Theodora Goss
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The Wind in the Willows illustration by Inga Moore
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Wind in the Willows illustration by Inga Moore
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Ships a-sailing! Available on phone cases, and other things...
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Sailing ships and sea monsters.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Ships a-sailing! Available on phone cases, and other things...
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Instead of Black Friday, make it Book Friday.
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Instead of Black Friday, make it Book Friday.
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#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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It's been only a few years since we lost Patricia, and this is a good way of reminding ourselves just how important she was.
Check out as @garykwolfe reviews THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP by Patricia A. McKillip, calling it an “invitation to reconsider her work as even more varied, complex, and sharp-witted than we might have remembered.”
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon 978-1-61696-448-1, $28.95, 320pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Tom Canty. Fifty years ago, Patricia A. McKillip received the World Fa…
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November 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It's been only a few years since we lost Patricia, and this is a good way of reminding ourselves just how important she was.
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Check out as @garykwolfe reviews THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP by Patricia A. McKillip, calling it an “invitation to reconsider her work as even more varied, complex, and sharp-witted than we might have remembered.”
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon 978-1-61696-448-1, $28.95, 320pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Tom Canty. Fifty years ago, Patricia A. McKillip received the World Fa…
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Check out as @garykwolfe reviews THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP by Patricia A. McKillip, calling it an “invitation to reconsider her work as even more varied, complex, and sharp-witted than we might have remembered.”
Tachyon Publications is having a year-end holiday sale. That means you can get Letters from an Imaginary Country direct from the publisher for 30% off and support an independent press! Code: YEAREND30
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November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Tachyon Publications is having a year-end holiday sale. That means you can get Letters from an Imaginary Country direct from the publisher for 30% off and support an independent press! Code: YEAREND30
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Skeleton orchestra! Available on various things...
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An accompaniment for a danse macabre
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November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Skeleton orchestra! Available on various things...
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Beautiful fungi. :)
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Beautiful fungi. :)
"Every woman must have a room
where she can be completely herself."
A poem . . .
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where she can be completely herself."
A poem . . .
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A Room of Her Own
A Room of Her Own by Theodora Goss Every woman must have a room where she can be completely herself. Where there are flowers on the table, roses and lilies in a vase inherited from her grandmother.…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"Every woman must have a room
where she can be completely herself."
A poem . . .
theodoragosspoems.com/2020/02/21/a...
where she can be completely herself."
A poem . . .
theodoragosspoems.com/2020/02/21/a...
I wrote this poem back in 2020, but it seems suitably autumnal for the end of November . . .
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Autumn
Autumn by Theodora Goss The leaves are falling and falling, and you are gone. I lie alone while the sky fills up with darkness like a cup. Moonlight spills on the white pillow where you used to lie…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I wrote this poem back in 2020, but it seems suitably autumnal for the end of November . . .
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Large language mistake
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Large language mistake
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
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Tachyon Press are having a year end sale for the rest of 2025, 30% off sitewide with the code YEAREND30 tachyonpublications.com including wonderful books by Theodora Goss, Patricia McKillip, Jane Yolen, me, Peter Beagle, Michael Swanwick, James Morrow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, etc
Home - Tachyon Publications
Tachyon Publications, founded in 1995, is an award-winning publisher of smart science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more. We're saving the world, one good book at a time.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Tachyon Press are having a year end sale for the rest of 2025, 30% off sitewide with the code YEAREND30 tachyonpublications.com including wonderful books by Theodora Goss, Patricia McKillip, Jane Yolen, me, Peter Beagle, Michael Swanwick, James Morrow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, etc
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'The Reader' - Harold Knight (c. 1910)
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
'The Reader' - Harold Knight (c. 1910)
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
Yes. I went to UVA and it was awesome. I got an amazing education for about $6000 a year.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Yes. I went to UVA and it was awesome. I got an amazing education for about $6000 a year.
This is, in fact, very annoying.
I think the thing about writing books that annoys me is that you have to keep relearning how to write them. Each book is different and asks different things of you. You have to keep growing and shit.
November 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is, in fact, very annoying.
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I know there’s a lot going on but if you have any money to spare, please consider protecting a vital wetland area, or share this link.
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Be One In a Million
We are asking YOU and 1 million people to give $10 to protect and preserve 1,400 acres of wild lands on West Galveston Island.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I know there’s a lot going on but if you have any money to spare, please consider protecting a vital wetland area, or share this link.
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New blog post. :) Short version: "We are on the cusp of an age of unreality, and the danger it poses to us, and to the planet we inhabit, is enormous."
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The Real and the Unreal: A Manifesto
When I was in college, the task of the researcher was to find information. When I was in graduate school, it was to sort through information. This spring, when my students arrive at the university,…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New blog post. :) Short version: "We are on the cusp of an age of unreality, and the danger it poses to us, and to the planet we inhabit, is enormous."
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I'm slowly trying to put my older essays online. Here's one I just uploaded called "Fairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales."
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Fairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales
Fairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales by Theodora Goss Have you noticed that fairy tales aren’t really about fairies? J.R.R. Tolkien points this out in his essay “On Fairy…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm slowly trying to put my older essays online. Here's one I just uploaded called "Fairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales."
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I'm organizing my notebooks, so I'm going to post some older poems. :) Here's one from 2020, especially for those of you who are starting to get snow now:
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A Cold Morning
A Cold Morning by Theodora Goss It was the sort of morning when cold got into my bones. Outside, the snow would not melt until March, probably. It lay on the porch like a thin layer of frosting top…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'm organizing my notebooks, so I'm going to post some older poems. :) Here's one from 2020, especially for those of you who are starting to get snow now:
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Armed with a Book very kindly interviewed me about Letters from an Imaginary Country. :) Here is a link: armedwithabook.com/theodora-goss/
Theodora Goss, author of Letters from an Imaginary Country - Interview - Armed with A Book
Come chat with Theodora Goss about Letters from an Imaginary Country, one of the best short stories collections I have ever read.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Armed with a Book very kindly interviewed me about Letters from an Imaginary Country. :) Here is a link: armedwithabook.com/theodora-goss/
I think I'm about two-thirds of the way through this novel draft? :)
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I think I'm about two-thirds of the way through this novel draft? :)
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Thing about being a writer is that you have to grit your teeth and push on, whether you're getting rejection, or you're killing it. Rejection earns you a day of being flat on the floor, & then, up again, writing. Killing it earns you a day of rapture & then, better get your ass back to work.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Thing about being a writer is that you have to grit your teeth and push on, whether you're getting rejection, or you're killing it. Rejection earns you a day of being flat on the floor, & then, up again, writing. Killing it earns you a day of rapture & then, better get your ass back to work.
This is what Nature created, and what we are destroying so people can have random chats with Claude.
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is what Nature created, and what we are destroying so people can have random chats with Claude.