Chris Farnell

I stand by my take, but this is a valid objection.
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Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

My "The Mummy" take still aligns with Rajita's in Graveyard Orbit.
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

You know you're a 90s kid if a Tory government took away your school milk, and a Labour government are going to take away your child's SEN transport provision.

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

Remember how in the 60s sci-fi always had this joke that people would eat "Food pills" which were the entire meal condensed into a tiny pill, with the joke being that obviously nobody would actually want or enjoy that?

I got the Gloss Book Club.

Ooh, I think I got that one!

Least Thatcher only took away kids' milk. Labour's taking away their SEN transport provision.

Or they're working for Labour.

12 years ago?
Wonder what those kids are up to now....

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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They use AI though so fuck 'em.

But I absolutely cannot understand Badenoch specifically being a fan, because she's not a One Nation Tory, she's a fascist freak.

I can understand a certain type of Tory being a Pratchett fan -- your Ted Heath or Ken Clarke old-school One Nation distrust the Nanny State pull yourself up by your bootstraps nation of shopkeepers and laws type. There's an element of that small-C conservatism throughout his work.

This is the first time I've discovered, after scrolling past it in Gamepass many times, that Oxenfree is not actually a Triangular remake of Super Hexagon I had assumed.

Absolutely. As you always say, "'Not Falling For An Obvious Loophole' is my middle name!"

And so you become known as Louie "Unbeatable" Stowell.

See I always thought you could draw a direct line from Whedon's joke-joke-drama dialogue rhythm to all the Spider-Man and X-Men comics he read as a kid.

See *he* would never say Fuck You Norwich. He can't get enough of us.

Don't approve of any of this. If they're bringing out new Warhammer Quest it should be done properly - with two spreads of random encounter tables in the back end of the latest White Dwarf.

I can only imagine your relief.

I wrote a piece for @wyrdscience.bsky.social's last issue about some of the ways the Discworld sits a little awkwardly with the lefty politics of a lot of its fans, but this is spot on. If you want a clear, unambiguous political message from the Discworld books it's this:

Diversity *wins*.

This might be the most work anyone has ever put into saying "Fuck you, Norwich."

This is stuff that can be done with dramatis personae at the front of the book, or fan wikis or other workaround. I'm not going to trust an LLM to do it.

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Haven't you ever been reading a work of classic literature and thought "I would like to hear some analysis of this from someone with all the reading comprehension of a bag of fortune cookies."
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Reading is a form of engagement, you and the writer are collaborating to create a picture of the world and story the writer describes, the reader is an active participant in discussion with the text, not a mere passive recipient.

Not like that! Right. Sit down, shut the fuck up and eat your text.