Preparedness for when

Karmacat

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Anybody read fan fiction?

I used to read lots and lots and lots of Stargate SG1 fanfic, there are some amazing writers out there, some of them very funny too.

http://betacandy-sgfic.livejournal.com/503.html this is a link to all her stories - some very short, some almost novel length, spread throughout nearly all the seasons and before the seasons as well.

thriftwizard

I'm a Pratchett fan, also of Katherine Kerr & Robin Hobb, but also CJ Cherryh's books, the Foreigner series in particular. Interested to see some more "names" to try...

GreyQueen

Oh, I love Cherryh, too, esp the Foreigner series. All her stuff is brilliant.

If you haven't read Sheri S Tepper's books, I'd recommend them to anybody.

ETA And Juliet E McKenna is very good, too.

armyknife

The works of Brian Aldiss are worth sampling, I'd recommend the Helliconia trilogy.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

If you haven't read Sheri S Tepper's books, I'd recommend them to anybody.

I'd second the Tepper recommendation, Gateway to Women's Country is my favourite standalone of hers.

armyknife wrote: »

The works of Brian Aldiss are worth sampling, I'd recommend the Helliconia trilogy.

I'd disagree, though I've friends who love them, they don't work for me (nor does Gormenghast which the same friends recommend).

Charles de Lint, fantasy skilfully woven into a "real world" setting.
Glen Cook's The Black Company
Kris Rusch, as Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Fantasy Particularly The Fey) as Kris Nelscott (Smokey Dalton, Private Eye mysteries)
Kelly Armstrong - Women of the Otherworld
Jim Butcher
Raymond E Feist

among others.

mardatha

I'm more into paranormal and spooky, I love Graham Masterton and F Paul Wilson. I'll be ok when the lights go out because I don't have a kindle or anything like it, just a huge cupboard packed full of real books. Knowing how to deal with a reincarnated red indian demon is going to be dead handy when the SHTF.

jk0

Finally! I've been chasing this rodent since before Christmas.

Opening my kitchen cupboard bin today I heard a clonk, and low and behold I've caught him. He's about the size of a gerbil, so maybe a rat rather than a mouse.

The poor thing is still alive though disabled, so I'm waiting for him to shuffle off his mortal coil before I put him in the bin.

Any thoughts? Should I still put the traps back for his family?

ivyleaf

Glad you finally caught him jk0 - no thoughts as to whether you should put the traps back though....hope he dies quickly. We had mice once and used old-fashioned traps ("The Little Nipper"), never any problems until the day we found a mouse caught in a trap by what in a person would be its pelvis, and still alive OH had to finish it off.

Re fantasy fiction - I recall many years ago reading a book with a
monstrous creature in it called Sthloo The Unspeakable. Well, you try saying it. At the time it seemed a reasonable name (I was much younger then) but now I reckon the author was having a laugh

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jk0 wrote: »

The poor thing is still alive though disabled, so I'm waiting for him to shuffle off his mortal coil before I put him in the bin.

Don't you think it'd be kinder, to finish him off now?

jk0

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Don't you think it'd be kinder, to finish him off now?

It's a bit of an awkward place to get a 'swing' at him.

I just impaled him with an old immersion heater thermostat, and put him in the bin bag full of the carrot peelings he craves.