I adored Deadhouse Gates and now I'm reading Memories and I'm like...how can I read faster please?????
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I adored Deadhouse Gates and now I'm reading Memories and I'm like...how can I read faster please?????
This here shall be an incoherent yet spoiler-free ongoing thread on Malazan (currently on Book 3 & I've lost my sleep over it)
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Where mother was born, fish sing, algae dance. They say that when the waters lower you can feel the swell between your organs—liver bloated, heart submerged. Mother always goes back in years of drought. This time is Vassia’s first. 'I’m so glad you’ll finally see our home.'"
Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Thicker" by Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
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I have a new Uncanny story! Set in a village that was flooded and is no more, though its inhabitants remember...but what they remember and what's the truth - that's another question.
Contested memory & generational trauma of the Greek Civil War (and more family dinners with...issues.)
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Where mother was born, fish sing, algae dance. They say that when the waters lower you can feel the swell between your organs—liver bloated, heart submerged. Mother always goes back in years of drought. This time is Vassia’s first. 'I’m so glad you’ll finally see our home.'"
Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Thicker" by Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social!
You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December!
buff.ly/CmvWUOr
Halloween has come and gone but the dead return on the eve of the New Year. They remember what the living can never forget, around a dining table full of heavy silences, and broken hearts. But deep inside the ground there's love to be found.
@ecastroianni.bsky.social in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Where mother was born, fish sing, algae dance. They say that when the waters lower you can feel the swell between your organs—liver bloated, heart submerged. Mother always goes back in years of drought. This time is Vassia’s first. 'I’m so glad you’ll finally see our home.'"
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Thicker" by Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social!
You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December!
buff.ly/CmvWUOr
Bot . . . girl . . . resistance!
This story hits all the right notes.
Nice job @ecastroianni.bsky.social
Pre-order the book:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️🌈
I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!!
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Your Halloween read is here, by yours truly ✨ So excited to share this with you!
Pre-order:
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Stories by:
@ecastroianni.bsky.social
@grantcollier.bsky.social
@gregegansf.bsky.social
Rich Larson
@kyliu99.bsky.social
James Morrow
@trnapper.bsky.social
Amal Singh
Lavie Tidier
Jay Werkheiser
@librariangoblin.bsky.social
This article about the Elfashir siege is so illuminating, and at the same time infuriating & BAFFLING. It is beyond comprehension that *all this* is happening to a population, and no one in power feels any sense of urgency at all.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
A must read!
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Friends, I'll be doing a smol reading at FoF on hour 14, which is Saturday 6:00 AM UTC so if anyone can make it I will be happy to see you there! ❤️
My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
Publishing since "Song of Achilles": [absolutely milking Greek culture without including actual Greeks or GS Cypriots]
Lone voice: "But what's the Greek perspective on this?"
Publishing:
I am reminded how I desperately need to re-read *this* trilogy more than the others and how Robin Hobb managed to produce the best love story ever written, conveniently wrapped in 16 massive tomes of epic fantasy.
The cover for Fantasy Issue 98! A brown-haired, light-skinned figure kneels next to a giant white bird, tending to an arrow wound. The cover is awash in autumnal shades of orange, cream, and brown.
And now for our Issue 98 COVER 🎉 🎉 🎉
Wound, by Zi Xu
I have a new story coming up! 😍
^this tbh
Palestinian families like Nehad's are being starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:
Loved that story, so excited we share a toc!!
A poster with a background of a pink, maroon, and yellow embroidered fabric (tatreez). Text reads: An evening of community in solidarity with Palestinians Funds for Falasteen Join us on Sat 2nd August, 9pm IST in sharing work by Palestinian writers, poets, singers, and artists. Make a donation to any Palestinian fundraiser https://shorturl.at/h2mJZ Send the receipt to falasteenfund@gmail.com to get a meeting link
Friends, I'm hosting another fundraiser for Palestine on Saturday. This time I've linked to a campaign by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social in aid of the Sameer Project and the wonderful @refaatlibrary.bsky.social is matching the next $11,000 in donations
If you're able to donate or attend, please do! 🍉
The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
on a summer break, so I'm late to see this but SO excited to be part of this ToC with my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story "The Lark Ascending" 🤩🤩🥰🥰
PRESS RELEASE
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!
curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."
thread/
psychopomp.com/announcing-t...
I had a dream in which I saw myself in the mirror but it was actually a zoom call for work and instead of a powerful transformative experience I was panicking because I forgot I was wearing pink pajamas with kittens
is this life in your late 30s/after 2020
For People Magazine, I wrote about creativity in Greek Myth retellings, including stories by many actual great Greek authors of today. Behold novels and short stories by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social, @mayadeane.bsky.social, @ecastroianni.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social & @thisisguan.bsky.social!
We are now mid-way! Help us hit all the goals and the stretch goals. :D
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.
