Ed Morland
@edmorland.bsky.social
Mostly lurking but enjoy the sudden bursts of sport, SFF, board games or far more likely reposted content. (he/him)
We have made our initial goal! Onward to stretch goals! (Also if you are a sick freak that likes video content, please click through to our first update where @pegasusunder.bsky.social has a rad video answering some questions about THESE HOLLOW BODIES)
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 4d agoLooks like we are one Club Serpentine paperback backer away from meeting our initial goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
A stunningly brilliant book, one of my favourite recent fantasy books. There are very few queer people on earth who don't, in dark moments, wonder what life would be like if they'd been a bit more brave or, on the other side, a bit less reckless. This book distills that ache to its essence.
Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.
Enjoyed Critical Friends as always but particularly Abigail's point about the "difference between an award you argue with and an award you distrust." As someone with the perhaps almost tragic middlebrow tendency to enjoy awards it's interesting to reflect on my changing relationships with them.
Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 3d ago🎛️ Crank up the volume, it's Critical Friends! 🏆 Uh-oh, it's some more awards chat. @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social and @amritesh.bsky.social talk to me about the Clarke, the Hugo, the Booker, the Le Guin ... ⁉️ What relationship between critic and award, award and reader? 🤔 Also: marketing. Again.
Book Review: Wickhills by Premee Mohamed Manticores, vampyrs, and spies challenge a magical city @klaxoncomms.com has our review at the blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/book...
Book Review: Wickhills by Premee Mohamed
Manticores, vampyrs, and spies challenge a magical city Premee Mohamed’s Wickhills is a John le Carré-style spy story that manages to bot...
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It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.
Rascal News@rascal.news · 3d agoState of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
I had the now-traditional Clarke Award discussion at NoaF again this year, and (possibly as is clear from the length) had a great time chatting to Dan about all of it. Come for the jokes, stay for the book opinions.
Nerds of a Feather@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Arthur C. Clarke Award 2026: A Shortlist Discussion Dan Hartland ( @danhartland.bsky.social ), who is Reviews Editor at Strange Horizons, joins our @chloroformtea.bsky.social for a meaty discussion of the shortlist: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/the-... #blueskybooks #booksky
"Are you working?" "Yes." "Is it on your work?" "...no." "Is it 2000 words on your first skim through indie-TTRPG darling Stonetop?" "Leave me alone." #ttrpg #indiettrpg
The Skim: Stonetop - Old Men Running The World
It is this organ’s firm and unyielding belief that one cannot review an RPG from reading it. You can review a manual, certainly, but you’re not reviewing the
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2026: A Shortlist Discussion Dan Hartland ( @danhartland.bsky.social ), who is Reviews Editor at Strange Horizons, joins our @chloroformtea.bsky.social for a meaty discussion of the shortlist: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/the-... #blueskybooks #booksky
The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2026: A Shortlist Discussion
Awards season rolls around once more, and so it is time for our annual discussion of the Clarke Award shortlist. The Arthur C. Clarke Award...
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okay, time for some thoughts about The Works of Vermin, in no especial order
Our Lord of the Rings close read continues, and it's all getting a bit epic now. I go a little quote-mad, and get a bit too into Denethor, in this episode.
A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 18 – Bangers Akimbo
This is the closest I could find to the image I had in my head of the Púkel-men It continues. This time, we covered III – The Muster of Rohan and IV – The Siege of Gondor. Seems pretty …
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Well, when I want a break from SFF or contemporary LitFic I might have something to keep me occupied for a bit...
Happy Friday everyone, as promised, here is my personal theory on this. I think Redwall takes place in our world, after an apocalyptic event of the nuclear variety caused rapid but varied growth of all animals, including humans, leading to our extinction and their mental development. Okay? 🧵
Nora@lighthousenora.bsky.social · 2w agoi would love your historical architecture take on the relative size of redwall abbey to its natural surroundings and inhabitants. like are we talking a tiny abbey in a tiny forest or what
🕙🕥🕚Today is the FINAL DAY for this charity bundle supporting designer Rae Nedjadi after a serious illness and extended hospital stay. Get over $285 worth of games for just $25! A terrific collection of TTRPGs, and 98% of each purchase goes directly to Rae. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
An exciting lunchtime of theatre booking complete. Off to see Simon Russell Beale and Rupert Everett in No Man's Land and also booked to see Jumpers which is a Stoppard I've never seen before.
