Ed Morland
@edmorland.bsky.social
Mostly lurking but enjoy the sudden bursts of sport, SFF, board games or far more likely reposted content. (he/him)
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live! It was Podcast Week, with lots of pods dropping episodes. Plus, some excellent essays and a banging interview between Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social.
Intergalactic Mixtape #31
Hey! This week I welcomed several new books to my house. This was illegal, as I was supposed to be on a book buying ban for December. However, one of the...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! It was Podcast Week, with lots of pods dropping episodes. Plus, some excellent essays and a banging interview between Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social.
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Final Stretch Goal revealed! 14 days to go! Wanna be part of it?
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Final Stretch Goal revealed! 14 days to go! Wanna be part of it?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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I spent three days last week putting together an eligibility MEGA POST for @strangehorizons.bsky.social, with all the people and work within it that's eligible for awards in 2026. I hope you'll check it out, click on some things, and consider putting your faves forward 🥹 Thank you, and here's to 26!
For Your Consideration: Strange Horizons 2025 Award Eligibility
For your consideration: a complete list of Strange Horizons works and staff eligible for various awards in 2026. Happy reading and listening!
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I spent three days last week putting together an eligibility MEGA POST for @strangehorizons.bsky.social, with all the people and work within it that's eligible for awards in 2026. I hope you'll check it out, click on some things, and consider putting your faves forward 🥹 Thank you, and here's to 26!
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Hey ARB readers! A quick announcement: December is going to be a quieter publishing month for us, but only because we're working on some big changes for next year. More details here:
Upcoming Changes at ARB
Hello readers! I hope you’ve been enjoying the Ancillary Review of Books and A Meal of Thorns; 2025 has been a great year for us! We’ve published a lot of reviews and essays, welcomed cool new writ…
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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hey ARB readers! A quick announcement: December is going to be a quieter publishing month for us, but only because we're working on some big changes for next year. More details here:
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In the past 48 hours both Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute (WI) have announced changed membership policies. After seeking legal advice, they felt left with no option but to exclude trans girls and women from membership.
December 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
In the past 48 hours both Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute (WI) have announced changed membership policies. After seeking legal advice, they felt left with no option but to exclude trans girls and women from membership.
This is the deep frustration. Both that the legal argument feels so transparently nonsense but that it is backed up by such money that it doesn't make a difference.
But also that with a simple bit of legislation this government could make it irrelevant but they won't because they lack the decency.
But also that with a simple bit of legislation this government could make it irrelevant but they won't because they lack the decency.
if you genuinely want to argue that the Equality Act, when introduced, intended to make unlawful an approach to trans inclusion that has existed *since the 1970s*, I absolutely cannot take you seriously
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is the deep frustration. Both that the legal argument feels so transparently nonsense but that it is backed up by such money that it doesn't make a difference.
But also that with a simple bit of legislation this government could make it irrelevant but they won't because they lack the decency.
But also that with a simple bit of legislation this government could make it irrelevant but they won't because they lack the decency.
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Okay I have one more.
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Okay I have one more.
As an England fan pretty happy with the World Cup draw. For all the current form would have preferred not Wales in the pool but we really ought to win.
Then on current form
Rnd of 16: Italy
Qtrs: Winner of Australia v Japan
Semi: Winner of Ireland v Argentina
Feels a reasonable route as they go.
Then on current form
Rnd of 16: Italy
Qtrs: Winner of Australia v Japan
Semi: Winner of Ireland v Argentina
Feels a reasonable route as they go.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
As an England fan pretty happy with the World Cup draw. For all the current form would have preferred not Wales in the pool but we really ought to win.
Then on current form
Rnd of 16: Italy
Qtrs: Winner of Australia v Japan
Semi: Winner of Ireland v Argentina
Feels a reasonable route as they go.
Then on current form
Rnd of 16: Italy
Qtrs: Winner of Australia v Japan
Semi: Winner of Ireland v Argentina
Feels a reasonable route as they go.
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"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
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Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!)
BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!)
BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
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Really enjoying this episode on journeys in Tolkien.
One of the key things we've lingered on in the close read of Fellowship I've been doing with @chloroformtea.bsky.social has been its focus on the practicalities and realities of travel even as the book shifts from the domestic to the epic.
