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Monday, April 4, 2016
Anomalies Accumulate, Storm Clouds Congregate
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Them Bones , 47-49, 60-63 ( For the previous entry in this series, click here . ) Back in the 1929 storyline, some new crew me...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Microgames and Microworlds
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One of the attractions of microgames, as I noted in my entry on Ogre , was their creation of internally-consistent little worlds for the pl...
Thursday, February 25, 2016
In the Realm of the Three-Dollar Cybertank: Metagaming's OGRE
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For sci-fi fans of a certain age (middle age), the word “ogre” conjures at least one very specific memory: a pocket-sized game containing a...
Sunday, January 24, 2016
The Villages of the Sun
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For the previous entry in this series, click here . Modern Greek, which Madison Leake learned in the Cyprus War, was not a common langua...
Friday, December 25, 2015
The SFF Year in Review: 2015
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Prolific SFF writer Tanith Lee left our mortal plane, at age 67. Linda Nagata completed her Red trilogy, demonstrating that it is still ...
Friday, December 11, 2015
Games That Don't Suck: Small World
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( For a list of games in this series, click here and scroll down .) Small World, the second fantasy board game so far reviewed in this se...
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Moonlight Serenade
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For the previous entry in this series, click here . The third discrete story line in Them Bones the author enigmatically labels “T...
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