In the Wake of Your Leave
Apr. 19th, 2022 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7I’ve gotten a lot of reading done lately. A couple of trips to Mars with Andy Weir and Richard K. Morgan, Louisiana with James Lee Burke, Area X with Jeff VanderMeer. Some others, too - and it looks like my plan to read all of the post-Fleming James Bond novels has just evaporated.
The Martian was just a joy to read - good science and great fiction. Thin Air was Morgan’s default - the super-rich versus the super-capable; enjoyable, but I don’t know if I’ll remember it in a year. It’s been a while since I read anything by Burke, so I rolled way back to the first Dave Robicheaux novel, The Neon Rain. Annihilation was very good and very strange - it made me think of Station Eleven, with a pastoral feel to its writing, and it hit one of my favorite types of horror, a corruption of the self.
In other media consumption, I finally watched Deadpool. I get why people liked it, and I have to admit it gave me a pretty good Colossus, but overall I didn’t care for it and felt vindicated in not seeing it in a theater. Let’s see, what else. I liked Hawkeye quite a bit. Moon Knight isn’t doing much for me.
The Old Gods of Appalachia RPG Kickstarter took off like a rocket. Funded almost immediately, and is sitting at better than $1.1 million as I write this. I didn’t go all-in on this one like I had expected to, and that’s probably for the best, as Free League launches their Blade Runner KS in a couple of weeks, and while I’m an easy mark for the Old Gods, I LOVE Blade Runner. Plus there are the ones I’ve pledged that are still outstanding - Scientific Barbarian and the Dying Earth boxed set.
The Kentucky Derby Festival kicks off this weekend. Thunder Over Louisville, back on the riverfront. Woo.
The Martian was just a joy to read - good science and great fiction. Thin Air was Morgan’s default - the super-rich versus the super-capable; enjoyable, but I don’t know if I’ll remember it in a year. It’s been a while since I read anything by Burke, so I rolled way back to the first Dave Robicheaux novel, The Neon Rain. Annihilation was very good and very strange - it made me think of Station Eleven, with a pastoral feel to its writing, and it hit one of my favorite types of horror, a corruption of the self.
In other media consumption, I finally watched Deadpool. I get why people liked it, and I have to admit it gave me a pretty good Colossus, but overall I didn’t care for it and felt vindicated in not seeing it in a theater. Let’s see, what else. I liked Hawkeye quite a bit. Moon Knight isn’t doing much for me.
The Old Gods of Appalachia RPG Kickstarter took off like a rocket. Funded almost immediately, and is sitting at better than $1.1 million as I write this. I didn’t go all-in on this one like I had expected to, and that’s probably for the best, as Free League launches their Blade Runner KS in a couple of weeks, and while I’m an easy mark for the Old Gods, I LOVE Blade Runner. Plus there are the ones I’ve pledged that are still outstanding - Scientific Barbarian and the Dying Earth boxed set.
The Kentucky Derby Festival kicks off this weekend. Thunder Over Louisville, back on the riverfront. Woo.