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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Hinkley Point

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Dave Gullen

F&SF, What’s Going On? - There’s something going on at Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, but what it is isn’t clear. Back in 2018 I sold my first story to F&SF and woot, after 14...
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Charles Payseur

Regular Sip - Understudies by Priya Sridhar (Hireath Publishing) - *Understudies by Priya Sridhar (Hireath Publishing)* In this follow-up to *Offstage Offerings*, The Haunted Basilio Theater is back, and this time it’s (fr...
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Long Pale Road

Get This Bitch Banned - (Content warning: explicit sex acts, threats of violence, homophobic language) We’re fucking roller coasters. We’re emptying our balls on theme parks and i...
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Ruthless Culture

Release of A Traveller in Time – The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller (2023) edited by Nina Allan - I have, in my sweaty little palms, my contributor copy of A Traveller in Time – The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan. The...
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Ethan Robinson

- One of the more peculiar changes Bradbury made when he expanded his novella "The Fireman" into *Fahrenheit 451* was to have Montag choose Ecclesiastes as h...
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JY Yang

Tantric Yoga for Couples: Deepening Connection and Sacred Union - Tantric Yoga, when practiced with a partner, takes on a unique and profound dimension, allowing couples to deepen their connection, cultivate intimacy, a...
1 year ago
June Martin

LOVE/AGGRESSION in early 2024 - My novel of queer community conflict, surreal interior decor, and the terrifying power of total agency or total passivity, is coming out with tRaum Books
1 year ago
Clifton Cachagua

this latest war - last night, to you, for you, i think i referenced a poet on taffeta, & we argued our way into existence. or we argued on mercy, or god, or elegies. or forg...
1 year ago
Rose Lemberg

New poetry book EVERYTHING THAWS is out! + Locus poll - My poetry memoir, EVERYTHING THAWS, is now available from Ben Yehuda Press! This book has been a long time coming, and it contains some of the most persona...
1 year ago
Dave Hutchison

Tales From The Black Sarcophagus: The Small Boats Remix - There’s a lot of compassion in Westminster. I’m sorry, that was a joke. But you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s true from the number of times ‘compassion’ ...
1 year ago
Martin McGrath

LIVING IN A PIGEON-BOMB DEMOCRACY - In WW2 BF Skinner – behaviourism’s big cheese – created a pigeon guided bomb. Skinner built his theories about free will (it didn’t exist) and education (r...
1 year ago
Juliana Rew

Twelve All in Dread collection - My new collection of fantasy short stories from Sophont Press, Twelve All in Dread, is now available in ebook for preorder at amazon.com, with paperback...
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Steven Poore

#SmallPressBigStories: THIS DREAMING ISLE - #SmallPressBigStories presents a new review of THIS DREAMING ISLE, one of Unsung Stories' flagship anthologies!
1 year ago
Alexander Ikawah

FLASH FICTION: THE OLD MAN AT JEVANJEE GARDENS - I had never paid much attention to the old man before that day. Twice or thrice when I had gone to the park to sit and read he had walked slowly by, look...
2 years ago
Mazi Nwonwu

Misleading Videos Fuel Claims of Igbo Disenfranchisement - Inec office, Igbede, Ojo LGA, Lagos State Viral videos suggesting Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) is discriminating against people from...
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L.S. Johnson

gratitude at the end of the year - This has been … a year. There were ups and downs and nothing went the way I thought it would. Sometimes it went better and sometimes it went worse and the ...
2 years ago
Sophie E Tallis

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Maureen K. Speller

Review: Mothlight by Adam Scovell - At the heart of Adam Scovell’s Mothlight (2019) lies a mystery. Why did Phyllis Ewans hate Billie, her sister, so very much? To the extent that when the el...
3 years ago
Dolly Garland

Lost Gods author interview: Anna Smith Spark - I wanted to follow up on our gorgeous Lost Gods anthology, a book of SFF short stories, by interviewing some of the authors (okay, whoever was willing). I ...
3 years ago
Pippa Jay

How Many Years Published? #scifi #paranormal #romance - While I generally mark my publishing anniversary as the 7th May 2012 - being the release date of my debit novel *Keir* with Lyrical Press - it's not str...
3 years ago
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About the Reparations Scholar-Activism of Esther Stanford-Xosei - About me Esther Stanford-Xosei is a jurisconsult (legal specialist in jurisprudence), reparationist, (reparations activist), dynamic community advocate and...
3 years ago
Madeline Ashby

Overt Intelligence: How do I manage a remote writers’ room? - Note: I received this question via the contact form above. If you have questions that you’d like addressed here, post them there! I reserve the right not...
4 years ago
Rantalica

ESFS Awards 2020 - All the winners of tonight’s European Science Fiction Awards are great, but I think this is all I want to put up here tonight, to celebrate the one Croatia...
4 years ago
The 1709 Blog

2019 - THE COPYRIGHT YEAR - *DEAR FRIENDS: The bloggers here at the 1709 Blog have decided that this will be our very last post. We have had great fun blogging through a decade, in s...
4 years ago
Naomi Foyle

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Actually Aisha

Bulletpoints: Good Omens - (Being a slightly extended version of the accurate but not very nice complaints sent to her friends by A. Subramanian, definitely not a witch, who will sto...
5 years ago
AfroCyberPunk

Pandora 360 App - I’m very pleased to announce that the Pandora 360 Android app is finally available to the public on Google Play and Amazon Appstore! The creation of this a...
5 years ago
Susan Gray

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Alix E. Harrow

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From Couch to Moon

Monster Portraits (2018) by Del and Sofia Samatar - “How deformed can something get and still be a story?” Oh, Sofia, you have my heart when you say things like that. Many, many apologies to Rose Metal Press...
6 years ago
Hal Duncan

Website and Mailing List - On the off-chance that anyone has some sorta automated doohickey still keeping an eye out for posts on this blog that's become rather tumbleweed-strewn, to...
6 years ago
Weird Fiction Review

No. 252 Rue M. le Prince - The following story first appeared in architect and author Ralph Adams Cram’s 1895 collection Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories. When in M...
6 years ago
The Fold of the Artist

Heaven Blogs: The End of Rehearsals - This is technically my day off – my last one until September. After two weeks of rehearsal and months of preparation, Heaven Burns is very nearly ready to ...
6 years ago
Carrie Patel

Comicpalooza 2018 - Memorial Day weekend is upon us, which means it's time for Comicpalooza! I'll be in Houston this weekend--what about you? I'll be taking part in the litera...
6 years ago
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We Who Are About To…, Joanna Russ - We Who Are About To…, Joanna Russ (1975) Review by Bart After finishing a book, I usually read up on other reviews and stuff before starting my own. There’...
6 years ago
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Pornokitsch: The Exit Interview - We felt that, if other people weren’t going to take the things we love seriously, then it was up to us to do it.
6 years ago
Will Ellwood

44 Fields - My short story 44 Fields is now available to read at Big Echo. You can read it here. If you are interested I have collected a few thoughts here: The openin...
6 years ago
io9

We May Eventually Find Out How the Battle of New York Changed Peter Parker - The Battle of New York at the end of *The Avengers* is a crucial moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the moment the whole world changed. And wh...
7 years ago
Joanna Walsh

New Website! - As you might have noticed, I haven't posted anything for a year. I have a new website, with up-to-date info etc, here.
7 years ago
Cecily Kane

Us Versus Them, or What Happens When SF Fandom Can’t See Past Its Own Blinders - Recap: a few days ago, Slate published an article by Laura Miller with a few good points and much more numerous flaws. SF/F writer Jason Sanford posted a r...
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Roz Kaveney

Had to be a London poem - LONDON Night in a city that has licked its wounds Two thousand years. And curls around its kits Feeding and grooming heroes cowards wits Lovers and killers....
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Lucy Kemnitzer

The fifth column, whether it knows it or not - There's some really strange posts that get retweeted over and over on Twitter. It's kind of nauseating to watch. I'm going to try to address them all here ...
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This is the end - As I now have a website, and am able to blog there, I feel that having a separate blog is no longer needed and so I'm closing this one. I'll still be revie...
7 years ago
Strange Horizons Reviews

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales - (Spoiler: middle managers don’t fare well in a showdown between super-powered assassins.)
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10 famous authors on their favorite books - This is your blog post. Blogs are a great way to connect with your audience and keep them coming back. They can also be a great way to position yourself as...
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Sofia Samatar

when the sick rule the world - Dodie Bellamy's essays have a muscular force. They are *all muscle*, seamless, shimmering. A Dodie essay is constructed like a snake. A Dodie essay requir...
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Moving to a new site - visit Dive into Worldbuilding, the Blog! - New Blog Address: http://dive-into-worldbuilding.blogspot.com/ Friends, I've now been running Dive into Worldbuilding as a show for five years (!), and f...
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International Reading - I’m often asked, recently, what people should be reading that’s non-American or non-British in SFF. Broad topic! Here are some I’ve loved, though. Most of ...
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Moving house - This is just to let you know that I now have a new website: http://www.kathowardbooks.com/ This blog will stay here, but will no longer be updated. I will ...
8 years ago
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Flawless - a film - So here it is, our short film Flawless. I hope you enjoy it.
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2015 Year in Review, Quiz Edition - 2015 is ending! *runs around like a headless chicken* I can’t really talk about this year yet, since I haven’t given myself the headspace to reflect on thi...
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On the Shoreline of Infinity - I’m having a great time at the moment. Mark Toner (musical and artistical friend for many years) and I have decided that the time is ripe to create a Scien...
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- I am moving to Oxford tomorrow and getting over a bout of pneumonia, and it's *Person of Interest* that has left me feeling NOT OKAY. Noooooooo. Crosspost...
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Flying Higher: An Anthology of Superhero Poetry Is Available! - Originally posted by *michaeldthomas* at Flying Higher: An Anthology of Superhero Poetry Is Available! As many of you know, *shadesong* and I have been put...
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