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Links That Burn - New Website

I've made a new website! Links That Burn is a directory of useful, fun, and/or informative websites. It's available in English and German, and will be available in other languages as I am able to find translators. ----- From the About page: The internet used to be a bunch of links to other places, with cool stuff on each website. Then we spent a couple of decades with search engines that worked, and people stopped needing to know where to find each niche website they were going to only use a couple of times a year. Now things are broken again, and people often don't know where those sites are, or are trying to see if generative AI will do it instead. The truth is, it won't work, or it'll be worse, and either way -- please don't use the plagiarism machine.  Links that Burn is a catalog of niche websites that do one or two things, do them very well, and are easy to use. They're free, they don't make you sign in anywhere to use them, and if they have a pai...

Late September Reviews (2021)

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

For The Wolf by Hannah Whitten (The Wilderwood, #1)

The Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #8, City Watch #1)

Early September Reviews (2021)

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow, #1)

Mort by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #4, Death #1)

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Ailuros by Matt Doyle

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #1, Wizards #1)

Unwind by Neal Shusterman (The Unwind Dystology, #1)

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #1)

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon (The Witch King #1)

The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons (A Chorus of Dragons, #1)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

Late August Reviews (2021)