BlogHide Resteemsmountainwashere (65)in fantasy • 6 years agoEpic Fantasy Lineup: MistbornBrandon Sanderson has a LOT of fantasy books out, but the series I first encountered (and that Sanderson first became really well known for) is the Mistborn series. [Image source] The…mountainwashere (65)in steem • 6 years agoMy Future Steemit PlansThe few of you who read my blog regularly have probably noticed my infrequent posting the last couple months. I'm here to talk a little bit about what's been going on with that, and what my plans…mountainwashere (65)in fantasy • 6 years agoEpic Fantasy Lineup: The Wheel of TimeSorry for the long absence, just got done moving for the first time in over four years. The new place is awesome, but man was that a hassle and a half. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is…mountainwashere (65)in nature • 6 years agoNature Identification Thread #23- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who…mountainwashere (65)in fantasy • 6 years agoEpic Fantasy Lineup: Malazan Book of the FallenThe Malazan Book of the Fallen is easily one of the weirdest- and biggest- of the giant epic fantasy series. There are ten books in the main series, as well as an additional six book side series, a…mountainwashere (65)in fantasy • 6 years agoEpic Fantasy Lineup: Jim Butcher's Codex AleraIt's no secret that I'm a huge sucker for epic fantasy. Part of that is my reading speed- I read really, really fast, so most books are over just way too fast for my taste. A good epic fantasy…mountainwashere (65)in nature • 6 years agoNature Identification Thread #22- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who…mountainwashere (65)in scifi • 6 years agoBook Review: Charles Stross' Laundry Files SeriesCharles Stross' Laundry Files books are my single favorite series of spy thrillers, bar none. They're also my single favorite Lovecraftian horror series, bar none. I don't know what provoked…mountainwashere (65)in geology • 6 years agoUrban Geology Part 1: ManhattanThe character of any city will to a great degree be shaped by its underlying geology. Chicago's even, straight grid is possible thanks to its flat terrain. San Francisco's steep hills underlie much…mountainwashere (65)in natures • 6 years agoNature Identification Thread #21- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who…mountainwashere (65)in science • 6 years agoPhilosophy of Science Part 3: Physics EnvyPart 1 , Part 2 There's a fantastic XKCD comic strip that discusses the relative "purity" of the sciences, ranking them with physics and math on top. And, indeed, in the history of the…mountainwashere (65)in ecology • 6 years agoHow Humanity is Changing the Course of Evolution Part 3: Surviving the Asphalt WastelandPart 1 , Part 2 As heavily as the damage humanity has wrought upon the oceans has changed the course of evolution, the damage on land has done even more to shift the path of evolution. (I…mountainwashere (65)in comics • 6 years agoBook Review: My Friend Dahmer, by Derf BackderfI grew up in a hippy family, so there were always weird left wing newspapers that ran Derf Backderf's comic The City in them. The stiffly drawn (but deceptively difficult) artstyle is immediately…mountainwashere (65)in nature • 6 years agoNature Identification Thread #20- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who…mountainwashere (65)in books • 6 years agoBook Review Double Header: Annals of the Former World & Bretz's FloodJohn Soennichsen's book Bretz's Flood falls into that strange confluence that you often find in better quality histories of geology. It's hard to describe adequately, but it involves an…mountainwashere (65)in books • 6 years agoBook Review: N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth TrilogyN.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is some of the best fantasy I've read in years- and it's also unique in being geological fantasy. Geological science fiction is certainly common enough- Hal…mountainwashere (65)in comics • 6 years agoBook Review: BoneIn terms of sheer number of pages, Jeff Smith's all-ages comic Bone is by far the longest work I've ever recommended on Steemit- and it's more than worth reading all 1332 pages. Bone's won more…resteemeddrwatson (69)in fundition-t2b3d2ijh • 6 years agoIthaqa Steemit RPG Week 2! Last Weeks Winners + This Week's ContestThe results from our first week of Steem Lovecraftian goodness are here, you can check out the results in the comment section of last weeks post. Winners get 1 Steem, and a 100% upvote! So…mountainwashere (65)in nature • 6 years agoNature Identification Thread #19- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who…mountainwashere (65)in geology • 6 years agoThe Mightiest River in All of History: Geology of the Amazon River Basin (repost)Ugh, I know, too many reposts. Life is crazy right now, what can I say? The Amazon river isn't just the biggest river on the Earth- it's the biggest river known throughout the entire geological…
