Please do!!

Not my wallet, victimised by @aptshadow.bsky.social today. What a gorgeous hardback this is! Can’t wait to blaze through it.

Ian Green’s Extremophile is seriously punk, and deserves to be widely read. If you haven’t picked it up yet, do!

I got the audiobook and loved it to pieces.

A short'n'sweet review of Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo, a science-fiction novella of the close future...An interesting read, that.

My thoughts:
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Art vs Artist

Mieko Kawakami's All the Lovers in the Night speaks to the part of the human that yearns for connection. It illustrates, too, the difficulty of reaching out and making those connections, especially in the aftermath of deep and abiding trauma.

Find my review here:
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An excellent review of The Lords of the Summer Season by @wsbookclub.bsky.social. Bizarre is just another word for fun in my vocabulary, so: gimme!

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So for this year's somewhat abbreviated Oktobersketch I'm experimenting with group scenes, one per week. Here are some stalwart defenders of some small European nation circa 1800(?). Group first then the individual originals.

Absolutely appalling.

I just backed Apex Magazine (@apexmag.bsky.social) 2026 on Kickstarter, and you should, too, because they're great!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I forgot to mention - the latest Wyrd Science is out. Look at that cover. You should order all the copies, and then if there's no copies left, fight over the copies. It's the best RPG zine in the world, sez I*

Coming soonish from Subterranean Press - the first collection of my short fiction in about a decade - here's the cover (by @alisonsampson.bsky.social ) and table of contents for your delectation.

christ on tiny little crackers, climateworld, we've got to ask people to do good things that they can do, and which help them, rather than asking them to volunteer for an emotionally devastating existential-threat experience without exits into action

THE BOOKS THAT MADE US - Where I discuss the fantastic GARRET PI series by Glen Cook. Noir detective in fantasyland. beforewegoblog.com/the-books-th... #books #fantasy #urbanfantasy @beforewegoblog.bsky.social @bethtabler.bsky.social

Piranesi turned out to be such a special read, y’all. If you, like me, haven’t yet picked it up, you should.

Here’s why:
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The novels in the series have become my go-to works to offer as standalone works for readers too frightened of lengthy series commitments. Certainly the “accessible” angle is a huge draw.

@lukeplunkett.com has been playing Endless Legend 2, and it's bumming him out:

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If final, sequel series when? (I really love the Tyrant Philosophers haha.)

But really, best of luck with it!

Not surprised to read this, as all the prior Tyrant-Philosopher books come together brilliantly from the reader’s perspective.

Might this book be the long-awaited-for return to Ilmar?

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

And I, a Bulgarian, somehow missed this 😫 hope you enjoyed your time in Bulgaria and make a return sometime!

"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."

No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.

Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Fascinating (and spot on) little essay on Service Model and how it relates to the real world.