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⌈ Secret Post #3426 ⌋

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Honestly, I've kinda burned out on fantasy in general, I think. But I've had NO attention span for longform fiction lately; I've been all comics and nonfiction these days.

*takes a glance at bookshelf* Well, this one is mid-90s, and not very well known, but I do love Sasha Miller's Ladylord. Please ignore all book blurbs you read of this book, all of them are really godawful and make it sound like princess girl power. It's a political intrigue in an (admittedly pretty Orientalist) fantasy country that's based off military Japan. There's more than one country! You get to meet different peoples and their different ways of life! The world-building makes me really happy--this is one of the more real feeling worlds I've read about, and somehow, Miller made it cover a lot of territory without me ever feeling lost. (And like you, I usually have a hard time keeping track of large casts.)

Spider Robinson can be really hit-or-miss (some of his books have aged SO badly) but those hit books REALLY make me happy. The Callahan series reads like a bunch of sci-fi 'a man walks into a bar...' jokes, but focus mostly on emotions and helping people out of seemingly unsolvable situations. I also really love The Free Lunch, which is one of my comfort books for really, really bad days. I also enjoyed Very Bad Deaths, which is about a psychic who learns about a serial killer planning his next attack... but the psychic is so sensitive he can't bear to be within a mile or two of any people (the serial killer was an accident; he flew overhead in a plane at the fringe of psychic's range). So he goes to the one human he can actually sorta maybe SLIGHTLY stand, and they try to stop the crime before it happens.

Also, I might as well shout-out my friend Caelyn Sandel's book, Tales from the Securemarket, which is slice-of-life about retail workers generations after magic and the gods have returned to the world. Lots of poly and queer stuff, and you can read it for free! (Though I love my hard copy.)

How about fantasy comics? I suggest Nodwick. It's at its heart a parody of D&D style adventurers, but it's got a great story, interesting characters, and incredibly clever humor.

The Callahan books are great. I love them so much. They made me so happy.

Yeah, I swear, Spider Robinson single-handedly taught Tiny Us how to be a human with his books. I will forever owe that man a debt for introducing so many necessary concepts to us in elementary school. When we first started reading Callahan, we were totally boggled by it, and then were like, "this is the kind of person I want to be."

Right? I also think that Callahan is the clearest answer to those people who think all heroes have to be gritty and if characters aren't miserable assholes it's boring. Guess what, all the Callahan stories were adorable and made me super happy, and I reread them tons of times.

Yeah, seriously. I love those books because they actually deal with questions like, "When you have done something unforgivable, what next?" Those stories always comfort me whenever times are bad; I read the fuck out of them when I was homeless.

I'm pretty excited to to read Tales from the Securemarket, it sounds amazing!

I like it very much. (Though I freely admit I drew some promo material for it and another book in its verse AGES ago.) Caelyn Sandel is cool people and I am always happy to send more cool people her way.

I stayed up far too late last night reading it :D I'll have to recommend it to all my friends!

Yay! I'm so glad! Caelyn is also an indy games creator (us and her are working on a game, though it's been back-burnered over a year due to more pressing projects on both our ends) and is on Patreon. I know her personally, so you know.

Oh, awesome! You guys are really talented, damn.

Thank you! I met up with her ex today, so was happy to send your compliments her way!

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