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I'm re-reading the Steerswoman books by @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social yet again, up to book 3, and I find myself delighted, yet again, by the voice of the character Steffie. (I'll post screen shots later, no time to do AltText right now.) A+ fantasy & sf, great female characters and world building

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To AI shills & capitalist institutions, writers are simultaneously not important enough to compensate while alive and so important once dead that their machine-ghosts must be resurrected to continue the work of profit-making. Vile.

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I spent 40 min at dinner listing all the reasons why @marthawells.com Murderbot on AppleTV is the first show I've been excited about since Heroes Season 1 (I know, I know). The books got us through the worst of the pademic and middle school and it feels so nice to be excited about something...

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If you're curious, here are some samples from my upcoming birding dictionary www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

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It’s true! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

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And most people just don't have enough monkeys.

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Hey @theguardian.com, I wrote a bestselling book defending pigeons, so reach out at [email protected] if you'd like to hear a spirited and science-based defense of those perfect birds 🕊️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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i’ll be interviewing @marthawells.com at Books on the Green at the Woodlands Arts Festival next Saturday afternoon. www.thewoodlandsartscouncil.org/events/2024/...

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Couple more photos from the #murderbot set visit. More info in the alt text:

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Imagine, five hundred years ago, and baguette jokes are still funny www.patreon.com/posts/bakers...

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authorsguild.org/news/meta-li... Advice for pirated authors.

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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

submitted 43 days ago • 174 comments

Another chance to catch up on Jo Walton's books -- the start of her Small Change series. "Small change" being taken two ways...

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Well, all my books are in LibGen and I'm not happy about it (LibGen is a library used by various companies to train their AI. I have not given permission for any use of my work as a training set) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Cached US Kindle giveaway because I am very depressed: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's REAPER MAN, which I have and which I love. I think it was the 2nd or 3rd DW book I read that I loved. It is the story of an employee being screwed by venture capitalists. #KindleBookGiveaway #GNUTerryPratchett

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Absolutely my favorite Donato painting. For obvious reasons. (Because of the dark hair, I don't think of Rowan, I think of Zenna.)

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One of my favorite portraits. Inspired by numerous portrait painters, notably Anthony Van Dyck & Lorenzo Lotto, I wanted her to be slightly distracted, immersed in 'waves' of paper. A big shout out to Claudia Rodriguez for modeling! Cartographer 20" x 22" Oil on Panel 2000 private collection

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Nab this while you can! I really enjoyed it.

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My favorite genre: 5) All the tropes only everyone is sensible 4) All the tropes only everyone is studying how they work 3) Incompatible interplanetary sexual/social mores 2) Have you ever really looked at grammar? Dude. 1) One person, against all odds, is going to act ethically (while snarking).

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Sometimes people have been following me for a while and don't realize that I have a podcast If that's you, welcome! It's called @lingthusiasm.bsky.social If you like the idea of a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics you can give it a follow here and on all the usual podcast apps!

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I get people can't read everything but I wish they would read more widely before they claim that Sanderson is "taking up a standard that has lain mostly unwielded on the landscape of the genre for some time" (writing invented/real religion/s as a crucial part of worldbuilding in sff worlds).

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What a fascinating analysis! (And not just because @taramcmullin.com talks about my work.) This examination of "temporal bandwidth," and how it effects our level of engagement with the world and life, gives an important perspective on our digital age's forced fractional focus.

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Just FYI: if you're avoiding Amazon, my books are available elsewhere: Ebooks from Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, Smashwords, all DRM-free. Paperbacks from Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookstore can order them from their usual distributor. Here's B&N's link: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/kirstein%2...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Can’t wait for this!!!

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

My sister bought it! You all should, it's brilliant. @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social is on here.

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

reread @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social’s “the steerswoman” and it remains very good but all the same i will never again get to have the experience of reading it for the first time and feeling things click together

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Roses are red Green is the thyme A thread by a linguist Of linguistic rhymes (Unstoppable @gretchenmcc.bsky.social )

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This is a great book if you like time travel, robots, philosophical discussion, and seeing the limits of thought experiments about Utopia when they're applied to the real world. (Warning, though, one of the aspects that's dealt with is attitudes to consent, with all that that implies).

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OpenAI right now

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Just finished “The Steerswoman” by @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social , and it was wonderful! Picked it up as a recommendation from Cory Doctorow’s blog and, as usual, am glad I did. The world is absolutely captivating: imagine a fantasy frontier, with dragons, goblins, and demons. Now….

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Your chance to nab Jo Walton’s excellent books in ebook editions at excellent prices continues! Both Lent and My Real Children are $2.99. For now.

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Not everything has to be justified as medicine. Poetry does not have to be medicine for our souls, it can be poetry. It can be art. It can be itself. That's all it has to be. Music does not have to be medicine, fiction does not have to be medicine, a walk in the woods does not have to be medicine.

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I am freaking out at how cool this is

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