Martin Creed's "the lights going on and off" is still one of my favourite artworks of all time. also this interview: interviewer: what does it mean? Creed: well, the lights go on... and then the lights go off.
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That guy from that thing. Too young for a Nobel Prize. THE THREE COFFIN PROBLEM out now.
Following the example of the US president I can go one better: I will give $5000 to anyone who buys THE THREE COFFIN PROBLEM*! * Legal disclaimer: like the US president, I will give you nothing, but at least you'd have bought a good book
Interview in French for the release of La Circonférence du monde!
Éditions Mnémos@editionsmnemos.bsky.social · yesterday🌍ENTRETIEN "La science-fiction consiste à essayer de comprendre le système du monde, même si nous échouons parfois." 👉 urlz.fr/vhwx Le 16 septembre, plongez dans La Circonférence du monde de Lavie Tidhar, une œuvre singulière mêlant science-fiction, roman noir et métafiction !
How is AI so good at sending spam and so bad at, like, detecting it? You'd think Google would be able to block this endless flood of identical book spam nonsense by now, unless they just don't want to.
I just had to have my first call with an AI customer service, and then it said, "Cheers". <shudder>
£20 for one of my most limited editions ever (just 60 signed hardcovers) seems like a steal, to be honest. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
I am very excited for T.I.M. Wirkus' A BAD DEAL IN MORMON LAND. It's out 1st October though. I must wait a whole month! Ah, those halcyon days when I was a columnist for the Washington Post and could just make books appear...
Are there any examples of contemporary future histories? Or has it gone out of fashion?
Signed a contract today, which is always nice. But this article I'm supposed to be writing isn't going to write itself, sadly. Though now I quite like the idea of a self-writing essay. Maybe it could also self-destruct on reading.
This is my favourite award. I was nominated twice but never won it, despite writing some of the most brilliant alternate histories of the 21st century, but the beauty of the Sidewise is that you DID win it in an alternate reality!
2025 Sidewise Awards Winners - Locus
The winners for the 2025 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were announced August 31, 2026 at LAcon V. Long Form WINNER: Ten Incarnations of Rebellion, Vaishnavi Patel (Ballantine) amazon / booksho...
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anyway i should probably go work, these books don't edit themselves you know
I have a special portal in my house. When you open it, you can go outside.
Now, you write something this magnificent, it's ok for you to look down on other writers and judge them
Lavie Tidhar@lavietidhar.bsky.social · last wk.Though joking aside, the MAROR trilogy is around 347,000 words so, I don't know, that should probably sound quite impressive if only anyone ever read it.
Though joking aside, the MAROR trilogy is around 347,000 words so, I don't know, that should probably sound quite impressive if only anyone ever read it.
sorry, i had to go do the dishes. this will probably become the subject of my next 1200pp state of the nation epic.
I'm going to open a cozy bookshop dedicated solely to books about cozy bookshops
I do - and this is no lie - have a hankering to write a Warhammer 40,000
I'm looking at the Locus Forthcoming Books section. That's a lot of forthcoming books. I assume some of them might even be good.
My epic literary fantasy series will be IN SEARCH OF LOST WHEELS OF TIME
I feel that I, too, should write a 1200pp novel to follow the current fashion.
which is the better suffix for your made up genre, -futurist or -punk
I'm going to make schnitzels. I'm a schnitzelfuturist.