Finished Babylon’s Ashes, book 6 of The Expanse, so I’ve pivoted and started The Shadow of the Gods, book 1 of The Bloodsworn trilogy, by John Gwynne. I’m only about 60 oages in, but man, it’s gripping so far.
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I thought I’d show my son the sort of things I was reading at his age, so gave him this. He loved it, but as I handed it to him I noticed the date that it came out and realised I had bought it nearly 40 years ago 
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My signed copy turned up today. You could ask for a personalised message so I wrote. What’s your favourite swear word.
Good to know.
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I would always suggest Malazan 
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I just found time to finish up the 5 issue “Godzilla: Skate or Die” mini-series from IDW.
The imagery is at times stylized to a point action is a bit unclear but all impressions are delivered clearly.
Also it’s a good example of “what are folks doing around a kaiju battle”.
For me it could have been clearer on action and had a bit more expository words but I respect what they were trying to do visually.
“Australian skater kids deal with a kaiju battle over their hang out (which happens to be a secret facility)” was a tag I couldn’t turn down. It delivered well.
Also got a great panel for kaiju exclamation:
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So I said to the wife, "Do you wanna go, Anna?
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I just finished a run-through of Heart of Ice by our very own @Dave_Morris . It’s a really well written and very evocative interactive gamebook, which does a great job of creating a sense of place in the strange post-apocalyptic world created by a malfunctioning AI in control of Earth’s weather, and it has gorgeous artwork by Russ Nicholson.
I thoroughly enjoyed it and will certainly have another few play throughs of it. Thanks Dave!
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Just finished Aspects, the last unfinished novel by John M Ford.
A beautifully written novel full of crafted passages and conversations, an imagined not really Victorian republic transitioning from magic to technology, from feudalism to a limited democracy, and some of the best poetry I have read in a long time. Indeed it is as a pretty poet I remember him from Scholars of the Night which was ostensibly an espionage tale.
Even though the book ends, and indeed the tales are only starting, it is a wonderful read.
HOME FROM DEATH
I do not number Death among my friends
And am not by soft silences beguiled;
Speak not to me of necessary ends:
I will not to His care be reconciled.
When I have gone (as you have known me to)
I’ll not be eased (as you know I can be);
I’ll lie unquiet (as you’ve felt me do)
And rise (as you’ve pretended not to see).
I know you may desert me when I wake,
With face and features much too strange to kiss;
Hearts damp or dry are liable to break.
Attraction risks repulsion. Thus it is.
(from “Aspects” by “John M. Ford”).
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Kind words that gladden my heart. Thank you, Nick! HOI began as a role-playing campaign (set originally on Tekumel) so I was helped by having a strongly defined group of player personalities to use as the basis of the NPCs.
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