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So, about that Patreon…. - I’ve just started up a Patreon account… Let me tell you about it. Since you’re here reading this, you already know me as the author of the Steerswoman ser...
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Adam Roberts

Winding-up - I have started a substack, *Substack-ships on Fire*. You could subscribe, if you like! I have spread myself across a large number of blogs over the year...
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Christina Scholz

Review: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville - I was super chuffed to review this book. Fans of BRZRKR won’t be disappointed: if you are reading this for some serious splatter and a helicopter chase, yo...
1 year ago
Fran Wilde

What I’ve Read (and Listened) & Loved (& Written) 2023, part 1 - I both enjoy doing these posts and dread forgetting a favorite or several (I know I will, so check back to see if I’ve updated (I will)). I did a lot of re...
2 years ago
Dave Gullen

F&SF, What’s Going On? - There’s something going on at Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, but what it is isn’t clear. Back in 2018 I sold my first story to F&SF and woot, after 14...
2 years ago
Charles Payseur

Regular Sip - Understudies by Priya Sridhar (Hireath Publishing) - *Understudies by Priya Sridhar (Hireath Publishing)* In this follow-up to *Offstage Offerings*, The Haunted Basilio Theater is back, and this time it’s (fr...
2 years ago
JY Yang

Tantric Yoga for Couples: Deepening Connection and Sacred Union - Tantric Yoga, when practiced with a partner, takes on a unique and profound dimension, allowing couples to deepen their connection, cultivate intimacy, a...
2 years ago
June Martin

LOVE/AGGRESSION in early 2024 - My novel of queer community conflict, surreal interior decor, and the terrifying power of total agency or total passivity, is coming out with tRaum Books
3 years ago
Clifton Cachagua

this latest war - last night, to you, for you, i think i referenced a poet on taffeta,& we argued our way into existence. or we arguedon mercy, or god, or elegies. or forgiv...
3 years ago
Rose Lemberg

New poetry book EVERYTHING THAWS is out! + Locus poll - My poetry memoir, EVERYTHING THAWS, is now available from Ben Yehuda Press! This book has been a long time coming, and it contains some of the most persona...
3 years ago
Mazi Nwonwu

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Zeitgeist Spam

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L.S. Johnson

gratitude at the end of the year - This has been … a year. There were ups and downs and nothing went the way I thought it would. Sometimes it went better and sometimes it went worse and the ...
4 years ago
Dolly Garland

Lost Gods author interview: Anna Smith Spark - I wanted to follow up on our gorgeous Lost Gods anthology, a book of SFF short stories, by interviewing some of the authors (okay, whoever was willing). I ...
4 years ago
Madeline Ashby

Overt Intelligence: How do I manage a remote writers’ room? - Note: I received this question via the contact form above. If you have questions that you’d like addressed here, post them there! I reserve the right not...
5 years ago
Dave Hutchison

Yes, We Have No Bananas - There used to be – and you won’t see it any more, for obvious reasons – a certain type of story in the right-wing Press. I suppose different editors had di...
6 years ago
Pippa Jay

Blog Tour: Seneca Element #scifi #ya #giveaway - [image: Seneca Element banner] This is my stop during the blog tour for Seneca Element by Rayya Deeb. This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. Th...
6 years ago
The 1709 Blog

Paris Court of Appeal confirms that Koons’s 'Naked' sculpture infringes copyright in 'Enfants' photograph, rejecting freedom of the arts and parody defences - *Paris Court of Appeal confirms that Koons’s 'Naked' sculpture infringes copyright in 'Enfants' photograph, rejecting freedom of the arts and parody defen...
6 years ago
Juliana Rew

Story in Flight Anthology - This is the website of science fiction and fantasy author Juliana Rew. My science fiction short story, “Laxmi’s Stowaway,” is now appearing in 30th Stree...
6 years ago
Long Pale Road

