Sabrina Sheridan's personal blog about the science fiction and fantasy novels she's reading and the board games taking over her dining room table, plus the occasional detour into everything else.https://sabrinasspace.net/en-UShttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/a-game-of-thrones/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/a-game-of-thrones/I held out against the hype for years out of pure contrarian stubbornness, and I was wrong to.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTA Game of ThronesSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/cthulhu-death-may-die/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/cthulhu-death-may-die/People who don't like this call it Zombicide in Lovecraft sauce, and honestly, yeah, and I don't see the problem.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTCthulhu: Death May DieSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/clank-a-deck-building-adventure/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/clank-a-deck-building-adventure/The cube bag is doing more emotional work than any component has a right to, and I mean that as praise.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTClank!Sabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/mage-knight-board-game/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/mage-knight-board-game/The one game on my shelf that got better every single time I failed to understand it, which is not a sentence I get to write often.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMage Knight Board GameSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/are-we-smart-enough-to-know-how-smart-animals-are/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/are-we-smart-enough-to-know-how-smart-animals-are/Not my usual shelf, but a good nonfiction read earns a slot next to the novels, and this one earned it despite repeating itself more than it needed to.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAre We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals AreSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-raccoon-who-ruined-my-turn-order/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-raccoon-who-ruined-my-turn-order/I came home from a bad shift at the clinic and tried to plan a perfect Mage Knight turn instead of dealing with any of it, and it did not work the way I wanted.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-handmaids-tale/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-handmaids-tale/I read this specifically before letting myself watch a single episode of the show, and I'm glad I did it in that order.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Handmaid's TaleSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/android-netrunner/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/android-netrunner/The best two player card game I own, and also the one I'm the saddest about, because the community around it basically doesn't exist anymore.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAndroid: NetrunnerSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-owl-that-wouldnt-eat/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-owl-that-wouldnt-eat/Three days of a barred owl refusing every single thing we offered it, and then it just decided to, and nobody can tell me exactly why.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/what-the-blue-ridge-fog-does-to-a-tuesday/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/what-the-blue-ridge-fog-does-to-a-tuesday/The mountains here hide the whole town for an hour some mornings, and I've stopped minding the drive it adds.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/poetics-of-relation/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/poetics-of-relation/The odd one out on my shelf this month, dense theory instead of a story, and I'm still not sure I got everything out of it in one pass.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPoetics of RelationSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/oathsworn-into-the-deepwood/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/oathsworn-into-the-deepwood/Everyone compares this to Gloomhaven and everyone is a little bit right and a little bit missing the point.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTOathsworn: Into the DeepwoodSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/i-was-wrong-about-solo-games/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/i-was-wrong-about-solo-games/I said for years that playing a board game alone defeated the point of owning one, and a cramped airplane seat proved me wrong.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/why-i-will-always-buy-the-aftermarket-insert/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/why-i-will-always-buy-the-aftermarket-insert/Somebody asked me why I'd spend thirty dollars on plastic trays for a game that already came in a box, and I didn't have a short answer.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/teaching-mara-mage-knight-went-badly/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/teaching-mara-mage-knight-went-badly/I love this game enough that I forgot the first rule of teaching anyone anything, which is that your own love for it is not a rulebook.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-reading-log-in-a-composition-notebook/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-reading-log-in-a-composition-notebook/I tried three different apps before giving up and buying a dollar-store notebook, and the notebook has outlasted all of them.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/twilight-imperium-fourth-edition/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/twilight-imperium-fourth-edition/A galaxy-sized game that earns its runtime about two times out of three, and I have made my peace with which two.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTwilight Imperium (Fourth Edition)Sabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/forbidden-stars/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/forbidden-stars/The Twilight Imperium itch, scratched in a fraction of the time, with a warp storm mechanic I think about more than a game this small has any right to make me think about.Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTForbidden StarsSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/mistborn/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/mistborn/Best prologue I've read in years, and a magic system I still catch myself explaining to people who never asked.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTMistbornSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-night-the-power-went-out-during-twilight-imperium/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-night-the-power-went-out-during-twilight-imperium/Five hours into a six player game, the storm outside finally won, and we kept playing anyway by phone flashlight for reasons I still can't fully justify.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/arkham-horror-the-card-game/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/arkham-horror-the-card-game/Great game, genuinely predatory box, and I say that having bought a second core set within a month of the first.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTArkham Horror: The Card GameSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/gloomhaven-buttons-and-bugs/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/gloomhaven-buttons-and-bugs/A whole Gloomhaven crammed into a box the size of a deck of cards, and the table sprawl once it's open does not know it's supposed to be small.Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTGloomhaven: Buttons & BugsSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/star-realms/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/star-realms/Tight, quick, deep deckbuilder, the way it's supposed to work, and it fits in a coat pocket.Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTStar RealmsSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/two-player-only-no-exceptions/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/two-player-only-no-exceptions/I have a specific shelf, mentally if not physically, for games that only earn their keep at two, and I will defend the existence of that shelf to anyone.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/cloud-atlas/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/cloud-atlas/Six nested stories cut in half like Russian dolls, and I would have bounced off it completely if I hadn't already loved the movie first.Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTCloud AtlasSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-reality-dysfunction/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-reality-dysfunction/Bought as an airport book by weight, more or less, and it earned its price per kilo even where it didn't earn its page count.Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe Reality DysfunctionSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-trial/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-trial/Unfinished, untranslatable in places, and I still think about the doorkeeper parable more than almost anything else I read this year.Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe TrialSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/Watched Blade Runner a dozen times before finally reading the book it borrowed almost nothing from except the good parts.Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTDo Androids Dream of Electric SheepSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-gods-themselves/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/the-gods-themselves/The middle third, told entirely from inside an alien species I still think about, is doing more work than the human halves on either side of it.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe Gods ThemselvesSabrina Sheridanhttps://sabrinasspace.net/articles/why-i-started-reading-on-lunch-again/https://sabrinasspace.net/articles/why-i-started-reading-on-lunch-again/I gave up my lunch break book habit for almost a year without noticing I'd done it, and getting it back took more effort than I expected.Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTpersonal_essaySabrina Sheridan