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On the new SFUltra, Matt from the excellent Bookpilled channel joins me to discuss Beasts by John Crowley. This really blew us away, especially considering its slight pagecount and reputation. Click here to listen right now: www.patreon.com/posts/131392... It will appear streaming elsewhere later on

I've been threatening for a while to start a column on collections of weird fiction, and so: Profane Illuminations, a quarterly series where I'll look at a few in tandem and see what threads I can draw out about their stories and the genre at large. Quick intro here, first full entry next week.

Epic review of Waterblack in @strangehorizons.bsky.social by Matthew Eatough: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... "Waterblack will be greeted as a fitting conclusion to one of the landmark works of experimental fantasy of the twenty-first century...

As is frequently the case, the Igyntes shortlist is full of more *interesting* novels than most SFF awards. In re those I've read The Sentence is that odd beast, speculative legal fiction, Metal From Heaven gonzo shit, and The Emperor & The Endless Palace gay circuit party as reincarnation fantasy.

Womb City ✅

Hugo season is well and truly upon us: @chloroformtea.bsky.social & @casella.bsky.social discuss this year's Novella & Novel finalists, with some gnashing of teeth for what's not included, brief asides on awards they would add or remove, and, somehow, Spielberg.

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒚 2017, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒖𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔! (𝑛.𝑏. 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡-2016 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 24 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠) Premier League seasons, in declining order of quality:

When I play peekaboo with my son to hide the pain of losing to jordan pickford

Highlights of match of the day later? It's going to be the villa reactions isn't it

Two hours of insane nerves just to fall arse backwards into the champions league. Love the football

Thank you aston villa, thank you man united (hope you both get relegated next year)

Harvey Barnes, please only be starting games the week before champions league next year, when we will be spurs-ing our way to glory

Fuck that was complete toilet

Falling over on a corner funnier but not what we need here

Fab! Nooooooo

Osula! This is your time. For really real this time please

Callum Wilson, this would be a great day to remember where the goal is

FFS

Trippier assist for the winner or falling asleep for an everton goal? 50:50

PHEW

Ah fuck, that looks a pen

Martinez sent off at villa? We'll take that

Nervy 0-0s all round then. NOT HELPING

Been physically sick all morning lads, if Newcastle could be 3-0 up in 10 mins that'd be grand

Europa League Final pre-match press conferences Ange: I invented football. Show some facking respect, you chobber Amorim: As a coach, I am pestilence made flesh. I don't even now how I rise in the mornings, such is the non-life I lead in this realm of eternal darkness

Welcome to my 2025 novella recommendation thread! For the rest of the year, I am going to recommend novellas in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres for the consideration of Hugo nominators. And, crucially, these are all going to be novellas NOT published by Tor.

That was the sort of game where we could've really done with an up to speed clinical finisher up front!

Will Osula, your time is now

working on stuff

We're coming for second place Arsenal you little shits

Lewis Miley with a teenager's bounce back from heading someone there

Come on let's get another of these bozos sent off

Don't fucking shoot there Bruno! Hahahaha

NUFC gone completely off the boil here, but at least we're solid at the back. Eddie's definitely going to be happy to sit on it

Well this has been nice 🌞

Cole palmer's definitely thick enough to get sent off too, keep winding him up

As a pink jumper enthusiast myself, maresca looks a total cunt here

Let's kill this off lads, there's a beer in the sun with my name on it at 2pm

We'll have a red there cheers var, elbow in the face right

GET THE FUCK IN

Ok we're back to two goalies on the bench, plus one guy coming off an acl and two teenagers. Feeling positive. Into these blue bastards