Billions of tons over Robert's islands

[sovay]

My Oppenheimer-in-space review "It's Good to Know How the World Works: Star Trek: Voyager's 'Jetrel'"—written originally for Patreon, slightly revised for publication and graced with illustrations—is now available in The Stellar Beacon: The Trickster Issue. It appears alongside a very nice essay on tricksters and radical empathy by Alexandra Rowland, another on the necessary nature of escapism by Priya J. Sridhar, an extensive compilation of resources for accessibility in gaming by Jennifer Kretchmer, and some neat even to my non-gaming self systems and scenarios by editor Mark Sabalauskas. Check it out! I don't do this nonfiction thing officially as often as I should.

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[dramaticirony]

I'm really happy that Be The Serpent got a Hugo nomination again this year.

I only wish Alex got a bit more recognition for Choir of Lies, that book is so good, fun and original. With the meta bonus of a snarky unreliable narrator in the footnotes commenting on the unreliable narration of the protagonist.

And they wrote it in only four months. (With Navah Wolfe editing.)

I'm hearing good things about Freya and Macey's respective forthcoming books.

[selkie]

I can’t waaaaait. And I haven’t read Alex’s last one either yet. On account of pandemic brain.