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Caitlín R. Kiernan

Day 143 (2025 A.D.) - Mostly sunny today. Our high was 81F. Today I did 1,069 words on "The Visitor, the Brightness, and Glory," after cutting about 2,000 words from the story. ...
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Nick Hubble

Road from Glasgow 2024 to PictCon 1: Naomi Mitchison’s We Have Been Warned (1935) - #WomenWritersSFF #CriticismForInterestingTimes #InterwarNovelsAsSFF (Index) Introduction: In 2012, We Have Been Warned was reissued as a paperback as part ...
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Jack Deighton

Poor Tom by Edwin Muir - Paul Harris Publishing, 1982, 253 p, plus vi p Introduction by P H Butter. First published in 1932. Edwin Muir is better known as a poet but he wrote three...
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SJ Higbee

Castellan the Black and his Wise Draconic Tips on Life #BrainfluffCastellanthe Black #WiseDraconicTipsonLife #PickyEaters - These days, dragons regularly encounter sentient species that for various reasons we can’t eat. Apparently, we have a reputation amongst such species for b...
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Rosie Oliver

SF Publishing Industry As It Stands Now - Like all science fiction writers who want to be published by expert publishers, I keep half an eye on the industry. The last time I went into a bit more de...
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Ian Sales

The Scarpetta Factor, Patricia Cornwell - The last few books in this series seem to have followed a formula, although not the same formula as the first half dozen or so books in the series. I mean,...
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Adam Whitehead

WHEEL OF TIME TV series cancelled after three seasons - Amazon has decided not to proceed with a fourth season of its fantasy adaptation, *The Wheel of Time*. The decision came after significant deliberations ...
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nerds of a feather

Film Review: The King Tide - *What if we were really nice to the kid in Omelas?* Life has proceeded uneventfully on a secluded island of fishermen, somewhere in Canada, for many gene...
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Kitty G

Reindeer People Duology | Review -
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Jonathan Strahan

Episode 678: Nearly 15 years of rambling… - This week it’s just Jonathan and Gary again, in what some listeners might view as an either a classic ramble or a series of rabbit holes from which we neve...
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Charles Stross + friends

Brief Update - The reason(s) for the long silence here: I've been attacked by an unscheduled novel, which is now nearly 40% written (in first draft). Then that was pre-em...
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Joyce Chng

The missing stairs are now a slide – and a gaping hole - The missing stairs in sff*… It’s totally a slide by now. Good grief, we need to confront the creeps and their behaviour without going into paroxysms of ang...
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Marissa Lingen

Books read, early May - Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki, trans., The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume). This is brief but...
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Mary Robinette Kowal

My Favorite Bit: Anson Joaquin talks about DEMON GATE - Anson Joaquin is joining us today to talk about his novel, Infernal Age: Demon Gate. Here’s the publisher’s description: The end of technology and maybe of...
1 week ago
Carlie St. George

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 - So, a couple of months ago, I got some truly excellent news: my story “The Weight of Your Own Ashes” (first published in Clarkesworld, May 2024) was select...
1 week ago
Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Reviews: THE ZEUS CONSTANT and FLOWER OF THE UNDERWORLD - With the caveats that both are set in my and Devi Lacroix’s Gunmetal Olympus series, I feel that Flower of the Underworld can be read nearly as a standalon...
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Damien G. Walter

What are you rebelling against, Andor? - Shop the PKD Made Me Do It collection - https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com Socialism and Fascism thoughts on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter...
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Peter Watts

It Awaits Your Experiments. - You may have heard of Christian Bök. You may have read about him on this very blog if you’ve been hanging out here long enough. Perhaps you were even one o...
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Vajra Chandrasekera

RAKESFALL is an Otherwise Award winner and Locus Best Science Fiction Novel finalist - Rakesfall has won the Otherwise Award (formerly known as the Tiptree) which now awards multiple winners per year: Rakesfall is one of four, alongside Emet ...
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Mary Catelli

meanwhile - Guns of the Timberland the ways of the wood A blessed Divine Mercy Sunday! There's a wideness in God's mercy vignettes Cool Stuff Theory of Literature ah, d...
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Lauren Beukes

Imagined Futures at AI UK -
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K.J. Bishop

