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  • Jack Vance's "Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden"

    Jack Vance's "Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden"
    2025/06/09
    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Jack Vance's "Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden", incorrect uses of words or advanced neologisms, having less reading time in our adult lives, feeling like anything can happen, the Brothers Grimm, worlds where horrific things happen, toxic masculinity, Tolkien's influence, creating a sense of peril in combat, attacking the character sheet, the Dying Earth setting, proto-Arthurian stories, and much more!
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    1 時間 1 分
  • L. Sprague de Camp's "The Fallible Fiend"

    L. Sprague de Camp's "The Fallible Fiend"
    2025/05/26
    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss L. Sprague de Camp's "The Fallible Fiend", futtering spouses, the maps in front of fantasy novels, fleshed-out characters, missile weapons, Dave Arneson's rules, picking spells other than Fireball, flavorful book titles, historical fiction with magic, older styles of writing, fantasy novels as reflections of their time, and much more!
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    55 分
  • Gretchen Felker-Martin's "Manhunt"

    Gretchen Felker-Martin's "Manhunt"
    2025/03/18
    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Gretchen Felker-Martin's "Manhunt", visceral horror-thrillers, section transitions, interchangeable characters, physical descriptions of characters, depictions of trans genitalia, sexualizing a wide varieties of body types, TERFs and anti-vaxxers, replacing PCs with NPCs, the Broo in Runequest, overland exploration in Forbidden Lands, parental access restrictions in libraries, and much more!
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    58 分
  • Katherine Kurtz's "Deryni Rising" with our Patron Book Club

    Katherine Kurtz's "Deryni Rising" with our Patron Book Club
    2025/02/18
    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Katherine Kurtz's "Deryni Rising", sarcophagi, achieving literary liftoff, the Brandon-to-Demos scale, fantasy worlds with real-life historical cultures, female fantasy authors writing under their own names, scattered hidden magical races, Empire of the Petal Throne, AD&D psionics, counterspells, adventure hooks to clear a character's name, Dragon Magazine and White Dwarf Magazine on archive.org, and much more!
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    58 分
  • James Enge's "Blood of Ambrose" with our Patron Book Club

    James Enge's "Blood of Ambrose" with our Patron Book Club
    2025/01/29
    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss James Enge's "Blood of Ambrose", obscure words from classic languages, Scooby Doo episodes, slowing down for character development, The Book of the New Sun books, magic from alchemy, flying horses, world maps, DCC spell corruption, blood that catches fire, other notable works by the author, trial and error, and much more!
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    58 分
  • H. Rider Haggard's "She" with our Patron Book Club

    H. Rider Haggard's "She" with our Patron Book Club
    2024/12/31
    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss H. Rider Haggard's "She", the smell of the flame, Haggard's other works, "the things dudes won't do for a hottie", the city of Cambridge, the good earthy feminine logic, being torn between two ill-fated women, the lost race genre, the tombs of an ancient civilization, quaint local customs, being unalive (instead of undead), democracies and tyrants, and much more!
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    59 分
  • Charles R. Saunders's "The Quest for Cush"

    Charles R. Saunders's "The Quest for Cush"
    2024/11/25
    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Charles R. Saunders's "The Quest for Cush", the Swahili glossary, the shame of the King County Library system, fiction as gaming supplements, inversions of traditional sword and sorcery, Burroughs's Mythic Africa, the Mary Sue problem, Greeks in Egypt, a dungeon under quicksand, responsible and dilligent city guards, Imaro as a demigod,, and much more!
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    59 分
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs's "The Gods of Mars" with our Patron Book Club

    Edgar Rice Burroughs's "The Gods of Mars" with our Patron Book Club
    2024/11/04
    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs's "The Gods of Mars", John Carter in a blond wig, repetitiveness in Edgar Rice Burroughs's works, French words, female characters' screen time, the Tree of Life, fainting characters, early examples of megadungeons, helpful ghosts, constantly escalating tension and perils, authors inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs, wish-fullfillment protagonists, and much more!
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    1 時間 2 分