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WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-27: Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-27: Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton

Time manages to get away from me these days, but I submitted a book review for publication in a magazine and I wrote another one for Starship Grifters this week, so let's keep things rolling with a selection of the Internet's finest links. This interview with

Rise from your Gwave

Rise from your Gwave

It is the Sega Genesis version that had the slightly clipped opening lines, rather than the arcade cabinet that I remember from my youth. But I definitely fed more than few quarters into machine that looks like this.

WBH Digest 2023-10-13: Pay Me XM Denarii or I'll...

WBH Digest 2023-10-13: Pay Me XM Denarii or I'll...

This is a useful contrast between G. K. Chesterton and H. P. Lovecraft. The word "absurd" means very different things in their works. JD Cowan writes about Quake. That game has a special place in my heart, as it was my real introduction to the internet. I played

It's Dangerous to Go Alone, Take This

It's Dangerous to Go Alone, Take This

The best one sentence review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that I ever saw is that is successfully recapitulates the feeling of a child finding a stick and setting off into the woods for an adventure.

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-08-12: Book of the New Sun

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-08-12: Book of the New Sun

Okay, maybe even every two weeks is a little much right now. The Book of the New Sun is the Dark Souls of BooksGene Wolfe and Dark Souls are both difficult and engrossing. In demanding rereading and replaying, they resist the passivity of consumer culture.C.W. HowellC.W. Howell

Better than breaking all the pots

Better than breaking all the pots

The care and feeding of Zebean wildlife

The care and feeding of Zebean wildlife