The Politics of the Immersive Sim - How well can video games address the political and the personal? This essay looks at two Deus Ex games, Dishonored and the 2017 Prey reboot to examine how.
6 years ago
Rantalica

Famous Fan: Nina Horvath - Austrian fan and author, Nina Horvath, took a chance on visiting the Zagreb Eurocon in 2012 after an inspiring talk by Dave Lally somewhere in Austria. I l...
6 years ago
Naomi Foyle

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6 years ago
Actually Aisha

Bulletpoints: Good Omens - (Being a slightly extended version of the accurate but not very nice complaints sent to her friends by A. Subramanian, definitely not a witch, who will sto...
7 years ago
Steven Poore

Damaged Intelligence – out now! - Play the music! Light the lights! Damaged Intelligence, the sixth – sixth! – installment of the very Traveler RPG-inflected and extremely pulpy space opera...
7 years ago
Sophie E Tallis

Meh – Dealing with Despondency. - How you do you deal with those flat moments? Times when you’re just not feeling it, when you’ve lost or misplaced your mojo, find yourself in a rut or a cr...
7 years ago
Susan Gray

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7 years ago
Alix E. Harrow

This Blog is Dead; Long Live the Blog! - Since there hasn’t been a book review in actual years, you probably already suspected this blog was dead. It was murdered by the madcap pace of the last tw...
7 years ago
From Couch to Moon

Monster Portraits (2018) by Del and Sofia Samatar - “How deformed can something get and still be a story?” Oh, Sofia, you have my heart when you say things like that. Many, many apologies to Rose Metal Press...
7 years ago
The Fold of the Artist

Heaven Blogs: The End of Rehearsals - This is technically my day off – my last one until September. After two weeks of rehearsal and months of preparation, Heaven Burns is very nearly ready to ...
7 years ago
Weird Fiction Review

Review: “Lost Objects: Stories” by Marian Womack - These days it is timely to be in mourning. So many people feel adrift and confused as if they have lost something intangible but precious. And perhaps th...
7 years ago
SF Mistressworks

Wayward Moon, Denny DeMartino - Wayward Moon, Denny DeMartino (2001) Review by Ian Sales There’s little point in reviewing the plot of Wayward Moon as it makes little sense and is almost ...
8 years ago
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Pornokitsch: The Exit Interview - We felt that, if other people weren’t going to take the things we love seriously, then it was up to us to do it.
8 years ago
Carrie Patel

How I got into narrative design - Happy New Year, everyone! Let's ring in 2018 with a post for the first time in forever. Thanks to Bekah for getting me going! I know it might be a lot to...
8 years ago
Will Ellwood

44 Fields - My short story 44 Fields is now available to read at Big Echo. You can read it here. If you are interested I have collected a few thoughts here: The openin...
8 years ago
Hal Duncan

Primer and Feastiary - Pre-orders are now open over at my Bandcamp Merch page for A Scruffian Primer and A Scruffian Feastiary, which should start shipping from the 1st of Decemb...
8 years ago
Ruthless Culture

Auto Focus (2002) – Made Free, Yet Everywhere in Chains - Paul Schrader is better known as a writer than a director. Having co-written most of Martin Scorsese’s better-known films, his own directorial efforts have...
8 years ago
Reparations Scholar-Activist

Terms of Reference Afrikan Reparations Transnational Community of Practice (ARTCoP) - Background A Community of Practice is defined as: “A group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better a...
8 years ago
io9

We May Eventually Find Out How the Battle of New York Changed Peter Parker - The Battle of New York at the end of *The Avengers* is a crucial moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the moment the whole world changed. And wh...
9 years ago
Roz Kaveney

Had to be a London poem - LONDON Night in a city that has licked its wounds Two thousand years. And curls around its kits Feeding and grooming heroes cowards wits Lovers and killers....
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Cecily Kane

Fireside Report for 2016? - It’s approaching the point at which I need to start working on a 2016 follow-up to the Fireside report’s statistical analysis if such a thing is to have a ...
9 years ago
Maureen K. Speller

