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Cora Buhlert

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Writer, teacher and translator from Bremen in North Germany. Three-time Hugo finalist and 2022 Hugo winner for Best Fan Writer. she/her

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · Jan 1

A handy guide to all SFF-related posts and works of 2024 corabuhlert.com/2025/01/01/a...

A handy guide to all SFF-related posts and works of 2024

I never felt particularly comfortable with eligibility posts, but I posted such an overview for the first time in 2016, when someone added my name to the Hugo Nominations Wiki. Eventually, it paid …

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 3h

I can imagine.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 3h

The weird thing about the Hotel New World disaster is that I didn't hear about it until I was an adult, even though my Dad worked in Singapore in 1982/1983 and his office was near Serangoon Road, so we must have gone past the hotel lots of times.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4h

Worse, then once a year or so, the doctor's office refused to issue more prescriptions, unless we brought Mom in to see the doctor, presumably to check if she'd undergone a miracle healing. Which meant that my Dad or I had to take the morning off work to haul my Mom in her wheelchair to the Doctor's

Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4h

It was a real pain with my disabled Mom who had several different medications she needed to take for the rest of her life. And every three months, someone, usually me or my Dad, had to go to the doctor and get a new prescription, since Mom couldn't.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 22h

Did you know there's a Clark Ashton Smith conference happening in January? Learn more about the event, and the group behind it, here: www.thesmithcircle.net

A photo of Clark Ashton Smith sitting in an armchair. The text along the top reads: CLARK ASHTON SMITH CONVFERENCE. A celebration of local weird fiction author, artist, and sculptor. Sat Jan 10th 2026. Auburn Carnegie Library. 175 Almond Street Auburn California

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preternia @preternia.com · 1d

New Mattel Masters of the Universe Origins are up for preorder on Amazon:

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at Galactic Journey, reviewing some truly crazy books: [October 8, 1970] It's All Connected – A Feast Unknown, Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin by Philip José Famer galacticjourney.org/october-8-19...

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 1d

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 2d

@corabuhlert.bsky.social has got a Farmer #ScienceFiction trilogy that combines, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and... genitalia. It needs top be read to be believed!

galacticjourney.org/october-8-19...

Covers for The Mad Goblin and Lord of the Trees (fuller alt-text in article)

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

I love the concept of Autobahn chapels and churches. Medieval roadside shrines updated for the modern day.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

Nowadays, I usually make a photo of a favourite building or tree or statue, because sometimes a building will be torn down or refurbished beyond recognition and there won't even be a record of how it looked like.

Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

Lots of beautiful 19th century buildings in that neighbourhoods.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

But then, many people never even look at the buildings. When I was eight, my parents sent me to stay at my grandparents, because they were at a cruise. And I apparently stunned my grandmother by stopping at every second building on her street to admire it.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

I fully understand. In Antwerp, people were just walking past some incredibly beautiful buildings to go shopping at the same chain stores you find everywhere else.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

In Germany, you have a plaque on your car which shows that you're allowed to drive into a low emission zone. I have the plaque, but it's not recognised in Belgium.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

Though curse the otherwise lovely city of Antwerp for implementing a low emission zone, which requires online registration that is nigh impossible for foreign drivers to use, especially if you don't know it exists.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

Sadly not, but then it no longer looks like it used to, anyway. It was an active harbour Quay back in the day and now it's a marina for rich people's yachts.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

This one in Bochum is very cool. Plus, it's an Autobahn Church.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

Germany has very few modernist churches from the 1920s and 1930s. It's either pre-WWI or post-WWII.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

I have some favourite trees, too, but for me it's mostly buildings and statues.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 5d

I totally sympathise regarding your Mom. Antwerp is a city I heavily associate with my Dad. And much as I enjoyed the trip, I'm sad that I couldn't visit the place where the ship he worked for was moored, because it was near impossible to access by both car and public transport.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 6d

The gothic Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp is illuminated by night. #Antwerpen

The Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp is illuminated by night

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 6d

Kasteel de Renesse in Oostmalle, Belgium #Castle

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 7d

House on the corner of Leystraat and Jezusstraat in Antwerp. Note the gilded ornaments and the monument to Lodewyk van Bercken, jeweller and diamond cutter. Antwerp is a centre of the diamond trade. #Antwerpen

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