Filip Magnus
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Writer | Critic | Book Blogger | Narrative Designer | All-Around Nerd
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ā2025 READS THREADā I see people I follow do this, so why not do it, too, in preparation for my return to book reviews and discussions?
about 1 year ago
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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...
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Hearts & Bones by Niamh Mulvey | Book Review
In her first collection of short fiction, Niamh Mulvey tells ten stories variously disquieting, gentle, and sweet. Always they cut through the heart of matters and investigate human feelings and reā¦
https://filipmagnuswrites.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/hearts-bones-by-niamh-mulvey-book-review/
about 2 months ago
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
2 months ago
Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.
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Kieron Gillen
3 months ago
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.
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Cryptmaster
3 months ago
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/...
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Save 35% on Cryptmaster on Steam
SAY ANYTHING in this bizarre dungeon adventure where words control everything. Fill in the blanks with text or voice to uncover lost abilities, embark on strange quests, and solve mindbending riddles....
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/Cryptmaster/
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Platinumeggsā¼ļøCOMMISSIONS OPEN
4 months ago
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.
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Kelly
4 months ago
Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. They coined the term āuseless eatersā. They tested the gas chambers on us. They knew most people wouldnāt fight to save our lives. Thatās why the President using the R slur is so dangerous. Weāre not expendable
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Juniper Harper Lark
4 months ago
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
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What is an OSR? - The Garden Below
a post about not knowing what the OSR is.
https://thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog
5 months ago
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-...
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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...
5 months ago
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The Fantasy Hive
5 months ago
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
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An anticipated read, and how pleasing it is to see that Baldree does not lose track of the seriesā identity even as he puts a greater accent on action in this one.
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5 months ago
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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
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and The Gutter Prayer by
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. My write-up:
wp.me/p8LkPa-35Y
youtu.be/PlmCeM_TEUU
5 months ago
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Kimberley Johnson
5 months ago
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.
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Iām sorry, are there any actual journalists who read this headline? Does anyone working in media outlets today know the meaning of āceasefireā?
5 months ago
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Naomi Alderman
5 months ago
this should be so embarrassing for AI boosters - a claim that ChatGPT had āfoundā solutions to longstanding maths problems: turned out not that it had SOLVED them but had found solutions by googling for them theyāre seeing what they want to see, not whatās there
garymarcus.substack.com/p/erdosgate
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Erdosgate
āextraordinary claims require extraordinary evidenceā ā or at least they used to?
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/erdosgate
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Art Of Coop
5 months ago
Philip K Dick still undefeated at correctly predicting our current dystopia
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
5 months ago
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
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Hey
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, 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!
5 months ago
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Not my wallet, victimised by
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today. What a gorgeous hardback this is! Canāt wait to blaze through it.
6 months ago
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Ian Greenās Extremophile is seriously punk, and deserves to be widely read. If you havenāt picked it up yet, do! I got the audiobook and loved it to pieces.
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6 months ago
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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...
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Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo: A Low-Key Work of Science Fiction | Book Review
I received a copy of this novella from NetGalley some time ago ā apologies to Tor for taking this long to review it. Lee Mandeloās Feed Them Silence is a low-key work of science fictionā¦
https://filipmagnuswrites.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/feed-them-silence-by-lee-mandelo-a-low-key-work-of-science-fiction-book-review/
6 months ago
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Fabledfox š¦
6 months ago
Art vs Artist
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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
6 months ago
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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...
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Book Review: The Lords of the Summer Season: A Psychedelic Fantasy by Peter W. Blaisdell
Bradan grew up in Camelot and grew famous during the Summer of Love. Heās nearly immortal, a talented musician, but only a mediocre magician.Thatās unfortunate because heāll need more than pretty lā¦
https://wittyandsarcasticbookclub.home.blog/2025/10/02/book-review-the-lords-of-the-summer-season-a-psychedelic-fantasy-by-peter-w-blaisdell/
6 months ago
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
6 months ago
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.
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David Green
6 months ago
Absolutely appalling.
