2 Greys & an Aloy
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, by Walter Mosley.
I guess Apple made a miniseries with Sam Jackson in the lead role.
It's something of a Flowers for Algernon story. Ptolemy Grey is a 90-something black man in Los Angeles. He's getting very senile, but he dimly grasps he has something he has to take care of. His family and the neighborhood thugs take advantage of him, and he's virtually a shut-in. Two things radically change his life -- a young woman that begins to take care of him and an experimental treatment that will reverse his mental decline -- until it kills him. Definitely some really good writing to establish his hazy existence at the beginning, and slowly awakening and becoming more competent as the drug takes effect.
The Harp of the Grey Rose, by Charles de Lint.
An early novel from de Lint, from before the urban fantasy he's justly famous for. But even here, there's a hint of that. If the city dwellers in Newford find things a bit more magical than they expected, the main character in this finds there's a bit more fantasy than he expected in his fantasy world. A little jumbled, and the obligatory Tolkien nod that stands out like a sore thumb, but enjoyable.
Horizon Forbidden West
I enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn quite a bit, so I was excited about the sequel. They did a great job on this, keeping the feel pretty similar, but giving us a whole new Southwest to play in, including post-whoops Vegas and SF, and some other wrinkles. I think the first one had a better overall story and mystery to it, but I can see how it would be hard to graft a whole new even better story on to that, so I'll settle for the adequate one they provided. Not sure if this is a plus or minus, but for my tastes there were maybe too many new weapons and weapon types and ammo types. And they were all harder to upgrade (it seemed). But I do like the jai alai thingy. That at least was fun to use.
I guess Apple made a miniseries with Sam Jackson in the lead role.
It's something of a Flowers for Algernon story. Ptolemy Grey is a 90-something black man in Los Angeles. He's getting very senile, but he dimly grasps he has something he has to take care of. His family and the neighborhood thugs take advantage of him, and he's virtually a shut-in. Two things radically change his life -- a young woman that begins to take care of him and an experimental treatment that will reverse his mental decline -- until it kills him. Definitely some really good writing to establish his hazy existence at the beginning, and slowly awakening and becoming more competent as the drug takes effect.
The Harp of the Grey Rose, by Charles de Lint.
An early novel from de Lint, from before the urban fantasy he's justly famous for. But even here, there's a hint of that. If the city dwellers in Newford find things a bit more magical than they expected, the main character in this finds there's a bit more fantasy than he expected in his fantasy world. A little jumbled, and the obligatory Tolkien nod that stands out like a sore thumb, but enjoyable.
Horizon Forbidden West
I enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn quite a bit, so I was excited about the sequel. They did a great job on this, keeping the feel pretty similar, but giving us a whole new Southwest to play in, including post-whoops Vegas and SF, and some other wrinkles. I think the first one had a better overall story and mystery to it, but I can see how it would be hard to graft a whole new even better story on to that, so I'll settle for the adequate one they provided. Not sure if this is a plus or minus, but for my tastes there were maybe too many new weapons and weapon types and ammo types. And they were all harder to upgrade (it seemed). But I do like the jai alai thingy. That at least was fun to use.