My review of A Trade of Blood, the latest fantasy mystery in Robert Jackson Bennett's Shadow of the Leviathan series, is up at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social. Like the first two books, great fun and expert character work combined with genuinely interesting social speculation. Great stuff.
Book Review: A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett
Meat is murder This is a book about murder and forced labour as well as the cost of beef. And the last is quite probably the most important....
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They put up stained glass windows again at Gen Con!
Like just about everyone else, I have opinions about Nolan’s Odyssey. Read all about it if you’re not Odysseyed out.
Nerds of a Feather@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · last wk.To Burn the Walls of Troy; To Break the World Entire - Christopher Nolan's Odyssey Another take on mythology's most complicated man, and the world he lived in A very rich and detailed piece from @chloroformtea.bsky.social at the NOAF blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/to-b...
"Modern vernacular fantasy ideas get read backwards into a text that is perceived as having originated them but which doesn’t really contain them" is such a good way to put that phenomenon, holy shit. I've always wanted to find the right way to articulate that point.
To Burn the Walls of Troy; To Break the World Entire - Christopher Nolan's Odyssey Another take on mythology's most complicated man, and the world he lived in A very rich and detailed piece from @chloroformtea.bsky.social at the NOAF blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/to-b...
To Burn the Walls of Troy; To Break the World Entire - Christopher Nolan's Odyssey
Another take on mythology's most complicated man, and the world he lived in. Before I get into the review, a quick PSA. After I had already ...
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The Great Tolkien Reread says "Farewell to Lórien" today, giving me an excuse to talk about how LOTR treats magic, and specifically the power of the Ring, and how both are rooted in religion in a way that most fantasy readers are not accustomed to. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Great Tolkien Reread: Farewell to Lórien
Illustration by Morgan Rogers , 2020 'Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder. 'I do not know what you mean by ...
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and yes to get more granular we read 163 books, scanned another 137 or so for call-ins. sometimes these excerpts were a few pages, sometimes they were 50. fatigue definitely becomes a factor, as does the fact that it is more difficult to enter the headspace or atmosphere of certain books in one day.
May We Feed the King is one of my favourite books from this year so delighted to see it make the Booker Longlist. It's literary fiction that contains elements that feel almost as speculatively historical, engaging with what we can know of or how we receive history. Really it's worth a read.
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · last wk.‘We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone’ We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
Archita's a fellow writer from Kolkata who recently lost her father & is the sole caregiver of her mother who's suffering from cancer & needs extensive and very costly treatment. She's all alone and struggling to bear the costs. Please share widely & donate if you can:
Archita Mittra@architamittra.bsky.social · 2w agoNeither my physical nor mental health is great, but I'm NOT giving up. I urgently need funds for our healthcare, so please circulate/donate if you can, and if you're able to help out in any other way, pls DM. You can donate via Gpay/UPI QR code (if you're in India) or ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/architamittra
I read all the Hugo novella nominees; I was, I’m afraid, a little disappointed. He’s my roundup talking about why.
Nerds of a Feather@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · last wk.Reading the Hugos: Best Novella 2026 A roundup of this year's novella nominees. @chloroformtea.bsky.social has our roundup at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/hugo... #booksky #blueskybooks
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
Reading the Hugos: Best Novella 2026 A roundup of this year's novella nominees. @chloroformtea.bsky.social has our roundup at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/hugo... #booksky #blueskybooks
Reading the Hugos: Best Novella 2026
A roundup of this year's novella nominees. It's Hugo time bay-beeeeeee. I love awards season. There's a lot of reasons for that, but honest...
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HELLO I better see everybody AND THEIR RICH FRIENDS supporting Neon Hemlock because WHOMST ELSE IS OUT THERE publishing such fine novellas? novellae? NOVELLOSITIES. NOBODY, THAT'S WHOMST
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 2w agoPre-order now in Vol. 7 of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
Happy Trans+ Pride Day to London and a very merry fuck you to transphobes! I wish each and every person the day that they deserve.
