Writes, variously. Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons. Columns at Ancillary Review. Songs over at Bandcamp. Also see @savinglives.bsky.social.
Dan Hartland
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It's not entirely a surprise to me that the Critical Friends episode about established writers has attracted less discourse than the one about debut writers, but it's probably a topic I worry about more.
Niall Harrison
🎧 The one that tackles the ‘where to start’ dilemma! “Part of it is to work out whether they are the reader the likes spiders or the reader that doesn’t like spiders. And then start from there,” suggests Duncan Lawie. Who might be meant?! 😆
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First review of the week over at SH is a long one, and brilliantly so. Here’s @octavia-cade.bsky.social on this year’s Climate Fiction Prize shortlist.
Producing this *after* the winner was announced for me lets the shortlist breathe some more - and affords alternative readings to the judges’.
Something slightly different at SH today, but we like that every now and then, right?
On SF in Yi-Ling Liu's partial The Wall Dancers: "Just like many other personalities in Liu’s book, Chen Qiufan strives to prove to the Party that what he does is useful, while also staying true to his values."
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In this month’s Critical Friends, @kateem.bsky.social and Duncan Lawie talk about reading writers with back catalogues: how to start, how to you think about them, what to do when they publish another new book?
On oeuvres (with apologies to the French language):
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In this month’s Critical Friends, @kateem.bsky.social and Duncan Lawie talk about reading writers with back catalogues: how to start, how to you think about them, what to do when they publish another new book?
On oeuvres (with apologies to the French language):
There are notable exceptions, but I’m largely an oeuvres magpie: what are the one, two, three works that are going to be the most interesting to me?
OK, I’d been staying strong until now. *Thanks, Larry*.
This is a shortlist that considers climate through the lens of aesthetic rather than urgency.
Friday's review at @strangehorizons.bsky.social saw @deanleetal.bsky.social return to our pages, to read Shelly Page's Charmed and Dangerous.
I always enjoy how Dean's reviews centre an experience of reading. "Even though the book is light and sweet," they say here, "it respects it readers."
Tufty McTavish
Dan Hartland
If there was any figure in any media I consumed as a young person who made me think "Yeah, that's who I want to be when I grow up", it was Giles.
