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Shelley Parker-Chan

@shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social

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Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling author of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN and HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD. Winner of Astounding & British Fantasy Awards. Unhealthily into monks, eunuchs, monsterfuckers shelleyparkerchan.com/learn-more

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 15

I deplore the craven cowardice of those implicated in this report. That queer, BIPOC and Chinese diaspora authors were singled out for political examination, and denied a fair chance at SFF’s best-known awards, is reprehensible. Had my first book come out a year later, I’d have been disqualified too

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Feb 15

For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards.

Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3

The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 15

love this one. One of my favourite calming comfort reads, deeply thoughtful as well as deeply emotional

Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social · Feb 15

Guess what’s out in the UK today!

www.gollancz.co.uk/titles/karen...

The Best of All Possible Worlds

A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to th...

www.gollancz.co.uk

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 14

argh I heard your area got hit—someone I ran into today who lives out that way said it looked like a tornado had been through. Hope you get power back soon!

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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · Feb 13

🍓🍓 TODAY'S THE DAY! LET'S GET PETTY! 🍓🍓

My ex’s judgy older bro (39m) told him to dump me (37f). Now I'm broke & stuck in a 10-ft-wide Spite House next door. If I blast monsterfucking audiobooks & tell MLM reps that older bro can host Tupperware parties, AITA? www.harpercollins.com/products/at-...

The illustrated cover of AT FIRST SPITE by Olivia Dade, surrounded by the following descriptors: enemies to lovers, forced proximity, sweet and steamy, fat-positive heroine, ex's older brother, small town feels

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thank you Martha!

Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 12

eh, Drowned is a sequel so that’s par for the course, but will love to see Dragon’s Breath get as much attention as it deserves!

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thank you!

Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 12

I fully expect The Saint of Bright Doors and To Shape a Dragon’s Breath to be on every awards list this year (and I’m sure when I read The Mad Sisters of Esi I’ll think the same of it), but I must confess: I never expected to be on a list with Salman Rushdie lol

The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards @subjectivechaos.bsky.social · Feb 11

The shortlisted works in the fantasy category are:
- @vajra.me , The Saint of Bright Doors
- Salman Rushdie, Victory City
- Moniquill Blackgoose, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
- @tashanmehta.bsky.social , The Mad Sisters of Esi
- @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social He Who Drowned the World

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 10

The most auspicious of covers!

Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 10

🐉🧧

(by the very talented—and very human—cover designer Mel Four)

Illumicrate edition of She Who Became the Sun, featuring a gold dragon in the traditional Chinese illustration style, on a red background. Cover design and illustration by Mel Four

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 7

oh man now I’m curious to do a re-read. Teen me was soooooo into reincarnation romance, a criminally underused trope in modern western epic fantasy I must say

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 7

I’m glad you mentioned this repeatedly, because it somehow finally clicked: oh I AM free, I should go

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 7

Phyllis Eisenstein was a big one for me when I was a kid. Surely someone has mentioned Katherine Kerr already…and what about Vonda McIntyre, I guess Dreamsnake was science fantasy in much the same way Pern and Sharon Shinn’s angel books were, but it felt like epic fantasy to me at the time

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 7

I’m anxiously awaiting this book after your glowing review

Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 3

episode 1 was (IMO) more of a push you away, rather than pull you in, type of storytelling

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 3

don’t even

Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

standing ovation inflation: the true problem of our times

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

it’s the weariness with which they deliver the solution that absolutely sent me 😂

Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

so frustrating! I often think of the glorious local specificity of Kathleen Jenning’s Flyaway and how much pleasure it brought to US readers who certainly wouldn’t have grasped the context of every single detail, but found it richly compelling nonetheless

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

actually now that I literally JUST saw that Lili Wilkinson won a Victoria Literary Premier’s Award, which reminds me that so did Kate Murray for a YA fantasy last year, maybe Aussie fantasy is breaking through into mainstream recognition actually 🤷🏻

Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

oooh thank you!

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

I believe I’m actually related by marriage in some distant way to Cecilia Dart-Thornton 😂

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

how big’s that TBR now Foz

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

that was an interesting read by Kim Wilkins. I think some things have changed since 2008, but it still seems broadly true that genre fantasy isn’t considered Australian literature (Aussie SF’s credentials are more recognised maybe—eg Laura Jean McKay & Grace Chan)

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · Feb 2

I’m going to give the show another try, this time selectively skipping past Hat Dude 😂