give up & make strange new friends in the decaying city of moth hovel
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Tsutomu Nihei: Blame! (1)
Tsutomu Nihei. Blame! Master Edition 3. 2017. 314-315.
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Umberto Eco: “Images for Aliens” (1995 [1993])
Perhaps the most discomforting document for the future of the language of images is the report drawn up in 1984 by Thomas A. Sebeok (Sebeok 1984). He had been commissioned by the Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation and by a group of other institutions to elaborate answers to a question posed by the US Nuclear…
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Nancy A. Collins: Sunglasses After Dark (1989)
Stylishly dated, somewhat slight vampire fiction from the late 1980s. After ‘Salem’s Lot (1975), Interview with a Vampire (1976), The Delicate Dependency (1982), and Fevre Dream (1982) but before Lucius Shepard’s The Golden (1993). Unfortunately, Sunglasses After Dark isn’t comparable to any of these other, better novels. So, what does it have to offer (other…
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Ian Watson: The Jonah Kit (1975)
Dense sci-fi from the lost age of Big Ideas. An astrophysicist named Hammond makes a disturbing discovery (or is it just a premature hypothesis?) about the origin of the universe. The idea goes like this: Our universe is a decaying echo of the Big Bang. The “real” universe (whatever this means, exactly) popped into existence…
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Frank Herbert: Under Pressure (1955)
Ramsey is a military psychoanalyst assigned to the Fenian Ram, a small submarine tasked with the dangerous job of surreptitiously extracting oil from enemy territory. He’s been assigned to determine why so many submariners have been having breakdowns. Much of the novel involves jargonistic descriptions of submarine operations; the characters are largely cut-outs and mouthpieces.…
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Neanderthal Warband: Bonecarver Mob (28mm)
Despite their ferocious appearance and reputation, the Neanderthals of the Bonecarver Mob spend a great deal of time caring for each another, a necessity in the harsh times of the Pleistocene. Each individual bears signs of recovery from episodes of tremendous physical damage, likely incurred during dangerous hunts or in sporadic clashes with other groups…
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Moth Hovel pamphlets at Exalted Funeral
I’m delighted to announce that Visit the Weird Decaying City of Moth Hovel and Visit the Wild Decaying Island of Bermoothes are now available in print editions exclusively from Exalted Funeral. (You can still pick the PWYW PDFs up from our itch.io, along with bonus digital hex art.) Visit the Weird Decaying City of Moth…
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Willem A. DeVries on Wilfrid Sellars (1)
Readers of [Wilfrid] Sellars’s articles sometimes feel frustrated because, after working through a difficult and complex essay, they cannot identify a clear-cut argument to be found in the essay supporting well-articulated claims. Often his articles are not aimed at providing a set of arguments to establish some thesis, supplemented by another set of arguments aimed…
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RPG Theory: Moth Hovel Manifesto (v1)
Playing a roleplaying game is fundamentally an exercise in design. As players (both DMs and others) make decisions at every level of granularity, they are engaging in collaborative design practices continually throughout the course of play. Effectively, they are designing the experience (i.e., the game, the session) every time they contribute or participate. On the…
NIGHT IS ALSO A SUN – BATAILLE
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