A series with unbelievable prescience...

Cybernetic Incels: What Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG foresaw in the future of terrorism and the internet

An internet that's a fascist neurotoxin. Sound familiar?

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Thank you to The Mourning Paper not only for publishing my mad wee story, but also helping it become the official story of the International Gothic Association conference 2026 🐟🦇🖥️🧫 themourningpaper.co.uk/2026/07/30/z...

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This story shows how AI can be weaponised to evoke truly existential levels of terror, addressing the complicity of AI models in human acts of evil.

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"Yes, the world has been curdling for some time. Yet the predictive power of this run of 26 23-minute episodes – full name Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG – has proved stunning."

Cybernetic Incels: What Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG foresaw in the future of terrorism and the internet

An internet that's a fascist neurotoxin. Sound familiar?

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I first watched this show circa 2013. It felt prophetic then. Come 2026, more so. It merited a rewatch, hard thinking, some sleuthing & an essay. So thank you @typebarmagazine.bsky.social for helping me disseminate my output on the best(?) iteration of Ghost in the Shell. ▶️🎧 Rise, Origa

Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · last wk.

Cybernetic Incels: What Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG Foresaw in the Future of Terrorism and the Internet by @anguslikeswords.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/cybernetic-i...

🚨Typebar Magazine Issue 10 release date and cover art reveal🚨 Issue 10 will be publishing on MONDAY JULY 27TH. Thanks to @thoughtographic.bsky.social for the wonderful work on the cover.

> Open LinkedIn > Repress the invasive urge to comment 'ah shut up' on at least one post > Close LinkedIn > Walk away from the computer

It never rains but it pours! Proud as ever to be @asiancha.bsky.social, this time reviewing something very new for me - writing from Tibet. So thank you to Woeser, and to all her translators, publishers, editors, and real life characters who are the stars of her writing, IMO.

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal@asiancha.bsky.social · 3mo ago

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—In “No Useless Poems: Tsering Woeser’s Greater Tibet”, Angus Stewart reviews Tsering Woeser's 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛, 𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑅𝑎𝑖𝑛,edited & translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba: "...a very new sort of work in English translation." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/05/12/t...

What a blast to be published once more in @bigothermag.bsky.social - and with some quotes from a few fantasic up and coming literati ~ To sum the book in question up with a few emojis: 🌊🌳🍄🌀 🐆🐋⛺🇹🇼🐦⛵🌪️ Yes that was more than a few, but nature is abundant is it not? bigother.com/2026/05/11/o...

Oceanic Affinities and Apocalyptic Collapse: What Is Taiwanese Ecoliterature?

By Angus Stewart   Modern Taiwanese literature is flush with homegrown genres and movements, many of which bloomed amid the dying days of a Kuomintang Party dictatorship that had taken hold in…

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Books 2 and 3 of the Southern Reach suddenly making a great deal more sense

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Every mother's day I think of the time I didn't hear from my mom for 5 years and then got an email that read "Cars are being set on fire on the street here in Paris, but don't worry, I'm safe in the Algerian Quarter with Bernard." The whole email was wtf. Like, who is Bernard? 1/2

Humans: Endless useless pointless struggle Dogs: Hi boss 🙂 I love you 🙂

Throwing this out to whoever may be reading. What's your experience with Ghost in the Shell?

as we hunker down and read through Issue Three submissions, we thought it'd be a good time to start a new tradition of shouting out the achievements of our alumni contributors ✨🖤 they've been busy! check out their latest work ⬇️

Angus Stewart's (@anguslikeswords.bsky.social) "Interloper, or A Doomed Dreamworld" is now available via Gnome and Bone Mag, and "Desire to Feel Nothing" via @realneondystopia.bsky.social. Links: gnomeandbonemagazine.com/2026/03/15/i... www.neondystopia.com?p=100043485

INTERLOPER, OR A DOOMED DREAMWORLD - GNOME & BONE MAGAZINE

being inside your mind is the best thing I have ever experienced Fairy lights and glowing snowmen mark the waypoints up Guywood Lane, then right on Marsden Road past a crippled bungalow. The wind tugs...

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Hilarious to see Bluesky fawning over this.

Stardust 🌏🎬@stardustbluepr.com · 4mo ago

“I have never met a bigger Tolkien geek in my life. His encyclopedic knowledge of Tolkien is spectacular, and points to a deprived childhood in some respects,” -Jackson

Honestly, much better to be a little rough around the edges and full of life than technically okay but dead on the page.

What an honour for one of my stories to have joined the forest - please read Interloper in issue 1 of Gnome and Bone. I am so proud of it, and hope you love it. Yes, you. The gnome reading this. gnomeandbonemagazine.com/2026/03/15/i...

INTERLOPER, OR A DOOMED DREAMWORLD - GNOME & BONE MAGAZINE

being inside your mind is the best thing I have ever experienced Fairy lights and glowing snowmen mark the waypoints up Guywood Lane, then right on Marsden Road past a crippled bungalow. The wind tugs...

