I have a few of those old pocket sized editions too, they’re fab. Hard agree on the Von Bek volume, first in the series and (I think) the last written
25.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have a few of those old pocket sized editions too, they’re fab. Hard agree on the Von Bek volume, first in the series and (I think) the last written
25.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He thought they’d be better presented in publication order—the supposed narrative sequence across the 14 books is pretty spurious, to be fair!
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A white male hand holding a copy of Michael Moorcock's 'Count Brass' in a messy office.
'Count Brass' is the last of Michael Moorcock's disavowed 'Tale of The Eternal Champion' series: the Hero with a Thousand Faces meets its mystical Apocalypse. Loosely written, but fun and thought-provoking.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f179...
#fantasy #eternalchampion #michaelmoorcock #books
A white male hand holding up a copy of 'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan.
'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan is a wonderful wordless comic, that uses surreal fantasy worldbuilding to explore the immigrant experience. He's an incredible artist and it's a thing of great beauty.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1900...
#comics #illustration #books #booksky #shauntan #thearrival
A white male hand holding up a copy of 'The Works of Vermin' by Hiron Ennes.
I'm looking for my socks, as they've been knocked off by 'The Works of Vermin' by Hiron Ennes. A baroque, New-weird-ish, twisty, beautifully written dark fantasy in which nothing is what it seems.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5092...
#fantasy #newweird #books #booksky @hironennes.bsky.social
A white male hand holding a copy of 'The Essential Cuisines of Mexico' by Diana Kennedy in front of a cluttered sitting room.
'The Essential Cuisines of Mexico' combines the 3 best known books by Diana Kennedy, the grand dame of Mexican food-writing in English. A fascinating, mouth-watering read.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a4c7...
#food #mexico #mexicanfood #dianakennedy #theessentialcuisinesofmexico #books #booksky
A white male hand holding a copy of 'William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever' by John Higgs, in a hotel room.
'Wiliam Blake Now' by John Higgs is a short, erudite and inspiring argument for the continuing relevance of Britain's most contested poet.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/68a1...
#blake #poetry #art #johnhiggs #williamblakenow #books #booksky
That’s the kind of coffee making equipment I like to see ☕️
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A copy of 'The Lotus Empire' by Tasha Suri, held by a white male hand in front of some audio equipment.
Tasha Suri's 'The Lotus Empire' vol 3 of her 'Burning Kingdoms' trilogy, was less involving than the earlier books for me, but still some of the best-written, most vivid contemporary epic fantasy I've read.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c721...
#fantasy #tashasuri #thelotusempire #books #booksky
In 'The Mark', Fríða Ísberg uses some well-drawn characters and a low-key SF premise to explore some important ideas around the cultural divisions currently troubling wealthy societies. I enjoyed it a lot.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/158d...
#sciencefiction #themark #fríðaísberg #books #booksky
A white male hand holding a copy of 'Cloud Labour' by Sabrina Huang, translated by Lin King, in a messy office.
I picked up this book on a whim in Hive Books in Norwich. It's a beautiful chapbook containing a single, exquisitely wrought SF short-story in translation. Lucid, polyvalent and ambiguous.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a0b1...
#sf #sciencefiction #sabrinahuang #linking @strangerspress.bsky.social
A white male hand holding up a copy of 'The Beginning Place' by Ursula K. Le Guin, above a plaid blanket .
I'm exploring some of Ursula K Le Guin's lesser known books, and loving them. 'The Beginning Place' is a beautiful, subtle and perceptive allegorical portal fantasy about the passage into adulthood.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7690...
#fantasy #ursulakleguin #thebeginningplace #books #booksky
I do find it funny to be identified with the group that can’t be grouped 😂
15.12.2025 06:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m reading ‘The Beginning Place’ by Ursula K. Le Guin. A portal fantasy, as beautiful and deceptively simple as all of her writing.
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A piece of paper with visual notes attempting to distinguish between conjunctions, demonstratives and indirect objects
I found some notes from when I was last making up a language. I can’t remember what I was stressing about, but it reminded me what a slippery business saying things is when you start trying to pin it down…
#languageconstruction #conlang #conlanging #linguistics #grammar
My listening age was 90 🤣
04.12.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think a lot of people who think that will turn out to be otroverts. It’s worth a read, or there’s an online quiz: www.othernessinstitute.com/the-othernes...
02.12.2025 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1I might be. But I’m not like all those other otroverts…
02.12.2025 19:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Let’s form a club and then refuse to join it 🤣
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A white male hand holding a copy of 'The Gift of Not Belonging' by Rami Kaminski, in front of a curtain with a 1950s style pattern.
This book is about people like me—probably the first time a psychologist has identified my 'type' of person. It should be a fascinating read for anyone.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9ea5...
#psychology #personality #otrovert #nonfiction #ramikaminski #thegiftofnotbelonging #books #booksky
Wow! I mean, that could be amazing, but also, how the hell would you film such an internal narrative?
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A white male hand holding up a copy of 'The Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks in a messy office.
Forty years late, I've finally read Iain Banks's 'The Wasp factory'—turns out to be as good or better than anything he wrote later. Just wow (but bring your puke bag).
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/cfa9...
#fiction #iainbanks #thewaspfactory #books
This is 50% of my job at the library. Library user comes to desk, says ‘X tech doesn’t work’, I come and watch while they show me, and it works perfectly.
17.11.2025 09:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
N.K. Jemisin Named SFWA Grand Master locusmag.com/2025/11...
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I've just discovered this wonderful periodical, which publishes fiction in the format of the research abstract. My life is a little bit more complete!
journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog
#fiction #shortfiction #microfiction #imaginaryresearch
A white male hand holding up a copy of A.G. Riddle's 'Quantum Radio' in front of a messy living room.
'Quantum Radio' by A.G. Riddle is a fast, entertaining SF thriller, but I couldn't buy into its plot, characters, or SF elements, and the prose is so pedestrian it kept booting me out of the story.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/73e5...
#sf #sciencefiction #agriddle #quantumradio #books #booksky
A white male hand holding a copy of Michael Moorcock's 'Earl Aubec' in an airport.
Michael Moorcock's 'Earl Aubec' is a bulky grab-bag of his short fiction, written over several decades, and although the standard is patchy, it contains some real gems.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1825...
#eternalchampion #michaelmoorcock #earlaubec #fantasy #sf #sff #books #booksky
Checking in for flights on Saturday, researching how to sell a property in Spain, refining my already advanced avoidance strategies. Some music practice and writing if time. Went for a run yesterday and now I feel as exhausted as I did when I first got home from WFC…
06.11.2025 08:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And it's time for the #WorldFantasyAwards2025 presented by Ellen Datlow. Ellen is thanking the jurors. This year’s judges are James Brogden, Jessica Day George, Lee Murray, Jonathan Oliver, and Molly Tanzer. For more information, see the WFC website.
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A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad is going to read him a bedtime story. First panel: Calvin’s dad, scanning a bookshelf: “What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except—“ Calvin, from bed, excited: “The Voynich Manuscript!” Second panel: Calvin’s dad, deeply exasperated: “NO! No Voynich Manuscript tonight! We’ve tried to decipher that book a million times!” Calvin, yelling: “I want the Voynich Manuscript!” Third panel: Calvin’s dad, trying to reason with him: “Look, you *know* how the story goes! You’ve memorized the whole thing! It’s completely unreadable!” Calvin: “I want mysterious glyphs and sigils!” Fourth panel: Calvin, in bed and staring wide-eyed into the dark: “Wow, the story was different *that* time!” Hobbes, also in bed and staring: (a long string of incomprehensible characters).
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