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Broadcast Kneecap from Glastonbury, but voiced by an actor

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The story of the actual War Of The Worlds panic, in Quito, Ecuador, 1949: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/h... "Panic spread throughout the city. The local churches were crammed full to bursting. People began to confess their sins. Men told their wives about past adulteries… .

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Yesterday evening, I finished @alexpheby.bsky.social’s Waterblack, the third in the Cities of the Weft trilogy. Incredible. Whether you read fantasy or not, these books are significant. @galleybeggars.bsky.social

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Hard to shake the feeling that TikTok dropping publishing like a failed software product tells you how well they understood publishing in the first place. No great loss, I suspect. As Sam says in the root article, the best thing about TikTok is how it can crystallise reader communities.

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Join us for the Ro of Tralee. @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and I will be in Tralee on 5 July at 3pm. It's pay-what-you-can but booking essential as there are only fifty seats. Do come! 👇 siamsatire.com/event/author...

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This is a superb and concise retelling of the ‘other’ radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. Not the one you’re familiar with, and one that had rather more impact…

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I've never not learnt something by stepping back from my reflexive reactions and listening to Sam.

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The story of the actual War Of The Worlds panic, in Quito, Ecuador, 1949: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/h... "Panic spread throughout the city. The local churches were crammed full to bursting. People began to confess their sins. Men told their wives about past adulteries… .

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A piece by me in today's @thebookseller.com | I really feel for all these authors! www.thebookseller.com/news/tiktok-...

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Characteristically nuanced and thoughtful analysis from Sam.

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I wrote about 8th Note Press a few weeks ago, suggesting it was evil corporate bullshit, and expressing surprise that no one was complaining about it as fervently as they are about other publishers who have recently set up: samj.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

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On 25.06 ,we have our first free Brunel Uni online publishing webinar with editors Joelle Owusu from #MerkyBooks, @samjordison.bsky.social from @galleybeggars.bsky.social and Katie Bowden from @4thestatebooks.bsky.social Register here to demystify publishing: www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-e...

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The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is tremendous. Strong recommend. (Just interviewed her for Across The Pond. Out next week. She also talks a very good book.)

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"“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.”"

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We are deeply disappointed that the Data Bill will not include the necessary provisions to keep creators' works safe from being used without their knowledge or permission by AI companies, despite clear and unified calls from across the creative industries. (1/3)

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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...

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Really interesting. Don't entirely agree. Still hope literature will endure. Also wonder if English Literature departments could have defended the universality of literature rather than caving to identitarian attacks... But worrying stats and stories here plus a great potted history of lit criticism

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Amid the excitement of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social fund drive, we also have a standard issue this week (we are rockstars). In Reviews so far: Eatough on Waterblack and Pheby’s Cities of the Weft (@galleybeggars.bsky.social); @marinaberlin.bsky.social on Wheel of Time’s third and final season.

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Our latest episode is a fascinating conversation with Megan Hunter about faith, fiction and her very unusual new novel Days Of Light: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

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I enjoyed watching Sam Fender last Friday: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/s...

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Foucauldian.

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Save the semicolons! (Except the hordes that are just wrong and the still-greater hordes that make you feel like someone sprinkled fustiness all over the page.) theconversation.com/semicolons-a...

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I enjoyed watching Sam Fender last Friday: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/s...

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Remind me again why we so desperately need to involve this software in every critical aspect of UK society? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Exciting Announcement: Brunel Uni is hosting a series of free online creative writing workshops and publishing industry webinars this summer. Please check out this link to read more and register: www.eventbrite.com/cc/brunel-un...

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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We’re so doomed www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The true story about the fake news relating to the broadcast of The War Of The Worlds. (This is part one. Part two gets fully wild.) open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/h...

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This is tremendous, not least for "Orson Welles and friends are camping it up something chronic", a turn of phrase we once used all the time but which is rare now. Something chronic. Lovely.

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Stage exploded at Sam Fender

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The true story about the fake news relating to the broadcast of The War Of The Worlds. (This is part one. Part two gets fully wild.) open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/h...

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Worth listening to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social on You and Yours on the Unbound debacle at 22 minutes. He's owed £20,000. I don't think I could be so calm and eloquent under the circumstances www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Some interesting thjngs here, including Archna Sharma’s claim (which I have no reason to disbelieve) that she didn’t know the state of things when she sold Neem Tree to #Unbound — and the admission that authors’ royalties were not safeguarded. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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I also have stories to tell if this does happen.

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