Ye gads, this brings me a ton of sadness as someone who've only briefly interacted with you both over the years, I can't imagine how it feels to be on the inside. My greatest condolences.

Yeah, given road quality it's like an hour to the nearest hospital by car.

I basically gave up on life in the first five minutes of Black Widow when they did the plaintive breathy version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

I've enjoyed the rest of that pair of trilogies so the priors are looking good!

Oh shit, I'd entirely missed that book three came out (and I've been very out of the loop on new genre fiction in general). Time to shop, I guess.

It's going to be a wild few years of an absolutely unusable internet while the CEOs realize that trying to mug every user at every level while also having AI generate all their content isn't 100% feasible.