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<p>Have you enjoyed Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir?</p><p>Then you’ll probably also enjoy The Andromeda Strain and The Andromeda Evolution. They, too, explore the idea of an extraterrestrial microorganism, a mystery that must be solved to save Earth, and plenty of fascinating scientific details. </p><p>Sci-fi readers, what other similar books would you recommend?</p><p><a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/projecthailmary/" rel="tag">#projecthailmary</a> <a href="/tags/andyweir/" rel="tag">#andyweir</a> <br>@books <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

The Andromeda Strain and The Andromeda Evolution

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> In 1859, Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s license. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-9-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-9-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april</span><span class="invisible">-9-2026/</span></a></p><p>Books by Mark Twain at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/53</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Young Mark Twain. He is turned to his left. He moustache and hair appear brown.

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<p>📚 The Alchemist by: Paulo Coelho</p><p>Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-alchemist" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-alchemist"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-alchem</span><span class="invisible">ist</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryselfhelp/" rel="tag">#literaryselfhelp</a></p>

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/FeyFighters" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/FeyFighters</a></p><p>Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of Fey Fighters, by Owen Tyme.

The background is the stars of space, with nebula-like clouds, in blue. This has been divided into jigsaw puzzle pieces by dark lines marking the lines between pieces.

The foreground features an enormous, stylized phoenix, which is composed of fire. The phoenix looms over an Earth-like world heavily obscured by cloud cover.

(Right) The same world from the cover orbits a purple gas giant, with a stream of flame above it, which may be the phoenix, with the following text over the top:

“We’re in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that’s under the mistaken impression she’s a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human.”

“Is there anywhere we can go we won’t be shot on sight?”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/FeyFighters

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<p>Kobo(dot com) has eReaders that work great and so far they haven't gotten weird about what you can do with any old readers. My oldest one is going on 9 years old and has been passed down to my kid, who uses it daily. </p><p>Additionally, you can still break the DRM of Kobo books easily in Calibre. You don't need Amazon for literally anything book-related at this point. Every eBook I own (around 4k at this point?) is FREE. They are mine. It's still possible to do this. (If an author only sells on Amazon, well, that's a choice they made.)</p><p>Audiobooks? There's libro.fm, which lets you download unlocked files. All your current "locked" Audible books? You can easily break the locks on all of those too. My audiobooks are all free. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/ebooks/" rel="tag">#ebooks</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/kobo/" rel="tag">#Kobo</a> <a href="/tags/calibre/" rel="tag">#Calibre</a> <a href="/tags/drm/" rel="tag">#DRM</a></p>

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<p>Why Does Music in Science Fiction Sound Like That?</p><p>Imagining the sound of other worlds has a long past—and persistent creative limits.</p><p>By: Angelica Frey </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/why-does-music-in-science-fiction-sound-like-that/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/why-does-music-in-science-fiction-sound-like-that/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/why-does-music</span><span class="invisible">-in-science-fiction-sound-like-that/</span></a></p><p>Full article available for download:<br><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27106975?mag=why-does-music-in-science-fiction-sound-like-that&seq=4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.jstor.org/stable/27106975?mag=why-does-music-in-science-fiction-sound-like-that&seq=4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.jstor.org/stable/27106975?</span><span class="invisible">mag=why-does-music-in-science-fiction-sound-like-that&seq=4</span></a></p><p>Music & Science Fiction at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/50" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/50"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/50</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/68</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#Music</a></p>

Title page of New Atlantis in the second edition of Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarvm: or A naturall historie. In ten centvries. London. Printed by J.H. for William Lee at the Turkes Head in Fleet-street, next to the Miter, 1628.

Published after the authors death, by William Rawley Doctor of Divinity, late his Lordships Chaplaine.

1628 title page of New Atlantis, an unfinished utopian work by Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Features period typography and a small decorative woodcut engraving at the bottom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atlantis#/media/File:Bacon_1628_New_Atlantis_title_page_wpreview.png

