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Monday, April 22, 2019

Fleabag is science fiction fight me

Fleabag is science fiction fight me.

Fleabag, Andrew Scott

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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...
2 years ago
Fran Wilde

What I’ve Read (and Listened) & Loved (& Written) 2023, part 1 - I both enjoy doing these posts and dread forgetting a favorite or several (I know I will, so check back to see if I’ve updated (I will)). I did a lot of re...
2 years ago
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...
2 years ago
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...
2 years ago
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...
3 years 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
3 years 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 arguedon mercy, or god, or elegies. or forgiv...
3 years 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...
3 years ago
Mazi Nwonwu

How I Am beating Type 2 Diabetes - Diabetes care: Photo credit - Medical Care Today I was diagnosed with diabetes in late July. At the time of diagnosis, my blood sugar was at 365 ml and m...
4 years ago
Zeitgeist Spam

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4 years ago
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 ...
4 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
6 years ago
Pippa Jay

Blog Tour: Seneca Element #scifi #ya #giveaway - [image: Seneca Element banner] This is my stop during the blog tour for Seneca Element by Rayya Deeb. This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. Th...
6 years ago
The 1709 Blog

Paris Court of Appeal confirms that Koons’s 'Naked' sculpture infringes copyright in 'Enfants' photograph, rejecting freedom of the arts and parody defences - *Paris Court of Appeal confirms that Koons’s 'Naked' sculpture infringes copyright in 'Enfants' photograph, rejecting freedom of the arts and parody defen...
6 years ago
Juliana Rew

Story in Flight Anthology - This is the website of science fiction and fantasy author Juliana Rew. My science fiction short story, “Laxmi’s Stowaway,” is now appearing in 30th Stree...
6 years ago
Long Pale Road

The Politics of the Immersive Sim - How well can video games address the political and the personal? This essay looks at two Deus Ex games, Dishonored and the 2017 Prey reboot to examine how.
6 years ago
Rantalica

Famous Fan: Nina Horvath - Austrian fan and author, Nina Horvath, took a chance on visiting the Zagreb Eurocon in 2012 after an inspiring talk by Dave Lally somewhere in Austria. I l...
6 years ago
Naomi Foyle

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
6 years 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...
7 years 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
Susan Gray

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
8 years ago
Weird Fiction Review

Review: “Lost Objects: Stories” by Marian Womack - These days it is timely to be in mourning. So many people feel adrift and confused as if they have lost something intangible but precious. And perhaps th...
8 years ago
SF Mistressworks

Wayward Moon, Denny DeMartino - Wayward Moon, Denny DeMartino (2001) Review by Ian Sales There’s little point in reviewing the plot of Wayward Moon as it makes little sense and is almost ...
8 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.
8 years ago
Carrie Patel

How I got into narrative design - Happy New Year, everyone! Let's ring in 2018 with a post for the first time in forever. Thanks to Bekah for getting me going! I know it might be a lot to...
8 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...
8 years ago
Hal Duncan

Primer and Feastiary - Pre-orders are now open over at my Bandcamp Merch page for A Scruffian Primer and A Scruffian Feastiary, which should start shipping from the 1st of Decemb...
8 years ago
Ruthless Culture

Auto Focus (2002) – Made Free, Yet Everywhere in Chains - Paul Schrader is better known as a writer than a director. Having co-written most of Martin Scorsese’s better-known films, his own directorial efforts have...
9 years ago
Reparations Scholar-Activist

Terms of Reference Afrikan Reparations Transnational Community of Practice (ARTCoP) - Background A Community of Practice is defined as: “A group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better a...
9 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...
9 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....
9 years ago
Cecily Kane

Fireside Report for 2016? - It’s approaching the point at which I need to start working on a 2016 follow-up to the Fireside report’s statistical analysis if such a thing is to have a ...
9 years ago
Maureen K. Speller

Gene Mapper by Taiyo Fujii - This review first appeared in Interzone 260 in 2015. I didn’t like the book very much, unfortunately. Gene Mapper – Taiyo Fujii, trans. Jim Hubbert. Haikas...
9 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 ...
9 years ago
Peter Sutton

It's the end of the year post - As ever the end of the year prompts a "best of" round up. I've read 90 books this year (way down on previous years - but due to writing a novel and publish...
9 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.)
9 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...
10 years ago
Jim Steel

Interzone 265 - Artwork by Vincent Sammy In Interzone 265‘s Book Zone, Juliet E. McKenna interviews Lisa Tuttle about her new novel, The Curious Case of the Somnambulist a...
10 years ago
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...
10 years ago
Molly Gloss

JULY 31-AUGUST 4 - CATAMARAN WRITING CONFERENCE Robert Louis Stevenson School Pebble Beach, Calif Fiction workshop daily 9:30-12:30 To register: http://catamaranliteraryreade...
10 years ago
Juliette Wade

Bathing and Laundry - a Dive into Worldbuilding hangout summary - This topic was a natural one to follow on from last week's Bathrooms hangout! After all, sometimes laundry is done in the bathroom... We started with close...
10 years ago
Crystal Huff

