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The need to rally to the defence of monsters...
What's wrong with some people? Sorry to hear this.
Truth.
Ye gods. He would have spared NO ONE. It would have been one long dry screed. Probably his main character would have been a starry-eyed 25-year old flunky who finds himself spinning social media posts for all he's worth and scrambling to save what's left of his soul
🫠 This truly is a time of decadence.
It's doubleplusgood
What is this 'warfighters'? Surely that's an AI invention. The word is 'soldiers'
To Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer: Either let immigrants in, be secure and settled or don't let them in. But to wait 20 years for any sense of security is a cruel and stupid proposal. I am an immigrant to the UK myself, and married to an immigrant. What sort of crazy world is this now? #UKLabour??
“The Doubtful Guest Came Seventeen Years Ago.”
🎨 Edward Gorey
Nominations have opened for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize!
Anyone can nominate book-length speculative fiction that embodies "hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world."
www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...
Honestly? I just watched a movie with Cary Grant and a chimpanzee that made more sense
Woke up this morning to 'here we go again' headlines. Also, I strongly feel we should put all of our leaders in one of Elon's rockets and send them to Mars
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#BookSky #WritingCommunity
"It's very important to keep performing because people need a chance for a miracle, a fairytale"
We have the next RHUL Studying Classics at University on 2nd July (not June, sorry!) and it's titled 'Of Gods and Women in the Ancient World'! Do pass on to any sixth formers of your acquaintance who might be interested.
5 authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:
Ursula K. Le Guin
Marilynne Robinson
Vladimir Nabokov
Jane Austen
Diana Wynne Jones
Full of the wrong shade of baby, Gary
Introducing Children's Chatter! ✍️🎨
For everyone who plays a part in bringing stories to young readers.
Join the list here 👉 www.thebookseller.com/maili...
Ask them a question.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
A copy of The Unfinished Business on a rusted surface. The book is a softcover (although there's a hardcover available!) and shows a night-time cityscape with glowing windows. A girl looks out a top-storey window at three ghosts floating overhead. In the background is a wind-up ghost with "boo!" written on its belly.
Me again, talking about my ghostly middle grade novel The Unfinished Business. It's out in two weeks, and it would mean a lot if you wanted to help spread the word!
Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/975/978164...
Zon: www.amazon.com/dp/1646036751
Foreword Reviews calls Michael Satlow's An Enchanted World "heady and magical...[and] an unapologetic, humanizing vision of a transformative period." Read the full review here:
I want to gift people a magic mirror that tells the truth.
See also: billionaires who invent tech to surveil people in the name of peace and authoritarian governance, who claim the antichrist will surveil people in the name of peace and authoritarian governance, but also imagine the antichrist is (check notes) a random environmentalist from Sweden...
New directions in avian humour ...
'Blackadder, Baby!' Its the swinging 60s, Percy shops in Carnaby St. Baldrick starts a rock band with his cousin that becomes abruptly and inexplicably famous. Blackadder tries to manage the American tour. Chaos ensues
Such a lovely show...
Younger Gen X sees and agrees. Algebra and, um, wood-working? How about learning how out to vote, manage money and fill out a tax form?
