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Dr Amy Borsuk

@bardythoughts.bsky.social

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SFF Editor for @SolarisBooks.bsky.social by day, contemporary Shakespeare theatre scholar by night. Sometimes theatre critic, dramaturg.

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Dec 17

I really grew as an editor in 2024. Proud of my work, so grateful for the Solaris team in getting these books out, and making sure Solaris Nova had a great first year as an imprint on top of that.
Consider this a gentle FYC as an editor and a louder one for all these authors!

Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Aug 21

Whew, all of the books I edited for 2024 have gone to print! It's very satisfying to see them all together. So proud to have worked with all these amazing authors!

A stack of books on their sides: Redsight, Snowblooded, Lady Eve's Last Con, Gorse, The Republic of Salt, and The Mountain Crown

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 19h

(I loved writing my theatre review like an AO3 entry, way too proud of it as an idea)

Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 20h

The review as fanfic? A review following the evolution of the novel form? A reviewer trapped inside a play, being chased around by Łukasz Twarkowski…?

It must be an Exeunt round-up!

Review round-up: Born With Teeth, Romans, ROHTKO, The Weir

Exeunt writers get trapped inside some recent plays

exeuntmagazine.substack.com

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 1d

🌊1st in a new epic fantasy series
🛶 Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska
📕 One of Reactor & Indigo's "Most Anticipated" Books of 2025
🐦⬛ Features a REALLY rude Raven

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA!

Buy geni.us/doorsea

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 8d

Only October, but we're already looking ahead to the fantastic books coming out next year: give us a pitch if you're interested in reviewing any of these January titles!
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Calls for Reviews & Essays: January 2026

The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 13d

I'm embarrassed I didn't even think of all the wild and weird film adaptations out there, let alone this one! A bunch of aspects of the book now make even more sense in relation to it. Thank you for reading the review!

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 14d

Really enjoyed how this review brings theater & speculative criticism together. Good stuff!

Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 14d

These Islands Were Mine: @bardythoughts.bsky.social reviews KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST by Nick Mamatas (@clashbooks.bsky.social)
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These Islands Were Mine: Review of Nick Mamatas’s Kalivas!

Amy Borsuk Under Review:Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest. Nick Mamatas. Clash Books, September 2025. As a theatre scholar I often joke I’m a sceptic by trade. Forever blessed and cursed to analyse with…

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 14d

I'm also resigned to admit that that 2016 RSC Tempest production will haunt me until I die.

Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 14d

My theatre life and publishing life collide in a book review of this fascinating SF re-imagining of The Tempest!

Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 14d

These Islands Were Mine: @bardythoughts.bsky.social reviews KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST by Nick Mamatas (@clashbooks.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/26/t...

These Islands Were Mine: Review of Nick Mamatas’s Kalivas!

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org

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ptklein @ptklein.com · 19d

Good morning it’s their day

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨AVAILABLE ON NETGALLEY!🚨

RUN, don't walk, over to Netgalley to request an eARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's darkly romantic eco fantasy of gods and forests, from the perspective of a traumatised "war hero" longing for peace.

Request geni.us/SolarisNG
Preorder geni.us/godsmb

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Come for the locked boat dark academia murder mystery, stay for a strange and drowning Oracle?

We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

🌊 🐚 @rainewilson.bsky.social 's Salt Oracle speaks in riddles and fragments, cantating the digital ghosts that are scattered across the world in the wake of the digital collapse.

But is she a monster to be feared, or a child to be protected?

November 2025. Preorder: geni.us/saltorac

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm all set, but thank you, that's very kind of you to ask!

Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Sep 6

Passed my Life in the UK test now I gotta fill in a form, overshare all aspects of my life in a stack of documents, and pay the government an exorbitant amount of money one more time and then y'all are stuck with me permanently

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Sep 5

*cracks knuckles* Foyles, Forbidden Planet, Gay's the Word, London Review Bookshop, Brick Lane Books, pay a visit to Goldsboro in Cecil Court. The V&A cafe is gorgeous (I have way better Oxford cafe recs), lmk if you want theatre recs and what kind

Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm sorry, Em ❤️

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Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3* @lizziewallis.bsky.social · Aug 31

"Red kite"
The iconic conservation success story: persecuted to just a few pairs in Wales, an intensive conservation effort has seen a spectacular recovery in population, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023.
More info in Alt txt.
#Stunday
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIforIconic
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Red Kite: A large bird of prey twists into a dive, head down, wings outstretched, tail flared. The bird is reddish brown with silver patches on wings and black wing tips.

1990 13 youngsters (from Wales & Sweden) released in Chilterns, England. Wild populations established in England and Scotland and further releases occurred in NI and Republic of Ireland.
Red kite population has seen a spectacular recovery, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023.
In the last 5 years, we now regularly see Red Kites on the North Norfolk coast.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

🚨ARCS ARE READY!🚨

Calling all UK/IE/CAN/US Reviewers & booksellers, pop a wolf🐺in the comments to be in with a chance of receiving an ARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social
's THE GODS MUST BURN: where a disgraced war hero is transformed into the Wolf God against his will.

geni.us/godsmb

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · Aug 31

Today is the anniversary of the opening of The first production of The Threepenny Opera.

I’ll post below it a photo from a production I did in SF some years ago. . .

Berliner Ensemble @blnensemble.bsky.social · Aug 31

heute vor 97 Jahren, am 31.8.1928, wurde "Die Dreigroschenoper" auf unserer Bühne hier am Schiffbauerdamm unter turbulenten Umständen uraufgeführt. sie wurde ein riesiger Erfolg und machte Bertolt Brecht und Kurt Weill weltberühmt. zu lange unerwähnt blieb die Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Hauptmann!

Historisches Szenenfoto in Schwarz-Weiß der "Dreigroschenoper" mit zahlreichen Personen auf der Bühne, dahinter zwei helle rechteckige Flächen am Rand des Bühnenbildes mit Text über den Köpfen

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Aug 30

I love these questions. I think that considering science as a mode of creativity, imagination, w a structured form of inquiry helps make 'science' feel less imperatively realist(i.e. having to prove a future). But ofcourse a lot of SF doesn't use the S as a mode of inquiry, but one of explanation...

Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Aug 30

Slowly making my way through these - the Le Guin prize is always a great way to discover incredible work

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jun 18

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Aug 29

Happy 10 years in the UK to meeeee 🥳🥳✨️

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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · Aug 20

It's not every day I see Antonio Gramsci (Italian political philosopher, commentator on the shifting world order, political prisoner of the Mussolini regime) name-dropped in a piece of literary analysis, and this is a good name-drop.

An excerpt from the quoted essay, with the last sentence highlighted by yours truly:

"To put a finer point on this difference between the horrific and the weird, we might look at two translations of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist. While imprisoned by the fascists in 1930, he wrote: “La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.” This has been glossed, most famously by Žižek, as “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” But it’s more accurately translated as “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born: in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Monsters are visible, knowable, specific; they are specific dangers that call out to be defeated by an individual hero—they suggest, in other words, a narrative stitched up in a neat little package. “Morbid symptoms” are a bit more mysterious, undefined, discomforting; something inchoate haunting the world at large, or at least haunting the way we view and understand the world. [highlight begins here] The dreadful, non-cathartic affect of the weird lives exactly in the liminal space where the old is dying and the new cannot be born."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 25

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hi hello! They definitely go together like wine and cheese! Also your ability to describe intimate and vulnerable emotions has moved me multiple times, it feels like a watercolour of consciousness.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Aug 22

Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

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