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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1h

The Menace From Earth by Robert A. Heinlein

A diverse assortment of (mostly) non-Future History science fiction stories from Robert A. Heinlein.

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Make You Worry

Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 The Menace From Earth is a collection of science fiction stories. So, about Signet, the publisher of my copy this volume.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

American parents, distract your kids from the US' imploding ag sector by reading them The Death of Grass.

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In an unusual acknowledgement, the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Can CTV's producers feel shame?

CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 1d

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Healthy immune system

Orange Naturals provides ways to help boost our immune system ahead of cold and flu season. For full product line, Visit orangenaturals.com

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Weird how many of these seem to involve reproductive rights, given recent elections suggest Americans have no interest in that sort of thing.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Final cover!

Cover, Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward (July 2026): antlers, tied with burning ropes.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Third set of covers!

Cover, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three edited by Stephen Kotowych (October 2025): a space craft passing by a space station as Canadianly as possible under the circumstances.

Cover, Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills (April 2026): the title in large letters and the author's name in small letters. Silhouetted in one letter: a rabbit. Silhouetted in another a pregnancy test.

Cover, The Body by Bethany C. Morrow (February 2026): a shovel embedded in the ground. In the background, church windows.

Cover, I’ll Watch Your Baby by Neena Viel (May 2026): a woman with an afro looking at the reader. Below her, a plantation-style house with arching trees.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Next four!

Cover, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein (April 2026): No art, just title and author.

Cover, Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter (April 2026): a dragon dive bombing a winged lion.

Cover, Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim (June 2026): a placeholder cover, black except for the title and author's name.

Cover, Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher (March 2026): a flowering vine.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Books Received, October 4 to October 10

13 works new to me. Four fantasy, two horror, one non-fiction, one thriller, and five SF, of which at least three are series. First four.

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Cover, The Seed of Destruction by Rick Campbell (July 2026): a flock of spaceships zooming by a mountain.

Cover, Uncivil Guard by Foster Chamberlin (November 2025): prisoners being herded by the guard.

Cover, Crawlspace by Adam Christopher (March 2026): shadowy tentacles, I think.

Cover, The Girl With a Thouand Faces by Sunyi Dean (May 2026): a woman's face. It looks like it is made of porcelain and had blank eyes.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

I am beginning to suspect maybe Riverdale's Archie isn't that bright.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

I mostly use it for music. Used to be, I could find interesting new musicians that way. Now, I get "artists" who have "recorded" 562 albums since noon.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

I did!

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Like the Stars Above

1970’s Whipping Star is the third piece and first novel-length work in Frank Herbert’s ConSentiency series. I hope I’ve worked out how I am going to number Whipping Star by the time I post this review...

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

It keeps trying to steer me to AI slop.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

My condolences.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

If you mean the Keith I think you do, he was expressing on rasff the hope that the US federal shutdown would allow vigilantes to kill telemarketers.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Soon, the day on which I was born will be roughly equidistant between the present and Plessy v. Ferguson.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Guess which editor bought Queen Bee?

James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder who gets to wake up Trump with the news he didn't get the Nobel?

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 2d

Five Extremely Convincing Reasons We Should Build Armed Bases on the Moon

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

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Five Extremely Convincing Reasons We Should Build Armed Bases on the Moon - Reactor

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 2d

Roll For Initiative (The Last Session, volume 1) by Jasmine Walls & Dozerdraws

Old friends unite for one last adventure without fully understanding the implications of the group's latest recruit.

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Changeling

2025’s Roll For Initiative is the first volume of Jasmine Walls’ young-adult comic, The Last Session. Art is by Dozerdraws. Volume One comprises the first five issues of the comic. Fear the might of t...

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, only two? Wasn't there LL with his adopted daughter, LL with his gender-switched clones, the mirror-twins with each other, and LL with his mom? And maybe the clones with each other?