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LeeC:
While on my trip to NYC in late July I read Neuromancer by William Gibson which has collectively been called the "Cyberpunk Bible." After reading it, I can understand why. Everything cyberpunk that came after that novel directly pulls from this novel. Whether its the Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, Johnny Mnemonic or the Dues Ex and Cyberpunk 2077 games. They all seem to borrow from it. Its pretty good, its essentially a heist story. A former hacker that was chemically forced into retirement is hired by a mysterious man to infiltrate a space casino and steal the corporation's shackled AI. The mysterious man isn't all what he seems and his crew consists of a mercenary girl with surgically implanted sunglasses, a sociopathic holographam illusionist, and a Rastafarian pilot. They do some globe trotting before going into space and visiting a few floating colonies. Some stuff are dated, like payphones going off while the protagonists walks by, but its part of the charm.

I am currently halfway through the novel Drachenfels by Kim Newman (writing as Jack Yeovil). Its a Warhammer Fantasy book (which is rare to find these days, especially in audiobook form) about the vampire Genevieve who teamed up with the son of an Elector Count and an adventuring party that goes to kill the infamous enchanter and daemonologist, Drachenfels. The prologue unfolds like a D&D campaign or a mission from Darkest Dungeons and right at the climax it skips to 25 years later and we meet the famous playwright and actor Detlef Sierck (our other protagonist aside from Genevieve) whom is released from debtor's prison by the elector count's son to put together a play of the events that made him famous and it will be performed on location at castle Drachenfels for the emperor and many other big wigs in the empire. Those that survived the adventure come out of the woodwork to give their accounts of what happened, including Genevieve herself. Strange things start to happen and one of the actors starts to behave in a rather shady way as we try to uncover what really happened 25 years prior when the battle against the evil enchanter occurred. Its up to Genevieve and Detlef to figure it out what happened and what is happening. Its defined as a horror story and with all the gore and crazy stuff that has happened so far, it does feel that way.

sitnspin:
Just finished reading "Nona The Ninth" which is the third book in the ongoing Lock Tomb series. It's difficult to describe as each book has been vastly different in style and tone, but the elevator pitch for the series is Lesbian Necromancers In Space.

Right now I am reading Godslayers, the sequel to Gearbreakers. It's set in a future despotic state that blends overwhelming military power via it's giant mecha and state religion that deifies said mecha. The protagonists are the eponymous Gearbreakers, rebels who specialize in neutralizing these so-called gods, primarily Eris, the rebel leader of a rag tag team of what are basically child soldiers and Sona, a defector mecha pilot who wants to destroy the regime from the inside.

Gyrre:
Rereading some short fix that I haven't read in a long while. The following linked post has a list toward the bottom. I will personally recommend 'The God of Arrepo'.

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Near Lurker:
One R.

sitnspin:
Just finished reading "The Scratch Daughters" the sequel to "Scapegracers". Think 'The Craft' but a thousand times more gay and with none of the misogyny with a splash of 'Mean Girls'.

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