Spent some time today with @volko.bsky.social’s Coast Watchers, published by @gmtgames.bsky.social. This has all of Volko’s trademarks but some new twists, hidden info, full solitaire support, and beautiful production. Preorder here with a discount: www.gmtgames.com/p-1102-coast...

Liz here will make me play this game if it gets through P500 so you should probably order it. Also she is brilliant which is another reason you should get it.

Not sure he's a crime fighter (as much as he's a cat burgler turned Robin Hood), or Catholic (but he is a Patera), Silk from Wolfe's Long Sun series

Love this one! Don't get it to the table nearly enough!!

Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep: A Novel Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast. To sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word, yes. But he’s not dead dead. Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he’s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember. Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls “Bernie” from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.

I will be signing all pre-orders with the venerable @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social . They will mail any pre-orders within the US. Pre-orders!

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A classic

was once New Amsterdam.

Abby in a box

We wrote a newsletter and then kept on writing...

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Fondly remember the calming and dulcet tones of Loder

View from top of Cathedral Rock

View from top of Cathedral Rock

View from top of Cathedral Rock

Me and my youngest, on the way to Grandma and Grandpa next!

Scenes from the trail this morning. Sunrise at Cathedral Rock, Sedona AZ.

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Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Today I overheard someone talking about how they can't wait to have an artificial intelligence teaching assistant, and while I do not want to opine on the ethical issues there, I do want to note that the abbreviation for this would be "AITA."

Look it up if you don't get it. Happy Monday y'all.

Adding to life goals

On the set of Star Trek with the one and only Leonard Nimoy. 🖖 Thinking of him today! (Photo via The Everett Collection)

Very timely, too. I'm hearing lots of great things about this one.

Scenes from my morning walk

a head of napa cabbage styled to look like appa from avatar the last airbender, a mythical flying water bison with an arrow on its head

[sobbing] it’s an appa cabbage

I think about this quote often

Limitless Duncan Idahos!!

Acclaimed 20th century philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96 Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse. n.pr/3Nptb1g

The horror. Everyday.

Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.

Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.

The Woman’s Hour / Votes for Women (Book & Game, #5) It’s Women’s Day! A great opportunity to look pair a book and a game on the American women’s suffrage struggle: The Woman’s Hour (Elaine Weiss) and Votes for Women (Tory Brown, Fort Circle).…

ICYMI: Here's a book and game pairing for how women won the vote in America - Elaine Weiss's The Woman's Hour and @downtowntbrown.bsky.social's Votes for Women!

Time for a rewatch

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I feel ya Fred. Hang in there buddy!!

Love this one! Great job @yoyoni.bsky.social !!!