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Currently reading Ken Liu's next novel, the technothriller All That We See or Seem, and enjoying it very much.

As always, fascinated by the differering UK/US cover approaches. This is the UK HoZ cover, and is not what I'd imagined. I'm more in step with the US Saga Press edition I think.

All That We See or Seem

Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?- Edgar Allan PoeAt 14, Julia Z became infamous as the "orphan hacker," a teenage prodigy who bro…

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · 22d

It does appear as though Mr Redford was rather successful, romantically speaking.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have a new book out today! It's a Sapphic steampunk western adventure about the dashing Karen Memery riding to the rescue as Annie Oakley's stunt double in a beleaguered early movie!

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Coode St Episode 685: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and the Anthropic AI case www.podbean.com/eas/pb-zsurf...

Episode 685: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and the Anthropic AI case

In a rare shorter episode, we chat about the late and much missed Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, with whom Jonathan and Gary had strangely similar encounters some years ago, and her early career as an SF write...

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Sep 5

As humanity moves to the stars, a young woman attempts to preserve the magical forest she fell in love with as a child.

Next week. "If A Digitized Tree Falls" by @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social & @kyliu99.bsky.social

Art by @francozacha.bsky.social
Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social

A scrapbook-style iage depicting a woman standing in front of a burst of vector line stylized to look like the sun; next to her are random objects include a column, a tree, a cracked planet, and a flock of geese. The whole image appears to overlay a sheet of blue and white grid paper

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · Sep 2

I've just been reminded of the time the wonderful @tkingfisher.com said lovely things about Peter S. Beagle and The Last Unicorn so this is a day when I have to remind you that that book is ice and fairy wings and lilacs and the death of everything and if you have not read it you absolutely should.

A screencap of one of Ursula's old tweets where she says "A non-zero number of you sisterly did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spin glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written."

and yeah, like, damn, me too. Everything about the harpy. "He gave himself up for loved." Amazing.

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations!

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 31

This moment comes to us all.

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 31

Good news!!!! Now, Fiasco!

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 26

I am maybe a fifth of the way through Al Reynolds new SF noir novel Halcyon Years and its fun. The book really wears its influences on its sleeve. Though I'm still working on whyYuri Gagarin?

Cover art for Halcyon Years shows a man in a coat and hat walking away from us and into a distorted black and white cityscape.

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 25

The conversation is very much in progress and I may have misrecalled. If so, my apologies.

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 24

I think I know where my copy is…

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 24

Coode St 684: On awards, stories, and reading

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Episode 684: On stories, awards, and reading | The Coode Street Podcast

With Gary recently returned from Worldcon in Seattle, we chat a bit about the Hugos (mostly avoiding second-guessing the results), which leads to some discussion of the differences between Hugo, Nebul...

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 24

Delighted you enjoyed the book!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Aug 21

Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... https://locusmag.com/

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 21

I don't have an answer to this, but I wonder how many successful novellas involved multiple major themes. That *feels* like the territory of novels. You need more legroom to explore multiple themes and not lose the reader.

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 21

I think the answer has to do with complexity -- how much stuff (character, plot elements, ideas, whatever) -- you put in, length etc. That is not number, but complexity.

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 21

We've discussed some of this. I do think that the success or failure of any story comes down to the number of narrative elements it involves and how they are deployed, but I'm not yet convinced this complexity maps to any of the seemingly arbitrary short fiction forms.

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 14

I think there are copyright issues with that.

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yay!!!!!!!

Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Aug 12

Coode Street 683: China Mieville joins Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan to discuss Perdido Street Station and 25 Years of Bas Lag

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Episode 683: China Mieville and 25 Years of Bas Lag

Twenty five years ago China Mieville's second novel, Perdido Street Station, introduced the world to the fantastical city of Bas Lag. It went on to win the Arthur C Clarke and British Fantasy awards, ...

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