I loved Fighting Fantasy as a kid (they were the only thing I read for a time), but a shoutout to the Lone Wolf series, which were more like D&D in that you acqured new skills for each book you completed.

Another great episode my friend. Of course, Maynard's whole schtick about flushing away LA is taken from a Bill Hicks routine. "Leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called... Arizona Bay."

I mean obviously Mary Shelley didn't say this.

I can talk for hours about Finnegans Wake and yet I still have no idea what Tron was about more than 40 years after I first saw it.

I always count it as a 70s album, just like Queen's The Game. My 2nd favourite Bowie album, after Station to Station.

*judgement

It's literally the last 5mins people disklike and that colours their jdgement. Voyager has very few truly terrible episodes, compared to TNG and DS9.

New Reading the World blogpost - Sweden, Strindberg, two authors called, Lindqvist, colonialism, vampires, James Joyce, Opeth, Bergman, and much more, it's got it all:

worldthereading.blogspot.com/2025/10/swed...

AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers - an excellent collection of short stories by the likes of Nnedi Okorafor. I just discovered there are two sequels that I need to read.

My decision to stop using Google six months ago seems more and more justified. Trying to research anything while I was writing became infuriating.

Japanese film based on a Haruki Murakami short story (actually elements of 3 stories). The central plot is about a director doing a production of Uncle Vanya with a multilingual cast. A long film, but brilliant. Won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2022. Chekhov and The Beatles. What's not to like?