Howard Mittelmark

I feel mammals will be underrepresented.

One more and it's a lifestyle trend.

My other take is that I quite like it. It has a satisfying tautological click.

Climber convicted of manslaughter after leaving girlfriend on Austria’s highest peak to seek help Thomas P given five-month suspended prison sentence and €9,400 fine over death of Kerstin G by gross negligence

I assumed you'd just read about this guy.

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That feels like a Mad Libs aphorism.

FRAN KEN'S (BARBIE) TEIN REX "One of our most talented, thought-provoking writers of speculative fiction" THE GUARDIAN ADAM ROBERTS

Cover reveal! @gollancz.bsky.social

Predator Badlands II: Why Can't You Love Me Unconditionally, Mom?

The first Predator movie to explore a Predator's feelings of inadequacy due to his unresolved relationship with his father.

Some terrific guests lined up over the next few weeks, including Howard Mittlemark, James Marriott, Keiron Pim and Lev Parikian.

Fidelity By Susan GlaspellApril 14, 2026 A classic feminist novel originally published in 1915, and set in Iowa in the early years of the 20th century, Susan Glaspell's Fidelity is a surprising, suspenseful wo...

Time to make Fidelity ”Stoner but for girls”

FIDELITY | Kirkus Reviews This reissue of Glaspell’s 1915 novel—about a woman who defies the conventions of her Midwestern town by running off with her married lover—reintroduces a writer whose ideas on individualism and confo...

The coolest thing ever is getting a STARRED review for a reissue of a 1915 novel!!!

Thanks. I'd enjoy that. I'll pass that on. We're in London now, btw.

Explore swinging 60s Soho with 'The Ipcress File': S1 Ep13 Podcast Episode · The Curiously Specific Book Club · 26/06/2020 · 47m

Len Deighton’s 97 today! Have a listen to what me and @moongolfer.com discovered when we took The Ipcress File out for a walk (content warning: early episode, may be on the raw side) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The cover of Paul McAuley’s novel, Loss Protocol. It’s light blue, with the title in white and the author name in black. Between them is the image of an orangey-brown moth with its wings outspread.

Early contender for best book of the year. Starts off slowly and calmly, then at some point you realise what you’re reading is actually profoundly weird and complicated, which is something I do like in a book. Much recommended.

YouTube video by Stephen O'Regan They're Made Out Of Meat

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He is very funny. Sisters Brothers reminded me a bit of True Grit. Btw, when I hit reply, the below popped up.

What you won't find in histories of early Christianity is that most stylites were actually up on their pillars because they were really funny, always making the other monks crack up during meals, ruining silent meditations miming jokes, all around bad for monasticism, so up on a pillar with them.

Hoping the Greeks wouldn't suspect.

Until it doesn't.

Insult to injury.

It is, and you're welcome.

Reminds me of Hundreds of Beavers.

Odd to read about Dexter Palmer before he became known as a novelist, which is how I know him.

I used to say that I knew just enough French to read Russian novels, because all the Constance Garnett translations I read did that. I'm thinking more contemporary translations offer footnotes.

A Personal Anthology, by Paul McAuley ‘A Way Home’ by Theodore Sturgeon (First published in Amazing Stories, 1953.

@jonathangibbs.bsky.social 's A Personal Anthology project now features over 300 guest editors. I'm honoured to be the latest -- my selection of 12 stories that have taken up permanent residence in my head can be found here:

All the letters of your name are in the files though. I checked.

Really expecting sales of my books to shoot up now that my name hasn't shown up in the files.

Loudly demanding my change in bitcoin at the supermarket, waiting for people in the lengthening queue to admire me.

Scammers’ Delight: Christopher Farnsworth on Living in the Golden Age of Grift I had a little trouble completing this piece. It wasn’t because of writer’s block or procrastination, or the usual dog-ate-my-homework excuses writers use. Rather, it was because every time I sat d…

I have a piece up on Crimereads today about how everything is a scam now.
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I do see it. Now imagining us hammering out the final details for each technology, line by line, late into the night, like the signers of the Declaration of Independence.