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Austin Beeman πŸ·πŸ“·βœˆοΈπŸΎ

@austinbeeman.bsky.social

Wine | Travel | Film Photography Creator: β€œUnderstanding Wine” Video Show. 100+ Episodes. 1M+ views MBA Wine Mgmt. 25yrs in Wine Biz. Importer | Distributor | Retail | Sales | Marketing www.austinbeeman.com

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Review: The Universe Box. by Michael Swanwick. 2026 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews Sentient Disney-ish robots escape the Park. Refurbished combat drone gives a retired veteran purpose. A boy is born in a female only future. Corrupt elite party on a technological cloud above Manhat...

Michael Swanwick's new collection comes out in two days : The Universe Box. Here is my ARC review of the book.

www.shortsf.com/reviews/univ...

#arc #sff #sciencefiction #booksky #bookreview

01.02.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nightfall and Other Stories. by Isaac Asimov. 1969 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews An essential snapshot of the genre’s greatest figure - Isaac Asimov - and contains arguably the genre’s greatest story - Nightfall. But not without some problems.

First #sciencefiction #bookreview of 2026. A classic collection from Isaac Asimov. #sff www.shortsf.com/reviews/nigh...

07.01.2026 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People believe that it is the quality of a wine that sells the wine. They forget that that is something that sales people and marketers convinced them was true. #wine

21.12.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brandon & Aimee Miller | Both Hands

Hi Friends. I have a favor to ask. My sister and her husband can't have children and are trying #adoption. Did you know this costs around $40,000?!?
If you can spare $10 please sponsor them.
If you can't spare the money, please share this fundraising link

bothhands.org/project/mill...

03.12.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau Posters. Duboeuf didn't invent Beaujolais Nouveau, but he almost single-handedly created the modern craze and global marketing phenomenon around it.

22.11.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What’s the cheapest bottle of wine that has ever made your genuinely happy? #wine

19.11.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

What’s the most chaotic place you’ve ever secretly opened a bottle of wine? #wine

18.11.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Review: The 1982 Annual World's Best SF. Wollheim β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews The 1982 Annual World’s Best SF. Rated 85% Positive. Story Score 3.9 OF 5 10 Stories : 2 great / 6 good / 1 average / 1 poor / 0 DNF It is interesting to see in Wollheim’s introduction many o...

Another Review from one of my favorite SF anthology lines. Great work from Michael Shea and Ted Reynolds. Good stories from James Tiptree Jr, CJ Cherryh, John Varley, and more. www.shortsf.com/reviews/1982... #sciencefiction #scifi #bookreview

14.11.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It is successful because of how it uses language, translation, and reader privilege to put attention on how we turn memory, mysticism, and experience into story, history, and faith.

06.11.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Window Boy is slowly terrifying with all the real horror happening just beyond your vision. Uncertain Sons gives hints of Gene Wolfean literary world building.

05.10.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The joy of Thermo’s 2nd Law. πŸ‘΄πŸ»

05.10.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a great collection. Can’t wait to read more from you as your career grows

21.09.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha. β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews A boy’s secret kindness masks betrayal by a monstrous outcast; survivors gamble with a lying god; balloon titans ravage the land. A chained mutant brother shatters family rituals, a demon devours old ...

Thomas Ha is a major new talent in science fiction and I look forward to a future full of his short fiction. My review of his first collection. #scifi #bookreview #booksky #arc
www.shortsf.com/reviews/unce...

19.09.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha. β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews A boy’s secret kindness masks betrayal by a monstrous outcast; survivors gamble with a lying god; balloon titans ravage the land. A chained mutant brother shatters family rituals, a demon devours old ...

New review of @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS courtesy @austinbeeman.bsky.social It's a good one!

www.shortsf.com/reviews/unce...

19.09.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Winners The winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 16, 2025 by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World…

Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!

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The Best of Gene Wolfe. by Gene Wolfe. 2009 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews The Best of Gene Wolfe Rated 90% Positive. Story Score 4.00 31 Stories : 7 great / 19 good / 4 average / 0 poor / 1 DNF Read this book yourself: Buy this book on Amazon. β€œWolfe is our...

This anthology is also a great shorter place to start. www.shortsf.com/reviews/best...

24.07.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His Masterpiece is the 4 Volumes of The Book of the New Sun (1 story in 4 volumes.) Or the entire Solar Cycle. New Sun 4bks. Long Sun 4bks. Short Sun 3bks.

