The Altera Centauri collection has been brought up to date by Darsnan. It comprises every decent scenario he's been able to find anywhere on the web, going back over 20 years.
25 themes/skins/styles are now available to members. Check the select drop-down at the bottom-left of each page.
Call To Power 2 Cradle 3+ mod in progress: https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/call-to-power-2/ctp2-creation/9437883-making-cradle-3-fully-compatible-with-the-apolyton-edition
Finished:
Lord Foul's Bane, Book One of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen R. Donaldson
A Cruel Wind, A Chronicle of the Dread Empire, by Glen Cook (containing A Shadow of All Night Falling, October's Baby, and All Darkness Met)
Reading:
A Fortress in Shadow, A Chronicle of the Dread Empire, by Glen Cook (containing The Fire in His Hand and With Mercy Toward None)
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
One more turn .... One more turn .... | WWTSD
Currently reading "In the Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. Why no one told me about this fantasy book before is unknown!!
Just finished "A People's History of Christianity" by Diane Butler-Bass, and prior to that "A New Kind of Christianity" by Brian McLaren.
It's actually been a bit since I read a non-religious book (which was "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman).
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Just finished the A, B & C novels in Sue Grafton's Alphabet sequence (omnibus edition as new-a great find for 30 pence in a Salvation Army shop) and have just started Ian Rankin's short story collection 'Beggars Banquet' and 'The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West' by Toby Huff and Stephen Jay Gould's 'Questioning The Millennium'.
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
I have just started reading a book called Drylor The First Artifact. It is an Action/Fantasy book created by Ryan Tomasella. So far it is actually damn good, it is a story about a man that suffers amnesia and struggles to regain his memory. As his memory starts to come back to him he realizes that his brother is an evil S.o.b and he makes it his mission to stop him.
It seems like a fairly generic story line but the author makes it his own. There are tons of twists and turns in the story (mainly when the main character thinks he remembers something from his past he realizes that it was only an illusion that his brother wanted him to think was true.) I must say I am really impressed with this book, then again I read almost anything that involved sword and sorcery. Below is what the back of the book says:
When a man wakes up inside a cage that is being carried through an underground city, he has no idea where he is or what has happened to him. As Von, a victim of amnesia, is taken to a jail cell to await his fate amongst elves, humans, dwarfs, gnomes, and halflings, he is told he is a member of the Royal Guard of Genisus. It is not long before he is transported to the palace where he meets an impatient king who eventually returns him to his jail cell while deciding his destiny.
As Von’s memory slowly returns, he discovers that he is the only one who can protect Drylor—a world that abandoned him— from its greatest evil, his own brother. Through his journey to the truth, Von meets an unlikely group of friends who are willing to sacrifice everything to help him stop his brother Scarlet from annihilating the only world they have ever known.
As Von’s past becomes clear and reveals his future, he soon realizes the only way he can end his brother’s heartless massacres is to find him and kill him.
Finished:
Star Trek Enterprise: The First Adventure, by Vonda N. McIntyre
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
One more turn .... One more turn .... | WWTSD
debating to get into the "Wheel of Time series", only read first book
I liked the first four books - after that they really start dragging.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
One more turn .... One more turn .... | WWTSD
I liked the first four books - after that they really start dragging.
I quit in the fifth book when I suddenly realized I didn't know who the characters were, where they were going, or why they were going there. I had gone through the first four books quickly with no down time between books and my memory was much better back then.
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