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March 1st-7th The Last Philosopher: Part One ebook will be free on Smashwords 😊

I know I've handed out a free link before but this is free where it would normally cost 99 cents so that's somehow better 😜😁

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1928619

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Fan made moving cover of The Last Philosopher.

The Last Philosopher, an epic fantasy has mastered all of the essentials of the genre. The worldbuilding is incredible. And might I say I was very excited to see maps included in the chapters. Our world is important as it shapes not only the plot but the characters as well. I get the sense that in this first installment we are getting the tip of the massive iceberg behind the world of Huom. Something that you did incredibly well with was your characterization. Your characterization in this story was absolutely incredible. You showed us stellar characterization through actions and the inner thoughts of the characters themselves. Overall, this was a refreshing unique take on fantasy! A very engaging read. The pacing is a little slow but the pay-off and reward is so worth it in the end. And the plot has so much potential going forward. There is so much clever wit in this story as well which | thoroughly enjoyed! Nothing like some good old cynicism and humor!

Wonderful to see that a Standard Ebooks edition of Mary Butts’ brilliant but somewhat neglected modernist novel Armed With Madness has been released today.

@bookstodon

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mary-butts/armed-with-madness

For my birthday I got a colour e-reader (Kobo Libra Colour). The obvious 1st book to read was The Neverending Story with its two colour text, red for our world green for Fantastica. But there don’t seem to be any ebooks recreating those original editions, they just use italic text. And all the illustrations are awful quality black and white.
Challenge accepted.
I’ve edited the text to be multi colour, and scanned illustrations from my old paper copy!

Photo of an ebook reader showing text. The top half of the page recounting Bastion reading “The Neverending Story” in red text. The bottom half in green text being the text Bastion is reading - describing the adventures of Atreyu.
A photo of an ebook reader. The displayed page is an illustrated chapter heading. Chapter 4 from The Neverending Story. A large stylised letter ‘D’ with a large spider climbing through it to reach the sinuous luck dragon underneath it. The letter is dark green and the rest of the illustration is red.

Do we have any extremely long running, serialized written space scifi in english? Sort of like how germany has Perry Rhodan?

Not like "The Foundation & Robot Books by Asimov make a long ass timeline of a couple of dozen books"

AND not-like "There are a lot of star trek/star wars novels."

But SciFi stories that are long running across decades, highly serialized, and sometimes multi-author. WHERE the primary continuity is the bound dead trees, and their not media tie-ins to TV or film ?

The closest ive seen is some planetary romance stuff like Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom (which is far far shorter.) AND the Dray Prescot books which ALSO happen to german originally interestingly enough, but more available to english speakers.

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6 Jan: If your antagonist played video games what would be their favorite kind?

Sir Renscel would love some type of medieval battle game with a lot of fighting--and where he'd always win.

Bonus if his slayings involved a fair amount of blood.

Project Gutenberg News - Jan. 2026

—Enjoy these eBooks. Share them. Celebrate them.—

New Executive Director announced; 2025 milestones reached; Public Domain Day 2026 celebrated with more eBooks released; legal updates on eBook lending; The Digital Renaissance of the Public Domain; December's top 10 downloads shared.

https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/

Personal Note, January 1 2026: I have a new job: Executive Director of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Here's what I wrote for PG's January Newsletter.

https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-job-project-gutenberg.html?m=1