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Christopher Caldwell

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Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy. Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland. Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press in October 2025. Pre-order here: https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · Aug 16

*Bojack Horseman voice* “My book, written by me, is going to kick your dick in!”

Call and Response is now available for pre-order! www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1h

Recently, I had the immense pleasure to read an early copy of CALL AND RESPONSE by Christopher Caldwell, the newest collection from Neon Hemlock, and I absolutely adored it!! Ten stories in matched pairs, structural brilliance for a thrilling, magical, and deeply humane, this is a MUST READ!!

The cover of CALL AND RESPONSE: STORIES OF THE FANTASTIC by Christopher Caldwell against a jovial marbled backdrop.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1h

I loved Devastator. , although he was sort of janky to move (later combiners felt more sturdy) but yeah, it was weird to have Lamborghinis and Ferraris outsize a cement mixer and a dump truck. Fortress Maximus was the first transformer I remember who felt like he had any real scale.

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 8d

Submissions for our next unthemed issue are now OPEN 📣
Tell a friend! Everything you need to know is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 10h

How unusual to have a celebrity version of a tv show with people I’ve actually heard of

Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 21h

Want to share your handle?

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 22h

well @seraph76.bsky.social’s books got here and they look pretty sweet

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 22h

Not so. Been around that site for … uhh 25 years.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23h

@klaproth.bsky.social Node deleter? Like Everything2?

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

What if instead of this, they hired more doctors and nursing staff?

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

Aww, you noticed my book is out next week.

Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

I will be forever resentful that I was forced to learn who this character was.

Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

She absolutely should have. We spend way too much time focussed on Bob’s anguish. Although I was glad Willa got some agency in the end.

Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, not sure they have the range? Assassin’s Creed Passe Blanc is as sort of a mess.

Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

All this praise for the movie without qualification makes me feel like I’m in crazy town.

Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

Well-made, good pacing, good performances, a shame I was unable to enjoy it fully because of some early choices

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

I feel a little blind-sided.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

Was not expecting One Battle After Another to start out with an old-timey Jezebel stereotype.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

I just am extremely uninterested in anything involving that particular pop star

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know what a Gaylor is, and I’m content to remain in my ignorance.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2d

I like it because it’s dumb soap opera about one woman who inherits tremendous power, but can only keep it by not using it, so instead she spends decades ruining the lives of everyone in her family.

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: My latest essay is out @reactorsff.bsky.social!

“It is impossible to consider gratuitous anything that can explore such a wide range of human being. Sex manages to be a reckoning with the body, the self; with desire in myriad ways; a reckoning with the forbidden…”

Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny - Reactor

C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, do you like gay whalers? Gay bank robbers? Muscular lesbian artisans? With a side of magic and weirdness? All of this and more is in Call and Response, my collection of short stories out from Neon Hemlock next week! Available to pre-order from the publisher: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2d

She thinks she’s Vetinari.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2d

Most speculative fiction is about the present, regardless of whether it’s set in the past, the future, or elsewhere, I think. All of us grapple with the what is before we create the future hat is not.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I complain about this piece of shit, the swarm comes in

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