Imagination II at Cascade Gallery - From Thursday 8 May – Sunday 1st June 2025 my new pieces will be in the Imagination II exhibition at Cascade Gallery in Maldon in company with works by Bre...
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Tony Ballantyne

AI Made me Redundant - Yesterday, a student asked me to help him with a program he was writing in his own time. It was an impressive project, but it wasn’t working properly. I qu...
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Amal El-Mohtar

Cover Reveal! SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON: Stories - Dear Friends, I'm so excited to share the cover of my upcoming short story collection! It's called *Seasons of Glass and Iron,* after my 2016 short story...
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Yoon Ha Lee

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Cheryl Morgan

Online Safety Act Update - [image: Online Safety Act Update] Last year I closed comments on this site because I was concerned about the implications of the UK’s Online Safety Acy fo...
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SF in Translation

Out This Month: May - Red Sword by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Honford Star, May 13). Red Sword is the mesmerizing and haunting English-language debut n...
3 weeks ago
Liz Bourke

“Remaking gender roles into something perceived of as more free”: Margot Weiss’s Techniques of Pleasure: BSDM and the Circuits of Sexuality. - I'm interested in the relationship between "normative" social hierarchies and "transgressive" sexual or sex-related practices -- whether that transgression...
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Lavie Tidhar

Books for Sale - It’s time to clear up some shelf space again. All prices include postage+packaging to make life easier. All copies will include one bonus limited edition s...
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Ken MacLeod

Fame at last - It seems I’ve become a local celebrity, because I was asked to officially open the new Sue Ryder charity shop in Port Glasgow on Friday. The staff, managem...
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Xueting Ni

The Phenomenal Popularity of Ne Zha 2 - Ne Zha 2 hit the cinema screens this Spring Festival to phenomenal domestic success. This has been attributed to many things, including some secret technop...
5 weeks ago
Cory Doctorow

Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION - This week on my podcast, I conclude my reading of my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” (here’s the first half). The st...
5 weeks ago
Linda Nagata

The breakout novel that wasn’t - This is re-posted from the newsletter I sent out today. Aloha, This newsletter is about the publishing lifecycle—and a big ebook sale ( just 99¢! ) for a t...
1 month ago
Alastair Reynolds

Run 100 completed - That's that done, then. I completed my 100th consecutive run. For those good at maths who are thinking, hang on, it's only day 99 of 2025, my RED Jan...
1 month ago
Andrea Phillips

Love, Ethics, Conflict, and Aliens - This is going to be a little weird and extremely long. This is about politics and ethics; it's about religion and the purpose of existence; it's about ho...
1 month ago
David Barnett

EVENT CHAIRING - I have wide experience of chairing literary events, for Bradford Lit Fest, Huddersfield Lit Fest, Cheltenham Lit Fest, Waterstones and many more. Contact m...
1 month ago
Pippa Goldschmidt

‘Deutschstunden’ is out in the world - My latest book ‘Deutschstunden’ is published by CulturBooks and was launched at the Leipzig Book Fair – here’s a photo of me and my translator/publisher...
1 month ago
Gio Clairval

To a Dead Friend, Just Because You Are on My Mind - *Yo, dead idiot,* You were a damn good writer, but did you ever share your work? Nope. Too proud, too stubborn, too wrapped up in your own head. “If I’...
3 months ago
Peter Newman

Kehidupan malam di Gangnam, Seoul, adalah perpaduan - Kehidupan malam di Gangnam, Seoul, adalah perpaduan yang sempurna antara kesenangan eksklusif dan pengalaman yang memikat. Begitu matahari terbenam, kawa...
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E. Catherine Tobler

the tortured writer’s dept. - Apparently I make one annual post in here now, rounding up everything I published in the calendar year. I was surprised to look back on this year, because ...
5 months ago
Neal Asher

Reading Hiatus Ended - I’ve gone over a few times the gradual collapse in my pleasure of reading. I’ve blamed the fact that I spend so much of my time writing and editing that ...
9 months ago
Elise Stephens

