Christopher Marcatili

First ever academic publication is now out!

It's a book review of "Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel" by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips

doi.org/10.1111/taja...

#anthropology

Ursula K. Le Guin — The Unreal and the Real

The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

What a great and great big collection of stories this is. And you can get it DRM-free too, which is nice.

www.ursulakleguin.com/unreal-real

Oh! Thanks for letting me know and sorry about that. We've had some domain issues. While I work on getting that fixed please feel free to email my personal email at chris.marcatili@gmail.com

#authors finishing projects: Ellipsis Editing is taking bookings for the rest of the year.

We offer #proofreading #copyediting & structural #editing to creatives & academics at reasonable prices.

More than 10 years experience editing. UK/US style

#writers #booksky #writingcommunity #amediting

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Fan of Martha Wells or the Murderbot series?

HumbleBundle is selling a whole bundle of her books - with proceeds going to charity.

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#books #booksky #scifi #specfic #sff #booksale #ebooks

I have an issue with the idea that big studios (and lots of players) have that bigger = better. Give me a great hand-crafted game. If it's good, it's good no matter the length.

That actually sounds really cool. How does it work? Is the lore preset, or also procedurally generated?

It's true that submitting your manuscript for publication is a looong process. I submitted one today and the email says *at least* 3 months before reply.

...Doesn't help that I put off submitting it for a month already 😅

#publishing #amwriting #booksky #wrtingcommunity #author #submissions
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Part 17 in my weekly poster series of 2025 #art #punk

Blue Mountains Writers Festival Events for 2024. Buy Tickets Now. — BLUE MOUNTAINS WRITERS' FESTIVAL Full program released 27 August 2024. Genres to be covered include Poetry, Crime, Feminism, Politics, Queer, Comedy, First Nations, History, Social issues, Environment, Fiction & Children’s 80+ speak...

Ooo the Blue Moutains Writers Festival program is out. There's so much cool stuff! The workshop on making historical fiction *weird* looks right up my street and a fantastic panel for #queerwriters too!

#writingcommunity #writersfestivals #bluemountains #writers #fiction #books

🧊🐈This #study of #cubism probably should be illegal to post… but the cat made me do it

@pixeldailies.bsky.social PD #108

#pixelart #aseprite #art #pixel_dailies

Just recently finished reading #graphicnovel 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane... what a ride! The art is gorgeously intricate. The stories are nonsensically weird. I loved every page.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

#graphicnovels #comics #comicsky #scifi

one of my all-time favs. I've bought and given away this book to friends more times than i remember.

look gorgeous!

Herdling - Launch Trailer | pressakey.com Head out on a grand alpine expedition with a herd of loveable beasts. | Adventure von Okomotive / Panic.

Herdling - Launch Trailer | https://pressakey.tube/134266

#Herdling #Indiegame #gamescom2025

Strange Scaffold Publisher Sale! Six Games, Two Years. The Summer of Scaffold begins!

Here's a loving reminder that 8/27 is the last day of our big publisher sale on Steam!

There's truly something for everyone in there.

☀️ store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...

Weird sentience in the forgotten corners of the Net. Love it.

YouTube video by Nogoodnik Games Gutterjacket Pitch Teaser

Since it's #TrailerTuesday here's the super early teaser we put together for a game dev project, Gutterjacket - a #cyberpunk adventure game 🎮

youtu.be/cgzWxpGkdcE

nogoodnikstudio.com

#gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #gameart #sff #scifi #IndieDev #gamewriting #pointandclick #adventuregames

Australia Post halts most parcel postage to US immediately Australia Post is taking the extraordinary step of immediately suspending many forms of shipping to the United States, as a Trump administration tariff deadline approaches on Friday.

You can add Australia to the list as of today.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

2025 Aldiss Award Shortlist The Aldiss Award, an annual award to “acknowledge endeavours in literature and gaming, specifically around world building, in the science fiction & fantasy genre,’’ has announced its inaugural …

Congrats to @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social

and all the finalists for the 2025 Aldiss Award

locusmag.com/2025/08/2025...

YouTube video by PowerhoofTV The Drifter - Dev Diary 17 (Launch Post Mortem)

If you're into #indiegame and #gamedev check out the #devlog for Powerhoof's recently launched The Drifter - excellent #scifi #thriller point-n-click. @dave.powerhoof.com breaks down some of the learning from the game's success (it's great - play it!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P87...

Kinda surprised there's no medieval farming MMORPG out there already.

It is! It's great to try something totally different

I've been a #writer for a while now. For the first time I'm writing for a video game, not a novel or short story. It is *mind bending* to have to think in terms of plot, character, AND player agency. Fun, but challenging.

#bluesky #videogames #gaming

Hi I made an open source game dev webring for the #indieweb. If you make games and run a website please feel free to join. gdt.fireye.coffee

What a great phrase!

An illustration including a silhouette of a man walking down a crowded alleyway, with a dusty orange background and a door to the right. The text 'Gutterjacket' is visible in the center of the image. At the bottom of the image reads the text "A cyberpunk adventure game by Nogoodnik Studio".

Extremely excited to announce that my brother Luke and I are recipients of Screen NSW's Development fund to develop Gutterjacket, a #cyberpunk adventure #videogame

Drawing on classic adventure games with a modern twist.

More: nogoodnikstudio.com

#indiegames #gamedev #scifi #writing

Dancing with Ghosts Field Observations from the Backrooms

Lately I've been thinkin of the backrooms to reality. Y'know, where the dreams of modernity go to die?

Latest blog, Dancing with Ghosts on #backrooms, #hauntology, and other #creepypasta

#anthropology
#digital
#culture
#liminal
#thecaretaker
#culturaltheory
#weirdstudies
#writers
#ideas
#blog

A tile image saying "Their Eyes Were Watching God" with a drawing of an African American woman in a blue dress standing outside, and a man in a shirt and tie nearby.

Zora Neale Hurston is essential reading for US #literature. Did you know she was also an #anthropologist?

Hers might be the most successful, impactful example of ethnographic #fiction. Read my #review on #substack

#booksky #writingcommunity #africanamerican #books #anthropology #ZoraNealeHurston

I'm a *huge* fan of both Nnedi Okorafor and Robert Jackson Bennett... big month!