Wm Henry Morris

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Torn lately between the belief that science fiction literature needs another major movement/genre (new wave, cyberpunk, new weird)… …and the equally strong conviction that anyone who writes a manifesto or proclaims a movement should be put in a sack and whacked with large sticks.

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My kingdom for product round-ups that aren't just links to Amazon.

My Emmy Award for whatever time this voting period covers goes to Devery Jacobs

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I’ve honestly started believing it’s part of the reason we never prepare or plan for anything (covid, storms, etc) anymore - most people’s cultural memory of the Y2K bug is to mock it for being some kind of overhyped bullshit. it was the hype that stopped it from being a major crisis!

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it’s exhausting to have to point this out every time the Y2K bug is brought up, but hey: it didn’t do as much damage as was feared because *lots of people worked very hard to raise awareness, prepare, and fix it*

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I don't have an MFA. But I aspire to write like someone who graduated from an MFA program and regrets every day that they did.

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A nice bundle of MIT Press nonfiction titles about video game history and design up at Humble, $18 for 26 books, raising money for Girls Who Code! Don't forget you can adjust your donation with "custom amount" to send more to the charity than the default! www.humblebundle.com/books/all-ab...

Humble Book Bundle: All About Gaming by MIT Presswww.humblebundle.com From D&D to Call of Duty, this bundle from MIT Press explores the histories, cultures & theories driving games of all types! Your purchase helps Girls Who Code.

Last and First Man is now on Kanopy.

The daughter and I are seeing ARTMS this fall. The Birth and Virtual Angels MVs are fascinating. In fact, it's been a good year+ for interesting, cinematic, SF-ish kpop MVs. See also: IU's Love Wins All; tripleS's Girls Never Die; I-dle's I Do; and Jin's The Astronaut.

There are few acts in K-pop with an artistic approach as distinct as ARTMS, and their meta narrative of integrating their own songs and lore into new works is inspired. What a treat that I got to speak to them for nome other than PopMatters. Enjoy! www.popmatters.com/k-pop-artms-...

K-Pop Has Its Meta-Moment with the Dynamic Art of ARTMSwww.popmatters.com The K-pop market is oversaturated, but ARTMS cut through the technicolor noise by remixing and defying lore conventions to create something drastically new.

Both turned out to be excellent. Gai Noi in Minneapolis is wonderful for lunch--plenty of nearby parking; indoor, outdoor patio (with large sun umbrellas), and atrium options for dining; and great food. And Four Tet is as interesting an interview as you'd think he'd be.

I have to work on campus tomorrow. OTOH: I’m getting fed lunch and a new episodes of Tape Notes just dropped featuring Four Tet so that’s my commute listening all settled.

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In Airside, these two classically Priestian themes - alienation and transit - combine with unusual totality, and that in this sense it's therefore this final novel that proves the purer distillation of Priest's oeuvre. On Airside, for the LARB:

Waiting in Null Space | Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.org Dan Hartland reviews Christopher Priest’s “Airside.”

So I think this GRRM kerfluffle is indicative of exactly the issue with his relationship with Worldcon: he seems to want to be both treated as just George the guy who has been attending for years who holds the losers party and George the guy whose third career as a writer went supernova.

I have to work on campus tomorrow. OTOH: I’m getting fed lunch and a new episodes of Tape Notes just dropped featuring Four Tet so that’s my commute listening all settled.

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Strange Horizons has been doing top notch work in fiction, criticism, and essays on the SFF fields for more than twenty years, and has been consistently passed over for the Hugo. I hope that this year, voters finally give them their due.

This is the last week of Hugo Award voting and we would like you to consider Strange Horizons for Best Semiprozine. For over 20 years, Strange Horizons has been publishing weekly issues filled with new stories, poems and non-fiction. Here are some more reasons you should vote for us below!

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I backed. ATM they need another $16 to cross the $20K threshold.

I just upped my pledge. Let’s get that novelette!

Strange Horizons is at $19178 out of $20000 to add a novelette to next year's roster!! They have FIVE HOURS left to close that margin! www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Strange Horizons 2025www.kickstarter.com A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

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Gang, you have only a short time left to contribute to @strangehorizons.bsky.social and help it do more next year. Why should you? SH loves speculative fiction and has published, for nearly 25 years, work to help enhance it. Stretch goals now = amazing things soon.

Strange Horizons 2025www.kickstarter.com A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

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"—urban fey weirdos and punk rockers and fabulous parties and excess and street people and bacchanalia—" "Just a glorious bit of writing, I can't recommend it highly enough." "It's like Twin Peaks had a baby with Once Upon a Time." "It's serial fiction done right."

Autumn into Winterthecityofroses.com Chapters 1 – 22 (all of season one), now available in one convenient ebook package for almost every ereader software and device under the sun.

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I am legit biting my claws now. Now we have the two specials. :D Now for novelette and paying artists! If you would like to ask the editors anything... And lastly, we commission more art!

ESPN on in the background for the first time in eons (I’m a GenX never-cable subscriber). Is anything more old-fashioned than some old white dude complaining about soccer?

For realist

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA. I’ll stop shouting now. But for real.

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#infinitedetail

WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

Summer edition of my quarterly newsletter emailed out last night: buttondown.email/wmhenrymorri...

Art Has a Frame and what's possible with ebooks and fictionbuttondown.email Hello. The two most notable things to happen since I last emailed you are: I attended 4th Street Fantasy (which is not only the perfect SF&F convention for...

“Have there been technologies or instruments which have profoundly changed or even questioned the way you make music?” “I really don’t make an effort to keep up with things.” www.15questions.net/interview/fi...

15 questions | Interview | Allen Ravenstine | Teacup and Saucerwww.15questions.net 15 questions.net

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I've done the last dozen or so chapbook covers at least in Affinity, along with the most recent editions of all three paperbacks, text and covers (and the fourth, coming soon), so yeah, recommended, take 'em for a spin.

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'To live in the world of creation - to get into it and stay in it - to frequent it and haunt it - to think intently and fruitfully - to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation - this is the only thing...' Henry James - Notebooks

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a small thought (I don't post a lot of Content on my patreon, but I do occasionally have small thoughts! I've also been archiving some of my once-published-but-no-longer-available short stories from long-defunct magazines, working forwards from the beginning) www.patreon.com/posts/around...

Around You, Close By | Vajra Chandrasekerawww.patreon.com Get more from Vajra Chandrasekera on Patreon

“While the premise of [Huckleberry Finn] is that, when faced by tyranny of any sort, you can simply run away, the problem that [The Wide, Wide World] sets itself to solve is how to survive, given that you can’t.”

I’m excited that @ancillaryreview.bsky.social has started a podcast & delighted that it’s now available in my podcast player of choice (Overcast): ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/07/01/a...

A Meal of Thorns 01 – THE SCAR with Dan Hartlandancillaryreviewofbooks.org Host Jake Casella Brookins talks to Dan Hartland, critic and reviewer, about China Miéville's novel THE SCAR, the genre of the New Weird, and many related works and ideas. Notes, Links, and Transcript