Slow Down (, Elise!) - If you’ve read my two-part post about slowing down, the following announcement shouldn’t come as a surprise to you: I’m going to slow down and consolidate ...
1 year ago
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Finalist for Hugo Award - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a finalist for the Hugo Award in the novel category. You can find a list with all the other finalists at the Hugo Awards...
1 year ago
K. Tempest Bradford

I Heart This Thursday | June is Bustin’ Out All Over 2023 - [image: I Heart This Thursday | June is Bustin’ Out All Over 2023] Because it's Juuuuune, June June June! Come share your June joy. Continue reading I Hear...
1 year ago
Jeff Vandermeer

Welcome to Tallahassee: November Local Elections Voter Guide - Candidate Recommendation Cheat Sheet: Mayor: Kristen Dozier County Commission: Josh Johnson (at-large Group 2), David O’Keefe (District 5), No Vote (Dist...
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Anna Cowan

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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Foz Meadows

Twitter, Truth & Apologies - The problem with being me – or one of the many problems, rather – is that I seldom if ever know what the fuck is going on in my brain. There’s ongoing road...
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Cat Rambo

Where I’ll Be: Norwescon 2022 - If you’re coming to Norwescon, here’s where you can find me! I’ll also be spending much of my time at Jennifer Brozek’s booth in the dealer room – and will...
3 years ago
Erin Horakova

Review: “Leopoldstadt” - In taking its first steps, Leopoldstadt falters slightly. The early acts are set in Ibsen Land: a belle époque continental bourgeoise theatrical context an...
3 years ago
Eric S. Raymond

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
3 years ago
Cathy Jacobowitz

Dear New Yorker - Dear editors, I write on a matter of great typographical importance. For some time now there have been missing “fi” ligatures in the pages of the New Yorke...
3 years ago
Paul Graham Raven

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
3 years ago
Catherynne M. Valente

Cat Things from Around the Web - Just a quick update! I hope everyone is surviving this monster of a year as best they can. I am also doing the best I can as autumn draws on. As the little...
4 years ago
Dave Hutchison

Yes, We Have No Bananas - There used to be – and you won’t see it any more, for obvious reasons – a certain type of story in the right-wing Press. I suppose different editors had di...
5 years ago
Patrick & Teresa Hayden

Low, dishonest decade - I largely gave up political blogging after November 8, 2016, when it became obvious that I have no idea what...
5 years ago
Hannah Bassett

Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal - Ghost Talkers is a 304-page alternate history novel by Mary Robinette Kowal. I received a copy from NetGalley a LONG time ago, but I’m reviewing it now sin...
5 years ago
Charlotte Ashley

Can*Con 2019: Performances, Readings, D&D and more! - Can-Con is the best convention running north of [somewhere far south] right now, I’ll say it. I’ll stand by it, too. The concom’s goal for the last few yea...
5 years ago
Eleanor Arnason

Politics - I keep going back to Brexit, I think as a way to avoid thinking about American politics. This leads me to the Gramsci quote: “The crisis consists precisely...
5 years ago
Joanne Hall

Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion II : Planes, Trains and Automatons - Hello! Long time no blog, sorry. Will do better. But I’m back with great news – Airship Shape and Bristol … Continue reading →
5 years ago
Lara Elena Donnelly

The Indigo Volume - Hello hello! Get hyped because pre-orders are open for The Indigo Volume, the penultimate installment in a series of anthologies my Clarion class has been ...
5 years ago
Galli Books

Rosalind’s Siblings Table of Contents! - Since Frankenstein, science fiction’s relationship to science has been an uneasy one: at times embracing the idea of scientific progress as an unalloyed go...
5 years ago
Books & Pieces

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Mike Wood

Sansevieria slickerii - I found this in Ikea of all places. It's a Sansevieria. Okay, it's not quite the same species as the Sansevieria *slickerii *that appears in The Spherica...
6 years ago
Books & Pieces

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy | #LadyVaults - Hello lovely humans today I’m going to be talking about the author Marge Piercy and specifically her book Woman on the Edge of Time. This was the November ...
6 years ago
Nick Mamatas

Eligibility Post, 2018 - Hey sleepyheads, here's what I got up to this year, publishing wise: Short fiction (reverse chronological order): “Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring.” Tra...
6 years ago
Jo Walton

