Oliver Arditi

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 🤣

I 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...

I might be. But I’m not like all those other otroverts…

Let’s form a club and then refuse to join it 🤣

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?

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.

N.K. Jemisin Named SFWA Grand Master locusmag.com/2025/11...

Journal of Imaginary Research abstract works of fiction // fictional abstracts

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…

And 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.

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).

A white male hand holding a copy of Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' in front of a dirty cottage window and some flowers.

I loved @emilymandel.bsky.social 's 'Sea of Tranquility' so much I'll just sound gushy if I try to say why. Hard recommend.

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/03e8...

#sf #scifi #sciencefiction #seaoftranquility

You’ll see me! (I saw this post in the Discord channel that reposts everything from Bluesky that mentions WFC25 and came here to say hi 👋)

A copy of Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Eye of the Heron' held by a white male hand in front of a bookcase bearing some other Le Guin books.

Le Guin's 'The Eye of the Heron' is a beautiful fable, that uses SF mechanics to explore some political ideas, through her usual beautiful prose and heartrending character portraits.

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ed71...

#sf #sciencefiction @ursulakleguin.com #theeyeoftheheron #books #booksky

A copy of 'The World We Make' by N.K. Jemisin, on a table, partially shadowed.

'The City We Became' is a contemporary urban fantasy which concludes @nkjemisin.bsky.social 's duology mapping good vs. evil onto tolerance vs. the alt right. It's a lot of fun!

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/422a...

#fantasy #urbanfantasy #theworldwemake #books #booksky @nkjemisin.bsky.social

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Yeah no, that’s normal. (Isn’t it?)

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 235:
Stop equating wealth and fame with your value as a writer. Some of the writers we now admire were unknown in their lifetimes; just as many once-bestselling writers are now forgotten and unread. Making good art is not the same as making good money.

A white male hand holding a copy of 'Under The Moon' by E.M. Faulds in front of some stringed instruments.

I absolutely loved 'Under The Moon', a short, beautifully written SFFH story collection by E.M. Faulds. Small in size, enormous (sublunary) in scope, and frequently moving.

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/71eb...

#fantasy #sf #horror #sffh #UnderTheMoonEMF #books @bethkesh.bsky.social

A white male hand holding a copy of 'The City We Became' by N.K. Jemisin

'The City We Became' is a wonderfully written contemporary urban fantasy that redraws the map of good vs. evil to reflect the state of early 21st century politics.

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/623b...

#fantasy #urbanfantasy #nkjemisin #thecitywebecame #books #booksky

I miss you too! I wanted to find a way to tell the story of how your music led to our friendship, and how big of a deal this record is to me, but that character limit is a killer 🤣 I posted on Mastodon too and it’s clearer there

Workbench Recordings Vol. 1, by James Beaudreau 7 track album

Around 2011 @jamesbeaudreau.bsky.social sent me three CDs. Beautiful artefacts from which came lasting friendship. He recently released a solo guitar record, & it's a thing of strange, true beauty.

Old reviews: olidabass.blogspot.com/2011/03/albu...

jamesbeaudreau.bandcamp.com/album/workbe...

I enjoyed @annaleen.bsky.social ’s latest column in @newscientist.com It reminded me how weird it was to go out into the real world in the 1990s, after my upbringing in a feminist bubble, to discover that the battle for gender equality wasn’t completely done and dusted!

#wheresmyjetpack #feminism

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