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Dying Earth covers thru the ages

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We need a Plex for ebooks, something that syncs to all your devices easily. Having DRM free books is better, but honestly it's a pain in the ass to load them onto my Kobo every time

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It's my pleasure to help reveal the cover of House of the Rain King, a standalone literary fantasy written by @gnipahellir.bsky.social. Release date: 28th February Cover by Miblart. Full info: jamreads.com/reveals/cove...

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My fantasy novel HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is now available for preorder! It's got: 🔔 scheming monks 🗡️ deadbeat mercenaries 🌊 floodwaters 🦘 Australian landscapes 🦜 birds. so many birds Sounds interesting? Get it here: books2read.com/houseofthera...

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Thanks Delilah for this wonderful first review!

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I can finally show off the cover of my novel! HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is a standalone fantasy novel about a young monk who comes face to face with his god amidst the rising waters of a mythic flood. It's available for pre-order now, publishing on the 28th of Feb: books2read.com/u/mekdKR

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amgalant.com/mongols-rape... absolutely fascinating article

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"The American celebrity Audubon’s important travel documents that he had been copying and gave to relatives for safekeeping were eaten by mice. He was extremely sad but tried again, and after just three years, his boxes were once more full of paper." Another hit from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

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look at what they took from you

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part 3 in my ongoing quest to read every Clark Ashton Smith story: paperback-picnic.ghost.io/the-mystic-s...

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A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)

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When I write about classic sci-fi and fantasy, it isn't to indulge in nostalgia for a lost golden age, but to explore what the past can teach us and what we have lost along the way.

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It's not about highbrow vs lowbrow, but about curiosity vs predictability. Do you want to read books that surprise you? Or that comfort you through repetition?

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related: I wrote a little about reviewers who fear their own taste and the checkbox-style approach to evaluating fiction jomc.substack.com/p/where-do-m...

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If the reason you read fiction is that you have a list of your "favourite tropes" and your aim is to find books that reuse these tropes over and over, then I think there is an unbridgeable gulf between us. Though we are both "reading", we're really doing different things for different purposes.

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A1151 Theft of the seasons.

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Watched YES, MADAM (1985) last night. Absolutely insane fight scenes and amazing outfits for Yeoh and Rothrock. Adding this to the canon of "live action movies where people act like Looney Tunes characters", alongside Lemonade Joe and Hundreds of Beavers

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Holy shit. Charles Fort was right after all

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time to read some real literature

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One of my favourite Australian etymologies: "shotty not" - a phrase meaning "I claim the right to not do that task" is derived circuitously from "riding shotgun".

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Additional evidence for my essay on the surprisingly recent origin of "secondary world" as a concept (paperback-picnic.ghost.io/the-first-se...) - when Moby-Dick was first published in England, the printer accidentally left out the last chapter, making it seem...

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le Wankh

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look at these three beauties

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Love that this great little book by Joanna Russ is having a bit of a moment. It's one of my favorites. Excepting Delaney's in Jewel-Hinged Jaw, of course, this piece is as good a breakdown that "gets it" as you'll find.

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paperback-picnic.ghost.io/the-adventur... new post about Joanna Russ, the best sword and sorcery story ever, and "the clomping foot of nerdism"

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Youtube guys who build their whole brand around fake outrage should be called "whine merchants"

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Why does every Vietnamese book cover look fucking awesome?

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hyperstimulation video but one half of the screen is a tour of the Louvre, the other half is a Kurosawa film, and the audio is someone reading One Hundred Years of Solitude

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