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<p>Today I listened to a great bird appreciation book, The Private Lives of Public Birds by Jack Gedney. It's a collection of reflective essays about common birds of California and how to be more attentive to them. There was a fair bit of overlap with my Arizona bird friends, but even when it was a bird I didn't know, it was worth it to hear the author's experience of the bird. I heartily recommend this book.</p><p><a href="/tags/birding/" rel="tag">#birding</a> <a href="/tags/birds/" rel="tag">#birds</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>Great interview by <a href="/tags/palfest/" rel="tag">#Palfest</a> w/ author/illustrator <a href="/tags/mollycrabapple/" rel="tag">#MollyCrabapple</a> about her new book <a href="/tags/herewhereweliveisourcountry/" rel="tag">#HereWhereWeLiveIsOurCountry</a>: The Story of the <a href="/tags/jewishbund/" rel="tag">#JewishBund</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn01FwM_xnM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn01FwM_xnM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn01Fw</span><span class="invisible">M_xnM</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bund/" rel="tag">#Bund</a> <a href="/tags/bundism/" rel="tag">#bundism</a> <a href="/tags/jewishhistory/" rel="tag">#JewishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/jewishleft/" rel="tag">#JewishLeft</a> <a href="/tags/antizionism/" rel="tag">#antizionism</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/palestinequestion/" rel="tag">#PalestineQuestion</a> <a href="/tags/memoirs/" rel="tag">#memoirs</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>Happy birthday Sir Terry Pratchett. The more the world gets more cruel and unfair, the more I miss him. </p><p>Plus the Vimes boots theory remains the greatest piece of economics ever written.</p><p><a href="/tags/terrypratchett/" rel="tag">#TerryPratchett</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

A pair of tattered boots and the Vimes boots theory:

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."

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<p>Book Review: Anti-State, by Allen Stroud<br>Stewart Hotston has our review of Stroud's latest space opera, a standalone in his long running universe, at the Hugo Finalist NOAF blog:<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/review-anti-state-by-allen-stroud.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/review-anti-state-by-allen-stroud.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/</span><span class="invisible">review-anti-state-by-allen-stroud.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>If you want to enter ancient Rome through a book that feels vivid, intelligent, and surprisingly dramatic, The History of Rome is a great choice. </p><p>It is more than history: it is a story of power, ambition, political struggle, and the making of a civilization.</p><p>This monumental work helped Theodor Mommsen win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, becoming the second laureate in the prize’s history.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/rome/" rel="tag">#rome</a> <a href="/tags/nobelprize/" rel="tag">#nobelprize</a> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

A History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen

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<p>I made a web page describing how I got my <a href="/tags/xteink/" rel="tag">#Xteink</a> up and running. I’m enjoying the size, reading on it is a joy. It’s so pocketable! :)</p><p><a href="https://hollie.eilloh.net/xteink" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>hollie.eilloh.net/xteink</a></p><p><a href="/tags/ereader/" rel="tag">#ereader</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

The opening screen when you turn on the Xteink, showing the last three books read, and links to files and other settings.

A sleep screen image, the Gates of Argonath in Middle Earth.

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Another three books from our January clearance sale, some of which have been review candidates for some time now.</p><p>- Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything – and Endangered the World, a shocking and eye-opening reportage written by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman and published by Hurst Publishers.</p><p>- Making Faces: The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face, written by Adam S. Wilkins, published by Belknap Press. Not one I was planning to review, but I find it very hard to pass up a bargain on an interesting book on human evolution and physical anthropology.</p><p>- Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World, written by Adam Hart, published by Bloomsbury Sigma. One of several books that explores the mismatch between our evolutionary legacy and the modern world we have created for ourselves. I expect them to be amusing reads all!</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalissues/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalIssues</a> <a href="/tags/palmoil/" rel="tag">#PalmOil</a> <a href="/tags/plantationforestry/" rel="tag">#PlantationForestry</a> <a href="/tags/foodadditives/" rel="tag">#FoodAdditives</a> <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/humanevolution/" rel="tag">#HumanEvolution</a> <a href="/tags/physicalanthropology/" rel="tag">#PhysicalAnthropology</a> <a href="/tags/anatomy/" rel="tag">#Anatomy</a> <a href="/tags/popularscience/" rel="tag">#PopularScience</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, Planet Palm, showing an orange hardback with an abstract colour illustration of an orangutan's face, its eyes made out of two palm oil fruits.

In the middle, Making Faces, showing a black hardback with a colour photo of a hominid skull lying on a bed of sharp black rocks (possibly basalt shards).

On the right, Unfit for Purpose, showing an orange hardback with a series of black silhouettes showing a variation on the classic march of progress meme. The last two human figures are of a walking man hunched over while holding a mobile phone, and a woman sitting on a chair hunched over while holding a mobile phone.

