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oarditi, 5 months ago to bookstodon

A fascinating read, considering revenge from a psychotherapeutic perspective. Cogently argued, insightful, and thought-provoking.
#psychotherapy #psychoanalysis #johnewaterston #someonesdonesomethingwrong #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago to fantasy

I’m very excited to have received these printed issues of BFS Horizons (pictured here with my lunch), the British Fantasy Society short story magazine.
#bfshorizons #fantasy #fantasyfiction #sf #sciencefiction #horror #horrorfiction #sff #sffh #sffh+ #shortstories #shortfiction #bfs #britishfantasysociety #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago to SF

This is an audacious, brilliant follow-up to ‘Three Body Problem’, marred for me by politically naïve worldbuilding and writing of women characters that is frankly misogynistic.
#sf #sciencefiction #liucixin #cixinliu #thedarkforest #thethreebodyproblem #remembranceofearthspast #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago to books

My Christmas book haul—some great stuff to get my teeth into here ❤️
#books #bookstodon #sciencefiction #sf #nonfiction #yuriherrera #tenplanets #margaretatwood #burningquestions #jgballard #reportsfromthedeepend #food #centralasia #centralasiatravel #centralasiacuisine #carolineeden #redsands @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago to SF

Interzone 296 keeps its standards as high as ever. For me the best stories were Alexander Glass’s multiverse/Chesterton/art-history mash-up ‘Sfumato’, and Alex Penland’s Classical gender yarn ‘We Are Only Ourselves’.
#sf #sciencefiction #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #horrorfiction #sff #sffh #sffh+ #shortstories #shortfiction #interzone #alexanderglass #alexpenland #bookstodon @InterzoneMag @manyoyo @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago to sciencefiction

Le Guin’s first three novellas. A masterclass in economy: these stories are as epic, as deep, as wide ranging, and as emotionally powerful as some entire series of lengthy novels!
#worldsofexileandillusion #ursulakleguin #rocannonsworld #worldofexile #cityofillusions #sciencefiction #sf #novella #novellas #hainishcycle #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago to Horror

This beautiful quote from Alan Moore squeezes a whole affective and intellectual meditation on memory, history, preservation and loss into two sentences.
#alanmoore #illuminations #alanmooreilluminations #horror #horrorfiction #memory #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago to fantasy

Just finished this on the train to that London for the BSFA winter social. It’s an exciting, well constructed, Wuxia inspired fantasy thriller, in a gorgeous Daphne Press edition I won in a raffle at Fantasycon!
#fantasy #fantasyfiction #wuxia #bsfa #fantasycon #wesleychu #theartofprophecy #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago to fantasy

I don’t normally enjoy children’s books, but this cosmic, Blakeian fantasy about race, freedom, creativity and spirituality is pretty mind blowing!
#fantasy #fantasyfiction #childrensfiction #sfsaid #davemckean #tyger #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 6 months ago to fantasy

This is both a very readable introduction to, and a fascinating systematic taxonomy of spec-fic genres. Fun to read and very informative.

#specfic #speculativefiction #fantasy #fantasyfiction #sf #sciencefiction #horror #horrorfiction #sff #sffh #writing #creativewriting #books #bookstodon #valnolan #specficfornewbies #tiffaniangus @bookstodon

oarditi, 6 months ago to fantasy

Episode 3 of my free grimdark fantasy series ‘The Blackswords’ is now available on my website. Join our intrepid antiheroes in a frantic dash for the docks to board a ship to safety. (Link in bio).
#fantasy #fantasyfiction #grimdark #theblackswords #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 6 months ago to books

Jack Vance’s ‘Tales of the Dying Earth’ is hugely influential (a whole sub-genre is named for it), but more to the point, it’s a hilarious and entertaining read.
#books #bookstodon #fantasy #fantasyfiction #dyingearth #jackvance #talesofthedyingearth @bookstodon

oarditi, 6 months ago to books

This is a wonderfully pragmatic approach to the language wrangling that writers have to do! Putting it into the mouths of some characters makes it even better.
#epigram #epigrams #epigraph #epigraphs #adriantchaikovsky #cityoflastchances #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 6 months ago to SF

I picked this up at Fantasycon to see whether I wanted to subscribe. It’s superb! It’s hard to pick a single standout story, but I loved ‘The Alien Invasion’ by Ely Percy, and ‘Space’ by John Buchan (‘author of ‘The 39 Steps’). @shorelineofinfinity #sf #sciencefiction #shortstories #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 7 months ago to books

Here’s a typically sour but perceptive Wrey Gardiner quote. Almost every sentence in that book is an epigraph!
#books #writing #memoir #epigram #epigrams #epigraph #poetry #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 7 months ago to fantasy

I’ve just finished this gorgeous novella by Priya Sharma. Very complex in all the good ways, and transparently simple in all the beautiful ones.
#fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #horrorfiction #sff #sffh #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 7 months ago to fantasy

The heart of this collection is an excoriating and hilarious satirical novella about the post-war American comics industry, but my favourite was ‘Hypothetical Lizard’, a stunningly beautiful queer secondary-world fantasy.
#alanmoore #illuminations #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #horrorfiction #sf #sciencefiction #comics #comicshistory #shortstories #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 7 months ago to books

This wonderful quote from one of my favourite authors is a devastating rejoinder to all the revenge/power fantasies that tend to pass for excitement in fiction…
#hilarymantel #bringupthebodies #books #bookstodon #quotes #quotation #epigram #epigraph #historicalfiction @bookstodon

oarditi, 7 months ago to SF

Delivered by Signor Postino while I was at work today: a treat I got myself (Niall Harrison‘s book of reviews) and birthday gifts from my dear friend, the lovely Al Lindsay
#sf #sciencefiction #criticism #sfcriticism #bookreviews #sfbookreviews #philosophy #kosmische #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 7 months ago to fantasy

I re-read this after 35 years—and found it to be action-packed, baroque, philosophical, freakishly inventive, and utterly hilarious.
#michaelmoorcock #theeternalchampion #eternalchampion #fantasy #fantasyfiction #sf #sciencefiction #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 7 months ago to SF

My latest read. This issue of @InterzoneMag has a particularly excellent crop of non-fiction writing. The standout story for me was Nozaki Mado’s ‘The Fifth Horizon’, trans. Cat Anderson.
#sf #sciencefiction #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #horrorfiction #sfcriticism #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 8 months ago to books

My reading among the Baroque and Arabo-Norman palazzi of Palermo. Clear, balanced, informative, and incredibly broad for such a concise book.
#books #bookstodon #earlymusic #medieval #medievalmusic #renaissance #renaissancemusic #baroque #baroquemusic @bookstodon