Favorites and Recs
Beloved Works from Pages, Screens, Boards, and Tables
Books:
Some Recent Favorites
Roadside Picnic—Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
A Memory Called Empire, and A Desolation Called Peace—Arkady Martine
Currently Reading:
The Well of Ascension--Brandon Sanderson
Radiance--Catherynne M. Valente
Assorted Sampling of Favorites:
Neverwhere, American Gods, Coraline, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Graveyard Book, (Basically Everything This Man Has Written)—Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards!, Men At Arms, Feet of Clay, Mort—Sir Terry Pratchett
Good Omens—Neil Gaiman and Sir Terry Pratchett
Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury
Faeries of Dreamdark—Laini Taylor
A Wizard of Earthsea, Left Hand of Darkness—Ursula K. Le Guin
2001: A Space Odyssey—Arthur C. Clarke
Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens—Tamora Pierce
The Broken Earth Trilogy—N. K. Jemisin
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion—Dan Simmons
Dune—Frank Herbert
Foundation, Foundation and Empire—Isaac Asimov
Neuromancer—William Gibson
Raybearer and Redemptor—Jordan Ifueko
A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace--Arcady Martine
Video Games:
Recently Enjoyed:
Paradise Killer--Kaizen Game Works
Outer Wilds and Echoes of the Eye--Mobius Digital
Currently Playing:
Warhammer 40K: Darktide
Valheim
Hunt: Showdown
Assorted Sampling of Favorites:
Outer Wilds and Echoes of the Eye—Mobius Digital
Dishonored, Knife of Dunwall, Brigmore Witches, and Dishonored 2—Arkane Studios
Bioshock—2K Games and Irrational Games
Portal and Portal 2—Valve
The Legend of Zelda Series (Favorites Among Them: Majora's Mask, Minish Cap, Twilight Princess)—Nintendo
Transistor and Hades—Supergiant Games
Warhammer: Vermintide 2—Fatshark
Mass Effect Trilogy—Bioware
Undertale and Deltarune—Toby Fox
Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps—Moon Studios
Spiritfarer—Thunder Lotus Games
Wandersong—Greg Lobanov
Risk of Rain 2—Hopoo Games
Deep Rock Galactic—Ghost Ship Games
Beat Saber—Beat Games
Halo (CE, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach)—Bungie
Paradise Killer—Kaizen Game Works
Movies, TV Shows, and Podcasts:
Recently Enjoyed:
Our Flag Means Death
The Witcher
Cardcaptor Sakura
Currently Watching:
Battlestar Galactica
Steven Universe
Assorted Sampling of Favorites:
Movies:
Spirited Away, and Everything Else Made by Studio Ghibli
Mad Max: Fury Road
Hot Fuzz
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Coherence
Pokemon The Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back
Encanto
Behind the Curve
TV Shows:
The Expanse
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Babylon 5
Gravity Falls
The Haunting of Hill House
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Mob Psycho 100
Guren Lagann
Soul Eater
Cowboy Beebop
The Owl House
Taskmaster
The Witcher
The Good Place
Podcast (Literally Just the One):
The Magnus Archives
TTRPG System Favorites:
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition
Lancer
Call of Cthulhu
Traveller (Mongoose, 2nd Ed.)
Tales from the Loop
Dread
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
Board Game Favorites:
Spirit Island
Root
Pandemic
Forgotten Waters
Terraforming Mars
Nemesis
Atlantis Rising
Dune
Sidereal Confluence
I'm Excited For...
HADES 2 I I AM LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS
The new Neverwhere book that Gaiman has mentioned (but forever ago...)
The World We Make, sequel to The City We Became
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (I've yet to see it!)