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The name sounds like a Penny Arcade joke, but like De, it still seems to point at…

The name sounds like a Penny Arcade joke, but like De, it still seems to point at a perhaps temporary subgenre that speaks to me. I feel like Joe Abercrombie lives here, with all his really nice book covers. There's something to be said for authors taking back what's supposed to be a derogatory term.

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Grimdark: what is it? I had no idea until recently, other than it pisses off authors who are labeled with it. So I looked it up. This turned out to be a bad idea, because it’s a bigger subject than I should probably get into at six-thirty in the morning on a school day with a cheesecake to drop …

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Tweets for the week of 2013-05-19

  • Back to work. http://t.co/5QfO9P6Pha #
  • 4 of 5 stars to The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks http://t.co/sdJJ141pLW #
  • Kaylee wrote a "Make the World Better" essay; didn't understand my horrified whimper when I read the end. http://t.co/6TvgfK8Nso #community #
  • "I'm gettin' too old for this shit." Jake watches the new puppy. http://t.co/bHNq0VeSAA #
  • She Said, He Said: A Prequel – Doctor Who: http://t.co/Ecwk9g0rtE – Creepiest bit: Clara's wearing my daughter's school uniform. #
  • Best moment from last night's Trek viewing: Hearing the words "tribble" and "necrotic flesh" in the same sentence. #
  • RT @jonnygeller: #publishingvocab "effervescent prose" – overwritten
    "richly written prose" – overwritten
    "sumptuous sentences" – overwritt… #
  • Realized, discussing new Trek movie, that for someone "SO not a Trek fan", I know a LOT of Trekstuff. Ditto Marvel. Honestly don't know how. #
  • Possible I absorbed Trek/Marvel via Nerd osmosis. More likely: non-specialized Knowledge skills are really cheap in this system. #minmax #
  • "In the future, gamers rules the universe. Thank you, Iain M. Banks." I review Player of Games — http://t.co/GeDFV7x50u #
  • Twipster: excellent chrome extension. (How sad I want/need an app that "strips down Twitter's cluttered interface.") http://t.co/EFOs52wbS2 #

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Tweets for the week of 2013-04-21

  • RT @grimgoroth: I have a new post up on @IdeologyMadness today. I review @doycet book, Hidden Things. Check it out. http://t.co/HVQWhO7VIe #
  • RT @grimgoroth: For the afternoon crowd. My review of @doycet Hidden Things is up on @IdeologyMadness. Give it a read. http://t.co/HVQWh … #
  • .@grimgoroth I *loved* the review – I don't always retweet mentions of Hidden Things -it feels a little weird – but this I want to share. in reply to grimgoroth #
  • I really don't think Max has been the same since Ruby killed their parents, but it's nice to see his spirit isn't broken. #
  • RT @michelledeidre: Can we please ask ourselves how a major American city is on total lockdown and our senate just killed a bill on back … #
  • RT @YesYoureRacist: ATTENTION, RACISTS: The Boston bombing suspects are from the actual Caucasus region, meaning they *literally could n … #

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Part gaming-related, Part writing-related, Part reading-related, 100% Nerd-related

A few weeks ago, I noticed a call for book reviewers over at themittani.com, a website that focuses mostly on sci-fi MMO gaming, especially Eve and Dust and things of that nature.

They asked potential reviewers to write up a ‘test review’ and submit a list of what we thought were good books, so they’d know if our choice of reviews was going to be terrible.

So I wrote up a review of Altered Carbon, put together my desert-island list, and sent it off.

A few days later, this:

You own. Your sample review owned, the Altered Carbon trilogy is a favorite of mine, and you’re hired.

So I got all set up, the CSS for the book review template was wrestled into shape, and today my review — the same one I submitted for the application — is up. I’m glad I got to open with Altered Carbon; it’s one of my all-time favorites and a fantastic noir-style examination of what one’s “self” means in a era of body- and clone-swapping. Highly recommended, even if you don’t play a certain internet spaceship game.

Check out the review, if you like, and let me know what you think! I’m really looking forward to doing these in the future.