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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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submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Every week I have a conversational Irish session for half-an-hour in which I am cheerfully incompetent at speaking Irish, but I do manage a few sentences every time and it does good things for my brain.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

Latest news from Edge Hill’s Fiction Writer’s Network blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/fin/2025/06/...

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Delighted to join my friends Andy and Nicky for this special Summer Reading episode of @backlisted.bsky.social. Discussing books by Kaliane Bradley, Hervé Le Tellier, Ted Hughes, and Alexander Baron. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/241...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to the always awesome and ever brilliant @manuscriptgal.bsky.social on the launch of her new book. Happy book birthday, Helen!

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Besotted with this labyrinth locator: labyrinthlocator.org

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

New Summer Reading episode up now. Andy, Una and Nicky discuss The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley; The Anatomy by Hervé Le Tellier; Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes; and The Lowlife by Alexander Baron. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/241...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Never realised until now that Zathras is basically Nice Space Gollum. Yes, we reached "War Without End Part 1" this evening. #Babylon5

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

Get yourself booked for #TargetBookClub, all the cool kids will be there plus the rest of us.

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And you want to read it.

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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

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

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

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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...

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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

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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.

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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. 🤷

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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.

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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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Doomscroll break

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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.

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“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.

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