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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀

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Spec fiction writer, engineer, owl. Stories in Asimov's, F&SF, Interzone. Avionics in NASA spacecraft. #ViableParadise #SFF #VP23 #SFWA #Codexian #SciFi #CharmCitySpec #writingcommunity BLM 🇺🇦

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · Nov 13

All you writers, take strength from the knowledge that what you write may long outlive you. What you write may be indelible. #amwriting

Petroglyphs—a thunderbird and other figures, carved into rocks near Santa Fe.

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 3h

Just putting this up here for bookish folks in Baltimore—

THE BOOK THING OF BALTIMORE
You're Invited
TO THE SECOND ANNUAL
BOOK THING
• BOOKTOBERFEST •
JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF
books beer music cheer
All proceeds go toward the Book Thing's mission
BALTO
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 6:30-9PM
PEABODY HEIGHTS BREWERY
401 E 30TH ST
TICKETS & MORE

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 6h

Willow is ready for autumn! 🍂
#doglife

Black Lab, sitting at the window, wishing for a walk—

🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 7h

More photos of Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Sarah Pinsker, Julia Vee, and Ray Nayler, in the thick of it. A great night!

🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 7h

Photos from last night's edition of the Traveling SSF book festival, at Greedy Reads in Baltimore—a really great conversation

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 16h

The Hunt for the World's Oldest Story, from the New Yorker:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find?

www.newyorker.com

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 1d

My review of the July issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!

locusmag.com/review/clark...

Clarkesworld: Review by A.C. Wise

Clarkesworld 7/25 The July issue of Clarkesworld opens with “Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro, a lovely exploration of learning to accept yourself that offers up a satisfying twist on the idea of alt…

locusmag.com

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 1d

So much killer stuff in here! It's a great chance to get a lot of Karlo's best work under one (virtual) cover!

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 2d

Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up!

Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho!

kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...

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Charm City Spec Official @charmcityspec.bsky.social · 1d

Fabulous and funny, recent CCS alumna Alaya Dawn Johnson appears in the new issue of Uncanny!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

The Shadow on the Nest - Uncanny Magazine

“…but what is it like, having a war criminal as your past life?” Sadie Salazar, Licensed Life Speaker, should have been professionally above the prurient interest lighting her hazel eyes, and much too...

www.uncannymagazine.com

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Charm City Spec Official @charmcityspec.bsky.social · 2d

Funny, smart, generous CCS alum Amber Sparks has a new novel out! I'm looking forward to it!
www.ambernoellesparks.com

Amber Sparks

Click next to scroll through the selection of books. To purchase books, please visit the shop. 

www.ambernoellesparks.com

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 3d

Oof I hate those!

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 3d

Boo! Don't do it!

🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 3d

Sweet Jesus do I hate Adobe Acrobat!

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 3d

Rainy days—

Willow the black lab sits in a chair, looking out the front window at a rainy neighborhood.

🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 4d

Unlocked (for a week?) Paris Review interview with Nobel-winning author László Krasznahorkai:
theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240

László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and Wa...

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 24d

Who wants preorder links?

BN: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/offerings-...

@mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social :
www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781968...

@goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social : goldennotebook.com/book/9781968...

@oblongbooks.bsky.social : oblongbooks.com/book/9781968043100

A poetry collection cover, featuring a woman wearing a red cloak and matching lipstick, her face obscured, her lands lifted up. There is smoke between them. The title, in an elegant gold font, is Offerings for Ordinary Gods. The author's name, Ali Trotta, is in a matching font at the bottom.

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 4d

Picking our American Kiwis—they may not look like much, but they're sweet!

A quart or so of American Kiwi fruit in a reflective metal colander.

🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 5d

Here's Willow, here to brighten up your timeline—

A dog who's very happy at being let up on the bed. (She's not normally allowed there.)

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Podside Picnic @podside-picnic.bsky.social · 5d

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us

www.patreon.com/c/podsidepic...

Get more from Podside Picnic on Patreon

creating podcast on science fiction, fantasy, and other stories

www.patreon.com

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 7d

I want to put Craig Finn up there.

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 7d

Ever read something and fall into dark despair because you will never ever ever be able to write something like that?

In related news I just finished up Amal El-Mohtar's THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, available from Barnes & Noble and other retailers:

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-river-...

The River Has Roots|Hardcover

AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARYREADS PICK!The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to th...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 7d

I do feel like this entire episode is another outcome of a general lack of science literacy (no shade to ICP, who I greatly admire.)

🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 7d

(They're really lucky no one was hurt!)

🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 7d

This is an astounding story and the LAPD should be horrifically embarrassed by this, if nothing else:

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

in which a cop fails to understand the concept of “magnets” during a deeply stupid mistargeted raid, and loses his loaded rifle to the uncaring maw of a MRI

www.dailynews.com/2024/09/28/l...

LAPD officer lost rifle to MRI device during bungled raid, lawsuit alleges

Van Nuys medical imaging company alleges its constitutional rights were violated by officers who mistargeted the business for an illegal pot operation.

www.dailynews.com

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🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀 @chrisrose.bsky.social · 7d

I'd also like to announce that I'm not dead—