Cody R Brown
@codyrbrown.bsky.social
PhD @ UBC English, sf and ecocriticism, walking the laneways of the Lower Mainland of BC
Ninajirachi in Vancouver, BC
Dry Cleaning in Vancouver, BC (Nourished by Time opened)
Nick Cave in Tamworth, NSW
They Might Be Giants in Boise, ID (I got handed John's guitar pick and hugged them after the show) @tmbg.bsky.social
Andrew Bird in Boise, ID
Dry Cleaning in Vancouver, BC (Nourished by Time opened)
Nick Cave in Tamworth, NSW
They Might Be Giants in Boise, ID (I got handed John's guitar pick and hugged them after the show) @tmbg.bsky.social
Andrew Bird in Boise, ID
The Serpents (Welsh supergroup) where I was the only paying customer so they bought me a pint and still played the gig
Kate Bush
@lowtheband.bsky.social in a pub’s upstairs room
Philip Glass in a cathedral
Premiere of Festen the opera
Broadcast surrounded by freshers with their hands over their ears
Kate Bush
@lowtheband.bsky.social in a pub’s upstairs room
Philip Glass in a cathedral
Premiere of Festen the opera
Broadcast surrounded by freshers with their hands over their ears
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
The Magnetic Fields
The Earlies
The Soft Boys
Transglobal Underground
The Triffids
The Magnetic Fields
The Earlies
The Soft Boys
Transglobal Underground
The Triffids
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Ninajirachi in Vancouver, BC
Dry Cleaning in Vancouver, BC (Nourished by Time opened)
Nick Cave in Tamworth, NSW
They Might Be Giants in Boise, ID (I got handed John's guitar pick and hugged them after the show) @tmbg.bsky.social
Andrew Bird in Boise, ID
Dry Cleaning in Vancouver, BC (Nourished by Time opened)
Nick Cave in Tamworth, NSW
They Might Be Giants in Boise, ID (I got handed John's guitar pick and hugged them after the show) @tmbg.bsky.social
Andrew Bird in Boise, ID
time for me to remind everybody that Samuel R. Delany's Nevèrÿon series exists, does not take place in a European milieu, AND contains what is often referred to as the first AIDs novel. it should be much more widely read, imo.
4) There is absolutely zero requirement that your sword & sorcery story be set in a quasi-medieval European milieu with no people of color.
The world is a big place. There's room for wizards and warriors in every culture in every period.
The world is a big place. There's room for wizards and warriors in every culture in every period.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
time for me to remind everybody that Samuel R. Delany's Nevèrÿon series exists, does not take place in a European milieu, AND contains what is often referred to as the first AIDs novel. it should be much more widely read, imo.
majorly bummed about the Jays, now back to hoping Mets or Mariners make it all the way next season
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
majorly bummed about the Jays, now back to hoping Mets or Mariners make it all the way next season
rip my mariners, go jays for the series
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
rip my mariners, go jays for the series
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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
for the NYT to give Doug Wilson any kind of platform is honestly shameful
October 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
for the NYT to give Doug Wilson any kind of platform is honestly shameful
there are many things that TransLink could do to improve service in Vancouver, but living near the SkyTrain and two major bus routes means I rarely wait long for service & I'm rarely more than 15-30 minutes ride from anywhere - now I can't imagine living somewhere without that level of service
The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:
Provide frequent service
Provide frequent service
October 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
there are many things that TransLink could do to improve service in Vancouver, but living near the SkyTrain and two major bus routes means I rarely wait long for service & I'm rarely more than 15-30 minutes ride from anywhere - now I can't imagine living somewhere without that level of service
this is a basically undeniable take when reading robots in terms of their origin in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.
really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
this is a basically undeniable take when reading robots in terms of their origin in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.
I need the mariners or the jays to make it
October 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I need the mariners or the jays to make it
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
What book have you bought the most copies of in your life?
September 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What book have you bought the most copies of in your life?
a classic "Torment Nexus" scenario
Is it ethical to write dystopian fiction when it just gives the ruling class ideas?
September 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
a classic "Torment Nexus" scenario
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Me: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is about climate change.... Please....
Weird theorists: *points at any weird fiction nearby* cli-fi hyperobject
Weird theorists: *points at any weird fiction nearby* cli-fi hyperobject
September 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Me: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is about climate change.... Please....
Weird theorists: *points at any weird fiction nearby* cli-fi hyperobject
Weird theorists: *points at any weird fiction nearby* cli-fi hyperobject
I just want to re-post this and use it as an opportunity to post some of my favorite paperback covers from my personal collection:
Imagining bringing these sort of illustrated covers back... over whatever modern publishing is churning out.
September 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I just want to re-post this and use it as an opportunity to post some of my favorite paperback covers from my personal collection:
congrats @jordanscarroll.bsky.social !!!
The #HugoAward for Best Related Work goes to Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press). “Insist that tomorrow belongs to everyone.”
August 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
congrats @jordanscarroll.bsky.social !!!
stepping away from worry to celebrate my anniversary and see weapons, let me know if anything happens while I'm gone
August 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
stepping away from worry to celebrate my anniversary and see weapons, let me know if anything happens while I'm gone
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anyways, in 1993 Norton published an SF Anthology (edited by Le Guin and Atteberry!) that I think they should re-edit and bring back into print. the VanderMeers also did this with their "big book" anthologies. maybe the answer is more stuff like this! big, historical anthologies are good!
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
anyways, in 1993 Norton published an SF Anthology (edited by Le Guin and Atteberry!) that I think they should re-edit and bring back into print. the VanderMeers also did this with their "big book" anthologies. maybe the answer is more stuff like this! big, historical anthologies are good!
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This means we need readers who have interests ranging from "wide and shallow" to "narrow and deep." The problem with Scalzi is he seems to suggest there's a correct way to make recommendations that will "keep" readers. I don't there is is such a correct way!
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This means we need readers who have interests ranging from "wide and shallow" to "narrow and deep." The problem with Scalzi is he seems to suggest there's a correct way to make recommendations that will "keep" readers. I don't there is is such a correct way!
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I think if you want to grow SF readership you need to recommend both old and new, ideally along the lines of thematic interests. There are as mans SFs as there are readers and writers, and the best case for building a healthy fan community is encouraging more and more reading.
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I think if you want to grow SF readership you need to recommend both old and new, ideally along the lines of thematic interests. There are as mans SFs as there are readers and writers, and the best case for building a healthy fan community is encouraging more and more reading.
anyways, fun discourse to run into today
August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
anyways, fun discourse to run into today
sf discourse on the feed today, nice to see
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
sf discourse on the feed today, nice to see
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Kim Stanley Robinson
i think an interesting spin on this is, who are artists with politics you strongly agree with, whose politics *do* (in your view) influence their art, and that you think actually makes their art worse as a result?
Here’s a question: who is the artist with politics you disagree strongly with, whose politics *do* (in your view) influence their art, that you still think is talented and whose work you enjoy?
August 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Kim Stanley Robinson
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7 of 9 planetary boundaries now crossed: “By 2020 the oceans condition were very close to or beyond the planetary boundary for ocean acidification (calcium carbonate levels >20% below preindustrial). The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said.”
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
7 of 9 planetary boundaries now crossed: “By 2020 the oceans condition were very close to or beyond the planetary boundary for ocean acidification (calcium carbonate levels >20% below preindustrial). The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said.”
read Nathan's book! it's tremendous! it made me revise my dissertation introduction!
*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
press.uchicago.edu
June 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
read Nathan's book! it's tremendous! it made me revise my dissertation introduction!