Mondays were the worst. #grickledoodle #lordoftherings #fantasy #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
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Dr. Fiona Glass has suffered so we don't have to... Check out her reviews of Trog and The Vampire Lovers! #ScienceFiction #Fantasy
Pastel Desert Owl - Pastel skies, desert vibes, and one wise little owl. 🦉✨: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/pastel-desert-owl-lisa-s-baker.html
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📚 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by: V. E. Schwab
This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. Wh...
https://bookblabla.com/book/bury-our-bones-in-the-midnight-soil
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BCS #443 ebook out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward, cover art by Bruce Brenneise.
(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you!)
https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-443/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-443-ebook/dp/B0FTW4M96B/
#fantasy #sff #litmag #ebook
New stories: the Patrick Samphire and RJ Taylor stories in BCS #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue are live today, alongside the James Morrow and Will McMahon stories and McMahon podcast released last week, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise.
https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-442/
#fantasy #sff #litmag #shortstory
Wake
Horrifying bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/energy-2
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #love #fantasy
It's here!! THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL is now available! Written by me as J. Dianne Dotson, this is the sequel to my Nebula & BSFA finalist novel, THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN. Order from your favorite bookseller!
#scifi #fantasy #sff #newbooks #books
https://jendiagammon.com/the-secret-of-the-sapphire-sentinel/
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finished reading Enemy of God 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Bernard Cornwell.
The Saxons threaten to overrun Briton; a search for a legendary artifact to bring back the Old Gods; a little blissful romance; Lancelot is a backstabbing, cowardly bastard; oaths, what are they good for? A touch more magic than in the first book, but just as hard, dirty & cynical.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #HistoricalFiction #Fantasy
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Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
@princejvstin.com has our review for your Friday
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/review-bloodtide-by-sophie-burnham.html
"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."
#books #fantasy #sciencefiction #alternatehistory #bookstodon @bookstodon
📚 The Woods All Black by: Lee Mandelo
Leslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service, under its usual mandate: vaccinate the flock, birth babies, and weather the judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman. Forged in the fires of the Western Fron...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-woods-all-black
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#introduction time again.
Hi everyone! I'm Elizabeth. I am a freelance editor, specialising in SF/F.
When I don't have my nose stuck in a book, I can be found playing TTRPGs. At the moment, I'm playing in a campaign of Mouse Guard.
I am also the caretaker of one cranky grandma of a dog, of whom you can expect the occasional photo.
Book Review: The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
A good entryway to non-Western fantasy for readers in search of new ground
our co-founder, @The_G , has our review at the blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-stardust-thief-by-chelsea.html
#books #fantasy #review #bookstodon @bookstodon
Don't just read our latest review of #Fantasy and #ScienceFiction for the magazine—I've got a whole bit on the creation of #NOAA, too!
BCS #444 ebook out early at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring scary stories for Halloween by Peter Darbyshire (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (sequel to Ignyte Award Winner).
(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium. Thank you!)
https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-444/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-444-ebook/dp/B0FWYBMMRF/
#fantasy #sff #ebook #litmag
📚 Ghost Tamer by: Meredith R. Lyons
Death is one thing, it's what you do afterward that matters.
Aspiring-comedian Raely is the sole survivor of a disastrous train wreck. Faced with the intense grief of losing her best friend, she realizes that someone is following her—and has been following her all her life. Trouble is, no one else can see...
https://bookblabla.com/book/ghost-tamer
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #ghostfiction #fantasy #paranormal
James Macpherson (1736–1796), of “Ossian” fame, was born #OTD, 27 Oct. The “Ossian” poems were the literary sensation of the 18th century; they inspired the Brothers Grimm to collect German folktales, & Elias Lönnrot to compile Finnish poems into the Kalevala. They are the founding texts of European Romanticism & of modern fantasy literature
A 🎂🧵
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🖼️: Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
Woolly Joe: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/woolly-joe-lisa-s-baker.html
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I’m looking for audiobook reviewers.
Do you love vampires with strong historical backstories? Do you love dual timelines? Do you love multi-narrator audiobooks?
You might love this!
#bookstodon #vampirebooks #fantasy #urbanfantasy #historicalfantasy @books @Books@mstdn.social @bookstodon
this is so cool! I ported to #webxdc TIC-80 #fantasy #computer for making, playing and sharing tiny #games
you can import/export files with add/get commands!
with this you can create #retro games in #lua, #fennel, #python, #ruby, #javascript etc and play/share them with friends as in-chat apps in #DeltaChat / #ArcaneChat
I would like to expose the webxdc API to TIC-80 games so they can do networking/multiplayer and send in-chat messages
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FREE short story! “Ondine’s Curse,” a 19th century historical fantasy with a mermaid. https://youtu.be/NmA-Ew-Drms?si=SOpSVRkkIMdpK5GL
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50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1733647
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, a great wizard, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
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📚 King Sorrow by: Joe Hill
Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.
But his idyll - and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot - is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/king-sorrow
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #fantasy #contemporaryfiction #horror
I couldn't resist doing some analysis of ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
How much more likely were people to vote for books because they had read them in recent memory (recency bias)? You would expect that good books are spread out evenly across the years, but it's hard to remember books that you read many years ago! Turns out there was an even spread of books across 2000-2019. But there were 40% more books than expected from 2020-2024. (See first graph.)
Were newer books more likely to be lower down the list? I thought this might be lkely because votes for recently read books might spread out more. But that wasn't completely true. The bottom 40 of the list did lean new, but so did the top 20. (See second graph.)
How diverse were the authors on the list? Not very! Only 22 of the books were by authors with diverse backgrounds, by which I mean non-white or not hetero-normative. The top 20 were the least diverse, but it was pretty even across the range. Probably not surprising - people might connect most strongly with books that speak to their own experience. Would be fascinating to see more demographic info on the voters.
Most books were by authors from Australia (35), the USA (31), the UK (17) and Ireland (7). Ireland seemed to punch above its weight. New Zealand only had one author! (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz).
There were very few non-fiction books, especially if you exclude memoirs and true crime. I count 4: Dark Emu, Stasiland, Sapiens and A Short History of Nearly Everything. And yet non-fiction accounts for something like 40% of book sales. I wonder if that is because a non-fiction book tends to focus on a particular subject, which would have less widespread appeal. It could also be that the type of people who vote in this sort of poll are book nerds, and book nerds mostly read fiction.
As a keen #fantasy & #scifi reader, I was disappointed. Project Hail Mary is the only full-blown scifi, but I wouldn't say it is a good representation of the genre. There is Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but both are young adult. The others (Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven, Piranesi, Never Let Me Go) feel borderline (I've not read the last two).
How did the list compare with my own ratings? I've read 57 of the 100 books, and I did rate higher books better, but the relationship was very weak. (See third graph.)
Highest ranked book that I didn't really like: #12. Where The Crawdads Sing. (Runner up The Dry.)
Lowest ranked book that I really liked: #86. Cloud Atlas
Highest ranked book I'd never heard of: #9. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
I've got 43 books to catch up on in the next few years, plus the favourites as voted by my friends. Never short a good book!
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Chapter 20 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city
Queen Aurora walks a world of natural wonders, which is inhabited by primitive humanoids. She regrets that fact, wishing her people could take the beautiful place for themselves.
As she's about to leave it, for the last time, there's an incredible discharge of life energy...
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