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Is it Monday already? It is, gang, and that means that the reviews must flow. Here’s @billcap.bsky.social on Haruki Murakami’s latest - or is it, quite?

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Very excited to be part of the launch issue of the new journal UKL: The Journal of Ursula K. Le Guin Studies, with an article on her 1980 novel The Beginning Place: scholarworks.uni.edu/ukl/vol1/iss...

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This data is way too limited but this could be a cure for pancreatic cancer. How can we know if it is? And if it is, how can we access it? By funding scientific research. And with health agencies that can review data to ensure safety & efficacy, approve new treatments, & make sure they are covered.

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A video of our session at the Hyderabad Literature Festival earlier this Jan: Science fiction and the futures we put into it (with Appupen and Jaideep Unudurti) -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9iu...

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The imprimatur of Prof Roberts, no less! The improfatur!

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vowed never to read another Tchaikovsky after suffering through city of souls for my Clarke 2020 review precisely cos I thought his monsters were the worst but glad Dan did it so the rest of us could read this lovely essay: bsky.app/profile/danh...

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This piece originally began with a riff on Eggers’ recent Nosferatu, which was greeted on my feeds with much consternation about Orlok’s moustache. But my editor had seen nary a whisper of said hullabaloo, so we deleted my disputation forthwith. Media criticism in the age of the algorithm is hard.

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Excited to share the second essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. This one on E.R. Eddison's THE WORM OUROBOROS (1922), a challenging, rewarding novel written in beautiful, archaic prose imitating early modern English poetry/plays. It's a playground for literary critics and fantasy scholars!

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A busman’s holiday: I had a grand time with Jill Lepore on editors in @newyorker.com’s anniversary issue. “A century on, in an age of tweets and … Substack posts … a vanishingly small percentage of the crushingly vast amount that is published on any given day has been edited.” Don’t we know it.

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The week in reviews closes out at @strangehorizons.bsky.social with @erichendel.bsky.social on a steampunk gumshoe adventure that gets tangled up in its approach to its own material: it “roots itself not in the ways that institutions prove ineffective, but in the inability of individual people.”

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Tchaikovksy's Alien Clay is a very smart SF yarn, and on reading it I thought this was especially - and most consistently - true in its take on monstrosity. Fortunate for me, then, that Mangham's We Are All Monsters was on hand to help me think about how we 'do' science and how we imagine monsters.

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Not now, Gramsci.

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Two reviews so far this week at @strangehorizons.bsky.social, both of big books - and both deserving your attention. On Monday, Areeb Ahmad on Anyuru's Ixelles, translated by Nichola Smalley; today, @hramsaroop.bsky.social on Chandraksekera's Rakesfall. Lots of resonances here, worth comparison.

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Huh, @bigechoscifi.bsky.social rides again www.bigecho.org

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Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic. Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.

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It's Friday, it's review day at @strangehorizons.bsky.social. Here's Sneha Pathak with a piece on Wolfish, a book published at Hallowe'en ... but which, it turns out, is rather more fitting for Valentine's ...

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Please share ❤️❤️❤️❤️ women can have PrEP and PEP too!!!

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It's Wednesday, it's review day at @strangehorizons.bsky.social. Here's @marinaberlin.bsky.social on Appupen and Lauren Daudet's AI intro, Dream Machine. "At least 80 per cent of the book is an introduction to and explanation about AI, and about 20 per cent is concerned with characters and plot."

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The announcement on exemptions to USAID/PEPFAR suspensions allowing continuation of HIV treatment and care interventions are very much a mirage. On the ground across Africa people living with HIV cannot access their medications. Deaths and new infections grow as we speak. apnews.com/article/hiv-...

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I need help/signal boost/whatever/screaming into the void. awolfstale.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/a...

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A new issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social is up. First review of the week is from @stephenrcase.bsky.social, on James S.A. Corey's latest. He finds plenty of interest, but also that much of the novel is "all anticipation".

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We have just folded space from LIX. Many machines on LIX. New machines.

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my novel OKPsyche is available here as a DRM-free ebook! If you do want an ebook, get it here rather than at the other place. Other great stuff here too

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Excellent overview of the challenges we face in trying to achieve zero #HIV transmissions by 2030, the greatest of which is HIV-related #stigma. Better understanding of #PrEP, current HIV treatment and #UequalsU is essential in turning the tide!

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Our first Bluesky post is to say that our new issue is live! We have stories by Hsin-Hui Lin, translated by Ye Odelia Yu; Mayumi Inaba, translated by Yui Kajita, and a poem by Mu Cao, translated by @queercomrades.bsky.social. Read more here! samovar.strangehorizons.com

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"A good poem for me suggests a way of being that’s otherwise to destructive, transactional, possessive. In this sense, a good poem is also like a tree or a rock." -- yes, yes to this @ellipticalnight.bsky.social

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I'm SO excited to be working on This Queer Arab Family, a new anthology with @saqibooks.bsky.social to be published Sept 2025🧿 Are you a queer Arab writer with something to say about family, community, safe spaces, etc? Submit something to our open call! Guidelines: saqibooks.com/2025/02/open...

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A 🧵 on what aid cuts mean for HIV. HIV treatment saves lives. Currently 20 million people worldwide are on treatment funded by the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). That funding was halted by Presidential order and then given a reprieve for 90 days. Its future is uncertain. 1/10

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At the weekend I read Rushdie’s Knife. Been meaning to for ages and yet it lived up to the wait: thoughtful and wry and also humbly profound in its brevity. Among Rushdie’s best? Telling detail: maybe the most moving of its sections isn’t about the attack at all, but his old friend Martin Amis.

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A thread in which Kev pokes around that old reviewing/marketing question - and also riffs, I think, off recent our quoting of Barbara Gray: “literary criticism is promotion as well as understanding.” Promotion of whom - or what? And for which reasons, in what proportion? Discuss (with Kev).

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Are you a trans or nonbinary writer? Clarion West just announced a new scholarship that covers all six weeks of tuition:

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This isn't my first or even second time at the rodeo. I dealt with Ronald Reagan & George Bush trying to kill my community by ignoring the AIDS epidemic. It happened again when I lived in South Africa with Thabo Mbeki. And we won twice. So: courage. We will beat them too. Stay focused. Get to work.

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