One of the key things we've lingered on in the close read of Fellowship I've been doing with @chloroformtea.bsky.social has been its focus on the practicalities and realities of travel even as the book shifts from the domestic to the epic.
Episode 81 and our final episode for 2025 is live! This time around we talked about how the journey functions in #Tolkien -- what it means to go on one and what expectations seem to changed for what a journey can mean in many senses of the word. Art by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social as ever!
81. Maybe They’re Too Peasant Or Whatever | By-The-Bywater
On the journey in Tolkien.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Really enjoying this episode on journeys in Tolkien.
One of the key things we've lingered on in the close read of Fellowship I've been doing with @chloroformtea.bsky.social has been its focus on the practicalities and realities of travel even as the book shifts from the domestic to the epic.
One of the key things we've lingered on in the close read of Fellowship I've been doing with @chloroformtea.bsky.social has been its focus on the practicalities and realities of travel even as the book shifts from the domestic to the epic.
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“What does that lack of magic lead to? Why is it important to the story, a story that could have been told as literary realism or as secondary world fantasy outside of Yf where there is magic?
The answer is: because it creates the conditions for urban fantasy.”
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The answer is: because it creates the conditions for urban fantasy.”
wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/M...
What if we read A Mourning Coat as Urban Fantasy? | WHM
Wm Henry Morris discusses Alex Jeffers's novella A Mourning Coat in relation to Stefan Ekman's Urban Fantasy
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December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“What does that lack of magic lead to? Why is it important to the story, a story that could have been told as literary realism or as secondary world fantasy outside of Yf where there is magic?
The answer is: because it creates the conditions for urban fantasy.”
wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/M...
The answer is: because it creates the conditions for urban fantasy.”
wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/M...
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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New Contributor Profile: Eddie Clark Meet @dreddieclark.bsky.social
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Contributor Profile: Eddie Clark
NAME: Eddie Clark. SECRET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION : The bottom right corner of the map, if we have in fact been included on it. NERD SPEC...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
New Contributor Profile: Eddie Clark Meet @dreddieclark.bsky.social
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/cont...
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/cont...
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the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good
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Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.
Well fuck, Leopoldstadt always did feel like a final act on stage but I hoped he'd have many years to enjoy a retirement.
Both dazzling wit and cleverness throughout his plays but with real heart at the core, you often had to work to keep up but the work was amply rewarded.
Both dazzling wit and cleverness throughout his plays but with real heart at the core, you often had to work to keep up but the work was amply rewarded.
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Well fuck, Leopoldstadt always did feel like a final act on stage but I hoped he'd have many years to enjoy a retirement.
Both dazzling wit and cleverness throughout his plays but with real heart at the core, you often had to work to keep up but the work was amply rewarded.
Both dazzling wit and cleverness throughout his plays but with real heart at the core, you often had to work to keep up but the work was amply rewarded.
Intergalactic Mixtape is always great but particularly enjoyed this article from @readingtheend.bsky.social this time.
Whether through awards shortlists, picking up more translated fiction or otherwise there's gems to find when you step outside your comfort zone even if your hit rate drops.
Whether through awards shortlists, picking up more translated fiction or otherwise there's gems to find when you step outside your comfort zone even if your hit rate drops.
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is always great but particularly enjoyed this article from @readingtheend.bsky.social this time.
Whether through awards shortlists, picking up more translated fiction or otherwise there's gems to find when you step outside your comfort zone even if your hit rate drops.
Whether through awards shortlists, picking up more translated fiction or otherwise there's gems to find when you step outside your comfort zone even if your hit rate drops.
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Happy Friday, SF readers. Some fresh links to ponder over the weekend:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/28/w...
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Wow! Signal: November 2025
Jake Casella Brookins The Ancillary Review of Books was founded to address the radical possibilities of criticism, particularly in the context of the radical possibilities of speculative fiction. N…
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November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Happy Friday, SF readers. Some fresh links to ponder over the weekend:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/28/w...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/28/w...
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
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I have been able to regain access to my necessary medication (and thankfully was able to avoid going without during my fight for it). But I know many people who are having the exact same fight right now. Including people who've been settled on hormones even longer than I.
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I have been able to regain access to my necessary medication (and thankfully was able to avoid going without during my fight for it). But I know many people who are having the exact same fight right now. Including people who've been settled on hormones even longer than I.
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If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.