If you do go and see the Odyssey please no spoilers. Some of us haven’t had time to read the book in the last 3000 years.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

I just backed Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sly...

I just backed Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gsh...

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RJ Barker is an award-winning author of fantasy fiction, writing assassins, ships made of bones & skyscraper-sized forests! Mortedant's Peril, follows Irody, who can read the dead's final thought & is very good at it. Until he's arrested for murder & given 3 days to clear his name or be executed

While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.

Loved it, the sinuous stoat Szerky with bullet dodging skills like in The Matrix, Lulu the chattering pigeon and Skotch’s wannabe sidekick cum chronicler in Skotch’s quest, Fischer the anarchist frog anarchist with his sniper rifle. And sooooo many more. fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/05/gree...

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

Finished and reviewed @aptshadow.bsky.social’s SHROUD yesterday, and found it a remarkable standalone with a lot to say about individualism, community, and capitalism (as well as much, much else)! Read words about it here: filipmagnuswrites.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/t...

I have never known excitement like this.

A new ttrpg! Tyrant Philosophers hits the table from @handiworkgames.bsky.social

Watched the Mandalorian and Grogu at a press screening yesterday morning (had to sign a form that kept me from talking about the film for a whole three hours lmao). It's charming enough, but feels like an inconsequential Clone Wars (CW) arc, both in that it tackles CW plot threads and in that

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Nipped down to Forbidden Planet to grab #DieLoaded Vol 1: Zero Sessions on week on release! Excited to dive back in @kierongillen.bsky.social!

Crawling out of the reviewers' hole to share with you all the good word about an excellent collection of short stories by Niamh Mulvey. filipmagnuswrites.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/h...

Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.

This is smart and beautiful, and seems really under folks' radar, which is a real shame. Think THE UNWRITTEN by Carey/Gross, and that's not a comparison I would make lightly.

My game is once again on sale. All proceeds go directly to my coffers and will be used to fund an undead uprising that may have catastrophic consequences but is probably still better than the plans of other, less scrupulous overlords. store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/...

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. They coined the term “useless eaters”. They tested the gas chambers on us. They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives. That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous. We’re not expendable

I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all. thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't just a good game, it's excellent science fiction storytelling. This should be one of the frontrunners for next year's Hugo Award for Best Game. New blog review: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/11/art-...

Yesterday was a a busy day: I shared some design for the excellent ttRPG, Mythic Bastionland, on my Substack. The Fated Knight, haunted by loss, fated for greatness. open.substack.com/pub/delversc...

Vinay reviews James Logan's highly anticipated sequel of The Silverblood Promise, THE BLACKFIRE BLADE: "A sequel that leans on the adventurous strength of its predecessor while not being afraid to go dark and emotional as needed" More: tinyurl.com/2j25pejc @jamesloganauthor.bsky.social

An anticipated read, and how pleasing it is to see that Baldree does not lose track of the series’ identity even as he puts a greater accent on action in this one.

Halloween might be over, but gothic vibes are never out of season! To this end: Two of my favourite fantasy novels set in distinctly gothic cities: City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social and The Gutter Prayer by @mytholder.bsky.social. My write-up: wp.me/p8LkPa-35Y youtu.be/PlmCeM_TEUU

The president is experiencing OBVIOUS mental and physical decline. Pre$$ ignores. He barks about a third term, and the press asks how he'll do it, rather than pointing out that it's unconstitutional. That's not legal. Oligarchs purchased the news media and it died. Corporate news is a cancer.

I’m sorry, are there any actual journalists who read this headline? Does anyone working in media outlets today know the meaning of “ceasefire”?

this should be so embarrassing for AI boosters - a claim that ChatGPT had “found” solutions to longstanding maths problems: turned out not that it had SOLVED them but had found solutions by googling for them they’re seeing what they want to see, not what’s there garymarcus.substack.com/p/erdosgate

Philip K Dick still undefeated at correctly predicting our current dystopia

Evan Dahm creates some incredible, detailed fantastic worlds, and 3rd Voice is breathtaking in its scope and intricacy. The webcomic at rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/ind... is well into the 2nd sequence, still metering out the secrets of the setting. It's the story of a pair of

Hey @aptshadow.bsky.social, I clocked a pair of typos in the hardcover print run of Lives of Bitter Rain, is there anyone at Head of Zeus I could ping about them for future printings? Loved the novella to bits!

Not my wallet, victimised by @aptshadow.bsky.social today. What a gorgeous hardback this is! Can’t wait to blaze through it.

Ian Green’s Extremophile is seriously punk, and deserves to be widely read. If you haven’t picked it up yet, do! I got the audiobook and loved it to pieces.

A short'n'sweet review of Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo, a science-fiction novella of the close future...An interesting read, that. My thoughts: filipmagnuswrites.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/f...

Art vs Artist

Mieko Kawakami's All the Lovers in the Night speaks to the part of the human that yearns for connection. It illustrates, too, the difficulty of reaching out and making those connections, especially in the aftermath of deep and abiding trauma. Find my review here: wp.me/p8LkPa-35x

An excellent review of The Lords of the Summer Season by @wsbookclub.bsky.social. Bizarre is just another word for fun in my vocabulary, so: gimme! wittyandsarcasticbookclub.home.blog/2025/10/02/b...

So for this year's somewhat abbreviated Oktobersketch I'm experimenting with group scenes, one per week. Here are some stalwart defenders of some small European nation circa 1800(?). Group first then the individual originals.

Absolutely appalling.

I just backed Apex Magazine (@apexmag.bsky.social) 2026 on Kickstarter, and you should, too, because they're great! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I forgot to mention - the latest Wyrd Science is out. Look at that cover. You should order all the copies, and then if there's no copies left, fight over the copies. It's the best RPG zine in the world, sez I*

Coming soonish from Subterranean Press - the first collection of my short fiction in about a decade - here's the cover (by @alisonsampson.bsky.social ) and table of contents for your delectation.

christ on tiny little crackers, climateworld, we've got to ask people to do good things that they can do, and which help them, rather than asking them to volunteer for an emotionally devastating existential-threat experience without exits into action

THE BOOKS THAT MADE US - Where I discuss the fantastic GARRET PI series by Glen Cook. Noir detective in fantasyland. beforewegoblog.com/the-books-th... #books #fantasy #urbanfantasy @beforewegoblog.bsky.social @bethtabler.bsky.social

Piranesi turned out to be such a special read, y’all. If you, like me, haven’t yet picked it up, you should. Here’s why: filipmagnuswrites.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/p...

@lukeplunkett.com has been playing Endless Legend 2, and it's bumming him out: aftermath.site/endless-legend...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.