were first reported to be “aggressive,” as well as also carrying hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.
- https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/

Thankfully, the writer included the necessary Oxford comma near the end of that sentence. I had to chuckle, though. This event is an eerie metaphorical summary for 2025.

Edit 2025 Oct 29:
The metaphor gets even better. Those poor monkeys were not infectious (according to Tulane University), so they were killed by authorities for no good reason, based on early misinformation.
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/escaped-monkeys-destroyed-mississippi-police-mistakenly-told-danger-rcna240387