If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only change in my life would be that google search suddenly got better again.
AyoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
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If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only change in my life would be that google search suddenly got better again.
AyoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
NEW REVIEW: Today’s review is Dark Is When The Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce. An interesting mix of horror and thriller. www.fantasybooknerd.com/2026/08/book...
🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt
GNOH reviews Dark Tides 20: Urban Legends today.
Ginger Nuts of HorrorDark Tide 20: Urban Legends: three novellas from Leigh Kenny, Dan Franklin and Nick Roberts, each ending somewhere frightening. Haunted house, wrong baby, cursed podcast. Full review: https://gnofhorror.com/dark-tide-20-urban-legends-review-ginger-nuts/
🐎🐍 New interview 🐍🐎 I chat to the wittily erudite murder horse maven @omersarae.bsky.social about her new sequel The Harpy Knight, out now from @titanbooks.bsky.social: - Why it's even darker - The new monsters - The slow burn of her poly thruple - Her favorite historical battle And much more!
Want a look behind the scenes of THE EYE OF LEVIATHAN and the Sea Beyond? First in a series of we have no idea how many posts, we're talking about the Inquisition and the Black Legend! www.macarrick.com/2026/08/03/e...
Everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition - M.A. CarrickWith the release of The Eye of Leviathan, we’re finally free to talk a bit more about what’s in the book! . . . starting with the Inquisition. We had a delicate path to walk here. On the one hand, the...www.macarrick.comA really interesting World Fantasy Shortlist! Also I think I can get this one looked at too! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...
there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly
John ScalziBluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
I will shout from the rooftops that AI can't create art. It just can't. It can make content, but content isn't art. And we’re in an age where we’re told we’re making content and not art - and I think part of the pushback is reminding everyone what ART is and saying you're MAKING ART & NOT CONTENT.
I was lucky enough to read an early version of this - it's fantastic. If you like Scott Lynch...
Ian GreenTHE DEEP AND THE DROWNED is out this week. "Outstandingly swashbuckling, outrageously gripping and out-of-this-world brilliant" Monsters, pirates, empire, and magic. Order now, have fun, spread the word if you know people who like cool things 🏴☠️ geni.us/TDATDcovrev
Me: I've been really tired lately and I think it's because I've been suppressing my hater energy The medieval doctor I've time-traveled to see: Ah, an imbalance in your humours, of course. You must post at once to rid yourself of the excess
@csecooney.bsky.social is one of my favorite people. Once when she was introducing a bunch of people around, she called me a 'notable sci-fi writer'. I thought someone musta been standing right behind me. 'The Asterist' out October 13th Preorder yours today at Amazon --> buff.ly/OvREuiA #speclit
Flying under the radar is Lee Young-do's The Heart of the Nhaga (translated by Anton Hur). @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social in commentary directing us to her @locusmag.bsky.social review says this: 'At every turn it is both familiar and extremely strange, in a way that I found quite delightful.'
(Duermevela has posted it on their social media, so I assume it’s fine for me to do the same.) Cover art for the Spanish translation of Asunder!
"Outstandingly swashbuckling, outrageously gripping and out-of-this-world brilliant" Lovely review! www.dailymail.com/home/books/a...
It’s Saturday and I’m on holiday but as it’s you here is this week’s Wombling Along! Reviews a d other things to enjoy with a nice cuppa! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/7/...
@alychelms.bsky.social and I are over at Plot Hole Tavern, talking about The Eye of Leviathan, alternate history, and when Alyc takes away my keyboard! plotholetavern.substack.com/p/what-happe...
"...and then I found him. Mr Holbrook was standing amid the trees, speaking to whomever might be listening, the mice and voles, the birds and insects. The spell was in his hands and he offered this up. In the dusty darkness, dark dusty words are waiting." @jeffnoon.bsky.social