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Because both shows feature a red-haired teenaged girl with a monosyllabic name and a troubled relationship with their family, my brain merged the continuities of Son of a Critch and Stranger Things.

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A trading voyage leads to first contact and a delightful process of mutual discovery.

Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh

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1. Dungeons & Dragons is great for brain health (particularly the elderly and people with disabilities): (tags:dungeonsanddragons mentalhealth entertainment )
2. NHS threatens GP practice over trans care: (tags:transgender UK bigotry healthcare OhForFucksSake )
3. Cambridge University's oldest women-only college, Newnham, stands firm for trans inclusion: (tags:transgender Cambridge university GoodNews )
4. Novel peanut allergy vaccine shows promise to transform allergy care: (tags:allergies vaccine )
5. Petition to make schools in Scotland safe for pupils with allergies: (tags:allergies scotland school petition )
6. 20% of US UTIs are caused by contimated meat: (tags:usa meat food infection )
7. When Stick Figures Fought (A history of the stick figure combat flash animations of the early 200s): (tags:history fighting animation web Flash )
8. The password for the Louvre's Video Surveillance System was "Louvre": (tags:art museums security epicfail france )

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Tried to move my dinner time in just two days, ate too late, crashed my blood sugar, and had to cancel gaming.

(It's not diabetes. It's just that I am incredibly intolerant to eating late)

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Tabletop rolepurring in the world of Pugmire.

Bundle of Holding: Monarchies of Mau

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Modern humans are fine, but what if we had a bit more variety in our stories?

Five Ways Science Fiction Can Expand Beyond Homo sapiens

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Five crucial steps for curating series.

The Care and Feeding of Series

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My character discovered that using his acting skills to look like a dangerous opponent kind of backfires if it gets the full attention of something that is a dangerous opponent.

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In case the image does not load or someone cannot read it: it is a Bluesky post reading "I firmly believe the Jays would have won had Diefenbaker not cancelled the Avro Arrow."

There are 7 reposts, 2 quotes, and 48 likes.

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Was Fred Halpern the boy space hero the papers believed him or the headstrong fool his teachers saw?

Moon of Mutiny (Jim Stanley, volume 3) by Lester del Rey

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Glasgow still feels much more city-like to me than Edinburgh.

Which is probably why I prefer living in Edinburgh.

(Great to visit though)

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Sophia and Gideon making the DNA for their respective eye colours.

(First ever trip to the Glasgow Science Centre, it was awesome)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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You too can be one of the legions of James Nicoll Review supporters, financing my slow but steady advance towards review aleph null!

November 2025 Patreon Boost

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Five works new to me: two horror, one and a half science fiction, one half fantasy, and one TTRPG that's hard to classify. Two could be said to be series works.

Books Received, October 25 — October 31

Poll #33785 Books Received, October 25 — October 31

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

View Respondents

Which of these upcoming books looks interesting?

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Dreamland by Olivie Blake (August 2026)
13 (30.2%)

Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey (May 2026)
16 (37.2%)

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three edited by Stephen Kotowych (October 2025)
18 (41.9%)

Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler (March 2026)
18 (41.9%)

Outgunned Adventure by Riccardo“Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini (October 2024)
9 (20.9%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.3%)

Cats!
32 (74.4%)

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1. Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation are caused by your brain flushing itself clean: (tags:brain sleep )
2. Only 416 days until next Christmas!: (tags:Christmas )

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So all of my art time the past week has been taken up with costuming (maybe next year I'll remember that I basically lose a week of writing around Halloween every year), and this morning we sent Darkworld Kris from Deltarune off to school for costume day.

He's completely chuffed. So am I, tbh. I (we: he DID help, and also said thank you about ninety times) had never tried making foam armor before and my husband found some great, simple tutorials, and the result is, we feel, pretty damn cool. 😃

Based off this character:

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James Nicoll Reviews saw its 3000th review on the 17th.

23 works reviewed. 12.5 by women (54%), 10 by men (43%), 0.5 by non-binary authors (2%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 10.5 by POC (46%).

More stats and a big chart here.

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A stranger comes to Little Marigold.

M. F. K., volume 1 by Nilah Magruder

Reading

My terrible confession

Dear Dick Cheney, please enjoy this theme song for your funeral.

Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh

Interesting Links for 04-11-2025

Annoyed

Bundle of Holding: Monarchies of Mau

Five Ways Science Fiction Can Expand Beyond Homo sapiens

The Care and Feeding of Series

Interesting Links for 03-11-2025

Achtung! Cthulhu

This went over well

Moon of Mutiny (Jim Stanley, volume 3) by Lester del Rey

Thoughts on the way home.

Photo cross-post

November 2025 Patreon Boost

Books Received, October 25 — October 31

Interesting Links for 01-11-2025

Happy Halloween!

October 2025 in Review

M. F. K., volume 1 by Nilah Magruder

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