I have only read a handful of the Donald Duck/Scrooge McDuck comics but something about the expressive linework here reminded me of them. (Other than that they are very different!)
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I’m a huge fan of the Don Rosa duck books, so I love that comparison.
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Currently taking my time through Partially Devoured, which is a minute-by-minute deep dive into the making of “Night of the Living Dead” - with frequent side quests into cast lore, author autobiography, and cult fandom. It’s… an incredible read.
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Just finished The Heroes and Red Country, both by Joe Abercrombie. Both were excellent, trying to decide what to start next.
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Nice - glad you enjoyed.
I know there was another individual on here that spoke highly of Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy. Not sure if that was you.
I started reading The Blade Itself and sort of bounced off it a little. The three main characters seemed slightly unlikable maybe. Not sure if I was just in the wrong headspace. Should power through and read more. Ended up shifting back to Oathbringer and am continuing my read of that series.
I’ve been reading Elric of Melibone (1972) aloud to my wife! We are really enjoying it Moorcock’s descriptions are immensely colorful and Elric just rocks.
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Just one of the absolute best writers, couldn’t adore her stuff more. This is absolutely up there as a book I tend to just think about when my head goes quiet.
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I keep hearing great stuff about this. I have it on hold at my library and am extremely jazzed to check it out.
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Oh totally agree. The book was so rich with ideas, and so beautifully written. It felt a little like a PKD / Le Guin hybrid with the trippiness.
Do you have a favorite of her work? I’ve only read a few but I’d rank them 1. The Dispossessed 2. Lathe 3. Left hand of darkness. But loved all 3.
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Currently reading The Expanse series. On Book 2, Caliban’s War, and enjoying the series.
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1930s-era collection of short stories by Stanley Weinbaum. I’d only learned about this author recently and found out he was influential due to his depiction of aliens as intelligent but not human-like. He died young and only had a couple of years being published. So far I really like it.
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It arrived 
The remaining Kickstarter copies of the Codex and Artefact Editions of Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow are available through the Obsidian Codex website:
Use the discount code KIY10 at checkout to receive 10% off.
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Finished up a re-read of Neuromancer, first time since reading it in 1990 or so. I’m super excited for the AppleTV adaptation. I liked it more this second time, because it was easier to conceptualize what was going on, because the language and imagery of Cyberpunk has been more fully established since it’s original publication. When I first read it, it was like reading a book in another language, because so many of the concepts were, largely, foreign to people not totally in tune with the realms of computing hardware. I’ve even read that Gibson had never even seen a modem at the time he wrote the book.
There’s one sentence in the novel where Gibson calls out the matrix, cyberspace, and night city in a single phrase. It was, apparently, only the second time the word cyberspace was used, with the first being in an earlier Gibson short story.
I’m currently reading Creepers by David Morrell, the author of First Blood. Morrell is a really solid author of thriller fiction. Creepers is about a group of urban explorers who explore a building and find more than they bargained for.
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Dig it 
I read Neuromancer for the first time about 2 years ago and it blew me away. Had heard good things but went in with lower expectations. Thought it was phenomenal and crazy how prescient it was, though it’s an interesting discussion between its prescience and it actually creating the language around the things it foretold.
Also excited for the new series. Have Burning Chrome “burning a hole” on my shelf to read soon also.
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I’ve always wanted to read his Novelization for Rambo II but have never found it in the wild. I think other than First Blood, the only thing I read was The Fifth Profession.
I remember that book during that kind of team up period of Showdown in Little Tokyo and that Chrichton one too, Rising Sun.
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You’re in for a treat. You also have the much weirder, compared to the movie, Johnn Mnemonic short in there as well. What. A. Blast.
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I’ve got mixed feelings about Keith Rosson. I dig his writing quite a bit, I loved Fever House but felt myself taper off towards the end. So much so that I didn’t bother with the 2nd part, which I read he didn’t really wanna do but was pressured by the publisher after Fever House’s success.
I think I was gonna order some of his older stuff but again, didn’t like the end of Fever House so much that I didn’t bother. I kept hearing how incredible his follow up, Coffin Moon was and decided to give it a shot. Lots of mixed feelings again where I like the writing a lot but initially bounced off pretty hard around its overall pacing, let down of a villain, and the feeling that it kept taking one step forward and two back as far as plot went.
HOWEVER, Crone sounds rad and I do like the guy’s writing. So, Aardvark BOM Club has a promo code for a $4 book and I went ahead and ordered. I hope this is the one that seals the deal, that gives me that all around feeling a newer writer like Nat Cassidy delivers. Otherwise, you’ll see me posting a very similar summation next year when he drops a new book.
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