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<p>The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch</p><p>George Eliot’s masterpiece teaches us to live faithfully a hidden life.</p><p>By George Scialabba</p><p><a href="https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/the-moral-beauty-of-middlemarch" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/the-moral-beauty-of-middlemarch"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.plough.com/en/topics/life/</span><span class="invisible">beauty/the-moral-beauty-of-middlemarch</span></a></p><p>Middlemarch at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/145" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/145</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

Dorothea Brooke and Will Ladislaw from Middlemarch by George Eliot.

A composed woman in red sits beside an earnest young man who leans toward her. Warm, intimate interior with latticed windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch#/media/File:Dorothea_and_Will_Ladislaw.jpg

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<p>I'm probably going on a minor shopping spree tomorrow, any recent(-ish) fantasy books I should take a look at?<br><a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>A film version of Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” is in the works! This book predicted so many things that are happening today. I’m excited: <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/octavia-e-butler-parable-sower-225524144.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/octavia-e-butler-parable-sower-225524144.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mo</span><span class="invisible">vies/articles/octavia-e-butler-parable-sower-225524144.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/filmmastodon/" rel="tag">#FilmMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/octaviaebutler/" rel="tag">#OctaviaEButler</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/FeyFighters" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/FeyFighters</a></p><p>Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of Fey Fighters, by Owen Tyme.

The background is the stars of space, with nebula-like clouds, in blue. This has been divided into jigsaw puzzle pieces by dark lines marking the lines between pieces.

The foreground features an enormous, stylized phoenix, which is composed of fire. The phoenix looms over an Earth-like world heavily obscured by cloud cover.

(Right) The same world from the cover orbits a purple gas giant, with a stream of flame above it, which may be the phoenix, with the following text over the top:

“We’re in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that’s under the mistaken impression she’s a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human.”

“Is there anywhere we can go we won’t be shot on sight?”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/FeyFighters

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<p>Japanese researchers look at 800-year-old books and trees for signs of extreme solar events</p><p>On Feb. 21, 1204, Japanese poet Fujiwara no Teika described in his diary a bizarre phenomenon: the northern Kyoto skies suddenly burning red at night.</p><p>by By Tomoko Otake</p><p><a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/10/japan/science-health/fujiwara-no-teika-diary-solar-storms/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/10/japan/science-health/fujiwara-no-teika-diary-solar-storms/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026</span><span class="invisible">/04/10/japan/science-health/fujiwara-no-teika-diary-solar-storms/</span></a></p><p>Full article here:<br><a href="https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/102/4/102_pjab.102.011/_article" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/102/4/102_pjab.102.011/_article"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/p</span><span class="invisible">jab/102/4/102_pjab.102.011/_article</span></a></p><p>Solar cycle at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=solar+cycle" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=solar+cycle"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=solar+cycle</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_manuscripts</a> <a href="/tags/medieval_solar_activity/" rel="tag">#medieval_solar_activity</a></p>

A drawing of Fujiwara no Teika, known as a courtier, waka poet and scholar of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods.

The figure is seated and dressed in elaborate court robes with wide sleeves and intricate patterns. He wears a formal headpiece and has a composed, slightly turned facial expression. In one hand, he seems to hold a rectangular object—possibly a writing tablet or scroll.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fujiwara_no_Teika.jpg

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<p>📚 When the Storm Passes by: Manel Loureiro</p><p>In the summer, the Isle of Ons is a vacation paradise. But in the winter, when nature is unpredictable and supply boats are rare, Ons is far less inviting.</p><p>Yet the off season is perfect for Roberto Lobeira, who hopes to find peace and inspiration to write his new novel....</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/when-the-storm-passes" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/when-the-storm-passes"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/when-the-s</span><span class="invisible">torm-passes</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a> <a href="/tags/psychological/" rel="tag">#psychological</a></p>

In the summer, the Isle of Ons is a vacation paradise. But in the winter, when nature is unpredictable and supply boats are rare, Ons is far less inviting.

Yet the off season is perfect for Roberto Lobeira, who hopes to find peace and inspiration to write his new novel. Instead, the island's few permanent residents give Roberto an unnerving and cautionary welcome. There are even warnings of chilling Galician folklore that keep him on edge--and on watch at night. Then when Roberto finds a mysterious bundle floating near the shore, the contents trigger in the residents old family feuds, scores to settle, and an unspeakable thirst for revenge.

As a palpable sense of dread grows more threatening, a violent storm portends even worse to come. With all communication to the outside world shut down, Roberto must face not only the forces of nature but forces he has yet to comprehend on an island where people will do anything to survive.

