The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 4
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marycatelliThe Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 4 by Grrr
Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes.
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Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes.
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marycatelliForty Thousand in Gehenna by C J Cherryh
Oct. 7th, 2025 08:51 amjames_davis_nicoll
Union technocrats had a plan for Gehenna, a plan that failed to take into account local conditions.
Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C J Cherryh
Clarke Award Finalists 2017
Oct. 6th, 2025 12:12 pmjames_davis_nicoll2017: The Royal College of Nursing’s alarming description of conditions in the NHS inspires the government to do worse, the Tories succeed in freezing British lifespans after a century of progress, and the UK begins that political equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation known as Brexit.
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2017 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
After Atlas by Emma Newman
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
Poll #33694 Clarke Award Finalists 2017
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55
Which 2017 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
View Answers
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
6 (10.9%)
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
36 (65.5%)
After Atlas by Emma Newman
10 (18.2%)
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
9 (16.4%)
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
44 (80.0%)
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
4 (7.3%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2017 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
After Atlas by Emma Newman
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
food and other fun things
Oct. 6th, 2025 12:13 ammarycatelliSo the heroine thinks she has figured out how to feed herself. And quite possibly discover the other character she's looking for because the food she would take, the people think they are giving to another character.
Such complications
Such complications
vignettes
Oct. 5th, 2025 10:59 ammarycatelliThis week's prompt is:
suspect 🤔
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
suspect 🤔
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
Destinies, February-March 1980 (Destinies, # 6) edited by Jim Baen
Oct. 5th, 2025 08:59 amjames_davis_nicoll
Pacifist Dorsai, space forts, duelling reviews, a rant about that mean Mr. Einstein and more in this issue of Destinies.
Destinies, February-March 1980 (Destinies, # 6) edited by Jim Baen
here comes the nursery bogey
Oct. 4th, 2025 11:31 pmmarycatelliA father and son have found unequivocal evidence of the heroine's presence, even if the father will misinterpret it slightly.
To keep his son from babbling, he will spin a story of some kind of fae creature.
I just have to figure out what. Especially since it's not a real creature, and the father doesn't even believe it, any more than the father would believe there really was a Jennie Greentooth to drown children in the dangerous river.
To keep his son from babbling, he will spin a story of some kind of fae creature.
I just have to figure out what. Especially since it's not a real creature, and the father doesn't even believe it, any more than the father would believe there really was a Jennie Greentooth to drown children in the dangerous river.
Sanders' Union Speaker
Oct. 4th, 2025 02:39 pmmarycatelliSanders' Union Speaker: Containing a Great Variety of Exercises for Declamation, Both in Prose and Verse by Charles Walton Sanders
Another collection of extracts for the scholar. This differs from his Union Readers and New Readers in that it is, overtly, aimed at performance before crowds. Some have directions on how they are to be staged, down to the observation that the poem about being a man is more comic when told by a young boy than an older one.
Many more comic pieces. Also, the time of publication is clear, since many pieces directly address the war. More speeches and poems and fewer essays. But its selection does cast quite a light on the times.
Another collection of extracts for the scholar. This differs from his Union Readers and New Readers in that it is, overtly, aimed at performance before crowds. Some have directions on how they are to be staged, down to the observation that the poem about being a man is more comic when told by a young boy than an older one.
Many more comic pieces. Also, the time of publication is clear, since many pieces directly address the war. More speeches and poems and fewer essays. But its selection does cast quite a light on the times.
Books Received, September 27 — October 3
Oct. 4th, 2025 09:04 amjames_davis_nicoll
Twelve books new to me. Four fantasies, one horror, one non-fiction, and six (!) science fiction works, of which at least four are series instalments.
Books Received, September 27 — October 3
Poll #33688 Books Received, September 27 — October 3
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 58
Which of these look interesting?
View Answers
Children of Fallen Gods by Carissa Broadbent (December 2025)
4 (6.9%)
Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis (January 2026)
9 (15.5%)
The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang (April 2026)
22 (37.9%)
We Burned So Bright by T. J. Klune (April 2026)
21 (36.2%)
We Could Be Anyone by Anna-Marie McLemore (May 2026)
8 (13.8%)
These Godly Lies by Rachelle Raeta (July 2026)
4 (6.9%)
The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural
16 (27.6%)
Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven (July 2026)
5 (8.6%)
The Infinite State by Richard Swan (August 2026)
7 (12.1%)
Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky (June 2026)
25 (43.1%)
Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne (July 2026)
20 (34.5%)
Platform Decay by Martha Wells (May 2026)
43 (74.1%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
40 (69.0%)
An Unlikely Coven (Green Witch Cycle, volume 1) By AM Kvita
Oct. 3rd, 2025 09:10 amjames_davis_nicoll
Forgotten again by her family, Joan Greenwood discovers that this time her witch-kin had a legitimate excuse: a potentially existential threat to Greenwood power and privilege.
An Unlikely Coven (Green Witch Cycle, volume 1) by AM Kvita
It's Out -- It's Out!
Oct. 2nd, 2025 11:23 ammarycatelliWriting And Reflections, the first volume, is available in print! Ebook, paperback, hardcover!
At Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple Books, Amazon, and many other fine venues!
At Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple Books, Amazon, and many other fine venues!
Probe (Search, # 1) by Leslie Stevens & Russ Mayberry
Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:36 amjames_davis_nicoll
A field agent armed with privacy-violating technology searches for Nazi loot--stolen diamonds--on behalf of a South African diamond cartel.
Probe (Search, # 1) by Leslie Stevens & Russ Mayberry
Last night's dream
Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:28 amjames_davis_nicollI dreamed I discovered a weapon in Half Life 2 that would generate and hurl at considerable speed empty shipping containers.