Good morning! Dick Cheney is dead and I have an obituary that I wrote all the way back in 2017 about this monster! www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney

It's not exactly the same thing, but finding out that Jerry Orbach - who I knew as Lenny Briscoe from watching Law & Order with my mom - was also the voice of Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast broke my pre-adolescent brain.

Going by the first two episodes of The Witcher S4, Liam Hemsworth seems to have chosen to play Geralt without what, to me, is his defining trait, a constant state of annoyance.

Look, there's pettiness, and then there's Netflix cutting the "previously on The Witcher" superclip so that it contains zero Geralt dialogue and only shows him from behind.

New blog post: in which I discuss books 2, 3, and 3.5 in @aptshadow.bsky.social Tyrant Philosophers series, "the richest and most complete exploration of the theme of totalitarianism and its inherent contradictions in all of Tchaikovsky's recent work." wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/hous...

An extremely pleasant review of the Tyrant Philosophers series to date.

New blog post: in which I discuss books 2, 3, and 3.5 in @aptshadow.bsky.social Tyrant Philosophers series, "the richest and most complete exploration of the theme of totalitarianism and its inherent contradictions in all of Tchaikovsky's recent work." wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/hous...

Stainless by Todd Grimson is a 1996 vampire novel reprinted by McNally Editions, and more than worthy of rediscovery. A washed up rocker becomes a vampire's familiar in seedy 90s LA. Disturbing, sexy, funny, and sometimes even romantic, this is a great vampire story, but also a great LA story.

Stainless by Todd Grimson is a 1996 vampire novel reprinted by McNally Editions, and more than worthy of rediscovery. A washed up rocker becomes a vampire's familiar in seedy 90s LA. Disturbing, sexy, funny, and sometimes even romantic, this is a great vampire story, but also a great LA story.

Now that we know Doctor Who is coming back, can we all just agree to pretend the Billie Piper regeneration didn't happen and Ncuti Gatwa is still the Doctor? I get that he didn't want to be in employment limbo, but two seasons with him was nowhere near enough. www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-wh...

My review of Lindsay Merbaum's novella Vampires at Sea - AKA "what if Lazslo and Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows had a marital crisis on a cruise ship" - is online today at @locusmag.bsky.social locusmag.com/review/vampi...

My review of Lindsay Merbaum's novella Vampires at Sea - AKA "what if Lazslo and Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows had a marital crisis on a cruise ship" - is online today at @locusmag.bsky.social locusmag.com/review/vampi...

Oy. For those who are unaware - which apparently includes the writers of this show! - this is a mistake on the level of "Happy Yom Kippur!" Tisha B'Av is a day of deep mourning. Tu B'Shvat is when you eat yummy dried fruit.

Guy who can't even keep a cloud computing network up and running without occasionally knocking out the global internet thinks he can go to space. tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...

I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink! www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

I'm very proud to have played a small part in getting @gautambhatia88.bsky.social and his wonderful THE FIFTH INFLECTION to the audience they deserve! Huge thanks again to @runalongwomble.bsky.social for the rec and to @princejvstin.com and @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social for their support!

New blog post: on Jordan Prosser's delightfully gonzo debut novel Big Time, which crosses Almost Famous with 1984 and a drug that can make you see the future, and asks: what power does art have during times of fascism? wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/rece...

New blog post: on Jordan Prosser's delightfully gonzo debut novel Big Time, which crosses Almost Famous with 1984 and a drug that can make you see the future, and asks: what power does art have during times of fascism? wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/rece...

It doesn't seem to have garnered much attention, but Apple's Chief of War, which dramatizes the 18th century unification of Hawaii, is a compelling, sumptuous historical melodrama with a great cast and gorgeous setting. Perfect for anyone experiencing Game of Thrones/Shogun withdrawal.

It never fails: I log into this site after an incident of antisemitic violence, and within minutes someone on my feed is explaining that violence against Israelis is justified.

This is the way

There’s a world where this wins all the awards next year. I’d like to be in that world.

And Midnight Pals impresario Bitter Karella has their novel debut with Moonflow, a gonzo phantasmagoria in which a trans mycologist, a history-obsessed park ranger, and a lesbian separatist cult come together in a forest that may be sentient. locusmag.com/review/moonf...

Some more of my August @locusmag.bsky.social reviews are now online. First up: Holes author Louis Sachar returns with The Magician of Tiger Castle, a sardonic Ruritanian fantasy with shades of Megan Whalen Turner and M.T. Anderson. locusmag.com/review/the-m...

Some more of my August @locusmag.bsky.social reviews are now online. First up: Holes author Louis Sachar returns with The Magician of Tiger Castle, a sardonic Ruritanian fantasy with shades of Megan Whalen Turner and M.T. Anderson. locusmag.com/review/the-m...

Now that I'm emerging from my Rosh HaShana food coma I can mention that my review of The End of the World As We Know It, an anthology of stories inspired by Stephen King's The Stand, is online at @locusmag.bsky.social: locusmag.com/review/the-e...

Now that I'm emerging from my Rosh HaShana food coma I can mention that my review of The End of the World As We Know It, an anthology of stories inspired by Stephen King's The Stand, is online at @locusmag.bsky.social: locusmag.com/review/the-e...

The fact that political assassination has become the new favorite sport of irony-pilled internet nihilists is obviously not *good*, but one small bright spot is that it feels like the extremely online left is starting to realize that Luigi Mangione is also one of those guys.

Had the interesting experience over Rosh HaShana of reading a secondary world YA fantasy novel (@rachelhartmanbooks.com's Among Ghosts, a standalone in the same world as Seraphina and Tess of the Road) and realizing "oh, this is a pandemic novel".

Been waiting for this one to go online: @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social does what so many anthology reviewers don't quite do, and tackles the overall project as well as digging into individual stories: locusmag.com/review/the-e...

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

It seemed a bit disrespectful at first, but as my feed has filled with wall-to-wall pictures of young, middle-aged, and even elderly Robert Redford, there is really no conclusion to be reached except dear lord, what a smoke show.

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

I also tried to link to it and found same, but it's still live over on Making Light: nielsenhayden.com/110.html

To perhaps shift my feed's conversation to people who deserve to be memorialized, I am sad to report that the website for John M. Ford's "110 Stories", which I try to visit every year on this day, appears to be dead. www.110stories.us

Everyone in my feed is cracking up over this, but surely it's not accidental? Hard to imagine an artist could be so skilled but also entirely clueless. Seems more likely that it's a deliberate statement about the sanctity of what's often seen as dirty or lewd.

But I'm sure Harris would have given the same go-ahead.

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

Cited in this pod: Sneha and @tansyg.bsky.social; @mlclark.bsky.social, @mwosam.bsky.social, @adamroberts.bsky.social, David Stratton & Margaret Pomeranz, @xwaldie.bsky.social, some Tolkien guy. "You need people who are actually engaging with a genre or a form to be the ones who are critiquing it."

I regret that it is once again necessary to re-up this thread.

I think what we mainly need is a wider recognition that this vision isn't just a fantasy; it's a lie. The optimus robot doesn't exist. Its sole public appearance was a person in a unitard. Musk isn't doing any real robotics research, and companies that are aren't even close to this idea happening.

Happy 25th Anniversary Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social - Our first issue was published 1st September 2000. !!!

Sometimes I feel like my baseline belief that everything NuTrek does is a lesser version of a random DS9 subplot is too cynical. Other times, I watch an episode like SNW's "What is Starfleet?", which is just a longer, less effective, less courageous version of the root beer scene.

This, by the way, is what I believe was at the root of yesterday's chicken tikka masala debacle, and its constant doubling down on the notion that anyone objecting to the idea that fusion cuisine created by immigrants is not *really* local cuisine must be a white supremacist (even if they're a POC).

Hugo: The Unboxening

Is there a support group for people who feel that, while certainly not without its charms, KPop Demon Hunters is structurally kind of a mess, and doesn't really land most of its emotional and character arcs?

As summer draws to a close, I have another gaming roundup at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social, discussing games about poker, investigating houses with puzzles in, and creepy subway stations. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/gami...

As summer draws to a close, I have another gaming roundup at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social, discussing games about poker, investigating houses with puzzles in, and creepy subway stations. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/gami...

Excellent drive-by burn in @niallharrison.bsky.social's review of Joan Slonczewski's Minds in Transit. locusmag.com/2025/08/mind...