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Post by terje on Jan 12, 2021 17:48:27 GMT -6
It is exceptionally well done. Thank you for the kind words! I am glad you liked it.
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Post by terje on Dec 30, 2020 11:10:26 GMT -6
If you have the old pdf the selling points for this version would be: * All new illustrations replacing the public domain ones * A starting dunegon * New npc's * Stats for the WotRP game
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Post by terje on Dec 29, 2020 11:44:21 GMT -6
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Post by terje on Oct 8, 2020 18:05:59 GMT -6
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Enjoyed it immensely!
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Post by terje on Aug 26, 2020 8:57:02 GMT -6
Finished the new Swedish translation of REH's Hour of the Dragon. Its thirty+ years since we had Conan available in translation so its good to see new editions coming out. Started with The Croning by Laird Barron. I've read his collections of weird horror tales previously so me and Old Leech are allready acquainted.
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Post by terje on Jun 11, 2020 14:03:00 GMT -6
I watched it on vimeo a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. Hoping for a sequel!
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Post by terje on Jun 7, 2020 10:17:25 GMT -6
Started reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Quite funny so far.
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Post by terje on Mar 23, 2020 11:13:09 GMT -6
So, apparently there is a movie, from 1979, of David Lindsay's A Voyage To Arcturus! youtu.be/b_aQ_WA38ow
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Post by terje on Jun 17, 2019 7:10:25 GMT -6
Revolutions by Felix Gilman - victorian occultists fighting magic wars in London and astral travelling to the planetary speheres.
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Post by terje on May 24, 2019 12:59:00 GMT -6
Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi, a spiritualist spy thriller in an alternative 1938 where the afterlife is a new frontier in the struggle between the British Empire and the Soviet Union.
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Post by terje on May 1, 2019 3:24:33 GMT -6
Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud
This collection of horror short stories is nothing short of spectacular. Six stories of ordinary (and otherwise...) people on the borderlands of Hell.
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Post by terje on Apr 18, 2019 3:02:31 GMT -6
Currently reading:
Vastarien #1 2019. High quality as usual, but none of the stories reach the same heights as the best in the previous issues.
Michael Cisco - Secret Hours. A bit slow going so far.
Jeannette Ng - Under the Pendulum Sun. 19th century missionaries bringing the gospel to the fae of Arcadia. I'm hoping this will scratch my Jonathan Strange itch.
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Post by terje on Apr 17, 2019 6:00:31 GMT -6
Hey, sorry for the thread necromancy but I'd like to start a campaign using Xuhlan, and am facing a slight issue: I have no idea what most of the creatures in the encounter tables are supposed to be, and can't figure out from where they come. Can anyone enlighten me? Hello raisin! Those creatures that are not specific to Xuhlan mostly come from AD&D 1E Monster Manual I and II and the Fiend Folio. The "Eye Beasts" are Beholders, but renamed because IP. The Amphorons of Yothri can be found in the Swords & Wizardry Monster Book. Some (mostly on the interplanetary space table) are random ideas that I just made up. Hope that helps!
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Post by terje on Nov 19, 2018 5:17:11 GMT -6
Finished Written in darkness by Mark Samuels, started on The Phantasmagorical Imperative by DP Watt. Weird fiction, strange transformations, wonderful mysteries, horrible revelations.
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Post by terje on Aug 8, 2018 6:57:07 GMT -6
Now you should consider reading Vallee's The Invisible College and Keel's The Eighth Tower. They add to and complete the thinking in the first two books. To my mind, Vallee and Keel offer the best solution to the enigma of the UFO. Thanks, I'll put them on my wishlist!
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Post by terje on Aug 6, 2018 8:20:52 GMT -6
Aside from the previously mentioned sf-binge I've been doing som fortean studies with Passport to Magonia by Jaques Vallée and Operation Trojan Horse by John Keel.
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Post by terje on Jul 7, 2018 8:23:16 GMT -6
Just finished Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts. Beginning with The Three-body Problem by Cixin Liu. This summer is shaping up to be a real SF binge!
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Post by terje on Apr 26, 2018 7:54:43 GMT -6
Night's Master by Tanith Lee. Really nice fantasy tales very much inspired by pre-islamic Persian / Zoroastrian mythology.
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Post by terje on Dec 28, 2017 13:07:41 GMT -6
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Post by terje on Dec 28, 2017 8:54:07 GMT -6
Declare by Tim Powers. Espionage story set during WWII and the cold war with a paranormal mystery stretching back to the Great Game of 19th century eurasian imperialism and further back in history. Very good so far!
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Post by terje on Dec 5, 2017 14:25:25 GMT -6
I think this essay would be a good start: www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10119So, basically, the foundation of a Traveller Appendix N would be the Dumarest series by EC Tubbs and Space Viking by H Beam Piper.
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Post by terje on Nov 20, 2017 16:48:13 GMT -6
Hey, great to see you back here!
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Post by terje on Nov 18, 2017 7:58:06 GMT -6
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Post by terje on Oct 18, 2017 3:12:50 GMT -6
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Post by terje on Sept 12, 2017 7:55:37 GMT -6
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Post by terje on Jul 25, 2017 7:47:50 GMT -6
The Descent by Jeff Long. It’s Journey to the Center of the Earth with Deros! Well, the author calls them Hadals, but seeing as how they are sadistic cannibal mutants living in a subterranean world of caverns and tunnels, then yeah, really they are Deros. Wow this sounds great, thanks! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_(novel)
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Post by terje on Jul 16, 2017 15:04:08 GMT -6
The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod, Cold Print a collection of Lovecraft-inspired stories by Ramsey Campbell and Jeff Hawke, a cool vintage UK scifi comic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawke
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Post by terje on Jun 28, 2017 4:08:35 GMT -6
I'm very interested in reading your chronicle chirinebakal! And as one who really prefers printed text before reading on a screen I very much agree with foxroe's suggestion to use a pod-service as Lulu.
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Post by terje on Feb 21, 2017 6:28:44 GMT -6
I've just begun with The Secret of Ventriloquism by Joe Padgett and Beyond the Seven Labyrinths by Don Webb. Both are collections of weird short stories, the first specimen is bleak and absurd horror in the vein of Tomas Ligotti, the second tending more towards the bizarre and surreal.
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Post by terje on Jan 2, 2017 7:11:38 GMT -6
Just finished: Swift to chase by Laird Barron.
Reading: Years Best Weird Fiction 2, Time and the Gods by Dunsanny
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