Red Dead Redemption 2: Second most successful game of the year in British retail sector - Red Dead Redemption is back! *Last Friday Red Dead Redemption 2 was released for Playstation 4 and Xbox One. According to the latest news, the new Rockst...
6 years ago
Michael Cisco

4.4.18 - Hello All -- (The painting is "Melancholic Cannibal" by Ljubomir Popovic). UNLANGUAGE is available now, published by Eraserhead Press. The French trans...
7 years ago
Genevieve Valentine

The Best Day Ever - Just had the best day ever with my son! We went to the park and played on the playground for about an hour. I love this age because all they want to do i...
7 years ago
Niall Alexander

Book Review | Strange Weather by Joe Hill - *One autumnal day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails, splinters of bright crystal that tear apart anyone who isn't safely u...
7 years ago
Chloe N. Clark

Book trailer - Hello dear readers, I’ve been busy with teaching and some exciting news: my first chapbook of poems is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (February 2018...
7 years ago
Ayesha

unpopular opinion otd - I should put "free speech" in my Tumblr Savior file. I am SO FUCKING SICK of discussions of it where people gleefully and lengthily defend the most horri...
7 years ago
Alyssa Wong

Impressive THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY is recommended - tachyonpub: *Reviews for* *Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s new anthology, THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, have started appearing.* Peter S. Beagle (photo...
7 years ago
Sonya Taaffe

And you can't find nothing at all if there was nothing there all along - Being an LJ-only announcement. All right. I have not yet deleted this journal, but I ceased to crosspost to it a week ago Monday and I am in the process of...
8 years ago
Justina Ireland

Anonymous Review: Mulan as an Important Cultural Narrative - In January I opened up my blog as a platform for readers to post anonymous reviews of the books they'd read and didn't want to review because of possible...
8 years ago
Those Who Run With Wolves

A Tyranny of Queens - (reviewed by Aliette de Bodard) Following on from the events in AN ACCIDENT OF STARS, a kickass sequel that upends the worlds of Veksh/Kena and others and ...
8 years ago
Lucy Kemnitzer

A Bright New Year - I used to participate in a set of newsgroups dedicated to reading and writing science fiction. It was my first experience online, just about. Sometimes it ...
8 years ago
Carmen Maria Machado

2016 Award Eligibility Post - I’ve spent a great deal of the year working on longer projects–including edits for Her Body and Other Parties–so my eligibility post for 2016 is pretty s...
8 years ago
Natalie Luhrs

Links Roundup 11/11/16: Darkest Timeline Edition - We seem to have entered the Darkest Timeline. I really don’t know what else to say. I have been oscillating between rage and sorrow since late Tuesday even...
8 years ago
Roz Clarke

All the Things You Shouldn’t Talk About? - Death, money, politics. I haven’t blogged much this year. Partly that’s because I’ve been social media-ing on behalf of BristolCon, and maintaining two blo...
8 years ago
Penelope Schenk

‘This Is the Place to Be’ by Lara Pawson - The pleasingly textured, almost waxy turquoise cover of this volume from CB editions encloses a small literary grenade lobbed by my friend Lara Pawson into...
8 years ago
Jess Haines

Top of the Bay Book Signing 2016 Recap and Giveaway - Okay, I know I mentioned in my AAD recap that I was done with conventions for a while, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do a local signing. The Si...
8 years ago
Richard Bendall

No Man’s Sky – Day 1 - “How the hell did I end up in orbit?” is a sentence not often heard in every day life, but is certainly something I’ve uttered more than once since startin...
8 years ago
Arkady Martine

NEW STORIES! … and new nonfiction and con schedules and I totally haven’t updated in way too long. - And thus I have SO MUCH news! (I may have been slightly busy. I write to you from York, where the dayjob has sent me for a conference; the dayjob has also ...
8 years ago
Emma Paulet

early reflections on who I am*/Henrietta - *from an activity completed as part of an online training course in eTutoring One of the first things my family did upon moving from the city to a small ho...
9 years ago
Alison Croggon

inkslingerbooks: SUCH atmosphere in this photo of The Bone... - inkslingerbooks: SUCH atmosphere in this photo of *The Bone Queen* that we just posted on Instagram (*hint hint* follow us @inkslingerbooks if you haven’...
9 years ago
John E. O. Stevens

