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Speculative Insight journal
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A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce. https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hi new folks! Speculative Insight publishes nonfiction essays about science fiction and fantasy.

First Saturday of the month is a free essay; third Saturday of the month is for subscribers (and subscribing is AUD30/year: ~15GBP, 18 euro, and USD20... ish)

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Speculative Insight
A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.
www.speculativeinsight.com
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 12h
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

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Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 12h
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 13h
The Green Man's War is a 99p Kindle deal for October in the UK, for those keen to catch up with the series before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October, with a launch at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton 😁
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...
The Green Man's War
The Green Man's War eBook : McKenna, Juliet E: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 18h
@tanaudel.bsky.social is always worth reading and following...
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Brisbane in 28 @brisbanein28.bsky.social · 2d
Aussie Author Highlights: Kathleen Jennings
How do you describe your work? Fairy-tale/Gothic fiction and illustration.
Where can we find you? tanaudel.wordpress.com, tanaudel @ Bsky, Insta, and Tumblr; girlfleeshouse on Bsky and Tumblr
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 23h
It was my pleasure! I’m glad other people have got to appreciate it!
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 1d
SO PROUD.
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Joanne Anderton @joanneanderton.bsky.social · 1d
In exciting news my Murderbot essay 'Nice Safe Emotions' from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social won the William Atheling Jr Award over the weekend! So unexpected and exciting!
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 1d
Eeeee!!! So pleased!! Well deserved!
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 1d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social's new (free!) essay looks at how imperial control can be maintained through various versions of violence, as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection ... timely perhaps?

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Purple background, white text, which says ... the fact that the stories in One Message Remains are written as a series of vignettes and not as a neat progression towards the fall of the Treotan Empire is a strength of the collection's writing. Each story follows a protagonist who, regardless of their initial orientation towards the Empire, is forced to reckon with the role in the regime. "Lives Under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 1d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 1d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social's new (free!) essay looks at how imperial control can be maintained through various versions of violence, as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection ... timely perhaps?

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the fact that the stories in One Message Remains are written as a series of vignettes and not as a neat progression towards the fall of the Treotan Empire is a strength of the collection's writing. Each story follows a protagonist who, regardless of their initial orientation towards the Empire, is forced to reckon with the role in the regime. "Lives Under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 2d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social's new (free!) essay looks at how imperial control can be maintained through various versions of violence, as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection ... timely perhaps?

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the fact that the stories in One Message Remains are written as a series of vignettes and not as a neat progression towards the fall of the Treotan Empire is a strength of the collection's writing. Each story follows a protagonist who, regardless of their initial orientation towards the Empire, is forced to reckon with the role in the regime. "Lives Under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 2d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social's new (free!) essay discusses living under imperial subjugation, and approaches to resistance, as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection ... timely perhaps?

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the fact that the stories in One Message Remains are written as a series of vignettes and not as a neat progression towards the fall of the Treotan Empire is a strength of the collection's writing. Each story follows a protagonist who, regardless of their initial orientation towards the Empire, is forced to reckon with the role in the regime. "Lives Under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 3d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social's new (free!) essay discusses living under imperial subjugation, and approaches to resistance, as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection ... timely perhaps?

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the fact that the stories in One Message Remains are written as a series of vignettes and not as a neat progression towards the fall of the Treotan Empire is a strength of the collection's writing. Each story follows a protagonist who, regardless of their initial orientation towards the Empire, is forced to reckon with the role in the regime. "Lives Under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 3d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 3d
Highly pertinent reading - forcefully recommended.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay: www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text. One Message Remains is a meaningful addition to the body of literary and scholarly works on imperialism and dictatorship, not least because the collection lends clarity to some of the questions that trouble us most... "Lives under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay: www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text. One Message Remains is a meaningful addition to the body of literary and scholarly works on imperialism and dictatorship, not least because the collection lends clarity to some of the questions that trouble us most... "Lives under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 5d
I didn't do it deliberately, but it's an empire double-header this month!

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Screenshot of the Speculative Insight webpage, showing the current and coming essays: one called Lives Under Empire, by Eric de Roulet, the other called The Empire of the Ranch and the Injustice of "Justice," by Moth Paulson.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 6d
Subscribing would be an awfully nice birthday present to me... 🤣
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 7d
Subscribing to Speculative Insight costs AUD30/yr (about GBP15, or USD19). You get an extra essay a month, plus the compilations twice a year - which always include an extra essay (sometimes two!).

OR you could subscribe for AUD200, and NEVER have to renew again!

www.speculativeinsight.com
Speculative Insight
A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.
www.speculativeinsight.com
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 5d
I hope @sarahgailey.bsky.social has already seen this (with two books discussed!); also @alixeharrow.bsky.social @byzantienne.bsky.social are referenced in really interesting ways...

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Housing Haunts Me
If only getting a mortgage was as easy as opening a book.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 5d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay: www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text. One Message Remains is a meaningful addition to the body of literary and scholarly works on imperialism and dictatorship, not least because the collection lends clarity to some of the questions that trouble us most... "Lives under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 4d
I've finished my essay on Kostova's THE HISTORIAN, complete with discussion of dark academia, her conservative, apolitical view of history and violence, and, of course, vampires.

The 11k-word essay will be released in November to coincide with my @mealofthorns.bsky.social episode on the novel.
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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 9d
Alright , finished my (6th) reread of Kostova's The Historian and ended with over 7k words of notes. Now to write the essay on why I think this is a pretty bad novel, a worse vampire novel, and an even worse novel about history -- basically, it's bad at what it wants to be (about).
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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 14d
Not even halfway through my reread of The Historian and I've already got nearly 4k words of notes. This reread is really challenging me -- I genuinely no longer know what I think about this novel and I vacillate wildly between "man, this sucks" and "ok, I'm enjoying this again."
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4d
I liked it the first time I read it (near on publication) because it felt different from other stuff I’d read. I’m really interested to read your essay to see what I missed, and how it fits with other genre stuff (which I hadn’t read up to that point).
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4d
Happy birthday! Glad it was an excellent one!
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 4d
Highlighting this for the weekend crowd 😊 #booksky 📚 💙
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 6d
Good news! The Green Man's War is a Kindle ebook deal for October. You can get fully caught up with Dan Mackmain's adventures before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October.
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...
Cover art shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws. Cover copy reads: THE GREEN MAN’S WAR For a few years now, the Green Man has sent Daniel Mackmain to resolve clashes between ordinary people and the supernatural world. Dan has found allies among folk from myth and met other humans who can see the uncanny. He has also made dangerous enemies. Someone has decided to put a stop to this interference once and for all. Dan and his friends are about to find themselves in the firing line.
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