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Jay

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SFF book blogger, sports pluralist (mostly Vols, Canes, and Courage, some USA, O’s, Dockers, Ravens, Valencia CF), Dad x3.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Brief thread of favorites from a recap mostly featuring authors you definitely know if you were reading sci-fi 25+ years ago

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Aug 28

August isn’t over yet, but it ends on a holiday weekend and I’m traveling, so the round-up is early! It’s a bit trim overall, but heavy on pre-2000 sci-fi www.tarvolon.com/2025/08/28/a...

August 2025 Round-up and Short Fiction Miscellany

Rounding up my sci-fi and fantasy reviews from August 2025, with classic sci-fi standouts by Harlan Ellison and James Patrick Kelly

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 1d

Katabasis had a few really stunning scenes, but I’m not sure they all came together into a whole that was greater than a sum of the parts www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/13/f...

Fantasy Book Review: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Review of Katabasis, a dark academia fantasy dungeon crawl through Hell by award-winning author R.F. Kuang.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile I’ve memorized my library card number

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 1d

Katabasis had a few really stunning scenes, but I’m not sure they all came together into a whole that was greater than a sum of the parts www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/13/f...

Fantasy Book Review: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Review of Katabasis, a dark academia fantasy dungeon crawl through Hell by award-winning author R.F. Kuang.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 2d

Reviewed a horror novel with a bit too much gore for me, but the themes in The Buffalo Hunter Hunter are well-executed www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/12/h...

Review: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Review of the epistolary Native American horror novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by acclaimed author Stephen Graham Jones.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 2d

Reviewed a horror novel with a bit too much gore for me, but the themes in The Buffalo Hunter Hunter are well-executed www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/12/h...

Review: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Review of the epistolary Native American horror novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by acclaimed author Stephen Graham Jones.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

That’s fair—I think the degree of beguiling is a little bit ambiguous and it does create questions that I didn’t address and could seriously affect your view of the subsequent story

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Huh—I had fun with it. But I know you have complaints about the whole Lakewalker/Farmer dynamic that probably has a lot of downstream effects

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like saying “this is a book for fans of the series” is usually an insult. In the case of Knife Children, it is a compliment www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fantasy Book Review: Knife Children by Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the world of The Sharing Knife with Knife Children, a book about working together across cultures and coming of age.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Six goals, five posts. Not too shabby

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

🤝 Seth Jarvis

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Ryan Hartman 🤝 K’Andre Miller

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4d

Ryan Hartman is on pace to score 164 goals, Wild lead 4-0

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Jarvy deserved that one

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

What’s Jarvis’ on-ice post percentage tonight?

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

FFS this post

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

So many missed chances to open up a cushion and the Devils keep responding

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Ryan Hartman 🤝 K’Andre Miller

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4d

Ryan Hartman is on pace to score 164 goals, Wild lead 4-0

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

All those amazing looks and then that one goes in lol

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone know why that wasn’t a 5 on 3?

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Possession vs rush, where have I heard that before?

Ryan Henkel @ryanhenkel.bsky.social · 4d

2-2 after two.

Shots are 23-18 Carolina.

Carolina with the better sustained pressure, but Devils are getting good looks off the rush.

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Kill still passing the eye test

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Well that makes up for it. Such a weird goal

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Oof, after a good power play too

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like saying “this is a book for fans of the series” is usually an insult. In the case of Knife Children, it is a compliment www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fantasy Book Review: Knife Children by Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the world of The Sharing Knife with Knife Children, a book about working together across cultures and coming of age.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 4d

Carrier

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 5d

Despite The Underground Railroad being quite a famous book, I somehow came into it with the wrong expectations. It’s a series of alt histories more than it is anything else www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/09/a...

Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

A review of the award-winning alternate history novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, a thoughtful examination of oppression in its many forms.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 5d

Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

A review of the award-winning alternate history novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, a thoughtful examination of oppression in its many forms.