Cryoburn

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 8, 2010

I’m gonna shift gears for this post from games to another form of high-quality geekly entertainment, science fiction novels. I just finished Cryoburn this weekend, by Lois McMaster Bujold, and was quite impressed.  I felt like sharing. I feel that one of the main purposes (if any be needed) of science fiction and fantasy is […]

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Steven Brust’s Firefly Fanfic

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 26, 2010

I’m really not into fanfic (“Fan Fiction”), so I’m not exactly the guy to talk about it much. But I do know that, like Rodney Dangerfield, it gets no respect. It’s despised by some. However, for a lot of amateur writers, it’s about the only way to find an audience. Write a quality short story […]

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Review: Dungeons & Desktops – The History of Computer Role-Playing Games

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 26, 2010

For my birthday, my wife gave me the book,  “Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games,” by Matt Barton. Not to be confused with the very amusing freeware game, Desktop Dungeons. The Articles Level Up! I’d previously enjoyed the series on the History of the Computer Role-Playing Game by Barton in Gamasutra. If […]

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