Jamedi

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🐎🐍 New interview 🐍🐎 I chat to the wittily erudite murder horse maven @omersarae.bsky.social about her new sequel The Harpy Knight, out now from @titanbooks.bsky.social: - Why it's even darker - The new monsters - The slow burn of her poly thruple - Her favorite historical battle And much more!

INTERVIEW: with author Sara Omer

After chatting with Sara Omer last year upon the publication of her debut dark epic fantasy The Gryphon King, we caught up with her again to discuss its sequel

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there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

I will shout from the rooftops that AI can't create art. It just can't. It can make content, but content isn't art. And we’re in an age where we’re told we’re making content and not art - and I think part of the pushback is reminding everyone what ART is and saying you're MAKING ART & NOT CONTENT.

Me: I've been really tired lately and I think it's because I've been suppressing my hater energy The medieval doctor I've time-traveled to see: Ah, an imbalance in your humours, of course. You must post at once to rid yourself of the excess

Flying under the radar is Lee Young-do's The Heart of the Nhaga (translated by Anton Hur). @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social in commentary directing us to her @locusmag.bsky.social review says this: 'At every turn it is both familiar and extremely strange, in a way that I found quite delightful.'

Reviews: <i>Absence</i> and <i>The Heart of the Nhaga</i> at <i>Locus</i>

My June 2026 Locus column had a bit of an informal theme of considering the influence—acknowledged and unacknowledged—on the works under re...

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First day of the month, so a bit of the #JulyRecap. But to be honest, in terms of reading, excellent, many remarkable ones (even if I need to write the review yet). Some: The Demon Star Six Savage Thrones Eight Tastes of Treachery Home Sick

"...and then I found him. Mr Holbrook was standing amid the trees, speaking to whomever might be listening, the mice and voles, the birds and insects. The spell was in his hands and he offered this up. In the dusty darkness, dark dusty words are waiting." @jeffnoon.bsky.social

A photo of a copy of the 2026 Angry Robot edition of Moon Over Brendle by Jeff Noon. The cover art is by Sneha Alexander.