Recent Viewing
Jason and the Argonauts, 2000; directed by Nick Willing, written by Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet. Not a complete waste.
Minotaur, 2005; Directed by Jonathan English, Written by Nick Green and Stephen McDool. Disappointing.
Lacking Natural Simplicity
Random musings on books, code, and tabletop games.
Recent Reading
Solstice Wood, by Patrickia A. McKillip, copyright 2006, Ace Books/the Berkley Publishing Group/the Penguin Group/Pengiun Group (USA) Inc, February 2006. Good.
The Twylight Tower, by Karen Harper; Delacorte Press/Random House Inc, March 2001.
Recent Reading
Maeve, by Jo Clayton
The Fatal Fashione, by Karen Harper; Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur/St. Martin's Press, January 2006. Using historical persons as main characters is always chancy, and using them as main viewpoint charactacters even more so, but in this series it seems to work ok, as far as my limited knowledge can tell.
Recent Reading
Diadem from the Stars, by Jo Clayton
Recent Reading
A Walk Out Of The World, by Ruth Nichols, copyright 1969; first published by Harcourt, Brace & World; Ace Fantasy/The Berkley Publishing Group, February 1986. A slight but interesting book from my childhood. Oddly grim.
RPG Sales; Recent Reading
Wednesday, 18 January 2006
RPG Sales down in 2005
Or so John Nephew says.
Mike Mearls had also reflected on the year.
Recent Reading
Silverheart, A Novel of the Multiverse, by Michael Moorcock and Storm Constantine; copyright 2005 by Michael Moorcock and Storm Constantine; Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2005.
RPGs and author compensation
More interesting statistics about author compensation in the rpg industry, along with sales figures from some Indie RPG game publishers.
Recent Reading
A Feast For Crows, Book Four of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin; A Bantam Spectra Book/Bantam Dell/Random House, Inc., November 2005. Good, but depressing.
Recent Reading
The Far Side of the Stars, by David Drake; Baen Books/Baen Publishing Enterprises, October 2003.
Dragon Hunter, by Charles Gallenkamp, copyright 2001; Penguin Books, 2002. A very interesting biography of Roy Chapman Andrews, the explorer and leader of the Central Asiatic Expeditions of 1922 to 1930.
East of Midnight, by Tanith Lee, copyright 1977; St. Martin's Press, 1978. An early Sword & Sorcery novel by Lee.
Subterranean, by James Rollins, copyright 1999 by Jim Czajkowski; Avon Books, Inc, June 1999.
Chicken and MinGW
To get Chicken version 2.207 to compile with MinGW I had to change the line in configure that read
mingw_libdir=`mingw32-gcc -print-prog-name=ld | sed 's%/lib/gcc-lib/.*%/lib%'`
with
mingw_libdir=`mingw32-gcc -print-prog-name=ld | sed 's%/lib/gcc/.*%/lib%'`
and copy posixwin.c over posix.c and uposixwin.c over
uposix.c.