I'd been cautiously excited for the new Scrubs but the stuff I read about it in the past five days sent that the way of the dodo. But on the bright side, now I'll spend that time on something else.

My favourite piece of Olympics commentary so far is "a little bit more paprika into the pasta sauce"

Somehow I'm only reading the full text of On Fairy Stories for the first time. If there's any other essays by great figures of fantasy people think are fantastic reading, throw them at me. I feel that Le Guin in particularly has a bunch of great ones but I don't know which ones are which.

If there is a better live intro to a metal song than "The good that men do is oft interred with their bones, but the evil that men do lives on" Then I am unaware of it. Granted, stealing from Shakespeare makes it easy, but hyped I get anyway

Since I've some updates from other people doing this, here be the Peat reading thread with everything I devour this year. Cos I don't want to miss out. Numero Uno this year was Jim Butcher's Turn Coat, which was where I felt the Dresden Files creaking a bit around all the stuff it had accumulated.

🦜🏴‍☠️⚓WEIGH ANCHOR: PUBLICATION DAY!⚓🏴‍☠️🦜 Excited to announce my latest book: THE CURSE OF DRAGON TAIL ISLAND. My first fantasy (and romance 🌶️🌶️)! A revenge-fueled tale of clashing cutlasses, monsters & magic, second-chance romance, and salty sea adventure. LINK: www.jonathannevair.com/curse-dragon...

A biography of an intriguing military engineer at the crossroads of medieval/early modern warfare AND a look at the interaction between European powers with the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman... randomalex.net/2026/01/21/t...

In which I tried to investigate what I thought was a fantasy archetype and now wonder if it actually is one peatlong.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/i...

Today is the first anniversary of my launching the Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which started off with this essay on Peter Beagle's THE LAST UNICORN. I'm really proud of this one, in which I highlight how we might read this wonderful novel in the contexts of late 1960s America.

My new hobby is writing lengthy posts on sports forums then deleting them when I realise it'll get me sucked into an argument that will change absolutely nothing about anything.

How do YOU discover books to read? Have your reading habits changed in past year? Pls take a few minutes to answer this anon, multiple-choice informal survey: reading-2026.paperform.co I'll post results on my blog. One goal: to help book creators. Thank you! 🩷📚 #BookSky #EduSky #KidLit

wildsymposiums.tumblr.com/post/8053590... Relevant to all my fellow Discord users. Although honestly if all my Discord communities want to leave there, that'd be cool too at this point.

Here's my top books read last year peatlong.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/t...

One of the sweetest things anyone has ever said about me.

My top albums from 2025 goatreview.org/anti-peats-f...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

In which I take a trip through Alan Moore's dingy fantastical London peatlong.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/t...

Samuel R Delany's The Einstein Intersection fires off a bottomless well of ideas at warp speed, for better and for worse peatlong.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/t...

Today, the best parenting help books that should exist in SFF You Only Need One Hand: What Your Kid Does And Doesn't Need by Darth Vader A Hero And A Zero: Raising Children of Differing Capabilities by Denethor of Gondor Staying Close: Tight Families Make The Right Children by Cersei Lannister

I read In the Name of Honor by Courtney Collins and Clarke Collins. If you're a fan of epic fantasy, this might be the book for you. Full review ⬇️ #bookblogger #ShadowSparkPublishing #epicfantasybooks

Jennifer Roberson's Sword-Dancer is a solid slice of 80s sword & sorcery with some fascinating gender dynamics Also a bit of a kissing book peatlong.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/s...

Super excited to finally share this with everyone. Even more excited to hopefully share the book me and Fab are working on down the line, but one step at a time.

RIP Barbara Gips (1936-2025) "The Alien slogan has been named to countless lists of the best movie taglines ever written. New York Times critic Janet Maslin opened her review of Alien writing, “The thing that most made me want to see Alien was that irresistible line they’ve been using in the ads.”

Funny how the book gods go. Cherryh's Paladin and Roberson's Sword-Dancer are very like; both late 80s, lean on the idea of a red-blooded, chauvinistic badass who's sure no woman is strong enough to be badass, then learn otherwise and fall in love. Never really read it before finding both this year.

Not many characters out there that vary between utter idiot and genius with so little in between as Sokka

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I read The Lords of the Summer Season: A Psychedelic Fantasy by Peter W. Blaisdell. Come see what I thought! #Booksky ##bookblogger #fantasybook

I have ten of these PHYSICS FOR CATS pins to give away! Share the post below👇 for a chance to win one. (UK only: you can share from anywhere but I can't send you a pin).

I megaloathe the Android update.

Happy birthday to J.R.R. #Tolkien’s The Hobbit, published #OTD in 1937, with a gorgeous dust jacket and illustrations by Tolkien himself! @tolkiensociety.org @tolkienwonder.bsky.social @uofgfantasy.bsky.social #Hobbit 🐉

Anybody want to give me any more responses?

Are you doing a neat Ursula-related project? Talking about her work on a podcast, or reviewing the prize shortlist, or anything else? We'd love to hear about it, if so! You can always tag us here, and every email that comes through the contact form is read by an actual person.

Born #OTD 19 September 1947, Tanith Lee was a British science fiction and fantasy writer who wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories… … and here is one of them, narrated by Scott Campbell and Sharon Moskowitz pseudopod.org/2024/05/24/p...

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SFF discourse starter for the morning: The "stop reccing Golden Age SF to people, it doesn't hold up" discourse is never ending. But I haven't seen the equivalent for the golden age of fat epic fantasy; the 80s and 90s. So: what 80s & 90s epic fantasy holds up best to modern eyes and why?

I'm gonna see if I can work up an article out of this. What does a stereotypical 80s/90s fantasy look like you? Either as laundry list of tropes or which books best embody the era.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I would not be able to use word limit social media without the ampersand.

D, followed by G, followed by no longer caring because that has captured about 80% of the world's great food.

Gutted to hear of Tomas Lindberg's death today. I got to interview him once, and he was just so generous with his time and his thoughts. Gonna go do a run through his discography, which might take a few days but what a few days they'll be. Thoughts with his family and friends.

Bringing back the round up peatlong.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/n...

Watching the Great Food Truck Race and it just seems absolutely weak that teams are deciding they won't even try doing a challenge. Wouldn't mind if they just sent home teams that did that in future.

I've restarted the Blogger Q&A series on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog, why not have a look at the questions and see if you're interested in joining in.

Really you should tune in to Fiction Fans just generally. It's smart, fun, goblin conversation.

🌞 Morning! 🌞 Time for another WWW Wednesday in which I share what I’ve been reading (like KATABASIS!). 📚💙 aliteraryescape.com/2025/09/10/w...

Anyone got any good booktube recs? Doing some research

The jackets that the CBS commentators are wearing make them look like cheap hotel security staff.

Something that came to mind after listening to a bunch of writing advice videos peatlong.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/o...

COVER REVEAL TIME!! 🎉🎉🎉 Reborn in Ash eBook pre-orders available now! Please like and repost ❤️ (I would credit the artist, but, ah, that would be me 😅) #Fantasy #WritingCommunity 📚