Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction. “The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” — altermag.com/articles/the...

I got my first invitation to an event tied to my next novel, Mercutio, and it is Extremely Shakespearean, which delights me. If you or someone you know has a Shakespeare podcast or blog or event next spring/summer/fall, I would like nothing better than to come talk about stuff we like together. 🤓

Oooo bookmarked! That amazing title with those tags? I'm so in!

"The Goddess in Him" (on NewMyths.com) is now up on InkFoundary, the Free Dynamic Library, a new initiative! Thanks to Erin Cairns for adding it! @inkfoundry.bsky.social offers another way to search and discover short stories. #shortstories #fantasy inkfoundry.net/the-goddess-...

Very sorry to learn of the passing of Jean-Louis Trudel. He authored some thirty novels and short story collections, received the Grand Prix de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois in 2001, and several Prix Boréal and Aurora Awards. He was a far too young 58 years old.

Sad to learn Jean-Louis Trudel has died. A true man of letters. I think of him as the Umberto Eco of Canadian science fiction because of the size of the library he carried in his head. I met him at ACCSFF 2019. I saw him again, briefly, at Su Sokol's launch for Fives Points on an Invisible Line.

Chaque fois que j'ai vu Jean-Louis Trudel en conférence, il se présentait d'abord et avant tout comme «homme de lettres». Ça semblait important pour lui. Je me suis toujours dit qu'un jour, je lui demanderais pourquoi.

A little time to relax after helping Forget the Box, an underground arts mag, apply for grants. More work to do tomorrow.

Most satisfying AoE IV game in a while. No resources on map, two AI pommeling me, but I push, take the town and occupy it so they can’t rebuild their monuments. But I left the town and they rebuilt it with stone walls.

I did not expect to be quoting Pope Leo XIV today but here we are...

Transit as wit, in Montreal

Am reading Travis Zadeh’s compilation of Qazwini’s Ajaeb-ul-mukhlooqat and was reminded of this remarkable book by Musharraf Ali Farooqi, which if there was justice in the world, wouldve been on every bookshelf on the planet.

Thank you to @lisatimpf.bsky.social and @interstellarflight.bsky.social for this chance to discuss community, activism, and hopepunk. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/hopepunk-act...

Here’s another glimpse into our upcoming issue. We are ripe with anticipation at the opportunity to present you with more of Patrick O’Reilly’s work in our print edition.

The twisted thought of reading this at the next poetry reading did cross my mind. Could read it for Dead Poets Society at Accent, but ... maybe not.

watched _Casablanca_ again last night and this time what struck me was how _simple_ the plotting is. every time you need to know something, it tells you. every time someone is a hypocrite, it is instantly pointed out. it is perfectly willing to abandon realism to simplify.

Blow the bloody doors off those data centers. This is not all right, all right, all right.

you guys remember silverwing? kenneth oppel. had an utterly wild tonal trajectory from a solid but straightforward talking animal adventure to an antiwar polemic to a mystical psychodrama and ended with a prehistoric prequel with a psychic pterodactyl and killer swarm of shrews?

Beaucoup de neige #Montreal #photos #photography #Quebec #Canada @monmontreal.bsky.social @mtl.org @meteomedia.bsky.social @weathernetwork.bsky.social #snow

Atwood has way more witch cred.

Oates nuked Musk. I think Maggie would wipe out J.K.

This rugged and breathtaking island in Scotland is home to one of the 'most remarkable' and bumpiest football pitches in the world 👀

Excellent critique of Montreal's recent mayoral election: vapidly beige all the way. The winner has absolutely no plan for anything, none at all. Pure sloganeering, just opportunistic public-relations-agency focus-group-tested blah-blah-blah. Author contrasts that bla-fest with NYC's 🔥💥🎉.

This week on my #WeirdFictionChallenge, I've written about Jeff VanderMeer's story, "The Cage"--the anthology editor's own entry in his weird fiction collection. It's a reflection on the forces that drive us to pursue the strange and unusual. matthewrettino.com/2025/10/30/t...

Prepping to work for Election Montreal tomorrow. Remember, go vote! #montreal

"The sheep will eat the men." -a prophecy of the Brahan Seer

"Brave new world" || @IndiaToday reviews The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF -- www.indiatoday.in/magazine/lei...

Eyyyyy, whatsa comina go?

well, hotdog!

Watched Chopping Mall on Kanopy. A perfect movie in every regard.

Wondering what Kurghan would think of this. IYKYK. web.archive.org/web/20201019...

flip.it/FchnW8 Candidate for the most French story ever reported.

Happy Halloween from Bagel! This year he's Everything. #DailyDoggo #Dachsky

Today's story on my #WeirdFictionChallenge is Neil Gaiman's "Feeders and Eaters." I treated it like any story in the anthology and wrote my thoughts, but it really sucks he turned out to be awful. You can read my post on the story here. I save my quick take on Gaiman for the postscript.

The Lord of the Rings ys about how learninge, love, and gardeninge save the worlde.

My debut poetry chapbook Pilgrimages has been reviewed in The Miramichi Reader: miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...

Deep, immersive, first person story told from the POV of psychopathic serial killers who kill with the casualness of a shrug. Easily the most messed up story in The Weird and that includes Michael Shea's deeply unnerving story, "The Autopsy." #WeirdFictionChallenge #serialkillers #weirdfiction

Ensemble Montréal may take the city two steps back — on housing and the climate crisis “Bike lanes make all modes of transport more safe. This has been proven by experts so many times that politicians campaigning against bike lanes reveal themselves to simply not know what they’re talking about.”

Started reading A DARK MATTER and becoming convinced that it’s Peter Straub riffing on M John Harrison’s THE COURSE OF THE HEART — Straub collected a novella-length version under the name “The Great God Pan” in his “Poe’s Children” anthology from ‘08 — but further departures await, I’m sure.

wrt to the electric lit interview going around, here's Farnsworth Wright's take on realism:

In 1982, Scrivener published four original poems by Leonard Cohen. In 2025, we published them for the first time online. Read more of Cohen on our website. scrivenerreview.com/archive/four...

"It’s almost like Kennedy joined the fight against chronic diseases, but is on the side of the diseases." I hope something can be done about him. Sending solidarity!

"The devil is in the details." What if that was literally true? What if you could see faces in brick walls, people moving around in them, and you could open a door, and step into them? "Details" by China Miéville may just be the story for you. #WeirdFictionChallenge

Do you like stories about secret societies at war that have operated since ancient times, like the Assassins and Templars? Michael Chabon's "The God of Dark Laughter" takes that idea in a different direction--what if an ancient order of *clowns* was sworn to murder another? #WeirdFictionChallenge

I’ve got Katie Perry’s new hit “I Kissed Trudeau and I liked it” as an earworm right now.

A gorgeous anthology of Canadian works from last year, and I'm very lucky to have my bittersweet prose poem "Light of My Life" (originally published by @astrolabe.ooo) included alongside this incredible lineup of Canadian writers

The unholy laughter that just came out of me watching this scared a cat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYBl...

Between the Louvre business and the East Wing, it’s been a rotten week for tangible cultural history.* This on the heels of the Globe report on Gaza’s razing.💔 tinyurl.com/3e5takjf *You can take the girl outta UNESCO but you can’t take UNESCO outta the girl, even ones who hate monarchies/fascists.