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Jay

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SFF book blogger, sports pluralist (mostly Vols, Canes, and Courage, some USA, O’s, Dockers, Ravens, Valencia CF), Dad x3.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Brief thread of favorites from a recap mostly featuring authors you definitely know if you were reading sci-fi 25+ years ago

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Aug 28

August isn’t over yet, but it ends on a holiday weekend and I’m traveling, so the round-up is early! It’s a bit trim overall, but heavy on pre-2000 sci-fi www.tarvolon.com/2025/08/28/a...

August 2025 Round-up and Short Fiction Miscellany

Rounding up my sci-fi and fantasy reviews from August 2025, with classic sci-fi standouts by Harlan Ellison and James Patrick Kelly

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 14h

Reviewed a horror novel with a bit too much gore for me, but the themes in The Buffalo Hunter Hunter are well-executed www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/12/h...

Review: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Review of the epistolary Native American horror novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by acclaimed author Stephen Graham Jones.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 2d

That’s fair—I think the degree of beguiling is a little bit ambiguous and it does create questions that I didn’t address and could seriously affect your view of the subsequent story

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 2d

Huh—I had fun with it. But I know you have complaints about the whole Lakewalker/Farmer dynamic that probably has a lot of downstream effects

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like saying “this is a book for fans of the series” is usually an insult. In the case of Knife Children, it is a compliment www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fantasy Book Review: Knife Children by Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the world of The Sharing Knife with Knife Children, a book about working together across cultures and coming of age.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Six goals, five posts. Not too shabby

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

🤝 Seth Jarvis

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Ryan Hartman 🤝 K’Andre Miller

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

Ryan Hartman is on pace to score 164 goals, Wild lead 4-0

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Jarvy deserved that one

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

What’s Jarvis’ on-ice post percentage tonight?

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

FFS this post

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

So many missed chances to open up a cushion and the Devils keep responding

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Ryan Hartman 🤝 K’Andre Miller

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

Ryan Hartman is on pace to score 164 goals, Wild lead 4-0

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

All those amazing looks and then that one goes in lol

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone know why that wasn’t a 5 on 3?

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Possession vs rush, where have I heard that before?

Ryan Henkel @ryanhenkel.bsky.social · 3d

2-2 after two.

Shots are 23-18 Carolina.

Carolina with the better sustained pressure, but Devils are getting good looks off the rush.

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Kill still passing the eye test

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Well that makes up for it. Such a weird goal

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Oof, after a good power play too

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like saying “this is a book for fans of the series” is usually an insult. In the case of Knife Children, it is a compliment www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fantasy Book Review: Knife Children by Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the world of The Sharing Knife with Knife Children, a book about working together across cultures and coming of age.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Carrier

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Despite The Underground Railroad being quite a famous book, I somehow came into it with the wrong expectations. It’s a series of alt histories more than it is anything else www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/09/a...

Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

A review of the award-winning alternate history novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, a thoughtful examination of oppression in its many forms.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 3d

Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

A review of the award-winning alternate history novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, a thoughtful examination of oppression in its many forms.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 6d

Finally, the oldest of the bunch, “Mary Margaret Road-Grader” by Howard Waldrop has an entertaining voice and a fascinating, post-apocalyptic inversion on the “times are changing, the old ways are dying” trope strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Mary Margaret Road-Grader

It was the time of the Sun Dance and the Big Tractor Pull. Freddy-in-the-Hollow and I had traveled three days to be at the river. We were almost late, what with the sandstorm and the raid on the wh…

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 6d

“Freediver” by @isabel.kim introduces a weird alternate world and a dangerous job, but its biggest questions are the personal ones—why sign up for danger, and can you trust others to let them put themselves at risk? reactormag.com/freediver-is...

Freediver - Reactor

A two-man team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommunications cables that hang a hundred meters beneath the ocean...and forty-five billion light years away.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 6d

“Suddenwall” by Sara Saab explores trying to move on after a genocidal war, both on an individual and societal level. Fascinating and sobering www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/sudd...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Suddenwall by Sara Saab

In the amnesty-city of Vannat, Aln Panette has let guilt go. The city of Vannat is a strict and inscrutable rulemaster, so Panette doesn't question the rules. She lives a plain, clean life. Keeps her ...

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 6d

And now for the new stuff! I loved “New Niches” by Jackie Roberti, a vibey, introspective piece about an isolated wind farm worker looking at all the ecosystems destroyed and perhaps finding an unexpected glimmer of hope reckoning.press/new-niches/

New Niches | Reckoning

Because of the heavy chop that day, there is no time for a tour. “You shouldn’t have a problem finding things,” the captain tells me. She’s wearing a neon orange vest over her life jacket and a neon o...

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