24.07.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Review: Orbit 2. edited by Damon Knight. 1967 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews The anthology that launched Gene Wolfe's career ... and other mediocre stories.

Review: Orbit 2 edited by Damon Knight. The anthology that launched Gene Wolfe to greatness but doesn’t have much more going for it #sciencefiction #bookreview

www.shortsf.com/reviews/orbit2

22.07.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reviewing the 39th Annual Readers' Award Finalists from Asimov's Science Fiction. 2025. Novellas, Novelettes, and Short Stories. β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews Death benefits paid to those whose loved ones are taken in interstellar war. The realization that your career is over and new generations won’t value what you value. The sadness of having to betray ...

Looking at these stories together, we find a vintage of Asimov’s dealing with Grief.

Death benefits paid to the left behind in interstellar war. Dying alone with only an A.I. as a companion. Haunting the NASA building where you used to work.

www.shortsf.com/reviews/asf3... #sciencefiction

19.07.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Natural Wine in Rias Baixas | Constantina Sotelo
YouTube video by Austin Beeman Natural Wine in Rias Baixas | Constantina Sotelo

My newest #wine country video is just finished. We're in Rias Baixas, Galicia, Spain at one of the few #naturalwine producers: Constantina Sotelo. youtu.be/nOLBtSiQ-1I Enjoy

01.06.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2B. edited by Ben Bova. 1973 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews Epic mid-20th-century SF packed with frontier grit, deep mystery, big-idea tech and sharp social satire: Martian scrappers, city-worlds, lethal moon puzzles, marooned marines, omnipotent machines, for...

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame 2B: My Review.

www.shortsf.com/reviews/hof2b

#scifi #sciencefiction #bookreview #shortstories

04.07.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Worlds to Come. edited by Damon Knight. 1967 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews Moon relics, Martian small town USA, Saturn ice hauls, sea beacons, and micro-menβ€”nine bold SF classics. A perfect 100% positive anthology.

β€œForty years ago and more, science-fiction writers seemed to be saying β€œMan will reach the moon" ... What they really were saying, however, was much more significant: β€œMan can reach the moon if he wants to badly enough.” #sciencefiction #bookreview www.shortsf.com/reviews/worl...

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This would be absolutely horrible for the future of science fiction short stories, if true.

11.07.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is this based on the β€œFood Detectives” book series ?

05.07.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2B. edited by Ben Bova. 1973 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews Epic mid-20th-century SF packed with frontier grit, deep mystery, big-idea tech and sharp social satire: Martian scrappers, city-worlds, lethal moon puzzles, marooned marines, omnipotent machines, for...

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame 2B: My Review.

www.shortsf.com/reviews/hof2b

#scifi #sciencefiction #bookreview #shortstories

04.07.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ChΓ’teau du Clos Vougeot, Burgundy (France), postage stamp from 1951

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And readers are like β€œwait? The wall is described suspiciously like …. Wait? Was that dog actually…. Wait? Is that actually his… Wait? Could the guild be a future …. Wait? Is this a scifi book?

15.06.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cognitive shock: five concepts to enhance your science fiction reading SF toolkit essentials, from the novum to the slingshot ending

Science fiction is a vast territory, and some travel tips can help. In this week's article, here are five that I've found useful.

13.06.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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3 Hard Shots at the Moon. edited by Allan Kaster. 2025 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews A small book of novellas is walking a tightrope. With only a few stories, and each story taking nearly 100 pages, they better all be good. Thankfully, Allan Kaster doesn’t have that problem. He has ...

My review of "3 Hard Shots at the Moon" edited by Allan Kaster and featuring novellas from Michael Swanwick, John Kessel, and Ian McDonald.

www.shortsf.com/reviews/hard...

#scifi #bookreview #sciencefiction #moon

12.06.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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3 Hard Shots at the Moon. edited by Allan Kaster. 2025 β€” Science Fiction Short Story Reviews A small book of novellas is walking a tightrope. With only a few stories, and each story taking nearly 100 pages, they better all be good. Thankfully, Allan Kaster doesn’t have that problem. He has ...

My review of "3 Hard Shots at the Moon" edited by Allan Kaster and featuring novellas from Michael Swanwick, John Kessel, and Ian McDonald.

www.shortsf.com/reviews/hard...

#scifi #bookreview #sciencefiction #moon

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