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Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising (Amazon) takes us back to the mid 1980s. America and the Soviet Union are the world’s only superpowers. Their respective alliances – NATO and the Warsaw Pact – have been engaged in a Cold War for decades. Neither is quite crazy enough to launch an all out nuclear war (at … Read more
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Zork – Ready Player One Video Game Replay
Developed at MIT between 1977 and 1979, Zork is the quintessential interactive fiction adventure game. Descended from the earlier Colossal Cave Adventure (the game I’m actually much more familiar with), it started players at a simple White House in the woods and invited them to explore an expansive underground empire. I played the M.I.T. release for this … Read more
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Sins of Our Fathers
The Expanse novels and novellas were part of my summer reading list for years. The nine book series initially takes place our own star system, with a focus on the stellar political situation. Earth rules the star system, but martial-oriented (and slowly terraforming) Mars is a powerful countervaling force that seeks to usurp Earth’s position. … Read more
Eclipse 2024
Burlington, VT was one of the best places to see 2024’s eclipse, and I was there, watching the sky turn dark with my daughter and son. Read the post.
Summer Reading 2024
Nuketown’s 17th Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Summer Reading List is underway!
Project: Ready Player One Replay
The Ready Player One Replay is an ongoing exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Love it or hate it, there’s value in revisiting our geeky roots.
- Zork – Ready Player One Video Game Replay
- Dig Dug – Ready Player One Video Game Replay
- Pac-Man – Ready Player One Video Game Replay
Column: Game Day
Nuketown’s Game Day columns focus on running and playing in RPG campaigns, from prep to execution to reflection.
- Farewell to Google Jamboard
- Entering the Matrix of Cyberpunk RED Campaigns
- Meet Ben Bouchard, Spooky Hunter for Monster of the Week
Radiation Cloud
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