It looks like Antimemetics was originally posted online as a series of entries and short stories, as part of the SCP universe, which is an online collaborative fiction project (wikipedia for more info ). From a quick search, it seems some (all of?) it is still available if you look up ‘qntm’ on the SCP wiki, but I’m not sure if the self-published release included rewrites or additional material.

Currently reading There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, which involves a department of the SCP Foundation dealing with entities that delete memories, communication, etc. I don’t intend to go down the SCP rabbit hole, but I’m finding the book inventive and enjoyable so far.

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Read Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge. Short, fun, mindless Halloween action horror.

Bingo squares: Family Drama; Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie; Now a Major Motion Picture; It’s About Time; Award Winner; It’s a Holiday (hard); (alt) A Change in Perspective

Obviously not meta, but I’ll point out that Furis also has the Wings of Purity augment, which adds lifesteal and some extra health.

Sounds like maybe The Viewing episode from Cabinet of Curiosities?

Just finished Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, and haven’t picked out what I’m reading next.

I think this is one of those I should have dropped rather than power through. I liked the story, but the writing style just wasn’t for me: poetic, but verbose verging on purple, imo. Is all his work like this? I vaguely remember reading “There Will Come Soft Rains” a long time ago, but I don’t remember how it was written. Also, I thought this was going to be Halloween-related, but it really isn’t.

Bingo squares: Older Than You Are (1962), Family Drama, (maybe) Plays With Words, Bookception (hard), Now a Major Motion Picture, It’s About Time, (alt) A Change in Perspective.

I had similar issues with The Hollow Places, and it put me off reading any more of her horror titles. I do like T. Kingfisher’s fairy tale-inspired stuff, however; that kind of voice meshes a lot better with that genre, imo.

I would add The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) to your Funny and Spooky list. I’ll also second the The Fog (1981) suggestion.

Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. I’m not really sold on it yet, but we’ll see.

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Finished Neuromancer by William Gibson. I’m glad to have read it to see what so much media took inspiration from, but overall, it wasn’t my favorite.

Bingo squares: Older Than You Are (1984), Award Winner (HM), Debut Work (HM), (alt) A Change in Perspective

I’m probably definitely going Sybaris, and then either Dera or Okina. I could never make the Dera work the way I wanted, so hopefully the incarnon boosts it up.

Absolutely agreed. The narrative makes choices in a few places, and some of the second half seems kind of muddled.

That’s about where I started to lose interest, too. So much of the interesting world-building is in that first part, before it decides to turn into a heist novel.

I’m desperately trying to finish Neuromancer by William Gibson so I can move on to spooky season books. It’s not bad at all, I’m just not really clicking with it, so it’s been slow going.

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Finished Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles, a two-timeline mystery focusing on the unsolved murder of a member of a group of friends at Oxford. The author normally writes steamy romances, but this tastefully cut to black before anything got explicit. Something about the writing or story made it a very enjoyable, fast read; I haven’t devoured anything so quickly in ages.

Bingo squares: New Release; Disability Representation (hard); LGBTQIA+ Lead (hard); It’s About Time (hard); Mashup; Institutional; (alt) A Change in Perspective

Only adult one I can think of is Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams (cats). There’s a ton of these for kids, though; here’s a few I’ve read:

• Redwall series by Brian Jacques (forest critters; I found it repetitive after the first few, but ymmv)
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien (rats)
• Stewart Little by E.B. White (mouse)
• Charlotte’s Web by by E.B. White (pig)

I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can’t get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA’s site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.

How was Slewfoot? It’s been on my TBR for ages, but I’ve never gotten around to it.

I’m about halfway through Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles. It’s not as detective-y as I was hoping for, but I’m still finding it quick and absorbing.

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Finished Auberon by James S.A. Corey, which was good.

DNFed A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell about 25% through. The story seemed interesting, but I wasn’t vibing with the writing.

That’s really cool (and involved)! Thanks for writing that up. I hope you get a chance to actually try it.

Good to know, thanks!

I use a lot of off-meta melee (if there is such a thing, since most melee can be made powerful). I guess the ones on my list that count as “mediocre” are Mios, Ninkondi, Prisma Dual Cleavers, Guandao Prime, and Twin Basolk. If we’re counting hidden gems, I’d also add Caustacyst, which I liked even before I had a riven for it, and now use on my Kullervo loadout as well.

Currently breezing through Auberon by James S.A. Corey, the story between books 7 and 8 of the Expanse. Not sure what I’ll read next.

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Finished Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky. The world-building around the Zone was as cool as I’d hoped, and I appreciated that expeditions into it were realistically strenuous, grimy, and dangerous. The overall tone is a bit bleak, though, and I didn’t find the characters particularly relatable. There’s a cool afterward from one of the authors, describing how difficult it was to get the book published (and when it was, how censored it had to be).

Bingo squares: Older Than You Are (1972), It Takes Two, Now a Major Motion Picture, (alt) Translated (hard).