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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

I read an advance copy of this today, and it's really great

The #gothic studies you have been waiting for

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 3h

Excellent

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 3h

_Heirs, heiresses, princes, and princesses all feature in October's 22 new romantasy titles._

apparently my agitating* for romance that focuses on pairings who both come from a working class/artisan/creative class/activist background isn't going so well

*mentioning it on bsky from time to time

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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 8h

Took me a while to get through this episode (two hours!), but this is a great set of interviews with some of the people behind the current incarnation of SH (including Gautam)

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 5d

For @strangehorizons.bsky.social 25th anniversary, I spoke about my (almost) decade at the magazine, its anarchic nature, changes in the genre space, editing SFF non-fiction, and how the extractivism special issue came to be imagined (starts at 1 hr 24 mins):

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Celebrating 25 Years with The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective

In this special episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Senior Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti and Editor Michael Ireland welcome current members of the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective for a series of…

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 8h

I had the exact same experience.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 10h

valid!

the key is the creamy with the crunch

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 10h

The more difficult question but probably the way to answer this is what’s the difference between a short novel and a novella. For example, The Great Gatsby is a short novel and Billy Budd is a novella.

I’d have to think more about why that’s the case.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 10h

The answer to that is outside the scope of what can be accomplished in a bsky conversation and is somewhat answered in the link to the newsletter edition (or at least that’s a good starting point).

And, ofc, it’s a fuzzy set.

One answer I have is if polyphony is present, it’s a novel.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 10h

If I’m seeing pepitas and goat cheese, then that’s a winning combination.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Yes, I published a collection of short stories last week.

But I also wrote about the format of Jameson’s Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory.

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my story collection, unusual comfort reading, jameson

WHM's new story collection plus thoughts on Han Kang and M. John Harrison and a first look at Mimesis, Expression, Construction.

buttondown.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

I looked it up online after watching the episode, and the way it was described for us Yankees was as a sort of granola bar, and I feel like that’s not doing justice to what we saw at all.

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Yes, I published a collection of short stories last week.

But I also wrote about the format of Jameson’s Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory.

Scroll down to the third item: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...

my story collection, unusual comfort reading, jameson

WHM's new story collection plus thoughts on Han Kang and M. John Harrison and a first look at Mimesis, Expression, Construction.

buttondown.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

I was so confused!

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Understood!

If you get into woodworking, then you can justify the sharp-edged tools and also go down the stains and polish path.

A good, no-risk* hobby is healthy for folks.

* meaning you have no prestige or potential for money bound up in it (so not writing [me] or photography/writing [you])

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

It could be worse: it could be synths (like me—although I keep things fairly contained) or model trains (cool but endless and takes up so much space) or pewter figurines or something. Pocket knives and multitools are cool, useful, and not that expensive.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

My daughter is a bit older than Mike’s kids, but this characterizes her and her friends as well.

She has an Instagram where she follows a handful of artists and musicians, but that’s it. Everything else is closed settings, including shared Pinterest boards (rather than using Tumblr).

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 1d

However, despite the fact that they do not use social media in a "social" sense, all of my kids are highly social online with their peers. It's just that they socialize in closed settings like Discord, group texts, FaceTime groups, and gaming voice chats.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

I prefer not to

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Same!

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

That was easily a top five Windhorst rant

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

(this story also contains a joke about literature that I think is both hilarious and interesting science fiction)

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

_To write in a mimetic mode is an attempt to fix something that is not fixed (and probably never was).

That seems pointless._

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

No story collection is worth buying for just one story, and I’m definitely not suggesting mine is.

What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.

wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...

Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM

Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 1d

Novels! Novellas! Novelettes! Short stories! Flash paragraphs! What of the episodic serial, my friends? Whither the serialized episode?

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

That 19th century guy made it impossible to use just my first and last name so I added my middle name, but then it was too long verging on serial killer-esque, so I shortened the first name to Wm.

But if we ever meet in person you can just call me William.

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 1d

explain your username:
My unofficial middle name is Justin. Jvstin is the Roman spelling of Justin. The Prince part comes from my love of Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles
So Justin --> Jvstin ---> Princejvstin.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

explain your username:

short version: it’s my author pen name

long version: I was going by the initials “CM” on a message board for writers, because it stood for “Chicken Mafia.” People knew me as CM and then suddenly I needed a real name for human interaction purposes.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

I also can’t shake the idea that although, ofc, there are a wide variety of forms that horror, thrillers, mystery, and romance can take, SF&F is and should be the most protean of the genres, especially when it comes to structure/form.

I’m biased that way.

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Nope. Just like there isn’t for most any genre.

Mary Doyle Springer would say there is, but even in Forms of the Novella she spends some pages defending it as a formalist project.

My interest is always less in the definitive & more in techniques writers aren’t deploying/messing around with.

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