Battle The Sea (Alex Livingston) versus The Sky (John E. O. Stevens) - Originally posted on Grumptroll: The Sea by Alex Livingston Coral mesas pierce the ocean horizon in this place, reaching like…
9 years ago
Ivo Shmilev

The Shortest Road to the Layered Stones - I first came up with a distinct concept of how to organise a number of my poems into a book around the end of spring 2014. Of course family members and goo...
9 years ago
Boarding Kennel

Netrunner notes: Getting to grips with… Apex - The latest Netrunner big box expansion, Data and Destiny, brought a brand new challenge in the form of three individual ‘mini-faction’ runners, and the c...
9 years ago
SavaSavaSava

Hierarchies of Access - [This is the text (and slides) of a short presentation I gave as part of a panel at the Social Media & Society Conference, back in July in Toronto, Canada....
9 years ago
Polenth Blake

dot and birb (comic) -
9 years ago
Alison Croggon

Facebook Author Page, and The River and the Book - Instead of apologising constantly for not keeping up with this blog, I'm posting news and updates at my new Facebook author page, which you can find here. ...
9 years ago
Anne Charnock

My New Website and The Latest on Phantasma Stories - I decided to pile on the stress this summer by rebuilding my website! As the rebuild progressed, my second novel Sleeping Embers Of An Ordinary Mind move...
9 years ago
Lisa Tuttle

Coincidence - Probably anyone who has ever done even the slightest amount of research has experienced those lovely moments of serendipity when you just happen upon the b...
10 years ago
Tom Pollock

Mal Peet - Mal Peet died yesterday. I never met him. I dearly wish I had. I wish every possible comfort on those who did. Life: An Exploded Diagram was the novel that...
10 years ago
Pat Cadigan

Yes, There's Not Much Happening Here - That's because things are happening over at https://patcadigan.wordpress.com
10 years ago
Futurismic

Make technological utopia easier with this one weird trick - Kevin Kelly’s “desirable-future haikus” thing on Medium is a great example of what I believe to be the standard blindspot of ICT-focussed futurists, in tha...
10 years ago
Lauren DeStefano

on rejection - [image: Screen shot 2013-11-22 at 3.23.50 AM] According to the file properties, I started writing this in January of 2009 and made my last revisions before...
11 years ago
Paul Di Filippo

My Brief Career as a Fanfic Writer - (Originally posted at The Inferior 4+1, November 25th 2012) The year was 1965, and I was eleven years old and in love with THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. I had re...
12 years ago
Richard Palmer

April Reads - This month has been about the comic books. I’d never been a huge fan of comics, but I’ve, as noted before, recently discovered the joys of graphic art. Apa...
13 years ago
Richard Palmer

April Reads - This month has been about the comic books. I’d never been a huge fan of comics, but I’ve, as noted before, recently discovered the joys of graphic art. Apa...
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John Scalzi

About That Deal, Ten Years On - Ten years ago today, the New York Times published the story about me getting a 10-year, 13-book contract with Tor Books, along with $3.4 million advance. A...
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Mike Glyer

Prix Imaginales 2025 - The 2025 Prix Imaginales winners were announced on May 23 at the Imaginales festival in Epinal, France. The Prix Imaginales recognize the best works of f...
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Progressive Geographies

Michel Foucault, Archéologie des sciences humaines: Cours São Paulo (1965) – ed. Philippe Sabot, EHESS/Seuil/Gallimard, May 2025 - Michel Foucault, Archéologie des sciences humaines: Cours. São Paulo (1965) – ed. Philippe Sabot, EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, May 2025 No publisher page yet, bu...
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Tor

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Nina Allan

The books that changed me - Paul Kincaid wrote recently about his response to a review of his new (and excellent) essay collection Colourfields, and how that review had made him take ...
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Lady Business

Sidetracks - May 22, 2025 - Posted by: [image: [personal profile]]*helloladies* *Sidetracks is a collaborative project featuring various essays, videos, reviews, or other Internet con...
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Big Other

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Paul McAuley

(Edited) - Edit of *Loss Protocol* finished and dispatched by zipwire. Still don't know what kind of beast it is. It's set in the near future (but isn't SF, or dys...
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Martin Wisse

