Is science fiction dead or dying? Some wise words from Ursula K Le Guin to the TLS a decade ago:

My latest column is about tiny owls 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉

Colonisers hate libraries, they hate the dissemination and democratisation of information, they hate us knowing anything. Does anyone else get the feeling that this is in part a push to force those of us resisting genAI to use it b/c there is nothing else available? *dusts off Encarta CD-ROMS*

‘There are so many words for cutting benefit payments to the needy and vulnerable, as once there were so many for words for the cutting of a field.' Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...

'There’s a joy that comes after submitting to what’s bigger than you. It took me a while to find it.' @jennashworth.bsky.social speaks to Karen Lloyd about anti-heroics, tethered beetles, and walking with Wainwright and Wordsworth breathing down her neck www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...

We've decided it's high time we demystified the process of submitting to the site 🖋️ 🐙 Find all the info about how and what to submit here! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/06/subm... Image from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, New York,1885-1896, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Final call for the @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Weekend, where I will be chatting to Rowe Irvin tomorrow about her hauntingly beautiful debut novel Life Cycle of a Moth 🐛

found this incredibly moving

Latest Dog Walk Report is about land, language, liberty, and how the fight for land access rights should be international and universal

shared some excerpts from my 2024 diary, incl inside ivy, friend’s fox-stolen trousers, and hunting the aurora borealis with a pilled-up stranger, on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social

Shadows & Reflections: Benjamin Myers pays tribute to Cliff — the ultimate writer’s dog — 'though I have often wondered if perhaps I am, in fact, merely the dog’s writer.' caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...

Rosehips, haws and crab apple jam: site editor @divaeh.bsky.social and her long, thin dog walk (and eat) through the blazes of late autumn www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/dog-...