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  • I don’t see people mention the Budayeen series very often, but I remember it being great!

    Not sure how good these are (or how truly cyberpunk-y they are), as I haven’t read them, but here you go:

    • Club Contango by Eliane Boey (Singapore)
    • Stormblood by Jeremy Szal (Australian by nationality, Middle-Eastern/Slavic ethnicity)
    • House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi (Zimbabwe/South Africa)
    • The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (India)








  • Here’s my list:

    • 1A: Older Than You Are - The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
    • 1B: Water, Water Everywhere - The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen
    • 1C: What’s Yours is Mine - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
    • 1D: Family Drama - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
    • 1E: It Takes Two - Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
    • 2A: New Release - Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
    • 2B: Plays With Words - Dark Star by Oliver Langmead
    • 2C: Independent Author - There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
    • 2D: Bookception - Malice by Keigo Higashino
    • 2E: Disability Representation - Death in the Spires by KJ Charles
    • 3A: Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie - Hold the Dark by Frank Tuttle
    • 3B: Stranger in a Strange Land - On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
    • 3C: FREE SPACE: One Less - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
    • 3D: There is Another… - Auberon by James S.A. Corey
    • 3E: LGBTQIA+ Lead - Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin
    • 4A: Now a Major Motion Picture - To Catch a Thief by David Dodge
    • 4B: It’s About Time - The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
    • 4C: Award Winner - Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
    • 4D: Mashup - City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
    • 4E: Local to You - Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
    • 5A: Debut Work - Neuromancer by William Gibson
    • 5B: It’s a Holiday - Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
    • 5C: Institutional - Relic by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • 5D: Minority Author - The Spite House by Johnny Compton
    • 5E: Among the Stars - The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August

    Stats I thought were interesting: 10/25 were off my TBR pile; 18/25 hard mode. Most read category: horror, followed by scifi (including multi-genre works).

    This was fun!







  • Finished I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle. In general, I think it has pacing and tonal issues (be aware that it’s not cozy all the way through!), but it was also cute in, like, an 80s-YA-fantasy kind of way. I don’t regret reading it, but I think there are better books to recommend.

    Currently reading Fever House by Keith Rosson. I guess I’d call this action horror? There’s a severed hand that makes people near it want to be overly violent, and various players trying to acquire or get rid of it. Fast read, enjoyable so far.




  • The answer is no, because factions like corrupted have 3 possible reactions to each damage type: vulnerable, resistant, or neutral. The point of the test was to see if your UI is incorrectly listing both neutral and resistant damage types under “Resistances” (it is), or whether something about damage levels has actually changed (it hasn’t).


  • Interesting, sounds like a bug then. I did some brief simulacrum testing with just serration and a single 60% elemental mod in a gun, and resistances are working for me as per the wiki. In other words, corrupted lancers (listed as vulnerable to puncture and viral, resistant to rad) take less damage from rad (230 per hit) than they do from magnetic or cold (279 per hit).

    Please do test this yourself, though! It’d be hilarious if it was more than a UI thing for you.