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Cheryl Morgan

Fantasy in London and Bristol - A major exhibition on Fantasy will be opening at the British Library next week (Friday 27th) and will run until Sunday, February 25th, 2024. The curation...
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On Chinese Internet Science Fiction - There is currently an explosion of creativity, growing out of China’s flourishing internet literature sites, which I have found myself happily getting lost...
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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...
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Patrick & Teresa Hayden

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Behind the Red Door by Megan Collins - Behind the Red Door is a 320-page mystery novel by Megan Collins. I received an ARC from NetGalley as a recommendation based on the fact that I love Ruth W...
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Galli Books

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Michael Cisco

Houellebecq and Lovecraft - Hello All ... Some recent self-aggrandizement from Houellebecq prompts me to repost this 12 year old review of his book about Lovecraft, which was origin...
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Zambia Fires - I don’t listen to or watch much BBC News anymore; something in the tone or insinuations or missing context inevitably enrages me. Increasingly, it seems de...
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Chloe N. Clark

Writing Published in 2017 - Dear Readers, it’s been quite the year! I had a poetry chapbook picked up for publication (due out in February 2018, and which you can pre-order here!) and...
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Niall Alexander

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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...
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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...
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Sonya Taaffe

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Justina Ireland

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Those Who Run With Wolves

This Savage Song by V E Schwab - (review by Leticia Lara) I’ve been wanting to read some of V.E. Schwab’s (or Victoria Schwab) works since I read this SoW review, but two years have gone b...
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Lucy Kemnitzer

Why I downloaded six volumes of 18th Century agricultural essays this morning - Today I went to Google Play, found five volumes of A New System of Practical Husbandry by John Mills (there are more generic names than that, but not many!...
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Arkady Martine

Award eligibility and year in review - This has been a year. Personally, it’s been a pretty fantastic year. Dayjob-wise, I’ve been to ten countries for conferences & academic workshops, and I go...
6 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...
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Natalie Luhrs

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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...
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Jess Haines

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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...
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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...
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Alison Croggon

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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…
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Polenth Blake

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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. ...
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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...
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Futurismic

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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...
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Pat Cadigan

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

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Paul Di Filippo

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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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Richard Palmer

Swastika Night – Katherine Burdekin - Originally published in 1937, Katherine Burdekin’s dystopian SF novel depicts a future 700 years hence by extrapolating from the events of her time. In thi...
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Ian Sales

As Good As I Remember It? – Frank Herbert’s Dune - Some people have The Lord of the Rings, some people have Dune. They reread one of the two books on a regular basis. While I don’t read Dune every year, it’...
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Mike Glyer

2023 Hugo Finalist Voting Statistics Posted - The 2023 Hugo Awards were presented October 21 during a ceremony at the Chengdu Worldcon. Today the committee released the voting statistics for the fina...
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Adam Roberts

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Progressive Geographies

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Tor

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John Scalzi

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The Future Fire

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M John Harrison

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Abigail Nussbaum

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Rosemary Kirstein

Redesign in process… - I’m currently in the process of redesigning the website… along with sundry other things that are preventing me from giving the redesign my fullest attentio...
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Uguu - 16bit Sensation: Another Layer gets the immediate appeal of Kanon eaxtly right. One bit of warning though: come for the uguu, stay for the heartwrenching g...
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Wole Talabi

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Paul Kincaid

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Dave Gullen

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Journey to the East - Journey to the East! I’m gonna spend a four nights with Mike Gambone in Nashville. Mike and I taught at Randolph Macon Woman’s College, sharing careers a...
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Karen Lord

Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox… - dduane: Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, “Child, to say the very thing you m...
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On Asking Questions - Some serious thoughts…
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Ruthless Culture

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Ruth Booth

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Juliana Rew

Note from the Editor: Rhapsody of the Spheres - Greetings, speculative fiction fans! My company, Third Flatiron Publishing, has released its summer-fall collection, *Rhapsody of the Spheres*, a co...
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Kate Elliott

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Ethan Robinson

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The Disorder Of Things

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JY Yang

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Phenderson Djèlí Clark

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Nnedi Okorafor

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew

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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
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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...
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