Experiments in Madness

Five books new to me: 4 novels, 1 collection, 3.5 fantasies, 1 horror, 0.5 science fiction (The collection has both fantasy and SF). 1 is explicitly part of a series, 3 are not, and that question seems inapplicable to the collection.

Books Received, May 24 to May 30

Corporal Russell Gary wakes to discover that he is one of a handful of survivors of a biological attack on eastern America... and that there is no place in western America for survivors like Gary.

The Long Loud Silence By Wilson Tucker

22 works reviewed. 12 by women (55%), 9 by men (41%), 0 by non-binary authors (0%), 1 by authors whose gender is unknown (5%), and 9 by POC (41%)... and I really need to redo how I track incoming books.

More details here.

Books received will be tonight. Long shift I have to get to.

One of my vows running Fabula Ultima was suppress my control freak tendencies, which is why while my master PC chart lists names, core stats, figured stats, defensive stats, classes and which class abilities each PCs, it does not detail what each ability does, nor does it list spells.
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All I need to do to restore them is to "cd into ~/.maildir" to pick a snapshot. In this context, what does that mean? Online search is not helpful.

OK, further explanation followed:

"You may well have deleted the *contents* of your inbox, but the inbox
itself is still there, as is that link in your home directory. So
(from your home directory):

cd .maildir
snapshot

look at the timestamps and pick the most recent one pre-deletion.

Inbox messages will be in the directory 'cur' once you are in a
snapshot. You can copy the files into ~/.maildir/cur (or
/users/jdnicoll/.maildir/cur"

Ok, so the literal command is
cd .maildir
snapshot

NOT
cd .maildir
and then
snapshot

This gets me a list of snapshots.

if I pick one, I get

Changing directory to /net/mail/spool/panix/7/.zfs/snapshot/2025-05-28-2000.hourly/3/jdnicoll@panix.com

What do I do next?

The complete Deluxe Editions of Worlds Without Number and Stars Without Number, along with Wolves of God, Silent Legions, and more.

Bundle of Holding: Sine Nomine Corebooks (from 2023)

Lonely Rita has no end of meet-cutes with hunky men. If only Rita could stop shooting them in the head...

Kindergarten Wars, volume 1 by You Chiba

A flamboyant thief fulfills a seemingly minor commission and wins the attention of an alarming number of patriots from two empires.

The Crown Jewels (Divertimenti, volume 1) by Walter Jon Williams

1998! The Good Friday Agreement gives Tories something new to undermine, Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Enoch Powell makes his greatest contribution to Britain by dying, and Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent paper puts him in the running with Thomas Midgley Jr. for single individual who did the most to undermine public health.



Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it

Which 1998 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Days by James Lovegrove
Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper
Titan by Stephen Baxter

A time-displaced cop struggles to protect history and the glorious revolution from a time-displaced psychopath, as well as from the cop's own better nature.

Night Watch (Discworld, volume 29/City Watch, volume 6) by Terry Pratchett