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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Night White Skies Podcast

Sean Lally and me discuss Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction (ed. David Shultz) on Sean's Night White Skies podcast.

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Fran Wilde

Four links make a post… - Hello friends – lots of things are happening… here are a few! New Podcast appearance: As a January guest on the Tales from the Trunk podcast, I read (witho...
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Kameron Hurley

Survival Is An Achievement. But What Comes Next? - I’ve been publishing novels for ten years, this month, and my first series is still, miraculously, in print. That’s a pretty cool achievement. Both being...
2 months ago
Christina Scholz

Review: Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma - Seriously, don’t read this book. If you need good reasons why, here’s my review.
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Martin McGrath

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4 months 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...
6 months 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...
6 months ago
Karen Lord

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6 months ago
Juliana Rew

Extremophile Release - Never lets up! –Kirkus Reviews Extremophile: Violet Rain, the second action-packed entry in the “Unwinding” series by Juliana Rew, is now available! Home...
8 months ago
Dolly Garland

Gollancz/Rivers of London BAME SFF Award Shorlist - It’s been a while since I posted here. I’ve been pretty rubbish at writing blog posts. This return hopefully means that I will rectify that. We’ll see. Whe...
9 months ago
Dave Hutchison

Tim Smith - ‘More key changes and time signatures in a single song than you’ll find in an entire Jethro Tull album. For the brave and taste-free only.’ That was the fi...
9 months ago
M. Eighteen

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The 1709 Blog

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1 year ago
Naomi Foyle

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Nnedi Okorafor

Africanfuturism Defined - I started using the term Africanfuturism (a term I coined) because I felt… *1. The term Afrofuturism had several definitions and some of the most pro...
1 year ago
Emma Newman

Worldcon 2019 – Where you can find me - This is an excerpt from the newsletter I just sent out to my subscribers, containing all the info you need if you are attending the Dublin Worldcon 2019. ...
1 year ago
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...
1 year ago
Steven Poore

Damaged Intelligence – out now! - Play the music! Light the lights! Damaged Intelligence, the sixth – sixth! – installment of the very Traveler RPG-inflected and extremely pulpy space opera...
1 year ago
Martin Petto

The Pursuit Of Realism - Occasionally, I still think about writing. The last thing I thought about writing about was Red Dead Redemption 2 but it turns out Film Crit Hulk has alrea...
1 year 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...
2 years ago
Sophie E Tallis

Meh – Dealing with Despondency. - How you do you deal with those flat moments? Times when you’re just not feeling it, when you’ve lost or misplaced your mojo, find yourself in a rut or a cr...
2 years ago
Maureen K. Speller

Breaking a long, long drought - It’s been a while, but I’ve started writing again. There’ll be fresh material here, soon, I hope, but to begin with, here’s a link to a piece I contribute...
2 years ago
Susan Gray

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
2 years ago
Alix E. Harrow

This Blog is Dead; Long Live the Blog! - Since there hasn’t been a book review in actual years, you probably already suspected this blog was dead. It was murdered by the madcap pace of the last tw...
2 years ago
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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Weird Fiction Review

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2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
SF Mistressworks

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’...
2 years ago
Pornokitsch

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.
3 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...
3 years ago
Ruthless Culture

Lessons of Sharke - Megan has put up an excellent post about her experiences as a Shadow Clarke Award juror and, seeing as a couple of other things I’ve been working on appear...
3 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...
3 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.
3 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...
3 years ago
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....
4 years ago
JY Yang

OK! NEW WEBSITE! - AS PROMISED/THREATENED, in the new year of twenty-seventeen I have shifted web addresses entirely and you can now find me, blog and all, at jyyang.com. Thi...
4 years ago
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 ...
4 years ago
Peter Sutton

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...
4 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.)
4 years ago
Britny Brooks

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...
4 years ago
Sofia Samatar

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4 years ago
Ethan Robinson

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4 years ago
Juliette Wade

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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Molly Gloss

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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 ...
4 years ago
Kat Howard

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 ...
4 years ago
SF Signal

All Good Things… - So long, and thanks for all the fish...
4 years ago
Lucy Ann Wade

Flawless - a film - So here it is, our short film Flawless. I hope you enjoy it.
5 years ago
Isabel Yap

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...
5 years ago
Chie and Weng

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6 years ago
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Not By Its Cover

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6 years ago
Quiche straight from the Bucket

Notes on Hoke's Bluff - There are these two fairly good jokes they always tell at the Edinburgh Free Fringe, and the one is about how it's free to get *in *to see the show but not...
7 years ago
Prince Jvstin

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7 years ago
Alexander Ikawah

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7 years ago
Tim Maughan

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8 years ago
Jim Steel

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