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I just backed Apex Magazine (
@apexmag.bsky.social
) 2026 on Kickstarter, and you should, too, because they're great!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/apexpublications/apex-magazine-2026?ref=thanks-tweet
6 months ago
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Kieron Gillen
6 months ago
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*
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Wyrd Science Vol.1 / Issue 7 [Print]
PLEASE NOTE - THIS ISSUE WILL SHIP IN EARLY/MID SEPTEMBER, ANYTHING ORDERED AT THE SAME TIME WILL BE SENT OUT TOGETHER PLEASE PLEASE NOTE - IF YOU WANT A SUBSCRIPTION, AND TO SAVE 10% ON THE COVER PRI...
https://shop.wyrd.science/products/wyrd-science-vol-1-issue-7-print
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
6 months ago
Coming soonish from Subterranean Press - the first collection of my short fiction in about a decade - here's the cover (by
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller
6 months ago
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
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CTPhipps
6 months ago
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
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The Books that made Us ā Garrett PI by Glen Cook
Glen Cook is primarily known for his Black Company series and that's something that I have a horrifying confession to make as a grimdark stan: I could never rea
https://beforewegoblog.com/the-books-that-made-us-garrett-pi-by-glen-cook/
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Piranesi turned out to be such a special read, yāall. If you, like me, havenāt yet picked it up, you should. Hereās why:
filipmagnuswrites.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/p...
6 months ago
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Aftermath
7 months ago
@lukeplunkett.com has been playing Endless Legend 2, and it's bumming him out:
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Tim Onion
7 months ago
Becoming increasingly clear weāre 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.
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Kurt Busiek
7 months ago
"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
7 months ago
Fascinating (and spot on) little essay on Service Model and how it relates to the real world.
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John Bailey
7 months ago
www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...
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Denmark Makes History: Your Face and Voice Are Now Your Intellectual Property
Europe's First Digital Identity Protection Law Tackles the Deepfake Crisis Denmark is poised to become the first European nation to grant citizens copyright control over their own faces, voices, and ...
https://www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-makes-history-your-face-and-voice-are-now-your-intellectual-property/
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Runalong Womble
7 months ago
Happy Paperback publication day to Out of the Drowning Deep by AC Wise - murder, robots and angels collide. Strongly recommended and proof SF is not dead yet!
www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/10...
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Out of the Drowning Deep by AC Wise ā Runalong The Shelves
Publisher - Titan Published - Out Now Price - £11.99 hardback £6.99 Kindle ebook Scribe IV is an obsolete automaton, peacefully whiling away his years on the Bastion, a secluded mona...
https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/10/7/out-of-the-drowning-deep-by-ac-wise
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August was a good month for reading on my end, with lots of five-star reads! Iāve written a few sentences about each on the olā blog, give them a read, you shanāt be disappointed:
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7 months ago
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Clara š¤
7 months ago
šÆļø The Mortal Remains will be back on Webtoon and Tapas this fall šÆļø Remaining pages of Chapter I will be released twice a month! Here's the final cover for the chapter āØ
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Made a Substack for yapping about ttRPGs. First post: my thoughts on the wonderful Wanderhome! This is a game that offers an experience so different from your average fantasy ttRPG, one that accentuates the journey rather than the destination. Read it here, please:
substack.com/@delverschoi...
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The Alters: Brilliant, Flawed, Must-Play Sci-Fi Really enjoyed getting back to writing, recording, editing a video game review. The Alters is a brilliant exploration of a singular sci-fi idea but it isn't without its flaws. Video and words:
wp.me/p8LkPa-34n
youtu.be/2ePMlhJ2Z9I
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Do check this one out, itās a lark!
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7 months ago
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Steve Stark š
7 months ago
Dunno how many newer followers have seen this stuff; but I've been working on a personal project in my off-time for about 8 years now called FOLK. It's a closer look at ordinary people set in extraordinary worlds. I might even be working on the next piece for it š
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Do check this one out, itās a lark!
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7 months ago
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My heart will soar the day the ai bubble bursts and a lot of very greedy companies lose a great deal of money.
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cait (and adonis)
7 months ago
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
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David Slack
8 months ago
I havenāt been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
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