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Liz Busby

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reader, critic, creative writer, and podcaster; talks about speculative fiction and Mormonism, and often about the relationship between them

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Jul 31

A little project I've been working... I hope you'll join me.
Links in the usual places, or check out www.furtherlightmag.com

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · 4d

Looks delicious!

Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · 5d

Where'd you find this? You're tempting me to change my bet. 😂

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · 9d

Next story set in the Relief Society closet, huh?

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Further Light Magazine @furtherlightmag.bsky.social · 13d

Our September newsblotter is out! Less than a week remains to get in your submissions for issue 1. Check out the updates to our guidelines, plus interesting reads, kickstarters, a fantasy art exhibit, and other new outlets for your short stories!
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September 2025 Newsblotter

News and events about LDS speculative fiction

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · 28d

Look out, #cosmere fans! You're gonna love it!

Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Sep 8

You did it! Congrats!

Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nothing very exciting, but in primary we did both "This Little Light of Mine" and "I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me."

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Sep 7

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. I'll be on campus on Tuesday...

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Sep 3

Where did you get this list off particular temples? San Diego is closed for renovations and Cape Town isn't even built. Seems like the source for these might not be well informed.

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Sep 1

Not sure but this might be heresy.

Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · Aug 31

There's a new couch in the church foyer and it's not even flower print. Are we entering a new era?

The foyer of an LDS church. Purplish industrial carpet, white painted brick walls, and a solid colored dark blue couch.

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 29

Bad source citation here though. The double quotation marks are very confusing. I would advise my students to rewrite this to make it clearer who the ideas belong to.

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 28

Promise?

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 26

If there is one? But that's only the first half of the complaints. I'm more talking about the second half: Kuang doesn't trust her readers and constantly hits you with message, message, message at the expense of story. I found the last 1/3 of Babel unreadable for this reason.

Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 25

I felt torn about adding this book to my TBR. On the one hand, the concept is right up my alley. On the other hand, I have had serious issues with every Kuang book I've read. Sounds like the issues have gotten worse, which is sad because PhD students visit Hell is such an awesome premise.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · Aug 25

This morning I have a (rather long) review of Katabasis up at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social. In many ways, it’s a book quite similar to Babel, but those differences (and degrees) really tell, and turn things that worked for me in one really much less successful in the other. You can read it here.

Book Review: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

A core theme worth exploring, obscured by lacklustre storytelling and the inability to trust the audience even one tiny bit Before I get i...

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 15

One of my favorite things about teaching at BYU is the chance to open class with a blessing on both learners and teachers.
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Prayer at the Beginning of Class: My Experience at a Non-LDS University – Times & Seasons

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply! So many people really don't get just how different the needs of gifted kids are from average readers. It's something that's hard to understand until you experience it yourself.

Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 13

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and saying nope . don 't like that .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and saying nope . don 't like that .

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 13

Inspired by a recent John Scalzi post against recommending old books, some thoughts on gifted readers and the canon.

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Gifted Kids and the Sci-Fi Canon Wars

On the purposes of reading old genre books

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 6

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(Does Bluesky suppress links? Not sure whether I need to do the thread thing or not...)

What I Read: July 2025

Long trips abroad and big publishing news

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 6

Back from Japan with book reviews and news! Less reading than usual, but at least three of these are going on my all-time favorites list.

Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is so lame. Like not life-changing, but kinda lose faith in humanity a bit lame.

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Aug 2

Excited to be presenting but a bit intimidated by the level of Tolkien knowledge on the program. I'm gonna learn a lot!

mythsoc.bsky.social @mythsoc.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is the last day to register for this weekend's event! Come join us for a weekend of discussion about the women of Tolkien and other mythopoeic fantasy. Register now: mythsoc.org/oms/oms-04.htm

Mythopoeic Society - Online Midyear Seminar 2025

Janet Brennan Croft is an Associate University Librarian at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of the Mythopoeic Award winning War in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (Praeger 2004,…

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David T @improvementera.com · Aug 1

We're getting an A24 Mormon Horror Cinematic Universe, folks!

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Jul 31

A little project I've been working... I hope you'll join me.
Links in the usual places, or check out www.furtherlightmag.com

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Liz Busby @lizbusby.bsky.social · Jul 30

Right? That song is such an interesting mash-up of cultures.