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Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

People adopt very different strategies when it comes to making up for mistakes.

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Golem100 by Alfred Bester

What could possibly go wrong with a little harmless Satanism between friends?

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Bundle of Holding: His Majesty the Worm

His Majesty the Worm, a megadungeon-crawling fantasy roleplaying game from Josh McCrowell at Rise Up Comus.

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Pet Shop of Horrors, volume 1 by Matsuri Akino

Each would-be pet owner gets three simple rules for taking care of the exotic animals Count D supplies. How hard could it possibly be to follow three simple rules?

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House of Shards (Drake Maijstral, volume 2) by Walter Jon Williams

Silverside Station attracts the rich, the famous, and the bizarre, as well as two Allowed Burglars bent on flamboyant larceny.

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Bundle of Holding: Cawood Monsters Bestiaries and DM sourcebooks from Andrew Cawood at Cawood Publishing for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (2014) and compatible tabletop roleplaying games.

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Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

Encouraging the next generation of space pirates and superheroes...

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The Delikon by H M Hoover

The Delikon invested millennia trying to civilize humans, a gift for which humans intend to show appropriate gratitude.

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Books Received, June 14 to June 20

Five works new to me: 2 fantasy, 1 non-fiction, 2 science fiction, of which 1 belongs to a series, and the other 4 are stand-alone.

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The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw

All that stands between Alessa Li and freedom from Hellebore Technical Institute for the Ambitiously Gifted is a single carnage-filled rite of passage, or as the unspeakable teachers call it, dinner.

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In The Garden of Iden (Company, volume 1) by Kage Baker

A timid immortal cyborg searches for valuable plants in a Tudor England torn between Anglicans and Catholics. What could possibly go wrong?

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Bundle of Horror: Raven

Raven: A Gothic Horror RPG – the core rulebook, scenarios, & GM Screen in both English and Spanish versions!

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Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars

So many different ways of measuring history and the passage of time...

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Magus of the Library, volume 8 by Mitsu Izumi

For what purpose has someone summoned a ten-story-tall mountain spirit to Aftzaak, City of Books?

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Disgraced Return of The Kap’s Needle by Renan Bernardo

When the target world proves too inhospitable for colonization, colonists make a desperate bid to return to Earth on a failing starship.

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Bundle of Holding: Troika Warehouse

Many supplements and adventures for Troika!, the acid-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game from Melsonian Arts Council.

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Homeward and Beyond by Poul Anderson Nine tales of science fiction by Poul Anderson.