Gee doctor, I have no idea how I got Type 2 Diabetics - Episode six of Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi was the dreaded diet episode as surprisingly our protagonist didn’t fit in the new skirt she bought after havi...
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Abigail Nussbaum

Recent Reading: A Granite Silence by Nina Allan - Readers of Allan's novels, as well as her excellent blog, will have for some time been aware of her growing interest in crime fiction and non-fiction. It's...
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Emma Newman

Rage, rage against the dying of the mic! - Look, I have a book I should be writing, but I have so many other words screaming in my head that I need to write them down first. Buckle up, my darlings...
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Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Reviews: THE ZEUS CONSTANT and FLOWER OF THE UNDERWORLD - With the caveats that both are set in my and Devi Lacroix’s Gunmetal Olympus series, I feel that Flower of the Underworld can be read nearly as a standalon...
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Paul Kincaid

The Books that Made Me - Roseanna Pendlebury reviewed my latest book, Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, and in the course of the review … Continue reading →
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Juliana Rew

Review - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - "The Ministry of Time," the debut science fiction novel by British writer Kaliane Bradley, starts with a rollicking premise. New time-travel technology ...
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The Future Fire

New issue: 2025.73 - “Progress has to do with all mankind, not alone with the calm, the wise, and the patient. There is youth in the world, and youth is generally neither calm...
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Wole Talabi

An African SFF Bundle, Double Locus, Talking Cyberpunk, Sinners and Other Updates - Hey y’all. We’ve arrived at May. It feels like the year just started but also like a million things have already happened. Time is a funny thing. All we ca...
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Rudy Rucker

Spring Eases In - Getting fully caught up now. It’s all about the images. Great winding stabile Richard Setta sculpture at the Stanford art museum. Those hyperbolic triang...
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M John Harrison

can’t explain - Even fifty years ago that would have been the wrong question to ask me. In those days I would have been too confused by its sheer inapplicability–to what I...
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Gillian Polack

Passover Food (2025) - I posted this on Facebook on 16 April. I’m sharing it here so that people can find it again. Why would anyone need to find it again? Recipes…This post was ...
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Jason Sanford

We Who Hunt Alexanders - My short novel *We Who Hunt Alexanders* will be published on July 22 by Apex Book Company. This is one of the most personal and timely stories I’ve ever...
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The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
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Ruth Booth

Reconnect – Eastercon 2025 - I’ll be in Belfast over the Easter weekend (18th – 21st April) for this year’s Eastercon, Reconnect, at the Hilton. Being in Belfast over Good Friday isn’t...
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Kameron Hurley

Remake the World: Tell a Story Worth Believing In - I was alive in the 90s when Clinton pushed NAFTA (it had been passed years before but Dems refused to ratify it!). It destroyed local economies, undercut...
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Kate Elliott

News: The Black Wolves Trilogy - My epic fantasy novel Black Wolves was published in 2015, the first of the Black Wolves Trilogy, published by Orbit Books. In summer 2016, Orbit canceled b...
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Nnedi Okorafor

Golden Girl: Eulogy of Dr. Helen Ijeoma Okorafor (nee Okwaraeleonu) - Written by Nnedi Okorafor, Given on February 7, 2025 “A Golden smile from a Golden Girl of the games.” That’s a quote from a 1965 news article about my mo...
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Phenderson Djèlí Clark

Tips for Black History Month- 2025 Emergency Edition - Image: From the New Yorker article: Madame President: The Cover That Never Was | Art by Kadir Nelson. We coulda had a real one, and racism and misogyny don...
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M. Eighteen

Photographer Leah Frances - mayanhandballcourt: Photographer Leah Frances
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Rosemary Kirstein

So, about that Patreon…. - I’ve just started up a Patreon account… Let me tell you about it. Since you’re here reading this, you already know me as the author of the Steerswoman ser...
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Adam Roberts

Winding-up - I have started a substack, *Substack-ships on Fire*. You could subscribe, if you like! I have spread myself across a large number of blogs over the year...
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Christina Scholz

Review: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville - I was super chuffed to review this book. Fans of BRZRKR won’t be disappointed: if you are reading this for some serious splatter and a helicopter chase, yo...
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Fran Wilde

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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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