The King of Sante Fe Session Three
Please note SPOILERS will follow Founder’s Day was supposed to be a day of celebration, Steaming Rock’s premier family day out, but Howard Ross, of the New...
The King of Santa Fe Session Two
The card game at the Homestead Inn had come crashing to a halt, as Diego Carter, under the prompting of Francisco Castellanos, a rival to Homestead’s owner...
The King of Santa Fe Session One
So, we worked through sessions zero and two, but now we are stepping into 1873 New Mexico to take on the King of Santa Fe. Tales of the Old West RPG This is...
Groglaw 2025
Heading off to the ancient Chancery Lane, a place where the Knights Templar created the lane to connect their ‘old Temple’ in Holborn with their new property...
2025 Reading Challenge 39 Milkman
I picked up Milkman, laughably because I thought it was a science fiction book, and I thought, ‘That’s interesting, a sci-fi novel that is also a Booker...
2025 Reading Challenge 38 Jhereg
Here we go, a fantasy book - hopefully a lighter read after the challenging ones. I believe I picked Jhereg after a recommendation for the best...
2025 Reading Challenge 37 Nutshell
I wanted something very different to Black Easter, so I swapped around a few books to settle on Ian McEwan. I last read his book On Chesil Beach, and I could...
2025 Reading Challenge 36 Black Easter
It’s only a hundred or so pages, and I gave myself an extra week to read this after holiday time allowed me to get ahead. Black Easter by James Blish This is...
2025 Reading Challenge 35 Revenger
Some heavy stuff in recent reads, so I was happy to pick up some Space Opera fiction and return to Alastair Reynolds. I am not the most avid reader of his...
2025 Reading Challenge 34 The Outsider
Thanks to Matthew Broome for recommending a starting point for Camus. The Outsider, or The Stranger. The difference seems to stem from the translation of the...
2025 Reading Challenge 33 Great-Uncle Harry
The full title is Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire. Another Michael Palin tour de force, where he delves deep and wide to find out the background...
2025 Reading Challenge 32 The Loney
I bought The Loney in 2016, read a few chapters, got bored, put it away, felt guilty after a few months, started it again, got more bored and decided Andrew...
The Electric State, Into the Dust Bonus
The Nantz Diaries These diaries were written after each session by Alex Marchant, who played Nantz in the game. With Alex’s permission, I’m reposting them...
2025 Reading Challenge 31 The Satsuma Complex
A man goes for a drink with an acquaintance in a pub and also meets the woman of his dreams and wishes, but she disappears. He is determined to find her....
The Electric State, Into the Dust 3 of 3
We’ve now completed Into the Dust, having travelled through the three Stops that shaped our Journey. Some characters reached their destination, chasing...
The Electric State, Into the Dust 2.3 of 3
Again, the group make progress down the road, until they are waved down by some hill billy types. Getting out of the car, they see the group they have...
2025 Reading Challenge 30 1984
Welcome to Airstrip One. It is 1984. 1984 by George Orwell I bought the book in 1984 when the movie featuring John Hurt and Richard Burton came out, and The...
The Electric State, Into the Dust 2.2 of 3
2.2 is Stop Two of Three, and it’s called Roadside Murder. Time to throw in some oddities, a large Drone pokes its head out of a barn as the group stops to...
2025 Reading Challenge 29 Treasure Island
I remember that as a kid, my dad had walls of bookshelves in the living room, dining room, and upstairs. Many of the books were collections, like Punch, The...
2025 Reading Challenge 28 Vurt
“Mandy came out of the Vurt-U-Want, clutching a bag of goodies…” and so begins Vurt. Vurt jeff noon/vurt I wrote this review after a campaign of The Electric...