RPGs and gaming...

Paul Weimer's article on SF Signal on RPGs and sf/f writers got me thinking, so I put up a blog post on Book View Cafe and seem to have gotten a bunch of people rather irritated with me. Or at least, holding strong opinions. I think this is a good thing, and invite you all to jump in with your own experiences and viewpoints!

BVC blog here: http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2011/04/26/why-you-wont-catch-me-at-the-dice/#more-15449

Paul's article here: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/04/roll-perception-plus-awareness-an-introduction/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Sfsignal+%28SFSignal%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

A new steampunk from Chris Dolley...

...who has a strange and wonderful imagination. Check this out:

When Reggie Worcester discovers that four debutantes have gone missing in the first month of The London Season he feels compelled to act. With the help of his gentleman's automaton Reeves’s giant steam-powered brain and extra helpings of fish, he conducts an investigation that very few detectives would even contemplate. As Emmeline Dreadnought observes, Mister Worcester doesn’t think like ordinary people. He thinks the unthinkable, which is what you need when you have a knotty case to solve. But thinking the unthinkable has its drawbacks. Reeves needs all his intellect to curb his young master’s excessive flights of fancy. And prevent him from getting engaged.

Chris Dolley has been a computer consultant, a pioneer computer games designer, an amateur detective and once, as a teenager, freed a small country. Now he lives with his wife and a large collection of animals on a farm they renovated in the Normandy-Maine Regional Park.

Here's where to get the book: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/What-Ho-Automaton