Me: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is about climate change.... Please.... Weird theorists: *points at any weird fiction nearby* cli-fi hyperobject

Me: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is about climate change.... Please.... Weird theorists: *points at any weird fiction nearby* cli-fi hyperobject

I know of a number of Russian- and/or Slavic-inspired Anglophone fantasy novels, usually set in a mythic or pre-modern past, but are there any set in the Soviet Union? None are coming to mind. (Again, I'm talking books published *originally* in the Anglophone market.)

This Story Hour starts Spookymonth a bit early. @thomasha.bsky.social introduces us to the creeping horror of "The Mub," and @claymcleod.bsky.social reads a cozy little story called "the fireplace." Haha, just kidding. It's hair-raising. I need to get the chimney removed now. youtu.be/Z5SMNWo2kKU

Logging onto bluesky

The horrors persists but so do the terrors

Oop, missed this one earlier this year. Still waiting for someone to give me a staff position as WEIRD SHORT STORY CRITIC to stay on top of these. journalstone.com/bookstore/ra...

Chotiner: So, after leaving Vienna— Me: But long before you come to Budapest. C: You’re saying the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation? Me: Yes. C: Which some maps label Sümpfe? Me: That’s right. C: Ok. Let’s turn to their mark, their awful mark. Me: No, wait—now hold on

Reading this again this morning as I am trying to go back to writing this damn book ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...

Oop, missed this one earlier this year. Still waiting for someone to give me a staff position as WEIRD SHORT STORY CRITIC to stay on top of these. journalstone.com/bookstore/ra...

Corruption as a literary device, if only that were all it was: @robertwelbourn.bsky.social reviews Gemma Fairclough’s THE RETREAT (@wildhuntbooks.bsky.social)

CHOTINER: ME: CHOTINER: ME: CHOTINER: ME: CHOTINER: So you don’t really do— ME: I’ve never really done much of anything, no

Ellington was one of the great American geniuses, people, get hip or get square

Chotiner: So, after leaving Vienna— Me: But long before you come to Budapest. C: You’re saying the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation? Me: Yes. C: Which some maps label Sümpfe? Me: That’s right. C: Ok. Let’s turn to their mark, their awful mark. Me: No, wait—now hold on

Do you think a depressed person could make this?!

Write/publish stories that resist adaptation brain! Love the written word! Don't view writing as an unfortunate but necessary step to reach the small/big screen!

Episode 33: N.K. Jemisin's THE FIFTH SEASON, with @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social! We talk about dystopias with utopian glimmers, meta-genre play, and much more: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/23/a...

Tapping the sign

On the one hand, there’s all the other stuff, but on the other hand, it’s John Coltrane’s 99th birthday and you can listen to WKCR’s 24-hour broadcast of his music www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Tapping the sign

Lots of people posting the new edition and at least one posting the original from 1992 so here’s my kind of silly middle-edition from 2004. I might actually get around to reading this next.

Do you think a depressed person could make this?!

they should invent a sleep that leaves you feeling well rested

Gaze upon 90's m john harrison and be soothed

Lots of people posting the new edition and at least one posting the original from 1992 so here’s my kind of silly middle-edition from 2004. I might actually get around to reading this next.

Got a new hoodie to manifest cooler weather (and more coffee [and death])

There’s “new weird”, and “the New Weird”

Boo! Nazi Fascist supremists! Boo! Ku Klux Klan (With your Jim Crow plan) youtu.be/m2nBE0PHaDM?...

Got a new hoodie to manifest cooler weather (and more coffee [and death])

And god bless it for that

When your silent majority turns out to be an incredibly whiny minority

Particularly useful for science fiction & fantasy writers in an age of TVtropes, the Turkey City Lexicon is from an earlier age, one unafraid to call a cliché a cliché. Some of it would be useful for any writer in any genre – I see 'countersinking' all the damn time, for example.

what a night. thanks to everyone who came for the uncertain sons launch and brian evenson and other writers for coming to hang out. also many thanks to my publicist (who i am married to) for snapping these pics. time to pass out now.

Me at anyone who asks for either of them to explain anything in any of their stories

There’s “new weird”, and “the New Weird”

I know you've all read this book by now because I keep blathering about it, right

Don't forget your weekend is rapidly running out

Come on! Let's go!

Just read TWAG after seeing this and daaaaamn. Feels incredibly timely despite being written in 2009 and taking place in early 00s. Also, might explain the 25-year depression I’ve been feeling …

Did I love The Changeling, or hate The Changeling? Yes, I did.

Reminder for LA. This is tomorrow! Might be kinda full! Will provide masks, a little food, drinks, until we run out. Should be good. Brian will ask if I want to explain a story, I will smile and say no. And then I'll ask if he wants to explain a story, and he'll smile and say no. Over in 90 seconds

I loved the Borderlands Trio (Crump/McPherson/Davis), now I love the Otherlands Trio (Crump/McPherson/Jones). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peug...