Cool Stuff Saturday

I introduced a co-worker to Jeff Waynes War Of the Worlds. I expect you have listened to this rock opera that takes place between the earphones. Awesome! I still like it after all these years. The moody blues, many moogs, the London symphony orchestra and a famous narrator. The first words are taken directly from the book .

Godel Fishbreath

I've been plowing my way through books of various quality this week, but not make me want to stand up and wave them on a rooftop. What I did find today was the new King Arthur movie. Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but the reimagining of the world, the way they handle flashbacks/out of body experiences, and the music. Oh the music. It's like flying and running off a cliff down a hill where you can barely keep your feet and driving your car way too fast, all at the same time. I'm going to climb inside this soundtrack and not come out for a YEAR.

R Coots

I recently read _A Long Journey To A Small, Angry Planet_ by Becky Chambers, about the episodic adventures of a multi-species, multi-racial crew on an old cargo ship. It's mostly different cultures, friendships, & relationships. Folks hereabouts might love it, too. --filkferengi

filkferengi

I tweeted last night about a band I found on YouTube called Hula Hi-fi. They do covers in a "Hawaiian noir" style, and it sounds pretty great. Makes me want an old-fashioned noir detective story set on a tropical island. :) Their album's on Bandcamp if anyone wants to check it out. <a href="https://hulahifi.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://hulahifi.bandcamp.com</a>

Leesa Willis

I saw this video and it made me think of your lunch bags: <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7Y6S4dMjI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7Y6S4dMjI</a> 💜🌸

I have finished this series, and it is great. Not on my list because I finished before Christmas, and I used my kids copies so I was not reminded by book or kindle. But yes! great series.

Godel Fishbreath

I often read a book a day.

Godel Fishbreath

Niel Gaiman has a book View from the Cheep Seats. I got it from the library, and found I was taking notes on all the other books I should look at. Holly Lisle has a book, 'I See You', that I found to be very enjoyable. Murder amidst paramedics. Alas, the aftertaste was that I was confused by not getting a good description of the characters. But recommended as fun read. I am liking her expensive books more all the time. She has a series that is well written, Tales from the Longview. Claw the Way to Victory is a wonderful collection of furry stories. I have not finished it, but the stories I have read have been excellent. I am considering subscribing to Apex sf mag. The one issue I got was solid good stories. I found Naomi Kritzer to be wonderful, which is why I followed her to that Apex issue. More fantasy than furry if furry at all. Her Comrade Grandmother story collection is a wonderful introduction to her work. Zen DiePietr writes wonderful SF stories. It has a feel of yours somewhat Maggy, you might enjoy his Dragonfire Station series. Only since I know the follow on story, only perhaps because the second reading was evident that the protag had no knowledge of who or what her father was, Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller was real fun, recalling distantly Have Spacesuit will travel, but only for that theme, which was minor in HSWT. I kept singing 'whose your daddy' a verse from a song by the zombies back in the day. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqXwMbTMEM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqXwMbTMEM</a> Going through my kindle, so many that I wanted to enjoy that somehow I didn't. Sad. Extreme Medical Services by Jaime Davis was fun. The local Lasfs LOSCON is having Carry Vaughn as GOH this fall. She has such a wonderful character in Kitty Norville. Best book series all year. And over the Thanksgiving weekend I get to meet her! OK, I might have to buy a physical copy instead of library or kindle. Bujold produced another Pendric book, a cause for celebration. I discovered Octavia Butler's parable series. Awesome. And I finished a short story of my own and am shopping it around. Got rejected by Analog so far. Furry, vorish with kindness, some tension between those two ideas.

Godel Fishbreath

I've been reading A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan, and really enjoying it! It's a secondary world pretty clearly riffing on... mmm, I think late Georgian/early Victorian? The author manages to write a heroine who is eccentric and stretches social norms, sometimes to breaking, without making it feel like she just got lazy and imported a 21st-century heroine into the past with no alteration. And the prose maintains the period feel very effectively. And, well... dragons!