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BooK Review: Ursula K LeGuin's City of Illusions is more than just a tale of a place

Titles are interesting things that can tell much, or perhaps very little of a story. In City of Illusions, Ursula K LeGuin tells the tale of an Earth under the dominion

A reunion with wine

She is a siren in a bottle. A liquid, syrup with layers of flavour, touches of fruit, the vessel of grape, and the chilled bottle conducts the heat from my hand.

Planet of Exile by LeGuin is a sad torture to read, but totally worh it

Few books make me sigh and despair at the tightening grip of age and the decay of hope as this one did. Ursula K LeGuin's tale, Planet of Exile, tells the story

Rocannon's World - my first Ursula K LeGuin read, and certainly not the last

Since my father's funeral, I've owned an Ursula K LeGuin collection. Until recently, I learned it was not the collection I've wanted to read. That book was The Earthsea

holoz0r's A-Z of Steam: Breachway

When I purchased Breachway, it looked like everything that I wanted from a Slay The Spire - like game. Replayability, a new setting, science-fiction, space battles,

I finally watched Bugonia ... and I have to say - go watch Poor Things, too...

Emma Stone has had a recent knack for really strange, interesting roles in the movies I've watched lately. Thoroughly enjoying Poor Things, (I've not yet read the

Another last book of 2025(The 29th!) - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan - but ... why?

Small Things Like These is a diminutive book, written by Claire Keegan, who, the back cover of the book tells me, won many prizes, such as the Rooney Prize for Irish

Maybe the last read of 2025: The Day of the Triffids

The Day of The Triffids is a perfectly executed book. This is evident not only from the fact that it is published as a Penguin Classic, in a familiar, pocket sized

The Best Year of My Life

A bold title to be sure - but why? In summary, this year, began by a return to work, whereupon, on my first day back i the office, a massive restructure of the company

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - The final VALIS book, reviewed

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer represents the fifth Philip K Dick book I’ve read in a row. I have to say, that this one was the most work. It was the last

The Fourth Week of my new job starts tomorrow - an update

Tomorrow marks the start of the fourth week of my new job. I am yet to be escorted out of the building without an entry pass, but I am very pleased to say that this

Mosaic: Room to Surveil

Monochromatic monitors painted the walls. Illuminated in a bizzare grey light, his elderly pores held the red tinge of inflammation from a dull razor. Strapped into

FICTION: The Afternoon (Mosaic Entry)

The air in the office was dry. The air conditioner ensured that humidity stayed at a constant rate. The sun beamed in from the western window, afternoon sun trying

The New Job Begins...

Tomorrow, I wake up early. Well, for the last few days I've been waking up early, training my body to get used to a new routine. I start a new job. As some of you

$10 of Solitude

Is Friday, October 3 as I type this. The sun is setting, and my wife has asked me to get a suitcase down. Tomorrow, will begin the worst weekend I'll have to experience

Let's explore the validator node bunker

This isn't the entrance, this is a red herring. That's just good OPSEC. I stripped the EXIF/location data from the image anyway because people who go looking for

# Final season in Wild. Time to modernise. - Splinter Stats Ranked Rewards Season 42 Report Card

@mattclarke With the ranked rewards changes I'm going to see how high I can climb in Modern. Match Report Performance Stat#wild Diamond Rank1380 Rating3042 - Diamond

Vote ctrpch for witness

The city in the above image is Adelaide. It's a square mile, surrounded by parklands, on the Southern coast of Australia Source For almost 6 years now, I've hosted

holoz0r's A-Z of Steam: Monster Train

October was the first time I think I penned my thoughts about Slay the Spire. That game is so incredibly addictive, creative, and engaging. It has an addictive gameplay

holoz0r’s A-Z of Steam: Final Fantasy XIII: LIGHTNING RETURNS

This isn’t a game about lightning striking the return key on a keyboard. It could be, if you used your imagination and all of the fancy time-shifting, dimension