Thu, 26 May 2011
I got an order from IPR today, with Houses of the Blooded, The Dresden Files - Your Story, The Dresden Files - Our World, and a gift copy of Hero System Sidekick [1].
Your Story and Our World look very impressive after a first quick scan. I like all the annotations and marginal notes, although I'd have preferred that the post-it notes had been marginal notes as well.
| [1] | That makes my second gift copy of Sidekick, and three copies in total. I'm sure that means I'm destined to run a Sidekick campaign for the kids, when they're all old enough for Hero 5ER [2] math. And I am [3]. :-) |
| [2] | That's Hero System, Fifth Edition, Revised. |
| [3] | Actually, the kids are probably readier for that than I am. I'm liking less and less math at the game table as I grow older and have less time to prepare and play. |
Wed, 25 May 2011
- The Mauritius Command, by Patrick O'Brian, copyright 1977; ISBN 0-393-30762-X.
Sun, 22 May 2011
The Cloud Roads, by Martha Wells, copyright 2011; ISBN 978-1-59780-216-1.
The start of a new series; the main character is Moon.
I liked it, although not as much as the Valiarde books. (One of the reasons I liked those books is their Victorian and Edwardian technologically-equivalent setting, which despite the airships didn't seem to be as genre-indulgent as much steampunk does.)
Sat, 21 May 2011
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, by S. M. Stirling, copyright 2008; ISBN 978-0-7653-5377-1.
The sequel to The Sky People. I hope there is another in this series.
Thu, 19 May 2011
- The Sky People, by S. M. Stirling, copyright 2006; ISBN 978-0-7653-5376-4.
Wed, 18 May 2011
- H.M.S. Surprise, by Patrick O'Brian, copyright 1973; ISBN 0-393-30761-1.