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unamccormack.bsky.social
NYT bestselling and BSFA award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
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Get yourself booked for #TargetBookClub, all the cool kids will be there plus the rest of us.

And you want to read it.

JUNE 7 2025: "I've finally assembled a small survival pack for myself - a grab and run bag. I've collected a hatchet, and two small, light, metal pots. I found an old canteen and a plastic bottle, both for water, and I resolved to keep them clean and full..." -- 'Parable of The Sower' Octavia Butler

1981/1982ish, in a paper zine brought back from a Blake’s 7 convention. #OldSchool

The great @nunkie.bsky.social will be doing a live telling of E.F. Benson’s The Horror Horn over on the Tube of You at 8pm. A mountainous, monstrous, cryptozoological classic. 🏔️ 🍷 #NunkieTheatre www.youtube.com/live/KRQ6RQi...

Join us for the world's most important annual #Tolkien event! Oxonmoot sees hundreds of #Tolkien readers, artists, scholars, academics and fans come together for an unforgettable weekend. 4-7 September both online and in Oxford. Click to learn more! www.oxonmoot.org

As I deliver a 1600 word column only slightly very late, I think I can look back on last week and say that I aced it. It's just the next few weeks I have to keep on acing.

Imagine not even getting to have a chance in life just because you can't get basic eye care. You could go get a big coffee and a slice of cake, or maybe send a tenner to a wonderful cause. 🤷

We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

Patrons get new stories by Carlos, columns by Aliya Whiteley and @unamccormack.bsky.social, book reviews by @delagar.bsky.social and @maudmarianw.bsky.social, reviews of 17 new films by Nick Lowe in the new, 5000-word serving of Mutant Popcorn, and much more. Thanks for helping make all this happen!

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New Target Doctor Who novelisations wot I edited! You’ll need just 5.4cm of shelf space for fresh trips in time and space.

“What are you laughing at, Frog?” said Toad. “I am laughing at you, Toad,” said Frog, “because you DO look funny in your bathing suit.” “Of course I do,” said Toad. Then he picked up his clothes and went home.

Look at this! Outstanding!

So I can go left if I have a random baby with me… or do I need a chaperone too?