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Occasional reviewer for Strange Horizons
Manager in Liverpool Central Library
Lives in Macclesfield
Often in the Peak District
ianjsimpson
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
Three Shires Head, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire
#waterfallwednesday
Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...
Hi, can I interest you in some fantasy written by a nonbinary author? With trans and intersex characters? Not based on a franchise by a transphobic author!
Dragonfall, Emberclaw, and my rewritten debut, Pantomime, are out now, and I could very much use some help getting the word out about them. 💖
The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship
#movies #documentaries
And on my last day, at 12.05, my last piece of formal work is complete...
Carole Cadwalladr
Joel Morris
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It's Banned Books Week! Here are some Horror (and adjacent) books that are often banned and/or frequently challenged. I have read most of them but I chose Bless Me, Ultima to read & enjoy. See if your public/school libraries have these books! Read Banned Books
Ian Dunt
The last review of the SH week is from @ianjsimpson.bsky.social, and focuses on Jacy Morris's We Like It Cherry (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social). "Morris is writing about tradition and belief and survival; about the Other both within and outside of our immediate experiences."
Spoilers, obvs:
