Weekly Roundup: October 23rd - October 28th
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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 the Nausicaa Chapter of Ulysses as a way to take a part and tell the whole.
I may revisit this essay in the future.
Also, I accidentally sent out the post meant for Thursday on Tuesday, so you can also read my announcement on taking a bit of a substack vacation for November.
Wednesday: Paying subscribers received Chapter Twenty Five of Emrys the Fool and free subscribers received Chapter Twenty Three. If you received neither, there are instructions here on how to get these in your email.
From the Archives
It’s my wife’s birthday today. This essay is about her.
Listening
Why have I been listening to Damien Rice? What is it, 2004?
Anyway, this performance is great.
Reading
Reading a book based on the game Cyberpunk 2077 which is based on the tabletop roleplaying game Cyberpunk 2020. I’ll be on a podcast discussing it this week, I think.
Watching
We watched The Gilded Age, which is from the fella who did Downton Abbey and you can definitely see the bones mingled together. Pretty good!
What Else?
I’m always forgetting to announce short stories that I’ve had published, but here are two:
My stories don’t always have such long titles, but I do think it’s funny to have a really long title.
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.
Iron Wolf and Sleeping Giants are still newly out and could use reviews!
I’ll be a busy boy during November doing a whole lot of stuff and I’ll talk about it in December.
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.
I'm just here to throw some weight behind "The Gilded Age." That show is fantastic!