More Posts By Lotte
Review: Kodama – ActionPhase Games
Kodama is a card game where you take care of a tree by placing cards to grow its branches. By choosing cards with the right symbols, you collect points over three growing seasons. At the end of each season, one of the Kodama (tree spirits) will award you extra points based on how well you have chosen your cards to suit its needs.
October Update – 2021
An update of everything we’ve done in October 2021
Review: Dune: Part One – Denis Villeneuve
In Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert, Paul, heir of House Atreides, and his family receive orders to take control of the planet Arrakis, the rich desert world that produces the spice that allows for interstellar traffic, and take control of the fief from their arch-enemies, the Harkonnens.
Review: Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
The House in which Piranesi resides consists of innumerable halls whose walls are lined with thousands of statues. The tides sweep through these halls in a pattern only Piranesi can decipher. While he has forgotten many things, he knows this: the Beauty of the House is immeasurable, it’s Kindness infinite.
Curator Question: Mentor Characters
Our curators discuss some of their favourite Mentor characters from Science Fiction and Fantasy media.
Review: Howl’s Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki
Young hatmaker Sophie is cursed by an evil witch, and, being unable to speak of her curse because of the magic, finds work in the home of a mysterious wizard in the hope that he will someday be able to lift the spell.
Review: The Unsleeping City – Dimension 20
In this Dungeons and Dragons webseries by Dimension 20, the city that never sleeps is home to more than just cockroaches and rats. In the Unsleeping City, magical creatures abound, hidden from view of average New Yorkers. The story follows a small group of people who can see the magical elements of the city, and the conflicts that arise because of them.
Recommendation: Light-hearted Fantasy (for lovers of Terry Pratchett)
Looking for some light-hearted fantasy? See what our curator Lotte recommends!
Curator Question: Books, books, books
Our curators discuss what they like best: reading eBooks, paperbacks or hardcovers, or listening to audiobooks?
Review: Welcome to Night Vale – Night Vale Presents
Twice-monthly radio host Cecil gives community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, the place ‘where every conspiracy theory is true’.
Review: Bioshock – 2K Games
Review: The once magnificent Underwater City of Rapture is deserted, and as you make your way through its dangerous corridors, you slowly discover what happened to what was once Andrew Ryan’s Utopia.
Review: Sweet Tooth – Netflix
Ten years ago, a deadly virus spread through the world while pregnant women suddenly gave birth to hybrid babies, part human, part animal. Gus is one of the first of these hybrids, who, because of his sheltered life, is blissfully unaware of the brokenness of the world.