I don’t listen to as much guitar-based music as I used to, but the new Parts & Labor release is nice and crunchy and noisy
Wm Henry Morris
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gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him [also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin] frozenseapress.com
Ever think: even if I choose a pseudonym, which I don’t really want to do, I’m still never going to have as good of an author name as Ford Madox Ford or Simone de Beauvoir
In five years the internet is going to just be guys and LLM agents arguing with each other on reddit
Cover reveal Ebook preorder towards the end of the month(ish) No print preorder b/c KDP doesn't work that way (sorry)
Pizzas are streetcars and subways. Burgers are cars.
Cover reveal Ebook preorder towards the end of the month(ish) No print preorder b/c KDP doesn't work that way (sorry)
Tried to order this new, but my order got canceled after four months, so I picked it up used
New science fiction franchise that's just a school of Arts & Sciences that is fully staffed
I know one of you wants to review “Strange Hybrids: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, and the Contemporary Novel”
Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 2d agoCalls for Reviews & Essays: November 2026
effie produced on one of the tracks on the new kiiiikiii ep & so now it won’t be only Yves & ARTMS releasing the only good hyperpop kpop (listen, sometimes I feel compelled to share my girldad-derived takes—but also I’ve been tuning in for effie drops since they were getting under 200 views on yt)
My yearly awards process is this: 1. rely on others to tell me which Clarke short list titles to strongly consider reading 2. resolve to read the entire Le Guin short list and only end up reading one to three of them 3. gripe about the one novel I feel should’ve been a Hugo finalist but wasn’t
Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 2d 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.
Hello, friends. It’s been a long time coming but there’s finally a new episode of #HeyItsMe. In this one, recorded back in November, Rachel and I talk about the messiness of grief, and about making art out of life. www.heyitsmepodcast.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 21: Life Is Messy — Hey, It's Me
Rachel and Mike talk about the messiness of grief, and about making art out of life.
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It’s the first Monday of August, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. feat. long thoughts on Andor, new Indian SFF, a Joanna Russ novella, and more. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this in your inbox fortnightly!
Words for Worlds - Issue 128
Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.
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Or to phrase it a different way: given the thematics of the book the uneasy (but not overly awkward) blending of the genre and prose styles made sense to me. But I’d need to re-read to strongly defend that, and it’ll be interesting to see what Park’s next novel does at the prose style level.
Wm Henry Morris@wmhenrymorris.com · 2d agoTwo thoughts on Luminous: 1. the prose style rode the line between genre workmanlike and literary, which is exactly what a novel like this should do 2. I would not have wanted the plotting to be any more taut than what it is; it’s by no means shaggy, but it also leaves some needed less ends
Two thoughts on Luminous: 1. the prose style rode the line between genre workmanlike and literary, which is exactly what a novel like this should do 2. I would not have wanted the plotting to be any more taut than what it is; it’s by no means shaggy, but it also leaves some needed less ends
_Nobody can live in perpetual deferment of their sense of selfhood, or free themselves from bondage without a strongly affirmative consciousness of who they are_
every man once he becomes of a certain age:
David B Hobbs@deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 3d agoevery day I open my phone and discover a new brand that makes $650 chore coats
Paranoid reading is necessary because all authors are in fact lying to you (about everyone in their books not being horses)
The Otherwise Award takes recommendations from the public. If you've read something that you think should be considered by the jury, please fill out the form here: otherwiseaward.org/award/2026-o...
2026 Otherwise Awards Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Awards jurors to consider!
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_Nobody can live in perpetual deferment of their sense of selfhood, or free themselves from bondage without a strongly affirmative consciousness of who they are_
if you ever hear any rumors about me, don't believe them unless the phrase "personal terms are likely to create a major obstacle" is included
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3d agoyou may not like it but this is what peak transfer journalism performance looks like www.caughtoffside.com/2026/08/02/s...
Please send me all your film criticism that is (actually) smarter than the films, esp. if it’s smarter than Nolan and co. films. Also: bad faith is bad but so is good faith—where are the agnostic critics? I want to read them.
David Sims@davidlsims.bsky.social · 4d agoif I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
The SpaceX prospectus may be remembered as the definitive SciFi text of the 2020s: "not about imaginative expansion beyond the constraints of present society, as many defenders of the genre have long argued; it is, rather, another means of enforcing limits on what’s possible."
2026: A SpaceX Odyssey
The Empathy Aliens Are Not Coming To Save Us
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editing editing editing editing eddittinngg eD-i-tiNG edditshredditpatchitfileitfixit ting ting ting ting
People love RSS for the same reasons hikers love a good path. It isn't the packed dirt or gravel they're fond of, but the view it takes them through.
Here’s one I’ve been pondering: is the use of aesthetic as an adjective the ultimate triumph of design over art? Or is it just a new multi-purpose word for something good—a “rad” or “cool”?
Steen Comer (Weeping Gorilla Era)@mediapathic.bsky.social · 5d agoOk who else wants to be a part of our budding neologism scene on bsky? So far there are at least two of us!
Ok who else wants to be a part of our budding neologism scene on bsky? So far there are at least two of us!
Tiny Brontosaurus@tinybronto.bsky.social · 5d agowait is there a neologism scene on here