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I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at Reactor (formerly known as Tor.com); publicity, prize, & more for the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX. https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
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trying to stay largely offline this chaotic week but I keep coming back to see how many more rightfully angry quote-posts that worldcon announcement has gotten

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

despite everything we've seen from Worldcon the last few years, I've been quietly excited about it happening so close to me this time. finally, one I can afford to go to! but this sure takes the shine off. this is a confoundingly poor decision that insults every artist involved with the con.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Andor, no (not the end. a part before that. you know. the exhaustingly cliched part.)

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

some serious camouflage work going on here. big pile of dust on the couch. no cat to be seen.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

yes i'm still mad about the end of the secret commonwealth. yes i'm still bittersweetly excited to read this.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

oh no I need to go to this HACK THE PLANET

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I wish this show had more time for the immediate aftermath, but this is a solid transitional/mini road-trip episode (and I do not think the writers are letting the neighborhood bigot off the hook! There's a very different point to those scenes)

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

what in the 2013-era lit twitter did I wake up to

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

the movies I have watched more than 6 times are generally not my favorites but things that were on the WB or UPN on sundays when I was a hungover college student (i.e. super mario bros???). or final destination and one fine day which for no apparent reason various roommates and I watched repeatedly

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

once again I have received a book that I immediately wanted to drop because it has that nasty "soft touch" cover please stop making me touch the soft touch it is VILE (and doesn't shelve well!!!!!)

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

chicken liver pate, bacon, and pickled veg sandwich at the post office bar in williamsburg. my one true lost sandwich love.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

because of this week's The Last of Us I'm thinking about stories that tell you what's going to happen before it happens, but my brain is cheese, so, collective brain: help? there are books that do this, I know there are, but I can't think of them? can you?

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

submitted 12 days ago • 268 comments

this is, as always, a very good idea, but I think it ought to go a step further and include everyone who works on each book, from editor to publicity assistant. I don't really understand the limited credits here

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

I knew it was coming, but I didn't know it was coming SO SOON. Come process your feels with me!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment