A 20 quid sub also unlocks stories by Sarah Hall, Yan Lianke (translated by Carlos Rojas, who also translated Yan Lianke’s HARD LIKE WATER, which I’m reading at the moment); M. John Harrison, and Seán. Padraic. Birnie.
Finished listening to https://chokepointcapitalism.com by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic and can’t decide whether to be angry or depressed by the state of things. I know it’s supposed to end on a hopeful note but that’s not how my brain works.
They’re run by Kevin Beynon, who also runs Libreture @libreture, a place where you can store your electronic books, track your reading, and discover more DRM-free ebooks:
A huge thank you to everyone who’s boosted and subscribed and become a patron so far – IZ is about 30% of the way to where it needs to be.
I’m making the 2023 IZ issues PWYW for a short time, if you want to try amazing stories by R.T. Ester, Nozaki Mado, Katie McIvor, Sloane Leong, and many others!
THRILLED to see 17 IZ contributors in the BSFA Longlist! Huge congrats to
Seán Padraic Birnie
L Chan
Rachael Cupp
R.T. Ester
Fábio Fernandes
Jendia Gammon
Alexander Glass
Thomas Ha
Emma Howitt
Adelehin Ijasan
Ai Jiang
Jonathan Laidlow
Hesper Leveret
Alex Penland
Juliana Pinho
Vinayak Varma
Neil Williamson
Considering I have been expecting it since May it is rather up-to-date, with the first article commenting on Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Let's see how the rest is :)
‘Lost travelers who came upon Bellfairie nearly always felt they discovered the proverbial jewel until, upon close inspection, it was determined to be so seriously imbued with superstition and entropy that any charm was dissipated.’
— M. Rickert, THE SHIPBUILDER OF BELLFAIRIE
Beguiling, beautifully written, frequently very funny, and quietly devastating – a story I know I’ll return to to get lost in again.
‘She’d been right, after all. He had been named after a star.
‘Or at least the idea of one. For, as it seemed to be with all things Quark (other than cheese) the star was also a hypothesis, formed either inside a neutron star or within the death of a massive one.’