For a writer seeking sanctuary, a seductive island off the Galician Atlantic coast induces a primal fear in a prize-winning shocker by the international bestselling author of the Apocalypse Z series.

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<p>Attn: SFFH writers of the world! You've got until this Sunday, 12 April, to submit eligible works to the British Fantasy Awards suggestion list. Yes, at this stage YOU CAN NOMINATE YOUR OWN STUFF. This list is the way of telling voters what came out in 2025, to jog their memory, so don't be shy.</p><p>Once the voting opens on 16 April, that's when you need to get back in your box, though you can CAMPAIGN!</p><p>Get in there: <a href="https://forms.gle/YcGUjcbU99R5smKe6" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>forms.gle/YcGUjcbU99R5smKe6</a></p><p>Details of categories: <a href="https://britishfantasysociety.org/about-the-bfs/the-british-fantasy-awards/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="britishfantasysociety.org/about-the-bfs/the-british-fantasy-awards/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">britishfantasysociety.org/abou</span><span class="invisible">t-the-bfs/the-british-fantasy-awards/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

A text-heavy graphic explains the process for the British Fantasy Awards. In short:

Suggestions list closes 12 April
Voting period 16 April - 3 May
Shortlists announced 19 May
Jury panels 19 May - 1 September
Awards announced at Fantasycon

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<p>Today at the NOAF blog, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mikechenwriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mikechenwriter</span></a></span> 's THE PHOTONIC EFFECT gets a review from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Princejvstin</span></a></span> <br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/review-photonic-effect-by-mike-chen.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/review-photonic-effect-by-mike-chen.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/</span><span class="invisible">review-photonic-effect-by-mike-chen.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> @bookstodon</p>

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<p>How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction</p><p>Ed Simon Goes Back to When the Past was the Future</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-amazing-stories-served-as-the-blueprint-for-american-science-fiction/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-amazing-stories-served-as-the-blueprint-for-american-science-fiction/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-amazing-stories</span><span class="invisible">-served-as-the-blueprint-for-american-science-fiction/</span></a></p><p>Amazing stories at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=amazing+stories" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=amazing+stories"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=amazing+stories</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/pulpfiction/" rel="tag">#pulpfiction</a></p>

Cover image: Trajectory to Taurus

Author: Les Cole

Illustrator: Virgil Finlay

This image is a vintage pulp magazine cover with a bold, eye-catching science fiction theme.

At the top, the large title reads Amazing Science Fiction Stories, with a smaller headline above it saying “When the Moon Was Red.” The issue is dated September, and the price (35¢) is shown on the left.

Central illustration: the Moon is depicted as a large, greenish, human-like face with exaggerated features—bulging eyes, deep wrinkles, and a mischievous or menacing expression. A small rocket is flying toward the Moon, and it looks as if the Moon is smoking it like a cigar, with a trail of smoke extending outward.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72539/pg72539-images.html

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Three more books from the January clearance sale of my employer:<br>- The Rise of Horses: 55 Million Years of Evolution from Johns Hopkins University Press (one I might just review in tandem with a more recent book on horse evolution. At some point.)<br>- Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bookish.community/@sarabandbooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sarabandbooks</span></a></span>.<br>- The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World from WH Allen. Somewhere there is a review series brewing about long-term thinking (no, not *that* sort of long-termism!) </p><p><a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/horses/" rel="tag">#Horses</a> <a href="/tags/naturalresources/" rel="tag">#NaturalResources</a> <a href="/tags/resourceextraction/" rel="tag">#ResourceExtraction</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalism/" rel="tag">#Environmentalism</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, standing up, The Rise of Horses, showing a lime-green hardback with two black-and-white illustrations. At the top is an anatomical muscle study of an adult horse. At the bottom is a horse skeleton.

In the middle, lying down, Extraction to Extinction, showing a white paperback that has several bands with squiggles and lines alternating with the title, subtitle, and author name.

On the right, standing up, The Good Ancestor, showing a white hardback with the title and author name in a red front and the subtitle in a black front. A single, small, green acorn is shown towards the bottom, its cap oriented towards the bottom.

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What is the most unique/creative fiction you've run across lately?

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1935 Anna Katharine Green died. "She was one of the first authors of detective fiction in the United States and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Katharine_Green" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Katharine_Green"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kat</span><span class="invisible">harine_Green</span></a></p><p>Books by Green at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/541" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/541"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/541</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photograph of Anna Katharine Green. She is turned to her right, but her face is towards the camera. Her coat is fur-lined.

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