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Kate Elliott

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Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her. Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide: https://imakeupworlds.com/index.php/2015/02/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2h

besides the fact that he's incredibly knowledgeable about something I know so little about but which I find interesting when discussed in context, as he does, it's also that he is cool and smart in a way none of them can ever be but are sure they ought to be recognized as being.

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 4h

Congrats! Incredibly lovely!

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 8h

lol you are way nicer than I am.
Fuck her and her prissy holier-than-thou entitlement

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 9h

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 9h

a bizarre hill to die on, but oh well

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, hello

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 9h

Here's where I shout: "NILAH!!!!"

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 9h

I am keeping my expectations for the Anthropic settlement very very very low for this reason

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 10h

this is amazing

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 10h

beyond the complete "we didn't register your copyright" fuckup, my other fundamental issue is that I don't believe any of the estimates for how much an author could get, like those huge lawsuits where the check at the end is for $35

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, there would be as much to-do. Come on.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 16h

When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift
reviewed by Paul March-Russell

The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
reviewed by Electra Pritchett

It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey
reviewed by Hana Carolina

Link to the latest issue in our bio!

#fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #horror #sff #bookreviews

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cover of When There are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift featuring a wolf with young sparse trees growing in front of it.

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"In the current context of ultra-right-wing politics masquerading as patriotism and social media-fuelled conspiracy theories parading as truth, Swift’s liberal, democratic, multicultural, and inclusive politics strike this reader as radical."
reviewer: Paul March-Russell

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cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott featuring two small figures walking down a road lined with large humanoid animal stature on each side leading to a large fortress with three huge spires.

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"Dense but never overwhelming, compact but never too brief, richly detailed and imaginatively constructed, queer-inclusive and sensitive to the ways in which society masks and justifies injustices along other lines, this novel makes a thrilling read..."
reviewer: Electra Pritchett

6 October 2025
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cover of It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey featuring a red double keyboard piano on fire with solid yellow smoke rising from it with strange symbols and markings at the edges.

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"Readers expecting a traditional genre experience may be thrown off—but for those attuned to its wavelength, it’s a striking, generous, and at times exhilarating act of cultural resistance."
reviewer: Hana Carolina

6 October 2025
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, sci-fi and fantasy folks, if you happen to know folks who are involved with various estates in the field, do tip them a hat about the Anthropic settlement. Agencies do not get $ out of the deal and may not remember to talk to estate clients. My agent was worrying about estates not being alerted

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

that's an impressive letter

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Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 1d

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

incredible how these conversations reliably identify people I can instantly block

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

trees and men go well together

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

but you're right. I feel we don't pay taxes. we are just being robbed

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

This article talks about things states can do, including holding federal taxes in escrow:

cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-cut-...

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

Another Gen Jones here in total agreement of Nope.

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

these look SO GOOD

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

it remains interesting to me when some folks think writing "how it was done in the past/other realm" only means highlighting specific forms of bigotry as the sole/main marker of "the past" rather than a different approach to how characters approach life, society, and their personhood (as it were)

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