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David Weber is a fairly famous, arguably infamous, writer around these parts. He is well-known for his love of absolute monarchs ruling by fiat, bafflingly bad character writing and economic world-building, fetishization of military training/competence/morality, lavish descriptions of combat...

Hello, there. Come in, come in, please do not be shy; I do not bite... Or rather, I do bite, but I will not bite you. I am Mahou Shoujou Lumi-Nyx, and I will be your host for this evening's inaugural book club meeting. I assume that if you have come here to this little nook of a bookshop at...

So, Deltora Quest. One of those Children series that make you go 'wow this is pretty scary for a children's book' almost too often, and the books that almost singlehandedly got me into fantasy as a whole. Nothing like reading about people getting burnt, disfigured, or killed to make a child go...

The Neverending Story is a movie that I assume needs no introduction. Whereas a lot of 80s Fantasy films got stuck with 'cult classic' status, The Neverending Story is one most people (Gen X and Millennials anyway, though probably Zoomers too) will at least have heard of if not watched...

Watchmen is one of the seminal works of art in the graphic novel medium. It's not just outstandingly written, but also ingeniously designed - the artists (Moore and Gibbons) used the form and function of comic books to create evocative scenes and induce sensations as diverse as nearly cosmic...

If you are on the Internet, particularly here on Sufficient Velocity, and you are like me, I would most kindly ask that you stop copying me and strive to be like yourself instead. There's quite enough trouble having just me around. I don't think we'll all get along with two of me bumbling into...

You've probably heard of Kagurabachi. Or at the very least, you've seen it. You know the one. (P.S: Check the alt text. I'll be putting in some interesting things every once in a while. This thread probably isn't for you if you have low vision, though.) About one year ago (give or take a...

Introduction Recently, I've been perusing fiction that is, in some way or another, relevant to the current state of the world. I thought a monthly book club with books that are (based on my judgement or the recommendations of others in the thread) relevant to our current climate would be a...

In the late 1990s, some White Wolf gave a small imprint a chance and funded the production of a TTRPG made by Paragon Games. They worked really hard and made a little game that held a lot of juice in it - a hefty, heaping, massive amount of delicious roleplaying game juices. A creative new...

Pulp heroes are a lot of fun. Masked, sharp-dressed figures parkouring over rooftops in a bid to stop over-the-top villains who steeple their fingers shrouded in darkness and spout improbable science-fiction nonsense about spurious chemicals and devices. Flying aces soaring high above enemy...

So, I was reading @Geckonator's excellent Let's Read thread on the Domination of Draka and I began to realize that there was a startling similarity to one of my favorite books - Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson. Then I went online and checked: There's no kindle version of this book. Used...

So, for those of you who are not aware, esteemed theatre critic and author Bram Stoker is working on a new serial novel, simply titled Dracula. Aside from that I know virtually nothing, save for the fact that it is an epistolary work set in 1897 whose sections will be published the day they take...

Hello! My never-ending quest to get attention from strangers on the internet give back to the community that has given me so much entertainment and joy over the years continue. Rather than writing another quest that I will inevitably abandon due to stress, anxiety, and/or lack of ideas, I...

Due to how slow things are lately for me, and how some media gems either go unnoticed or aren't appreciated, especially on their own wikias, I figured doing a Let's Read of Usagi Yojimbo would be a good idea. I can always do a (re)watch of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles later on when I...

Let's Read Modern Villainess: It's Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash Or: A Fun Game Of Did This Actually Happen, Or Is This Just Weird Worldbuilding? Hi! Thanks for opening this thread, for whatever reason. Sheer curiosity? Interest in "villainess" genre fiction? Or perhaps...

Hello and welcome everybody to Bird is the Word, the only review show by avians, for avians. For our first item, we're taking a look at the first chapter of Household, a tabletop RPG that @chellewalker commissioned a review of: the basic synopsis is that you play as creatures from european...

In an infamous SB and SV tradition, and inspired by a great Let's Read of World War Z on this site, I decided to bite the bullet and try my hand at this thing. Behold, we have another one of Tom Kratman's masterpieces at hand! This is going to be more of a deconstruction of what Kratman wrote...

Out of Character: This is not meant to be a definitive "fixing" of Warhammer 40,000, it's more of a reworking of it to suit my tastes. People should be allowed to enjoy whatever version of the setting they like, including the canon one. This work also covers themes of violence and sexuality and...

I've actually first read about Vorkosigan Saga 4-5 years ago, on a Russian TVTropes knockoff - as an example of having a disabled protagonist, I think. I filed it away as something to maybe someday read, and, as I usually do, promptly forgot about it. I've seen it mentioned multiple times on...

Lets Read: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War So, the book’s out. As I promised when his… enlightening report for the UN was released and our serious journo friend went to the press and said he’d be writing a book, I’ll be reading through it. For the uninitiated - I’m an exile in...

I first caught wind of Berserk by way of a friend I made in college. When there was a light lull in classes, we just talked about a few random things, and the topic of conversation came to what stuff we were watching. I don't quite remember what I recommended he watched, but he immediately told...

Hello wonderful people of SV. I recently started reading "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" by Seth Dickinson. I was 17 pages in when I decided that the little I read was intriguing enough to deserve a play-by-play Let's Read. This is the first time I do something like this, so I don't know what...

I have a history with Riordan's books. I think I was 9 years old when I first saw the Lightning Thief movie and as an idiotic uncultured child I was like, "This is cool!". Then as a 12 to 14-year-old I actually read Percy Jackson and the olympians, the entire series, and I realised two things...

Adi Granov was able to create this pose for a cover... With a series of scraps! Welcome, True Believers, to the future. It's a work in progress, and hopefully the one man building it doesn't get himself and everyone else killed first. Iron Man is a character near and dear to my heart when it...

Sit down and get yourself strapped in, because we're taking a nostalgia trip back to the awkward teenage years! If you were like me, then chances are you first encountered Ender's Game in high school, and you probably thought it was the best thing you ever read. We read this book during grade...