Rest in power Dan Simmons, his HYPERION sequence & SUMMER OF NIGHT still requested weekly & holding up well decades after publication, though I could also name many others.
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My novel Jitterbug comes out on Tuesday and the Moon turns red. Coincidence or next level marketing from @titanbooks.bsky.social?
It might be that he winds up in the Lovecraft box, which is a deserved but unfortunate place to be.... still, Hyperion kicks ass and get weird and interesting, more so than if he'd let it lie as a solo book, and The Terror rocks. No defence for the bad shit but the good stuff is good
A fucking brilliant writer whose brain was eaten alive by 9/11, which qualifies as a tragedy.
Why expect writers to be less fucked up and susceptible than readers? Artistic talent doesn't necessarily align with good sense or humanism. How many Quakers do we read?
Yeah, this is fair. Brilliant, problematic. Not unusual in combination
damn, RIP
Oh man, got to work with Dan for a while as we tried to adapt two of his properties. Brilliant guy. Just one of those brains that inspires unending awe. A real titan in the industry. What a career. He will be missed.
Anyone who has ever sat through spiel from deep voiced sales guy who is saying nonsense but who effectively has the audience willing to agree to any proposal he likes, after, has seen this phenomenon in real time. Politics is full of it. Say it confidently and repeatedly and that's 80% of influence
Project Zomboid getting more of the critical attention that it deserves.
The cosmos is an indifferent lottery but we can transform the circumstances of our prison into something hopeful. The most anti-entropic thing I've seen today
FRAN KEN'S (BARBIE) TEIN REX "One of our most talented, thought-provoking writers of speculative fiction" THE GUARDIAN ADAM ROBERTS
Cover reveal! @gollancz.bsky.social
Just ruined a few copies of Immeasurable Heaven down at Forbidden Planet London today
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Am I impartial? Not entirely.
Honestly, will you love this book if you enjoy the novels of Alan Garner? Or those of Ray Bradbury? It's very possible.
Will you at least save 25% on this gamble, if you take advantage of this offer via Waterstones? Definitely.
I've read most of RCW's bibliography and am VERY EXCITED by this news.
Loved this. Locus review won't be online for a bit, but here's the conclusion.
huh. i suppose my account codes as more queer because of Din alone?
The Essence has made it onto the Reading List, which is unexpected but also well cool. Thank you, everyone at Locus.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
The Essence is one of the best Hutchinson books ever and a top tier sf novel of recent vintage. Stands up to rereading. All expectations right out the window.
If you read for pleasure, put it on your list.
Here it comes! "The Dead Man's Empire", the long-awaited second book in the Holy Mountain series! Is it a sequel to "The Last Blade Priest"? Yes! But in theory you could read it without reading TLBP!
The cover for Romeo & Julet AND GODZILLA from IDW Comics
I have never been more simultaneously upset I didn't get to write a comic and absolutely thrilled it exists
from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee
Something good to look forward to
Let’s Put The Future Behind Us
UFOS Are Real!
2/2 Let’s Put The Future Behind Us is his visionary Soviet satire that looks all too real today. And, lastly, UFOS Are Real! is his non-fiction look at the history of flying saucers and the culture around them. You know what to do next: buy 'em all.
Womack is an absolute master and we've never needed his books as much as we do today. An Orwell for our fucked up times, the ways in which he unveils the deceipts and subversion of language are gutting, and deeply relevant. He writes the shit out of stuff
Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
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This is a good book. You ought to read it.
I cannot say I enjoyed this movie.
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Reading and enjoying Ian Green’s Extremophile and what a total world and tone shift from his Gauntlet fantasy trilogy. Got Extremophile last summer after attending a fun workshop he gave at the Dublin Intl Literature Festival. Hardcore biologists doing Sci fi is a genre I really love
