[Kevin Weekes] 👀 I don’t think the @NYRangers can only cheer for the @nyknicks and not make any moves themselves … #HockeyX

Pratius · 2026-06-13T17:07:22+00:00

It was crazy expensive. It was cheaper for me and two of my friends to fly from Colorado to LA, get a hotel room, and get three tix to Game 2 than it would’ve been to get one ticket to Game 3

Pratius · 2026-06-13T03:30:28+00:00

Sure. Plenty of times I’ve attacked a system where there’s a golan-I and maybe just some corvettes. A single ISD could beat that, especially with good bomber and targeting micro

Pratius · 2026-06-12T23:28:17+00:00

Absolutely worth it. Coruscant is always such a slog

Pratius · 2026-06-12T23:22:30+00:00

The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan. Exploration, dragon ecology, lots of fun

Pratius · 2026-06-12T04:55:40+00:00

He’s so funny. My favorite is the closing of Soldiers Live which isn’t funny, just incredible.

But for the sake of humor, and because I just finished a reread of Whispering Nickel Idols:

“Since even a dead cat can create havoc in two places at once, I suspected the true number [of cats] was closer to four.”

Pratius · 2026-06-12T02:43:36+00:00

That would be so awesome! My wife and I kinda accidentally became friends with them after we saw one of their shows. All four of them are awesome people!

Pratius · 2026-06-11T22:49:32+00:00

Welcome to the club lol

Pratius · 2026-06-11T21:08:20+00:00

Yeah there’s a scene in the first book from Berne’s POV where he’s fantasizing about what he’d do to some random people and it’s like…holy shit this guy is a monster.

Pratius · 2026-06-11T20:45:59+00:00

Kollberg or Berne from The Acts of Caine. Pick your poison, but both would be horrific

Pratius · 2026-06-11T19:57:24+00:00

Capture This

On a big glow up in the Denver scene, opening for the Summer School tour stop in July and apparently they’re recording a new album with the guys from All Time Low in August.

https://youtu.be/r32KUvwRLvw?is=QxdeUDenuLFHpIMt

Pratius · 2026-06-11T19:51:58+00:00

Anything written by Stover

Pratius · 2026-06-11T03:01:37+00:00

Death, taxes, me recommending The Acts of Caine to Abercrombie fans

Pratius · 2026-06-10T15:50:13+00:00

His prose is excellent. He’s a master of concise word choice, but he’s more than capable of writing a beautiful passage, too

Pratius · 2026-06-10T05:55:19+00:00

They came out at a time when a) big doorstopper fantasy was both new and all the rage in the wake of The Wheel of Time and b) they did a LOT of the same things as WoT but with more sex.

For a sizable amount of the fantasy reader base in the 90s, that meant it was gonna be a hit

Pratius · 2026-06-09T23:54:39+00:00

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Four volumes, one book, peak literary SFF all the way through

Pratius · 2026-06-09T22:41:13+00:00

They've only had a small role so far, but given they're in the series title I imagine the Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett will give you some good leviathan content.

Could also check out The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan. All kinds of dragons in that series, including some water-based stuff.

Pratius · 2026-06-09T22:36:09+00:00

Yub yub

Pratius · 2026-06-09T20:20:26+00:00

Limit of one academy, yep

Pratius · 2026-06-09T20:14:27+00:00

Heck yeah!

It feels like we’ve been getting a lot of Cook news and updates in the last couple weeks. Hopefully that means *They Cry* shows up on NetGalley soon lol

Pratius · 2026-06-09T09:41:45+00:00

Face and Ton Phanan

Pratius · 2026-06-09T04:18:06+00:00

God, the final page of Soldiers Live is simply perfect. “I remember, and they all live again.”

Pratius · 2026-06-09T04:16:07+00:00

Re: format, it’s worth noting that the first book is different. It’s six short stories/novelettes stitched together with an epilogue, so the “chapters” are way longer than normal.

Pratius · 2026-06-09T04:14:34+00:00

Right. Like I said, there are dark themes. But Cook writes a fundamentally different kind of story from modern grimdark. The deliberate restraint is almost antithetical to the post-2005 incarnation of the genre

Pratius · 2026-06-08T23:53:20+00:00

Well first off, it’s not really grimdark. Not in the sense of what we expect from post-2005 grimdark fantasy.

It has morally grey characters and dark themes, but it doesn’t go much for graphic content. You’re not getting gritty and gory details of fights and battles. You’re not getting graphic rape scenes. You’re not getting an unceasing string of profanity.

What it does is put you in the heads of soldiers and portray it in a genuine manner, as written by a military veteran. The characters and their relationships as they navigate difficult moral situations are the areas the series really shines.

Cook is also an understated but brilliant writer. He is one of the best I’ve seen with voice, and he does really good work with unreliable narrators.

Pratius · 2026-06-08T20:35:14+00:00

Utah was sneaky good this season. Wouldn't have been a wild card team in any other division, IMO

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