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Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.

Fascinating interview about a fascinating project, with mentions of essays by Paul Kincaid (included in Colourfields) and Niall Harrison (included in All These Worlds), both available from our shop: briardenebooks.uk/shop/

Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Published today: Angus Stewart's interview with Lyu Guangzhao about Lyu's The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction! bigother.com/2025/08/19/p... Cc: @lyuguangzhao.bsky.social

A happy writer is me, to be in @asiancha.bsky.social reviewing Kit Fan's new novel. Read on for musings bouncing off Boris Johnson, baozi class war, and the pains of being a sister-mother. Plus where to get a spam croissant in Stockport 🥐 chajournal.com/2026/03/08/g...

[ESSAY] “Bittersweet Fusion: Taste, Pain, and Fate in Kit Fan’s 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛” by Angus Stewart

茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Bittersweet Fusion: Taste, Pain, and Fate in Kit Fan’s Goodbye Chinatown” by Angus Stewart Click HERE to read all entrie…

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You know, I like this Angus guy, his takes are tasty

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal@asiancha.bsky.social · 5mo ago

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Structured like a meal, Angus Stewart’s essay moves through courses that taste Kit Fan’s 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛 (World Editions, 2026): London kitchens, fusion dishes, class tensions, and the shifting ground of Hong Kong diaspora. chajournal.com/2026/03/08/g...

New in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social: My review of a female bildungsoman of sorts set in Shenzhen (and elsewhere!) amid China's shift to a market economy. Morality, class, and decency are pondered. The word “money” appears 57 more times than the word "life". asianreviewofbooks.com/my-destiny-b...

“My Destiny” by Liang Xiaosheng

My Destiny is the third Liang Xiaosheng book brought into English translation, but the first novel. It follows the short story collection The Black Button published by Panda Books in 1992, and the …

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Hi new followers! Am here in lieu of a place for lit that isn't 🧟‍♀️ified I ran the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast for 5 years - after hiatusing it I have focused on 1️⃣ writing weird stories 2️⃣ reviewing Chinese/Sino books 3️⃣ other odd writings Would love to talk. Life is finite so why not?

What a ride. A strange dream. A bad dream. An intense dream. And all too real. This book goes incredibly hard - read it 🇭🇰

Asian Review of Books@asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today in the ARB: @anguslikeswords.bsky.social reviews “City Like Water” by Dorothy Tse tr from Chinese by Natascha Bruce @graywolfpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/city-like-wa...

Escape. From the noise in your head to the burden of emotion to your awful past. Angus Stewart brings us a story about escape and rebirth in Desire to Feel Nothing. www.neondystopia.com?p=100043485

Blissed out to be published by @realneondystopia.bsky.social! Blissed out and dissolving into dream, as in my story: Desire to Feel Nothing ♾️ www.neondystopia.com?p=100043485 It's based on my experience inside a sensory deprivation tank - may it make you feel like you are floating too

I had totally forgotten that back in 2019, @flashfictionnorth.bsky.social published my wee story 'East Coast West Coast'. This is a good one for dog owners and people who enjoy tasting bittersweet memories. www.flashfictionnorth.com/fictionarchi...

So proud to be inside this gorgeous, ghostly, and at times disgusting magazine. My story is about a guy whose mind is disintegrating while he traverses one of the richest stretches of land in England - also disintegrating. And with zero spite: happy St Andrews Day 🤠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

NECKSNAP MAGAZINE@necksnapmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ISSUE TWO IS HERE. PDF is free to view and download on our website + download a Name Your Price ebook on our Shop if you'd like to throw us a donation. 🖤 featring @lucienrstarchild.bsky.social @anguslikeswords.bsky.social @kerminatrix.bsky.social and many more!

Chuffed to be in the Asian Review of Books covering a novel that pulled me right in (tr by @jeremytiang.bsky.social 👑) It's about a nanny stuck caring for a boy while his ultra rich parents flee a corruption investigation 🇨🇳 Plus there is a goose 🦢 and it's loose

Have been sending out a 'mad wee story' today. Very experimental, about a fish digitally spliced with a man. A month or so ago I was sending out a far more normal story, about sensory deprivation. If you the reader know any editors looking for scratchings, lemme know!

Drugs. Rubber aliens. A paradise of sadness. Thank you @myetcetera.bsky.social for taking my strange writings on two heartfelt Chinese films and only truly debased creation from, of all people, Filthy Frank 👽

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal@asiancha.bsky.social · 9mo ago

At @asiancha.bsky.social, @anguslikeswords.bsky.social situates Xiaosha Zhang’s mockumentary 𝑀𝑦 𝑆𝑜𝑛 𝑊𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 within China’s rising science fiction cinema.He compares it to Kong Dashan’s 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 & TVFilthyFrank’s 𝐸.𝑇. 2,tracing shared themes. chajournal.blog/2025/11/15/e...