Loved this, and I think his others only get better
Loved this, and I think his others only get better
Afternoon Womble! I'm a couple of hundred pages onto Version Control by Dexter Palmer, it's drip feeding the time travel so far, interested to see where it goes
Just finished a reread of the Planetfall series, all are great!
NOT LIKE THAT
WE WANT THREE (also maybe just blow up my heart won't take 10 more minutes) WE WANT THREE
Sami Zayn and PAC at the Newcastle match.
Looks like Liverpool are fine without isak, that defence needs shoring up though. £110m should get you emil krafth
I think this is one of the most important SFF books of recent years, yet I don't think it's quite escaped a(n admittedly large) cult following. Can't help but think the inescapable centrality of queer masculinity (the author, the characters, some major themes) contributed to narrowing its appeal.
if you want to get into science fiction you must read THE NATASHAS by Yelena Moskovich, MYSTERY TRAIN by Can Xue, HERSCHT 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, FEVER DREAM by Samanta Schweblin, MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova, and FIRE LOGIC by Laurie J. Marks, precisely in that order
Okay, deep breath. I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG... If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?
It’sss pub day! MAD SISTERS OF ESI is now out in the US and Canada. To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York! (*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)
Good morning! Finishing up Echopraxia today, then going to keep reread season going with a run through Emma Newman's Planetfall series
Two-ish months until the release of UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES. Here's what Brian Evenson said about it. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
The news is out! The Apple and the Pearl coming February 2026
Nice! To Catch A Moon was great, looking forward to this!
Today we're thrilled to be able to share the cover reveal for Rym Kechacha's upcoming faerie tale fantasy THE APPLE AND THE PEARL, due for publication 3rd February 2026 from Titan Books. Cover design by Julia Lloyd Read more: tinyurl.com/698xt2x4 @titanbooks.bsky.social
Little, Big the one for you? I've done Engine Summer and Ka the last two years, thinking that's next up
Man I should reread this. One of the first sf books I read years ago (thanks sf masterworks) but haven't retained much beyond "that was cool" and "read more Crowley books"
No goalless draws, nearly every knockout tie finished on a knife-edge, tournament winners coming back three times in a row, ladies and gentlemen, The Grifols
Morning! I'm doing a reread of Blindsight by Peter Watts, which I remember liking years ago but I've seen lots of people rave about since so worth a revisit. Straight on to Echopraxia afterwards
I just published the second episode of Right Where You Are Sitting Now, a podcast series about William Burroughs. It's called Routine Excercise. It's 6.5 hours long and features a conversation with @hangsawoman.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/rwyasn... Works covered: Naked Lunch Interzone
Evening Womble! I'm halfway through Birds of Paradise by Oliver K Langmead. Really enjoying it - Adam and various animals from the garden of eden recovering scattered pieces of the garden in the modern day
So apparently, if I don't keep encouraging people to subscribe to Clarkesworld, they don't. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ All new subscriptions go towards increasing staff pay. They deserve it, so I can't be silent.
It was a thrill to be invited on AMOT, and a delight to talk about this book. I never felt like I did right by Excession when I reading through the Culture sequence, and having returned to it, I think there's an argument for it as one of the series' best.
The wonders of scale, the tricky bits of fully automated luxury gay space communism, echoes of interventionist worries, and more: @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social joins to discuss Iain M. Banks' EXCESSION! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/14/a...
On reread a few years ago it was definitely one of my favourites, looking forward to the ep!
Afternoon Womble! I'm reading Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga. Been on the tbr for a while now, really good so far
One of my favourite books of last year. And exactly the sort of book the LeGuin prize is a treasure for putting in the spotlight.
Haven't zoned out watching hours of Maserati live shows in a while, time to book that in
"The Dead Man's Empire", long-awaited sequel to the award-winning "The Last Blade Priest", now has a cover! It's available for pre-order and is published in March 2026, from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social. Duna and Elecy fight to escape the Hidden Land, and at the Brink something terrible stirs...
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The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2
The children will just have to get the thrill of capturing wild animals elsewhere. Probably videogames. Glad I only had stuff like this or pokemon when I was their age
30°? Blazing sun? Bugs everywhere? Time to build a sandpit in the garden, baby. Hold my room at the hospital, ta
Oh man I ate these up in primary school. Not a chance they hold up is there
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman: Review by Jake Casella Brookins locusmag.com/2025/06...
The first full entry of Profane Illusions, my column on weird fiction collections, is now up @ancillaryreview.bsky.social; covering Steve Rasnic Tem’s Scarecrows, Ananda Lima’s Craft, and Christi Nogle’s One Eye Opened in that Other Place.
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
Cheers, that's interesting! stiff competition for sure. I know the Lai (definitely have the tiger flu kicking around here somewhere as well...), Huchu and Singh, will pop the others on the list and move Triangulum up
Had this sitting in a stack since it came out, do I need to bump it up the queue? Anything you'd compare it to?
Good morning! I'm reading Zone One by Colson Whitehead, feels fairly standard zombie post apocalypse so far but it's running along smoothly
On the new SFUltra, Matt from the excellent Bookpilled channel joins me to discuss Beasts by John Crowley. This really blew us away, especially considering its slight pagecount and reputation. Click here to listen right now: www.patreon.com/posts/131392... It will appear streaming elsewhere later on
I've been threatening for a while to start a column on collections of weird fiction, and so: Profane Illuminations, a quarterly series where I'll look at a few in tandem and see what threads I can draw out about their stories and the genre at large. Quick intro here, first full entry next week.
