POSTED ON BEHALF OF TIMOTHY COLLINSON (his mail server and SimpleLists are
going through one of their occasional lovers' spats and won't talk to each
other)

Hi there,

Third time of sending.  TML refusing this one for some reason.  (And there
was me thinking it had settled down with regard to my posts... <sigh>)

I'm just over halfway through _Alien: Cult_ by Gavin G. Smith (Titan,
2025).  That is, 250 pages into 400.

So far so good, but having not finished it I can't particularly recommend
it one way or the other as yet.  (I'm thoroughly enjoying though).

However, I *can* say that thus far it's been a brilliant Traveller read
with descriptions/locations/characters that could easily feed a Referee's
game particularly if they were doing a bladerunneresque police
investigation.  The location we're in at present also has shades of Firefly
with its frontier and slightly western feeling - but suitably damp and
muddy for a darker feel.

So far no actual aliens [1] (spoilery footnote, scroll down) - but this
isn't a fault in my opinion as I read these books (I have at least half a
dozen if not more now) not so much for the alien gore etc but the kind of
mid-tech Traveller feel to a lot of it.

Would also work very well, of course, for Hostile settings if you're that
way inclined.

HTH

tc

Oh, and while I'm here, this is free on Amazon for a day or three (in the
UK at least, no idea about elsewhere) if you want something that looks like
it might be useful for psionics.  Not read it so I can't say.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thought-Readers-Mind-Dimensions-Book-ebook/dp/B00N37BF1A

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