Gene Mapper by Taiyo Fujii - This review first appeared in Interzone 260 in 2015. I didn’t like the book very much, unfortunately. Gene Mapper – Taiyo Fujii, trans. Jim Hubbert. Haikas...
9 years ago
Lucy Kemnitzer

The fifth column, whether it knows it or not - There's some really strange posts that get retweeted over and over on Twitter. It's kind of nauseating to watch. I'm going to try to address them all here ...
9 years ago
Peter Sutton

It's the end of the year post - As ever the end of the year prompts a "best of" round up. I've read 90 books this year (way down on previous years - but due to writing a novel and publish...
9 years ago
Strange Horizons Reviews

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales - (Spoiler: middle managers don’t fare well in a showdown between super-powered assassins.)
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Britny Brooks

10 famous authors on their favorite books - This is your blog post. Blogs are a great way to connect with your audience and keep them coming back. They can also be a great way to position yourself as...
9 years ago
Jim Steel

Interzone 265 - Artwork by Vincent Sammy In Interzone 265‘s Book Zone, Juliet E. McKenna interviews Lisa Tuttle about her new novel, The Curious Case of the Somnambulist a...
9 years ago
Sofia Samatar

when the sick rule the world - Dodie Bellamy's essays have a muscular force. They are *all muscle*, seamless, shimmering. A Dodie essay is constructed like a snake. A Dodie essay requir...
9 years ago
Molly Gloss

JULY 31-AUGUST 4 - CATAMARAN WRITING CONFERENCE Robert Louis Stevenson School Pebble Beach, Calif Fiction workshop daily 9:30-12:30 To register: http://catamaranliteraryreade...
10 years ago
Juliette Wade

Bathing and Laundry - a Dive into Worldbuilding hangout summary - This topic was a natural one to follow on from last week's Bathrooms hangout! After all, sometimes laundry is done in the bathroom... We started with close...
10 years ago
Crystal Huff

International Reading - I’m often asked, recently, what people should be reading that’s non-American or non-British in SFF. Broad topic! Here are some I’ve loved, though. Most of ...
10 years ago
Joanna Walsh

Vertigo is Irish Times Book of the Month - here: "Reviewing the collection in The Irish Times earlier this year, Sarah Gilmartin wrote: “The stories in Vertigo are by turns funny, surreal, modernist...
10 years ago
Kat Howard

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10 years ago
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10 years ago
Ethan Robinson

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10 years ago
Lucy Ann Wade

Flawless - a film - So here it is, our short film Flawless. I hope you enjoy it.
10 years ago
Isabel Yap

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10 years ago
Chie and Weng

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11 years ago
Noel Chidwick

On the Shoreline of Infinity - I’m having a great time at the moment. Mark Toner (musical and artistical friend for many years) and I have decided that the time is ripe to create a Scien...
11 years ago
Yunitsa

- I am moving to Oxford tomorrow and getting over a bout of pneumonia, and it's *Person of Interest* that has left me feeling NOT OKAY. Noooooooo. Crosspost...
11 years ago
Quiche straight from the Bucket

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Not By Its Cover

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11 years ago
Prince Jvstin

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12 years ago
Alexander Ikawah

WHERE THE GRASS HAS GROWN - *WHERE THE GRASS HAS GROWN* *This is one of those weekly writing prompts but I had been reading a tribute to one of my favourite childhood comic artists, ...
13 years ago
Joseph Tomaras

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13 years ago
Tim Maughan

Science Fiction Is Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed – SF and Class - Science fiction author Lavie Tidhar recently asked me to write a guest post on SF and class for his excellent World SF Blog, and the result went live this ...
13 years ago
Kevin McVeigh

The Dread and Fear Of Kings — Richard Paul Russo (Short Fiction pt3) - Under the direction of a decaying king an army progresses across a continent, city by city, entering, occupying and wilfully destroying all that is good th...
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