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Single mum with much baggage fights AI contract terms and immigration paperwork in space. Also, space gangs. CLUB CONTANGO

#WritingCommunity, describe your book poorly an old woman facing down a dragon-riding sorcerer learns that you will not, in fact, understand when you're older (THE REMARKABLE RETIREMENT OF EDNA FISHER, 2023) #author

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Thank you so much, @renanbernardo.bsky.social for this amazing review of CLUB CONTANGO on GR! 😭😭✨

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Update: become IZ’s *69th patron (you get 6 issues of the mag right away, incl. fiction by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social, James Sallis, @carlosnorcia.bsky.social, Rachael Cupp, @aijiang.bsky.social; reviews by @delagar.bsky.social, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social; & more)

If you’re able, become IZ’s 66th monthly patron today and help feed the foundries and power the engines of INTERZONE so it can continue to publish stories as sublime and as satisfying as ‘The Clockwork Heart of Heaven’ by Roby Davies, and not go the way of the dimetrodons interzone.press/patreon ✨

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‘These waters which so many of us have traveled, upon and over, for fortune, for trade, for refuge, for livelihood – our ancestors’ tears and sweat have been cast into the salt of the sea and we begin with the acknowledgement of their presence in our bloods [...]’ from the intro of THE SEA IS OURS

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‘it’s a quiet story, which eschews the normal beats of [an sf] narrative and shows us just the epilogue, what comes after the end of the world’ Jonathan Laidlow reviews Joyce Ch’ng’s ‘The Barricade’ and Álex Souza’s ‘Amber Alert’ in @supernovareviews.bsky.social supernova.reviews/2024/07/06/i...

THE BARRICADE // IZ Digitalinterzone.digital ‘The sea is our home.’ // ‘The Barricade’, a story by Joyce Ch'ng with art by Emma Howitt

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Bears repeating.

One gripe: A lot of (white) readers expect earth-shaking, reality-shifting, totally mind-blowing novels/stories from BIPOC folk. What happens if BIPOC don't really produce the things you white folks want to read? Not fitting the requirements penalise a lot of us.

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First published in IZ 299, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at Airside by Christopher Priest’, @vallescurarule.bsky.social Val Nolan’s tremendous review, now free to read at @interzone.digital 👇 interzone.digital/thirteen-way... Get IZ 299 at Patreon, @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & @scarletferret.com

‘This is especially true of one late-in-the-novel experience of Justin being lost in Seoul’s Gimpo Intl. Airport. This episode is among the most striking in the book, and also one of the most fantastical, as space, time, and logic seems to collapse around Priest’s protagonist.’ Val’s super review 👇

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT AIRSIDE BY CHRISTOPHER PRIEST: Val Nolan on the genre-defying literary maestro’s final novel // IZ Digitalinterzone.digital ‘There are no aliens or portals here; there is, perhaps, a time/space slippage, but the reality of that is up to each reader to decide. A speculative audience will hum along to the book’s eerie tune.’...

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I’ve read my generously inscribed copy of @kellylink.bsky.social’s THE BOOK OF LOVE across an ocean, a sea, and a lake. It’s battered, the gold embossing is marred, and I spilled water on p.517. I feel bad, but I think a lesson of this dreamily, cruelly wise book is the damage is kind of the point?

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I’ll be at @readercon.bsky.social next Saturday and Sunday, in the dealer’s room selling @reckoningmag.bsky.social and some @stelliform.press titles (including limited copies of THE JAGUAR MASK which isn’t officially out for 2 more weeks!) when I’m not on programming. My schedule:

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I have no memory of preordering Spencer Fleury’s I Blame Myself But Also You, nor of where or when I first heard of the author or the book, neither of which I can recall before finding the latter on my kindle, but I’m enjoying it rather a lot.

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‘The crayon sang a beautiful song. I reveled in the pain of it burning my hand and drew that bastard Viking all in red.’ I can’t wait to read Matt’s new stories. Read his IZ story ‘When I Was the Red Baron’ in IZ 299 scarletferret.com/magazines/in... weightlessbooks.com/interzone-299/ 🖍️💥👇

I just received an acceptance e-mail for a short story (prose, not comics), about 6,000 words of dark fantasy/horror. My fourth acceptance. Two more stories are out making the submission rounds. Three stories are off for a critique. And four more are in early drafting stage. Onward. #write

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IZ patrons can get 25% off all the 😍🤯🤩 art in Carly A-F’s INPRNT store, including their amazing IZ 299 cover art, their illustrations for @interzone.digital stories ‘End-of-the-World Lovesick Blues’ and ‘Ghost Herds’, and loads more. Get some Interzone on your walls www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...

