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Work for a university in Sydney, Australia (but not that one.)

Interested in books, film, (mostly horror, crime and fantastiqa) but main hobby is board gaming.

Not an actor but have played on TV

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TootTropiques , to bookstodon group
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"We tend to forget that there are people who are simply after money and power, and they have no psychological complications at all."

--Len Deighton, The IPCRESS File

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@jancampbellcady @TootTropiques @bookstodon

There's Mick Herron's Slough House novels (adapted by Apple TV into Slow Horses.)

https://www.mickherronbooks.com/slough-house-series

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@jancampbellcady @TootTropiques @bookstodon

I'll keep an eye out - it seems to be a genre that's fallen into negligence.

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@jancampbellcady @TootTropiques @bookstodon If you don't mind elements of SF/Fantasy - Dave Hutchinson's Fractured Europe quartet is very good.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/179056-the-fractured-europe-sequence

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Dear @bookstodon

I would like recommendations for books where the main character is a mild villain dealing with much worse villains and is telling the story as they go. Fantasy and Scifi are always comforting genres but I venture out for the right books.

I would also like books where men and women are doing things and are friends without a romance being shoe-horned in. But I concede I might as well be asking for a pony at this point.

Thanks for any help and or boosts!

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@Homebrewandhacking @bookstodon I think the Modesty Blaise books fit here. Modesty is, in effect, a retired supervillain who out of boredom starts working for British intelligence. And Modesty and Willie Garvin (her offsider) have one of the all time great platonic relationships.

But they are very dated.

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Now watching Amy Heckerling's Vamps (2012) on Starz. It's super silly (which is what I need atm) & has a stacked cast, including Baby Dan Stevens(!) 😍

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@ElizabethLeeCo @horror Might have to seek it out. Great cast (and Amy Heckerling's one of the great comedy directors.)

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Hey hey, !

What retro and classic have you played or thought about lately?

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@thoughtpunks Played Kings and Things (old Tom Wham game published by Games Workshop when they did things other than Warhammer.)

I lost miserably but the game still has its charm.

shauna , to bookstodon group
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I'm looking for recommendations for books set in the tech industry. I'm interested in any genre (except, like, kids books, but why would you have middle grade fiction or a picture book set in the tech industry) and am open to wide definitions of tech. Like, a book about an uber driver counts, a book about a Silicon Valley venture capitalist counts, a book about a programmer at a mid-sized firm in Ohio counts.

Thank you in advance!

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@shauna @bookstodon Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Anything by Po Brosnan.

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