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alexharford.bsky.social
#ShortStory & flash writer of spec fic, fantasy, weird, horror, literary. Poet. Making Bluesky my social network writing home. Travel photographer of outdoors & places that don't seem real. Loves live music, film, running, and more. https://AlexHarford.uk
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In Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 49, @ginasue.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & I to take apart the UK government’s “AI Opportunities Action Plan” and discover it’s made up of so much AI magic dust: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I love this article by @emmanewman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Science-fiction writers have the ability to look at big systems and how changing one variable can affect the people who live within them. We bring them to life and help readers to understand..."

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

This is one of the most important texts about agency in fiction. I'm always pointing people to it. I think almost every writer and reader in Latin America, and probably anywhere in the "Global South", will frown upon being told to write more active protagonists.

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

What's a funny/intriguing anachronism you read in sci-fi? In The Man in Asbestos, a #ShortStory by Stephen Leacock, everyone wears asbestos suits: "They last hundreds of years. We have one suit each, and there are billions piled up, if anybody wants a new one." #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

Set in a snowy Irish National Park (with a castle), @jozebwrites.bsky.social's The Wildest Hunt is a great seasonal read. Scary and thrilling for bedtime reading but what the hey. I average less than one novel a year and loved Jo's Waters and the Wild so much that I picked another of her books.

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments