Books Received, November 19 — November 25

Blade Runner: The Role Playing Game Core Rules by Tomas Härenstam & Joe LeFavi, with illustrations by Martin Grip (December 2022)Walk the mean streets of Los Angeles 2037 in a new game from the award-winning team behind the hit ALIEN RPG.

Your Light in the Misk

Yangsze Choo’s 2019 The Night Tiger is a historical fantasy set in 1930s Malaya.Before Dr. MacFarlane died, he charged his faithful servant Ren with a vital task. Locate MacFarlane’s finger and bury it with the doctor within forty-nine days of the doctor’s death. If Ren fails, MacFarlane’s spirit will be cursed to wander the earth.Although MacFarlane has a good idea where his finger might be, it’s an absurd responsibility with which to saddle a thirteen-year-old servant. Ren lied about his age. He is actually eleven.Meanwhile, in nearby Ipoh, dance-hall girl Ji Lin has gained an extra finger.

A Ravenous Town

Jonathan Lethem’s 1994 Gun, with Occasional Music is a near-future stand-alone noir novel. It was Lethem’s debut novel.Drugs are free, television is entirely abstract, animals have been uplifted, and prison has been replaced by involuntary hibernation … but the life of a private dick is much the same as it was back in the days of Black Mask.Former Inquisitor turned not particularly successful private inquisitor, Conrad Metcalf is offered a case that he can tell is a loser.

Cornucopia 2022 Bundle

Adventurer! In time for the American Thanksgiving holiday, we present this Cornucopia 2022 Bundle, our tenth annual offer of top-quality tabletop roleplaying game ebooks. For just US$17.95 you get all three complete games in our Starter Collection (retail value $70) as DRM-free ebooks, including Kevin (Worlds Without Number) Crawford's historical RPG Wolves of God; the family saga of restaurant management and hopping vampires, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (Wet Ink Games); and Jay Dragon's peaceful, pastoral game of animal travelers, Wanderhome.

To Dungeons Deep

2019’s Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 7 is the seventh tankōbon of Ryoko Kui’s secondary-universe comedic ecological-fantasy manga. Originally published as Danjon Meshi, Delicious in Dungeon appears in Enterbrain’s Harta. Volume 7 was translated into English in 2019.In this volume, Laios and his companions (half-elf mage Marcille, halfling security expert Chilchuck, dwarf fighter Senshi, and new party member beastkin-chimera-ninja Izutsumi) go deeper into the dungeon. Up on the surface, unwanted visitors arrive.

Food, Glorious Food! Five SF Approaches to a Balanced Diet

Finnish scientists are working on an innovative protein source. (In case you don’t want to click on the link: scientists are making protein flour from Co2, other common elements, electricity [which…

Out From The Ghostly Freighter

Aliette de Bodard’s 2022 The Red Scholar’s Wake is a space opera set in de Bodard’s Xuya Universe.Captured by Red Banner space pirates, scavenger Xích Si is painfully aware of a number of possible fates. She will probably have to choose between immediate death and involuntary indenture to the pirate fleet. Should she somehow survive capture without joining the fleet, she will forever be an outcast; her native An O Empire will assume that she bought her life with signing up as a pirate and will execute her for crimes against the state1. If Xích Si were to contact her relatives, they could be arrested and executed for abetting piracy.To Xích Si’s astonishment, the recently widowed mindship Rice Fish comes to Xích Si with a proposition. Or rather, a proposal.

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