In addition to being an excellent fiction writer, Jo Walton is one of the finest critics of the sf/fantasy field -- so I feel honoured indeed that The Wood Wife is listed here, alongside four brilliant novels that use tradition fairy lore in vastly different ways.
Authors Guild in the US did this about 18 months ago. www.instagram.com/p/DBLJvVXgIU...
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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
Stanford University Press (where I used to be an academic editor) has put out a list of their books on Iran which I 100% recommend:
blog.sup.org/middle-east-...
The spice / oil must flow
If AI developers wish to use our copyright work to build their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms.
Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. The UK government should uphold the existing law.
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How many milliseconds closer to the present does this war bring a global environmental collapse event? How much stronger is it making future storms? By how many millionths of a millimetre higher is it dragging up the sea level?
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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"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
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