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ICYMI…

The ebook is still on sale, and in Canada too!

Take the 5 min. I access everything except slack, the public library, medical device monitor, and email from my browser these days

Radioactive Wastelands and Also Legal Wrangling: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s A City on Mars - Reactor Real talk about how we can settle space — and if it's really a good idea.

Frank, funny, and incredibly well-researched, "A City on Mars" offers real talk about the work that needs to be done before humans can settle space–and offers some new angles for science fiction to explore:

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Hello Evening Crowd - a host of haunting tales for you tonight! Tis the season

Just had my author copies of this beautiful book through. Definitely for the dedicated collectors but the art by @alexries.com (cover) and @simonroy.bsky.social (interior) is so beautiful.

From Greta Thunberg : I heard Donald Trump once again has expressed his very flattering opinions on my character, and I appreciate his concerns for my mental health. To Trump : I would kindly receive any recommendations you might have to deal with these so called “anger management problems” since - judging by your impressive track record - you seem to be suffering from them too.

I don’t care what anyone says about her, I think she’s fab.

Lucy reviews Toby Vieira's speculative pandemic novel THE UNDROWNED:

"Vieira is the master of “show don’t tell,” penning powerful emotions into the mundane"

Read more: tinyurl.com/2hekk4rx

@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social

Hello Lunchtime Crowd - a suitable set of haunting tales for you today!

Book Review: All that We See or Seem, by Ken Liu A challenging novel that fearlessly faces a world full of AI Julia Z is a hacker, and a good one. She has a mysterious past, but now, with t...

Book Review: All that We See or Seem, by Ken Liu
A challenging novel that fearlessly faces a world full of AI

www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book...

@princejvstin.com tackles the book at the NOAF blog

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

in which Dan very controversially claims that “a novella is just a novel that is slightly short”

Proof whatever the author's intentions, a reader can miss them.

hey are you a fabled artifact about to be stolen by historian and cryptographer benjamin franklin gates portrayed by nic cage, because i think you are a national treasure

For the first time, I encountered a story that echoed my own inchoate fantasies and preoccupations, that expressed ideas and philosophies I barely understood in articulate terms, but which I felt with a fundamentalist zeal.

A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts And Dark Matters by Eric j Guignard — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank the author for a copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Cemetery Dance Published - Out Now Price – £15.04 paperback £3.70 ebook ...

New Review - a timely collection of unnerving tales from diners, roller skate rinks the civil war and more await in A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts And Dark Matters by Eric J Guignard out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

Review - The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss The Second Chance Cinema Thea Weiss HarperCollins, 7 October 2025 Available as: PB, 320pp, audio, e Source: Advance copy ISBN(PB): 978000876...

Happy publication day to
@writtenbythea.bsky.social for #romance The Second Chance Cinema, from @harpercollins.bsky.social. A #magic midnight cinema? A couple with unacknowledged second thoughts? A chance to make it all right? A beautiful read? Yes! bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/10/revi...

So so much!

A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts And Dark Matters by Eric j Guignard — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank the author for a copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Cemetery Dance Published - Out Now Price – £15.04 paperback £3.70 ebook ...

New Review - a timely collection of unnerving tales from diners, roller skate rinks the civil war and more await in A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts And Dark Matters by @ericjguignard.bsky.social out now and highly recommended! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

This is how I run my newsletter! There are a lot of links I find via social media feeds in each issue, but that's often pure luck that I saw it. Sources with dedicated RSS feeds mean it will definitely come across my desk at some point. I use Inoreader on the basic plan (for now) and it's solid.

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Thank to everyone who has shared and donated. It’s crap how you don’t get sick pay for at least six months. Especially when they sent me home when I went in after the first week. They could see I was still broken.

Weaveworld's Magic: How Clive Barker's Novel Fights Fascism And Celebrates Queer Identity: A My Life In Horror - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website Clive Barker's Weaveworld is more than a fantasy novel, it's a sacred text of queer awakening and a radical critique of fascism. and why its celebration of magic and desire forever alters its readers.

Weaveworld’s Magic: How Clive Barker’s Novel Fights Fascism and Celebrates Queer Identity: A My Life in Horror

I’m honoured to work with such great writers. This essay from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social is immense and a must read.

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In our latest critical book-club, we talk about Melissa Scott's BURNING BRIGHT (@torbooks.bsky.social), a queer cyberpunk/space opera about political machinations and online role-playing games, with author Ursula Whitcher!

Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth Dan Hartland is joined by Redfern Jon Barrett and Nileena Sunil to discuss those novels that feel too sure or not long enough: what's behind that feeling we have that a text is lacking something, o…

📣 NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS!

In a new ep of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social SFF criticism podcast, I talk with @redfernjon.bsky.social and Nileena Sunil about books that might be longer, and others that could be shorter.

How to read a text that offers too little, or too much, stuff? Some ideas.

A photo of copies of The Red Planet by Simon Morden, It's the End of the World by Adam Roberts and The Secret Life of Fungi by Aliya Whiteley

I have, in my time, asked SF writers to write non-fiction. The results have been, without exception, both brilliant and entertaining.

It's almost as if excellent SF writers are excellent writers full stop.

Aliya Whiteley
@adamroberts.bsky.social
@comrademorden.bsky.social

Now includes @gaystheword.bsky.social book launch pics.

Finished and bowled over by When There Are Wolves Again by @catamaroon.bsky.social a truly beautiful science fiction story exploring the potential future of the twenty first century - review to come but this was a special read you need in your life

Hello Evening Crowd - horror meets romance for you today!

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Today's Classic Cover of the Day is Brian Jacques' Redwall! Troy Howell illustrated the US editions of the series, including the 10th and 20th anniversary editions of Redwall