<p>That's why I write <a href="/tags/speculativefiction/" rel="tag">#SpeculativeFiction</a> things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂 <br>Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the <a href="/tags/multiverse/" rel="tag">#Multiverse</a>? At least that's what I've been told... 😅 </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> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/worldbuilding" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>worldbuilding</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/fantasymemes/" rel="tag">#FantasyMemes</a> <a href="/tags/scifimemes/" rel="tag">#SciFiMemes</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/low/" rel="tag">#Low</a> <a href="/tags/high/" rel="tag">#High</a> <a href="/tags/epic/" rel="tag">#Epic</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#Opera</a> <a href="/tags/hard/" rel="tag">#Hard</a> <a href="/tags/cottagecore/" rel="tag">#CottageCore</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#SolarPunk</a> <a href="/tags/comedic/" rel="tag">#Comedic</a> <a href="/tags/whatever/" rel="tag">#Whatever</a> <br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <br><a href="/tags/boostingissharing/" rel="tag">#BoostingIsSharing</a></p>
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<p>Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1519.</p><p>He was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology.</p><p>Books by Leonardo Da Vinci at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1629</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>My wife doesn't run a fediverse account, so I'm alerting anyone interested that her new book is part of the itch.io bundle collated to bring awareness of <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> in writing for <a href="/tags/adhdawarenessmonth/" rel="tag">#ADHDAwarenessMonth</a>. There's a whole bunch of different genres included and they're all either written by an ADHD author, or have an ADHD significant character.<br>"The Players Act 1" is both.<br>If you fancy $90 of ebooks for $25, please give it a look - all DRM-free.<br><a href="https://itch.io/b/3300/adhd-awareness-month-fiction" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itch.io/b/3300/adhd-awareness-month-fiction"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itch.io/b/3300/adhd-awareness-</span><span class="invisible">month-fiction</span></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> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a></p>
<p>What Was Behind Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal?</p><p>Swift’s savage animosity towards the Irish Protestant elites is front and center in his biting (perhaps literally) critique of the landlord class.</p><p>By: Matthew Wills </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/what-was-behind-jonathan-swifts-modest-proposal/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/what-was-behind-jonathan-swifts-modest-proposal/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/what-was-behin</span><span class="invisible">d-jonathan-swifts-modest-proposal/</span></a></p><p>Modest Proposal at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1080" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1080</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>New report from PEN America: The Normalization of Book Banning (published Oct 1, 2025)</p><p>"In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the banning of books, including bans on specific titles statewide. Never before have so many politicians sought to bully school leaders into censoring according to their ideological preferences, even threatening public funding to exact compliance. Never before has access to so many stories been stolen from so many children."</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</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><p><a href="https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pen.org/report/the-normalizati</span><span class="invisible">on-of-book-banning/</span></a></p>
<p>English writer & humourist Jerome K. Jerome was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1859.</p><p>He is best known for his comic masterpiece, Three Men in a Boat, which continues to be celebrated for its vivid depiction of pre-World War I Britain and its light-hearted & humorous examination of the British temperament. Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men on the Bummel.</p><p>Books by Jerome K. Jerome @ PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/173</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)</p><p> <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/collect</span><span class="invisible">ion/tamra-maew/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>English writer and poet Edith Nesbit died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1924.</p><p>She published over 60 books for children, including novels, collections of stories, and picture books. Among her most famous works are "The Railway Children," "Five Children and It," and "The Phoenix and the Carpet." Her work is seen as a precursor to the modern children's fantasy literature genre, influencing later writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling.</p><p>Books by Edith Nesbit at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/407" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/407"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/407</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>English novelist and poet Charlotte Smith was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1749.</p><p>Smith's first significant literary success came with the publication of "Elegiac Sonnets" in 1784. In addition to her poetry, Smith wrote several novels: her first novel, "Emmeline, or The Orphan of the Castle" (1788), was followed by others such as "Ethelinde" (1789), "The Old Manor House" (1793), and "Desmond" (1792). </p><p>Books by Charlotte Smith at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41281" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41281"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/41281</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>
<p>📚 The Grey Wolf by: Louise Penny</p><p>Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with in...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-grey-wolf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-grey-wolf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-grey-w</span><span class="invisible">olf</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/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/traditionalfiction/" rel="tag">#traditionalfiction</a></p>
<p>Polish Physicist Albert A. Michelson died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1931</p><p>His most famous experiment - Michelson-Morley experiment, was conducted in 1887 in collaboration with Edward Morley. Their experiment for the expected motion of the Earth relative to the æther, the hypothetical medium in which light was supposed to travel, resulted in a null result. Their results leaded H. Lorentz to devise his Lorentz contraction equations as a means of explaining the null result.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4093" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4093"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4093</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1921.</p><p>The première of Luigi Pirandello's Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.</p><p>An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" and "Incommensurabile!", a reaction to the play's illogical progression.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18457" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18457</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>