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 ...
10 years ago
Joanna Walsh

Vertigo is Irish Times Book of the Month - here: "Reviewing the collection in The Irish Times earlier this year, Sarah Gilmartin wrote: “The stories in Vertigo are by turns funny, surreal, modernist...
10 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 ...
10 years ago
SF Signal

All Good Things… - So long, and thanks for all the fish...
10 years ago
Ethan Robinson

yet we are dogs nevertheless - Kafka did not write science fiction. He did not write speculative fiction. He did not write fantastic fiction, nor did he write fantasy, certainly not in t...
10 years ago
Lucy Ann Wade

Flawless - a film - So here it is, our short film Flawless. I hope you enjoy it.
10 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...
10 years ago
Chie and Weng

Four Authors talk about inspiration and process (Part I) - The SEA is Ours is a steampunk anthology focusing on steampunk coming from South East Asia. A Rosarium project, the fundraiser campaign for this project su...
10 years ago
Tricia Sullivan

HR Insight - How Can Staffing Help Your Business Scale? - The staffing industry is dynamic and includes key players among them staffing companies and agencies, professional employer organizations, recruiters and h...
11 years ago
Amy Sterling Casil

Cannabis Baby: Mascot for One and All! - I've never had call to categorize something under so many categories before! Cannabis Baby is the loveable mascot for our line of tshirts made for one and ...
11 years ago
Noel Chidwick

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...
11 years ago
Yunitsa

- 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...
11 years ago
Quiche straight from the Bucket

BBC remember me? Letter to BBC complaining about Robinson / Salmond editing - Heyyy. Please note, I have of course seen the *existing *BBC response to different complaints relating to this report, which has recently appeared online [...
12 years ago
Not By Its Cover

Convention Survival Guide - All up, I had a really great Worldcon experience. I’d go so far as to say that it was the best convention I’ve ever been to. This was, in part, due to some...
12 years ago
Prince Jvstin

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...
13 years ago
Alexander Ikawah

WHERE THE GRASS HAS GROWN - *WHERE THE GRASS HAS GROWN* *This is one of those weekly writing prompts but I had been reading a tribute to one of my favourite childhood comic artists, ...
13 years ago
Joseph Tomaras

Beginning to Draw the Lines - To begin to articulate what appears contradictory to me about the quotes I pulled yesterday from the contribution of an SWPer who wishes to remain anonymou...
13 years ago
Tim Maughan

Science Fiction Is Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed – SF and Class - Science fiction author Lavie Tidhar recently asked me to write a guest post on SF and class for his excellent World SF Blog, and the result went live this ...
14 years ago
Kevin McVeigh

The Dread and Fear Of Kings — Richard Paul Russo (Short Fiction pt3) - Under the direction of a decaying king an army progresses across a continent, city by city, entering, occupying and wilfully destroying all that is good th...
15 years ago
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The Skiffy and Fanty Show

Book Review: A House Between Sea and Sky, by Beth Cato - After the self-assigned inundation of reading to vote in the Hugo Awards this summer, I took a break and read A House Between Sea and Sky, by Beth Cato. Th...
Dissent Magazine

Our Technological Wager - The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions. Yet on both sides of the wager, it seems, the house wins.
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PodCastle 960: Kwong’s Bath - Author : Angela Liu Narrator : Pine Gonzalez Host : Raul Bimenyimana Audio Producer : Wilson Fowlie Previously published in khōréō issue 3.2 (August 2023...
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PseudoPod 1046: Annie’s Heart is a Haunted House - Author : Todd Keisling Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop “Annie’s Heart is a Haunted House” was first published...
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Escape Pod 1061: Pigeons and Robots and Pensive Worlds - Author : Trae Hawkins Narrator : Pippa Alice Stephens Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 1061: Pigeons and Robots and Pensive Wo...
Book Shambles

Lucia Osborne-Crowley - Live from Latitude - Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five counts of sex-trafficking of minors, and now faces twenty years in prison for the role she played in Jeffrey Epstei...
Backdoor Broadcasting Company

Panel discussion – Images of the Grotesque and Arabesque: The Discovery of Kafka’s Drawings - Event Date: 16 June 2022 German Historical Institute 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ The Leo Baeck Institute London and the German Historical Institu...
Cabbages and Kings

49 - Rion Amilcar Scott discusses Insurrections - Discussion of the award-winning collection Insurrections, and realism and aesthetics within genre fiction
Tea & Jeopardy

Tea and Jeopardy 66 – Maurice Broaddus visits the tea lair - In this episode, the deeply wonderful author, Maurice Broaddus, visits Emma in the tea lair. We discuss the lessons learned from being a guest editor for A...
SF Squeecast

Episode 39: The Squee You Take Is Equal to the Squee You Make - Welcome to the November episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 39 is called “The Squee You Take Is Equal to the Squee You Make.” This episode features SF Squ...
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