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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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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 19h

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

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200x Stratos - buff.ly/qPKPth2
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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!

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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 · 5d

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 · 5d

Kasteel de Renesse in Oostmalle, Belgium #Castle

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 6d

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