That’s very kind!
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The nice people at @locusmag.bsky.social have put online my piece about the best sf & fantasy I read in 2025: locusmag.com/feature/the-...
UK publishers, ranked from “most to least likely to produce books whose pages quickly go brown and brittle”:
1) Faber & Faber
[….]
101-200: Literally everyone else.
my brain: Llamas on Chariots
Also: Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent > Heaven Sent/Hell Bent imho
I always assumed they were like an extremely late-stage Roman Empire. They had a couple of generations of putting their hegemony in place, then let themselves get…not-smart.
I think I got from you the description of bone marrow as “meat butter”. Which was presumably your grungecore band.
Read Graham Sleight’s review of THE ROSE FIELD by Philip Pullman: “Pullman’s gifts as a storyteller are fully present here.”
Typos for “Peter Capaldi vanished” and “between 2018-22”.
Surely if it were a Rogger Trap, the bag would also say “Beaujolais Flavour”?
Wonderful news!
Movie pitch: “The Sons of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”. Starring Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams.
Today’s weird hill to die on: _The Looking-Glass War_ is better than _The Spy Who Came In From The Cold_.
Phone use between sunset and sunrise should also:
-rapidly burn calories
-improve eyesight
-obviate the need to do household chores
Dream last night featured a deceased friend dropped into an everyday context. Deceased friend was marked out by wearing a white suit and shirt; I would like to reprimand my subconscious for making such a cliche costume choice.
This is important thought leadership.
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station by John M Ford.
A very happy Gauda Prime Day to all who celebrate!
Today’s weird hill to die on: at 4.15 in the studio version of The Song Remains The Same, Robert Plant definitely sings the word “meatball”.
I didn’t know you advised Rachel Reeves on the Budget.
And what would you say to the argument that The Beatles played a gig in Oldham on Nov 23, having released With the Beatles the previous day, and so Epstein was almost certainly in the UK?
I’d like to see what percentage of a profile’s posts are replies. I think that would be useful information.
Ah, the internet.
Did you just pitch inventing Daleks?
This is the 12yo who was born, I think, about 18 months ago?
I AM NOT GOING TO LOOK UP HOW OLD THAT MOVIE WAS, LEST I CRUMBLE TO DUST
