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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Sep 19

First ever academic publication is now out!

It's a book review of "Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel" by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips

doi.org/10.1111/taja...

#anthropology

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Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵 @richardmedh.bsky.social · Sep 19

The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

What a great and great big collection of stories this is. And you can get it DRM-free too, which is nice.

www.ursulakleguin.com/unreal-real

Ursula K. Le Guin — The Unreal and the Real

www.ursulakleguin.com

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Sep 15

Oh! Thanks for letting me know and sorry about that. We've had some domain issues. While I work on getting that fixed please feel free to email my personal email at [email protected]

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Sep 15

#authors finishing projects: Ellipsis Editing is taking bookings for the rest of the year.

We offer #proofreading #copyediting & structural #editing to creatives & academics at reasonable prices.

More than 10 years experience editing. UK/US style

#writers #booksky #writingcommunity #amediting

Home

www.ellipsis-editing.com

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Sep 14

Fan of Martha Wells or the Murderbot series?

HumbleBundle is selling a whole bundle of her books - with proceeds going to charity.

🪐📚💙📚🪐

#books #booksky #scifi #specfic #sff #booksale #ebooks

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

www.humblebundle.com

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Sep 14

I have an issue with the idea that big studios (and lots of players) have that bigger = better. Give me a great hand-crafted game. If it's good, it's good no matter the length.

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Sep 14

That actually sounds really cool. How does it work? Is the lore preset, or also procedurally generated?

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Sep 14

It's true that submitting your manuscript for publication is a looong process. I submitted one today and the email says *at least* 3 months before reply.

...Doesn't help that I put off submitting it for a month already 😅

#publishing #amwriting #booksky #wrtingcommunity #author #submissions
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Mads Schubert 🌹 @mads-schubert.bsky.social · Apr 28

Part 17 in my weekly poster series of 2025 #art #punk

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ooo the Blue Moutains Writers Festival program is out. There's so much cool stuff! The workshop on making historical fiction *weird* looks right up my street and a fantastic panel for #queerwriters too!

#writingcommunity #writersfestivals #bluemountains #writers #fiction #books

Blue Mountains Writers Festival Events for 2024. Buy Tickets Now. — BLUE MOUNTAINS WRITERS' FESTIVAL

Full program released 27 August 2024. Genres to be covered include Poetry, Crime, Feminism, Politics, Queer, Comedy, First Nations, History, Social issues, Environment, Fiction & Children’s 80+ speak...

www.bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au

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LinPiX @lifeinpixelz.bsky.social · Aug 26

🧊🐈This #study of #cubism probably should be illegal to post… but the cat made me do it

@pixeldailies.bsky.social PD #108

#pixelart #aseprite #art #pixel_dailies

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 26

Just recently finished reading #graphicnovel 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane... what a ride! The art is gorgeously intricate. The stories are nonsensically weird. I loved every page.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

#graphicnovels #comics #comicsky #scifi

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 26

one of my all-time favs. I've bought and given away this book to friends more times than i remember.

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 26

look gorgeous!

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pressakey.tube @pressakey.tube · Aug 26

Herdling - Launch Trailer | https://pressakey.tube/134266

#Herdling #Indiegame #gamescom2025

Herdling - Launch Trailer | pressakey.com

Head out on a grand alpine expedition with a herd of loveable beasts. | Adventure von Okomotive / Panic.

pressakey.tube

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Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · Aug 26

Here's a loving reminder that 8/27 is the last day of our big publisher sale on Steam!

There's truly something for everyone in there.

☀️ store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...

Strange Scaffold Publisher Sale!

Six Games, Two Years. The Summer of Scaffold begins!

store.steampowered.com

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 26

Weird sentience in the forgotten corners of the Net. Love it.

henry ✷ @strange.website · Aug 26

humans sealed our fate when we started working with computers to design languages more and more like our own. the computers learned our grammar, our vocabulary, yes. but they learned our rhetoric, the malleability of meaning. we gave the machines our words, and they used them to lie.

Quite A Strange.Website Indeed

Well now, seems you've found a strange and perhaps surprising website, indeed. As with all things, take and enjoy your time — after all, no one may but you.

strange.website

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 26

Since it's #TrailerTuesday here's the super early teaser we put together for a game dev project, Gutterjacket - a #cyberpunk adventure game 🎮

youtu.be/cgzWxpGkdcE

nogoodnikstudio.com

#gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #gameart #sff #scifi #IndieDev #gamewriting #pointandclick #adventuregames

Gutterjacket Pitch Teaser

YouTube video by Nogoodnik Games

youtu.be

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 26

You can add Australia to the list as of today.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Australia Post halts most parcel postage to US immediately

Australia Post is taking the extraordinary step of immediately suspending many forms of shipping to the United States, as a Trump administration tariff deadline approaches on Friday.

www.abc.net.au

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · Aug 21

Congrats to @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social

and all the finalists for the 2025 Aldiss Award

locusmag.com/2025/08/2025...

2025 Aldiss Award Shortlist

The Aldiss Award, an annual award to “acknowledge endeavours in literature and gaming, specifically around world building, in the science fiction & fantasy genre,’’ has announced its inaugural …

locusmag.com

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 18

If you're into #indiegame and #gamedev check out the #devlog for Powerhoof's recently launched The Drifter - excellent #scifi #thriller point-n-click. @dave.powerhoof.com breaks down some of the learning from the game's success (it's great - play it!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P87...

The Drifter - Dev Diary 17 (Launch Post Mortem)

YouTube video by PowerhoofTV

www.youtube.com

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 18

Kinda surprised there's no medieval farming MMORPG out there already.

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 17

It is! It's great to try something totally different

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · Aug 17

I've been a #writer for a while now. For the first time I'm writing for a video game, not a novel or short story. It is *mind bending* to have to think in terms of plot, character, AND player agency. Fun, but challenging.

#bluesky #videogames #gaming

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Fireye @fireye.coffee · Aug 17

Hi I made an open source game dev webring for the #indieweb. If you make games and run a website please feel free to join. gdt.fireye.coffee

Game Devs Together

An open source game developer webring!

gdt.fireye.coffee

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