ICYMI: I reviewed this month’s Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus! Stick around for a quick thread of favorites!
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ICYMI: I reviewed this month’s Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus! Stick around for a quick thread of favorites!
Anyone up for a sci-fi multiverse that’s mostly an excuse for a stylized western with a canine lead? Because I’ve got one right here… www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/11/s...
This is why the American sports league that would do best with a midseason single elimination tourney is baseball. Let the minor league teams play the big clubs! It could even serve developmental purposes too
“Person, Place, Thing” by @marissalingen.bsky.social is a first contact story from the perspective of a colony being struggling to convince humanity of their nature. A pleasure from the start. clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_03_26
“Those Who Left History” by Wanxiang Fengnian is an epistolary story split between investigative reports into the technology and diary entries by one of those that left history, digging into both the concept and how it affects those involved clarkesworldmagazine.com/fengnian_03_26
ICYMI: I reviewed this month’s Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus! Stick around for a quick thread of favorites!
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This week’s magazine review features some cli-fi, a couple ghost stories, a living ship, a wolf(e)ish novella, a high-concept work in translation, and two first contacts. Check it out! www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/10/t...
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(For drive-bys, this is a hockey post)
This week’s magazine review features some cli-fi, a couple ghost stories, a living ship, a wolf(e)ish novella, a high-concept work in translation, and two first contacts. Check it out! www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/10/t...
Periodically I review popular things www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/10/f...
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Did I escalate my Bingo rabble-rousing to an entire card themed around the square I keep suggesting? Yes, yes I did.
(Some real bangers on this card—give it a look) www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/08/2...
They’ve been riding dominant pitching for years, but this is the first time in a long time that the back half of the lineup didn’t feel like an offensive black hole
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Gonna have to get used to clutch hitting from the Lady Vols after years of rolling out elite pitchers and trying to win 1-0
That is in fact what put Gormenghast in my mind--not having read it, I wouldn't have made the connection without the name-drop
Did I escalate my Bingo rabble-rousing to an entire card themed around the square I keep suggesting? Yes, yes I did.
(Some real bangers on this card—give it a look) www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/08/2...
I so deeply resent having to do this every spring
Last promo today, just popping this up again. Online a few more weeks. Very kind of Undertow to make it available temporarily. If it it intrigues you, you can support the indie publisher and maybe grab a book (any book! they're all killer. so many killer collections). Ty.
undertowpublications.com
I haven’t read a ton of Wolfe, but the Cerberus vibes (especially the original novella) came through very strong. Reads almost halfway between Wolfe’s style and the style I usually get from you
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“Sci-fi/horror Piranesi but written by Gene Wolfe” is about the best description I’ve got. Perhaps “sci-fi Gormenghast by Wolfe” is better, but I haven’t read Gormenghast.
Anyways, that’s my pitch, so if that’s your jam, go read it
SFBC is discussing Locus List stories today! Come join us to chat about some great pieces.
- "Highway 1, Past Hope" by Maria Haskins
- "In My Country" by Thomas Ha
- "Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead" by Sam J. Miller
- "Never Eaten Vegetables" by H.H. Pak
www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
You’re welcome! Thanks for a great read!
Blushing over this list and the honorable mention of Whale Fall of You, my lil story abt a disheveled, depressed lesbian grieving her partner while marooned under the shadow of a dieing space whale.
I'm always so appreciative of Michael Damian Thomas's edits~
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal...
Meanwhile actual babysitters are charging $25-30/hr
I also did a ton of rereading from my 2025 Recommended Reading List and shared my top ten short fictions here: bsky.app/profile/tarv...
I reviewed February's issues of Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus and shared my favorites here: bsky.app/profile/tarv...
I don't have my usual favorites thread with my February 2026 round-up, but I still have quite a few stories to talk about, and I'd like to link a couple past threads (does that make this a thread? Okay maybe) www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/01/f...