Have you always wanted a super long rocket pic zooooooooming up your wall? Well, you can :-) Here is: 🚀 SPARK and a crunchy halftone remake called... 🚀 🚀 SECOND SPARK (hashtag genius :-D) In my shop sale! Fine quality prints, cards and posters www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl... thank you :-)

END-OF-THE-WORLD LOVESICK BLUES // IZ Digitalinterzone.digital ‘From the kitchen window, from what Suki could make out, all of the remaining Peripatetics, the close-knit clique of long-term Coldstream Close supper clubbers and culture wonks had gathered in front ...

Many lovely recommendations I spot books by Aliya Whiteley, @neilwilliamson.bsky.social, Cécile Cristofari, @jolantru.bsky.social, a collection edited by Teika Marija Smits, and lots more

As always and always a valid answer but hopefully the thread will make you find something else and if not there is also www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/7/...

Halfway Through the Year! — Runalong The Shelveswww.runalongtheshelves.net

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Thankyou, France!

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The UK and France just proved that getting out and actually voting makes a difference. Don’t let anyone ever tell you differently.

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well its infinitely better than being addicted to social media www.theguardian.com/games/articl...

Totally wired: Why are so many young people addicted to video games?www.theguardian.com Locked in their bedrooms, playing video games into the small hours, children as young as 10 years old are now addicted to their consoles. Tim Lewis hears how the compulsive games can be impossible to ...

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It's the social media that blows. It's so useless for independent artist self-promo, useless in a way it's never been before. I just picture ppl w/Etsy & commission-me pages out there dutifully posting links, wondering what they're doing wrong, why no one cares. It's not you. TWITTER IS SHIT NOW.

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Being invisible won't help, no. We don't live in a meritocracy. Extremely talented individuals who do zero marketing aren't elegant mysteries, they're just invisible.

This is what makes me wonder if it's worth it at all. Is it better to have absolutely no web presence and be an elegant mystery??

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Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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The cluster of moms at after-school pickup, the people you see on the 8:15 bus to work, the barista at your local coffee shop, your customers if you yourself are the barista, the neighbor you secretly hate, your first roommate who you still talk to on Facebook, your informal lunch break smoking club

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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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Also, speaking of word of mouth, may I please remind you that - Isabel Yap's collection of short stories NEVER HAVE I EVER is very good, and - Nadia Bulkin's collection of short stories SHE SAID DESTROY is also very good (And they are good in QUITE different ways)

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Out Oct 8; my 1st sf anthology (as editor), for @mitpress.bsky.social's Twelve Tomorrows series, DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART. Wherein 10 writers imagine the future of art, across spacetime near and far. Pre-order here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254908...

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ICYMI (pre-orders help, thank you!):

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This year, Interzone published my short story "In the Pines", which is one of my favorite stories (aren't they all) and is kind of fun and gritty and scary and does a Neat Thing in it (I feel) It's about a girl who goes to find her mother, who is lost in a war (like MIA not dead)

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Some shorts collections 👀 STORIES I FORGOT by Chaz Williams DONNER PARTIES by Keith Cadieux NO GODS ONLY CHAOS by @lphernandez.bsky.social

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Some recent reads I’ve enjoyed 👀🔥 REST STOP by @natcassidy.bsky.social THE LOTUS SHOES by Jane Yang THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social FROM THESE DARK ABODES by @lmanusos.bsky.social

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape

You can read every myth ever written and more than 2/3 of the imaginative literature in existence and still be a shitty little careerist who only cares about his bank balance, his career, and his prick. Stories are what we tell. Behaviour is who we are.

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whatever it is that makes us human. It's not fundamental to us in the way people who claim 'we are made of stories' try to make out.

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I've believed for a while that writers who go on about the power of stories are telling a self-serving lie. Just how self-serving can be seen in how the chap who told us fiction teaches us empathy can't understand consent, power dynamics, basic human decency. Literature is an amazing product of