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2025/156: Dreamhunter Duet — Elizabeth Knox
'I was finished. I wanted time to stop, and to let me stop with it. And I wanted revenge.
I ... said to the land, 'Bury me, and rise up. Rise up and crush them all.' [loc. 5131]
Rereads, after reading Kings of This World -- which is set in the same alt-Aotearoa-New Zealand, rather later than the Dreamhunter duet, which begins in 1906. My original reviews from (OMG) 2005 and 2007 are here: The Rainbow Opera and The Dream Quake.
The link points to the first of two volumes: the second has only just become available on Amazon.
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2025/155: Sabella — Tanith Lee
There are genuine ruins (beware tourist traps) here and there. Thin pillars soaring, levelled foundations crumbling, cracked urns whispering of spilled dusts -- all the Martian dreams that old Mars denied to mankind. [loc. 53]
Another reread, when I was (unsuspectingly) coming down with a migraine: I last read this in the last millennium, and had forgotten much of it. It's a short novel, an SF vampire romance set on Novo Mars -- like original Mars, but pink rather than red, with rapid sunsets and mutated earth-import flora and fauna.
The novel opens with Sabella Quey receiving an invitation to her aunt's funeral. There's an ominous bequest (her aunt was a devout Christian Revivalist, and knew about Sabella's unsavoury youth) and a gorgeous young man who tracks Sabella back to her isolated home, and does not question her about her aversion to sunlight, or the bottles of red juice ('pomegranate and tomato juice... my physician makes it up for me') in the fridge.
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Bundle of Holding: Mystery Flesh Pit

Welcome, visitor, to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: The RPG, the Cypher System tabletop roleplaying game rulebook from Ganza Gaming about the Permian Basin Superorganism.
Bundle of Holding: Mystery Flesh Pit
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Interesting Links for 08-10-2025
- 1. Iran's Bad Options
- (tags:iran nuclearweapons )
- 2. The work to move the UK's electricity from where it's generated to where it's needed won't be finished until 2030.
- (tags:electricity infrastructure uk thefuture planning )
- 3. England's Green Party comes out in favour of drug legalisation
- (tags:legalisation drugs UK GreenParty )
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blood draw etc.
Once they had my test tube of blood, I stopped at a couple of stores on the same block as my doctor’s office, to buy (frozen) ground lamb and some more cannabis edibles. Then I treated myself to an apple, grape, and brie crepe for breakfast, which I ate at an outdoor table. After eating the crepe, I went to CVS and got a flu vaccine, then took the subway home. I am feeling very accomplished, and a bit tired.
The flu and covid tests I mentioned in my previous post arrived yesterday.
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Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C J Cherryh

Union technocrats had a plan for Gehenna, a plan that failed to take into account local conditions.
Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C J Cherryh
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- australia,
- bigotry,
- coal,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- healthcare,
- housing,
- lgbt,
- links,
- pubs,
- regulation,
- renewables,
- solarpower,
- transgender,
- uk
Interesting Links for 07-10-2025
- 1. How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
- (tags:solarpower germany )
- 2. UK families to save hundreds of pounds in major homebuying overhaul
- (tags:housing uk regulation GoodNews )
- 3. Edinburgh's "Auld Hoose" pub is up for rent, if anyone fancies running one of my old favourite pubs
- (tags:pubs edinburgh )
- 4. Australian experts review The Cass Review and find it full of 'stigma and misinformation'
- (tags:LGBT transgender healthcare bigotry UK Australia )
- 5. Global solar power grows 31% as coal use drops
- (tags:renewables coal electricity GoodNews )
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I think it might be autumn.
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RIP Terry Garey, 1948-2025
She was this amazing person, a good writer, a poet (founding member of the Lady Poetesses from Hell), librarian, and longtime science fiction fan. Formerly of the Bay Area and Minneapolis primarily, and many other places in her youth.
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Clarke Award Finalists 2017
Which 2017 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
6 (10.0%)
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
41 (68.3%)
After Atlas by Emma Newman
10 (16.7%)
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
9 (15.0%)
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
47 (78.3%)
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
4 (6.7%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2017 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
After Atlas by Emma Newman
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
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Interesting Links for 06-10-2025
- 1. Scientists Reveal Biological Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog
- (tags:Pandemic brain disease )
- 2. Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
- (tags:Korea data epicfail backup )
- 3. Disastrous South Korean data centre fire is connected to North Korean hacking
- (tags:NorthKorea korea hacking sabotage )
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Done Since 2025-09-28
Mixed, as usual. Four walks (which sounds good except that the total was only 2.9km), a little work on the HSX website (fixing a busted link counts, right?), and a little work in the recording studio (with disappointingly little to show for it). Pretty sure I'm not getting enough sleep, either, although it's been somewhat better now that I'm using the duvet and duvet cover (a bit of a weighted blanket effect?), and going to bed a little later.
Lots of difficulty with motivation. Nothing new there, either.
N and G are going to be gone for two weeks (plus a bit) at the end of the month. I have been looking into "personal alarm" buttons/pendants, in case I need emergency help. Somewhat problematic.
Here, have an amusing link: Portlanders mock Trump by posting pics of peaceful weekend activities in ‘War ravaged’ city | The Independent.
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Destinies, February-March 1980 (Destinies, # 6) edited by Jim Baen

Pacifist Dorsai, space forts, duelling reviews, a rant about that mean Mr. Einstein and more in this issue of Destinies.
Destinies, February-March 1980 (Destinies, # 6) edited by Jim Baen
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Just had to ask what was going on.
Sophia told me "There's a spider in the bathroom"
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Books Received, September 27 — October 3

Twelve books new to me. Four fantasies, one horror, one non-fiction, and six (!) science fiction works, of which at least four are series instalments.
Books Received, September 27 — October 3
Which of these look interesting?
Children of Fallen Gods by Carissa Broadbent (December 2025)
4 (6.9%)
Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis (January 2026)
9 (15.5%)
The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang (April 2026)
22 (37.9%)
We Burned So Bright by T. J. Klune (April 2026)
21 (36.2%)
We Could Be Anyone by Anna-Marie McLemore (May 2026)
8 (13.8%)
These Godly Lies by Rachelle Raeta (July 2026)
4 (6.9%)
The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural
16 (27.6%)
Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven (July 2026)
5 (8.6%)
The Infinite State by Richard Swan (August 2026)
7 (12.1%)
Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky (June 2026)
25 (43.1%)
Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne (July 2026)
20 (34.5%)
Platform Decay by Martha Wells (May 2026)
43 (74.1%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
40 (69.0%)