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161d

I was never sure what it is exactly that conductors do, but now I know! Headcanon accepted 😜😁

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Four photos of conductors looking intense and possbly slightly deranged.
Caption: Wanna draw spellcasters? Try conductors as references.

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Grant Dickie on 10 things he learned at CYMERA 2026, Scotland’s festival of science fiction, fantasy, & horror writing – not including that Sarah Mughal Rana has a dagger collection or that Marvellous Michael Anson would love someone to write a book where every character dies.

https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/culture/10-things-i-learned-from-2026s-cymera-festival/

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #SFF #fantasy #horror #speculativefiction #writing #writingtips

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159d

As far as I can tell whoever I choose I will be rescued, so the real question is who do I most want to hang out with 🤔😁 And that is a toss up between Vimes, Susan, and Esme...

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Nine characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld with the caption, "You've been kidnapped. You can only call one person here to rescue you."

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149d

I can't say I belive in an other side, but I kind of hope hell exists so rich american lunatics will get what they deserve 😒

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Meme with photo of Matthew McConaughey crying surrounded by corporate logos.

Caption:
J.R.R.Tolkien watching from the other side how the work of his whole life is desecrated and turned into a bunch of IPs at the whim of some rich American lunatic who believes Greta Thunberg is the new Antichrist.

The logos: Valar, Anduril, Mithril, Palantir, Lembas

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121d

2. I could do with some help choosing my next project. My options are:

(a) A collection of up to 14 short stories. Mostly SciFi/Specfic. Although I tend to think authors like these more than readers.

(b) A portal fantasy where a female SAS soldier is transported to an alternate medieval fantasy world and forced to confront her real-life past. It includes a sapphic romance.

(c) SciFi where humans are forced to leave Earth for a new world, but it happens over hundreds of years. The first to leave are the last to arrive on a new planet. They find a frightening new reality where humans have tried to sustain capitalism without a lower class to prey on.

Thoughts? 🤔

I think I'm edging towards (b) 🙂

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136d

That's all it takes! 😂

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Tolkien describing places that are evil: no trees grow there

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117d

my horror short story, field notes on fire mummification, is out on the hooghly review today. 🙌 i wrote this several years ago, when i was still in graduate school (this is somewhat useful context, as you shall see...)

https://thehooghlyreview.com/issues/pratibhasika-speculative-fiction-july-2026/

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107d

Happy birthday to the incomparable British writer #MJohnHarrison, born #OTD in 1945. His books are in almost constant rotation here, and it’s no exaggeration to say I’d probably see the world in a very different way were it not for his work.

Yes, I have multiple editions of The Course of the Heart. Can you ever have *too many* editions of one of the greatest novels ever written?

Many happy returns, Mike!

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An array of M. John Harrison books laid out on a wooden and be-rugged floor. There are 5 rows of books in a rough rectangle shape. A black and white cat stands at the left margin of this mesh of words, considering the universe, or one of many universes.

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94d

I wish I could laugh in completed story... It must be nice 😂

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Photos of GRR Martin and JRR Tolkien.
Caption:
Martin: Game of Thrones author draws attention to two Lord of the Rings "plot holes’
Tolkien: *laughs in completed story*

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219d

I fear I'm not nice enough to swear to h*ck, but I kind of wish I was that has to count for something 😇😂

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Post by RED

| swear to h*ck, if I have to explain the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy again, I will literally be so glad to help because learning is awesome and those two genres are my favorite.

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263d

It's almost like publishers don't know the Spice of Life when they see it 😜😂

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Two panel meme of a person being uplifted by an angel.
Panel one: Frank Herbert getting rejected by every credible publisher.
Panel two: A company that specializes in car repair manuals thinking his story about giant worms and space drugs is kinda neat.

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66d

RE: https://mastodon.art/@NickEast_IndieWriter/117172203765192969

With 40 votes the result of the poll is in:

97% think I should add images to The Last Philosopher ebook.

78% think I should add them as scene/chapter headers.

So, expect Part two to have images, mostly maps...

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71d

I think this is one reason I like writing fantasy, whatever weirdness I come up with it's always correct 🤔😁

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Post by Victoria Aveyard
all writers should have doctor friends

Writer: Can you get internal bleeding, like coughing up blood, from broken ribs and blunt force trauma to the abdomem
Doctor: Yes
Writer: Excellent

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RE: https://wandering.shop/@older/117378461467317512

Woohoo! @bookstodon is gonna love this! #speculativefiction #scifi #HopePunk #bookstodon

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I finished M. John Harrison’s new novel The End of Everything the other day and have been musing about what it is—and what it isn’t—ever since.

Absurd and beautiful, full of fractured and fragmented images, it tells of a world that has lost itself and the people who are lost within it, perhaps even lost beyond its fragile bounds. The story is unsettling in many ways, and it’s in the book’s most mundane elements that the greatest upset and confusion dwells. I don’t know, and don’t need to know, what the exact nature of the catastrophe is. Somehow, that doesn’t seem to be the point of it. And that might just be the most uncanny and disturbing aspect of all.

I love Mike’s work, and the way he writes—like absolutely no one else does; I feel he is one of our finest writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. And I love this novel. It is mysterious and profound, and profoundly unnerving in the best possible way. I’ll read it again soon, as I do with all of his books.

Novel of the year for me, no question.

#MJohnHarrison #TheEndOfEverything #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #ExceptItsNotScienceFiction #LiteraryFiction #Bookstodon @bookstodon

The hardback of the novel The End of Everything by M. John Harrison, published by Serpent’s Tail in June 2026. The book lies on a wooden floor, the bare boards displaying the knots and striations of time past.

On the dust jacket, the book’s title is overlaid on a cold scene of a shoreline, with a solitary figure at its edge, looking out towards the water. The word “Everything” in the title collapses towards the bottom of the page, a metaphor for decay, runoff, entropy or perhaps something worse.

The dust jacket has a small round sticker on it which says “exclusive short story” and “Signed by the author”.

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That's why I write #SpeculativeFiction things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂
Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the #Multiverse? At least that's what I've been told... 😅

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Why researching before writing is so, so important.

Screenshot from book MADERING MILLER: His skin was the color of just-pressed olive.

Picture of just pressed olive that is an alien looking lime green.

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