New! South Korean SF author Djuna's Not Yet Gods in a new English translation by Jihyun Park and me, published by Kaya Press. Click here to visit the Kaya webpage for the book and order it from the publisher, or get it on Amazon (in the US) or at Aladin (in Korea)!
New! Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland is an unofficial and unlicensed supplement for Chris McDowall's wonderful new game, and my entry for the Mythic Bastionland Game Jam. Available for free over on my itch.io webpage.
New! Circe's Grin is a system-agnostic old-school RPG adventure, and my entry for the Appx. N 2025 game jam. Available for free (for now) on my itch.io webpage.
New from Knight Owl Publishing: Isle of Joy is a harrowing old-school adventure on a mysterious island full of secrets and stories. Order a copy on Knight Owl's website.
Something Tookish! is a Brindlewood Bay RPG hack for those who want to solve mundane, cozy mysteries in a halfling village. With art by Justin Howe! Get your copy on itch.io!
Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.
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OK, what don’t you have? Just in case I don’t find any of the 3 titles you already gave me…. ;)
It’d be easier to list the ones I do have, or at least have read before:
the Iain Banks; the PK Dick; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; the Toni Morrison; Red Mars and Green Mars (but not Blue, tho it’s easily gotten here); Frankenstein; Gulliver’s Travels; the Wells; the White; and the Zamyatin.
Blue Mars I can get new at the grocery store, even. Green, as well, but not Red, for some odd reason. (At least, if I go to the right grocery store, the one with the Babar books which I’m looking at with a much more critical eye than when I was 5, and seeing all sorts of colonialist assumptions, and contemplating a massive write-up when I have the time and have read the 2 books I got recently and didn’t have in childhood. Tommy loves Babar….)
I’ll keep an eye out for the other stuff when I go to Round Rock for book shopping. (Not likely until at least next week.)
That’s weird. I wonder why they wouldn’t have Red Mars, if they have Blue and Green. So strange, that.
I barely remember Babar. Only the cartoon, too — I don’t think I ever read the books themselves.
Thanks a ton, Julia! I appreciate your kind generosity.
Oh, by the way, we were discussing colonialist assumptions in kids’ books the other day and I suggested an antidote that one doesn’t often hear much about in Anglo-America/Anglo-Canadian circles: Asterix. Have you read those comics? There’s a lot of Gaulish nose-thumbing directed at the “great” Caesar. Wonderfully critical of colonialist tactics and logic, wonderfully snide in its mockery of hegemonic power. Great books, as I remember. I have a few on hand in French, which I intended to read to sort of resuscitate my dying French, but I haven’t gotten to them yet. (Loaned them to a French-speaking neighbour and need to get them back at some point, actually, since I really do want to try reading them in the original French.) Anyway, maybe Tommy would like Asterix, later on. If so, there’s a counterbalance to the imperialist themes in Babar.