Did Miriam Seabrook die of natural causes or was she murdered by her creepy coven? Witch Bast will find out.

Speak Daggers to Her (Bast, volume 1) by Rosemary Edghill


Core rules and supplements for the Liberi Gothica Games tabletop fantasy roleplaying game of heroism against world-shattering odds, Fellowship.

Bundle of Holding: Fellowship (from 2020)
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([personal profile] ffutures Apr. 15th, 2026 06:30 pm)
This is the a repeat offer of the Fellowship Bundle which presents (for a third time!) the Liberi Gothica Games FRPG of heroism against world-shattering odds, Fellowship.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Fellow2026

  

The first time this was offered I said: "I have to be honest here - I've been "off" fantasy RPGs for a long time, and am not a huge fan of the Apocalypse Engine rules set. And the subject matter doesn't really appeal much, in my experience the most epic thing about most epic quests is how badly they get screwed up once the players are in the mix. Having looked at some of this material, I don't feel that it is especially well presented - the overwhelming impression I got from some of it was clutter, too much crammed into too small a space. Admittedly one of my recent reviews complained about another bundle where it seemed that there was not enough content per page, but there needs to be a balance, and I'm not sure it's been achieved here. This isn't really something I want. But if you've been thinking of running a huge epic quest campaign it's possible that this is exactly what you need, so don't let me stop you!

Unfortunately my opinion hasn't changed much. More books were added when this was last offered in 2023 (if you previously bought the first version of the full bundle you should have got the new books free) which extends the possibilities of this series, but I'm still not very interested.

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Reaching the Moon is one thing; trying to settle and survive there is another matter...

Five Stories About What Happens After We Get to the Moon


Members of a literature club wrestle with adolescence, crushes, and the fact their high school principal would like them to not loudly declaim the spicy passages from great works of literature.

O Maidens in Your Savage Season, volume 1 by Mari Okada & Nao Emoto


A transformed holy servant sets out to save a cub, only to get caught up in a war against the heavens.

The Sleepless (Sleepless, volume 1) by Jen Williams
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([personal profile] ffutures Apr. 13th, 2026 06:46 pm)
This is a bundle of "system-neutral" material for SF RPGs, consisting mostly of percentage tables for generating planets, alien races, etc. etc., by Jason Lutes and published by Lampblack & Brimstone. There's also an adventure with setting etc. designed using the tables

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/PerilousVoid

  

This is cheap and has a lot of useful ideas if you want to create an adventure background in a hurry. Like most random generation systems the results will probably need some tweaking, and adaption for the rules in use, but it's cheap and ought to be useful. And it's time I posted my occasional reminder that I get to look at this stuff free - if you have to pay for it your mileage may vary.


This is how we imagined humanity's first trip to the moon before Apollo 11...

Five Vintage SF Works About Travelling to the Moon
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([staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance Apr. 11th, 2026 11:58 pm)

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.



10 works new to me: five fantasy, and five science fiction, of which at least three are series (if magazines count as series). I have not see that high a fraction of SF in quite a while.

Books Received April 4 — April 10

Poll #34466 Books Received April 4 — April 10
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Which of these look interesting?

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Demonology for Overachievers by Lily Anderson (September 2026)
13 (26.5%)

All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan (May 2026)
17 (34.7%)

The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey (April 2026)
7 (14.3%)

FIYAH Literary Magazine Issue 38 published by FIYAH Literary Magazine (April 2026)
15 (30.6%)

House Haunters by KC Jones (October 2026)
8 (16.3%)

The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee (May 2026)
18 (36.7%)

A Wall Is Also a Road by Annalee Newitz (October 2026)
24 (49.0%)

There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs by Jason Pargin (November 2026)
21 (42.9%)

A Kiss of Crimson Ash by Anuja Varghese (May 2026)
8 (16.3%)

Teddy Bears Never Die by Cho Yeeun (May 2026)
7 (14.3%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.0%)

Cats!
35 (71.4%)

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