<p>📚 The Handmaid's Tale by: Margaret Atwood</p><p>In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibi...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-handmaids-tale" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-handmaids-tale"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-handma</span><span class="invisible">ids-tale</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/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/feministfiction/" rel="tag">#feministfiction</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a></p>
<p>Happy book birthday to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@voidcricket" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>voidcricket</span></a></span>'s THE LEGEND LIMINAL, a surreal found-family road trip novella, is now available. Order from your favorite bookseller or find purchasing links at: <a href="https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-legend-liminal/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-legend-liminal/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.starsandsabers.com/books/t</span><span class="invisible">he-legend-liminal/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> <a href="/tags/newrelease/" rel="tag">#NewRelease</a><a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#Scifi</a> <a href="/tags/surreal/" rel="tag">#Surreal</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a></p>
<p>I am rereading "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" now in preparation for its sequel. I wanted something fun to read before bed. If you are looking for a imaginative Lunarpunk YA adventure, I highly recommend it!! </p><p><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> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/lunarpunk/" rel="tag">#lunarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> </p><p>From: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@jendiagammon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jendiagammon</span></a></span><br><a href="https://wandering.shop/@jendiagammon/115300837241530734" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wandering.shop/@jendiagammon/115300837241530734"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wandering.shop/@jendiagammon/1</span><span class="invisible">15300837241530734</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/élénachoquette/" rel="tag">#ÉlénaChoquette</a> discusses her book <a href="/tags/landandtheliberalproject/" rel="tag">#LandAndTheLiberalProject</a>: <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a>'s Violent Expansion</p><p>Choquette 'investigates the liberal concept that underpinned land appropriation and legitimized violence: <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> territory and people were to be “improved,” the former by agrarian capitalism, the latter by so-called protection and enforced schooling.'</p><p><a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-the-liberal-project" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-the-liberal-project"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-t</span><span class="invisible">he-liberal-project</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cdnhist/" rel="tag">#CdnHist</a> <a href="/tags/canadianhistory/" rel="tag">#CanadianHistory</a> <a href="/tags/firstnations/" rel="tag">#FirstNations</a> <a href="/tags/métis/" rel="tag">#Métis</a> <a href="/tags/settlercolonialism/" rel="tag">#settlerColonialism</a> <a href="/tags/colonialviolence/" rel="tag">#colonialViolence</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>
<p>Scottish astronomer Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1857.</p><p>Fleming's most significant contributions came in the field of stellar classification. She developed a system for classifying stars based on their spectra, which became known as the Harvard Classification Scheme. In 1890, she published the first catalog of stellar spectra, which contained over 10,000 stars classified according to her system.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Harvard_spectral_classification" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Harvard_spectral_classification"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_</span><span class="invisible">classification#Harvard_spectral_classification</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/womeninscience/" rel="tag">#womeninscience</a></p>
<p>📚 Old Man's War by: John Scalzi</p><p>John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.</p><p>The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe,...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/old-mans-war" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/old-mans-war"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/old-mans-w</span><span class="invisible">ar</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/militaryfiction/" rel="tag">#militaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a></p>
<p>A Review of October Omen: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-october-omen/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-october-omen/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-oc</span><span class="invisible">tober-omen/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</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>📚 Dead Woman Crossing by: Jeneva Rose</p><p>She threw open the door, running to the crib. When she looked inside, she gasped. The world around her went silent. Inside, there was nothing but a small stuffed elephant. Where was her baby?</p><p>When young, single mother Hannah is found murdered by the banks of a twisting Oklahoma creek, her one-y...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/dead-woman-crossing" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/dead-woman-crossing"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/dead-woman</span><span class="invisible">-crossing</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/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspense/" rel="tag">#suspense</a></p>
<p>The eye of the mathematician</p><p>Is mathematical beauty real? Or is it just a subjective, human ‘wow’ that is becoming redundant in an AI age?</p><p>by Rita Ahmadi</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-should-we-define-mathematical-beauty-in-the-ai-age?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=93f4888db4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-should-we-define-mathematical-beauty-in-the-ai-age?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=93f4888db4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-should-we-d</span><span class="invisible">efine-mathematical-beauty-in-the-ai-age?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=93f4888db4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Mathematics at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/102" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/102"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/102</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>