Epic review of Waterblack in @strangehorizons.bsky.social by Matthew Eatough: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... "Waterblack will be greeted as a fitting conclusion to one of the landmark works of experimental fantasy of the twenty-first century...
As is frequently the case, the Igyntes shortlist is full of more *interesting* novels than most SFF awards. In re those I've read The Sentence is that odd beast, speculative legal fiction, Metal From Heaven gonzo shit, and The Emperor & The Endless Palace gay circuit party as reincarnation fantasy.
Womb City ✅
We begin with the #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Outstanding Novel: Adult category, which recognizes novel-length (40k+ words) works intended for an adult audience. Congratulations to the following titles and their authors.
Hugo season is well and truly upon us: @chloroformtea.bsky.social & @casella.bsky.social discuss this year's Novella & Novel finalists, with some gnashing of teeth for what's not included, brief asides on awards they would add or remove, and, somehow, Spielberg.
Morning! I'm looking forward to Lake Of Darkness, currently reading The Garden of Empire by JT Greathouse. Enjoying it but I need to finish it so I can get the song out of my head!
𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒚 2017, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒖𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔! (𝑛.𝑏. 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡-2016 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 24 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠) Premier League seasons, in declining order of quality:
As a Newcastle fan, all we had to do was be 3rd worst today (and boy did we succeed there) but villa imploding AND getting robbed is a lovely touch to go with it
When I play peekaboo with my son to hide the pain of losing to jordan pickford
Highlights of match of the day later? It's going to be the villa reactions isn't it
Evening Womble! Not been able to read yet today due to football, but just finished On The Calculation Of Volume and starting Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots tonight!
Two hours of insane nerves just to fall arse backwards into the champions league. Love the football
Thank you aston villa, thank you man united (hope you both get relegated next year)
Harvey Barnes, please only be starting games the week before champions league next year, when we will be spurs-ing our way to glory
Fuck that was complete toilet
Falling over on a corner funnier but not what we need here
Fab! Nooooooo
Osula! This is your time. For really real this time please
Callum Wilson, this would be a great day to remember where the goal is
FFS
Trippier assist for the winner or falling asleep for an everton goal? 50:50
PHEW
Ah fuck, that looks a pen
Martinez sent off at villa? We'll take that
Nervy 0-0s all round then. NOT HELPING
Been physically sick all morning lads, if Newcastle could be 3-0 up in 10 mins that'd be grand
Europa League Final pre-match press conferences Ange: I invented football. Show some facking respect, you chobber Amorim: As a coach, I am pestilence made flesh. I don't even now how I rise in the mornings, such is the non-life I lead in this realm of eternal darkness
Welcome to my 2025 novella recommendation thread! For the rest of the year, I am going to recommend novellas in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres for the consideration of Hugo nominators. And, crucially, these are all going to be novellas NOT published by Tor.
That was the sort of game where we could've really done with an up to speed clinical finisher up front!
Will Osula, your time is now
working on stuff
Afternoon! Post football celebrations I'm sitting in the sunshine with John Crowley's Ka. Don't always love the non-human perspective but enjoying it so far and seeing where it goes
We're coming for second place Arsenal you little shits
Lewis Miley with a teenager's bounce back from heading someone there
Well it's done nothing for my nerves but that's a proper performance to see it out. Mine's a pint
Come on let's get another of these bozos sent off
Why is he shooting there! What a beauty!
Don't fucking shoot there Bruno! Hahahaha
NUFC gone completely off the boil here, but at least we're solid at the back. Eddie's definitely going to be happy to sit on it
Well this has been nice 🌞
Cole palmer's definitely thick enough to get sent off too, keep winding him up
As a pink jumper enthusiast myself, maresca looks a total cunt here
Let's kill this off lads, there's a beer in the sun with my name on it at 2pm
We'll have a red there cheers var, elbow in the face right
GET THE FUCK IN
Ok we're back to two goalies on the bench, plus one guy coming off an acl and two teenagers. Feeling positive. Into these blue bastards
Someone get me the pope's thoughts on nobby solano
"The aristocratic thugs of the High City whistle as they go about their factional games among the derelict observatories and abandoned fortifications at Lowth." Imagined cities, one a day. 1/?
Cyberpunk echoes, questioning the edgelord impulse, and the long shadow of the CCRU: @nochorus.bsky.social of SFUltra joins to discuss Gary J. Shipley's DREAMS OF AMPUTATION: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/05/a...
Guess that's 1/4 so far for @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social predicting the run in...
In a vacuum I don't hate getting Botman minutes and getting Trippier off the field when he's knackered but fuck me we could do with winning this
Fuck yes Alex!
That probably shouldn't be a penalty, but it always fucking is, anticipating contact or whatever
Shut the fuck up Lee hendrie you little villa cunt
Time to force it to Isak every time we go forward, and we'd better see Gordon before 70 mins
That's incredibly annoying. Probably lock in Minteh scoring against us for the next 8 years
Mad we've never beaten Brighton at the amex, history to be made today