Weekly Roundup: October 16th - October 21st
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This Week’s Posts
I started a new substack that will just republish obscure or forgotten works in the public domain.
Tuesday: Wrote about Super Metroid, which is, perhaps, one of the most important games in videogame history.
Wednesday: Paying subscribers received Chapter Twenty Three of Emrys the Fool and free subscribers received Chapter Twenty One. If you received neither, there are instructions here on how to get these in your email.
Switching gears completely, the Dadpod Gamescast released our tenth episode! It’s about Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, one of the other most important games in videogame history, and the other half to the term Metroidvania. This is a real good one.
From the Archives
As I begin writing a book length essay on AI, I thought you may be interested in revisiting my thoughts from a year ago.
Listening
Reading
Margaret Atwood reviewing an AI version of her writing.
Read Dracula this week for the first time in decades. I liked it! Liked it a lot more than I did when I was a young teenager. Also began the alliterative Death of Arthur, translated by Simon Armitage.
Read Grendel by John Gardner which is fantasticly weird and dark.
About halfway through another big chunky vampire novel called The Historian, which is mostly very good but definitely has some flaws.
Watching
Who has the time?
What Else?
is running a workshop next month!
If you’re a writer—whether beginner or not—this is a great opportunity to work with one of the best.
I believe this is the last chance to join.
Iron Wolf and Sleeping Giants are still newly out and could use reviews!
Finishing Broken Katana, which is set to be published in one month. Sadly, however, it’s looking like the paperback for my collection of Harry Potter essays will not be ready by the end of the month. It will come very soon, though. I’ll keep everyone updated.
That’s it from me.
Anyway, read my books that are currently out. Then review them.
Thank you.
Read the first three chapter of Sleeping Giants.
Glossolalia - A Le Guinian fantasy novel about an anarchic community dealing with a disaster
Sing, Behemoth, Sing - Deadwood meets Neon Genesis Evangelion
Howl - Vampire Hunter D meets The Book of the New Sun in this lofi cyberpunk/solarpunk monster hunting adventure
Colony Collapse - Star Trek meets Firefly in the opening episode of this space opera
The Blood Dancers - The standalone sequel to Colony Collapse.
Iron Wolf - Sequel to Howl.
Sleeping Giants - Standalone sequel to Colony Collapse and The Blood Dancers
Some free books for your trouble:
Wolf.
Howl.