Wm Henry Morris
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· Oct 7
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
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No story collection is worth buying for just one story, and I’m definitely not suggesting mine is.
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
A must read.
When I read it earlier today, I thought about the Wheel of Time adaptation and how it repeats some of the orientalism that Ahmed describes even as it attempts to be better about representation than other shows.
When I read it earlier today, I thought about the Wheel of Time adaptation and how it repeats some of the orientalism that Ahmed describes even as it attempts to be better about representation than other shows.
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
strangehorizons.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A must read.
When I read it earlier today, I thought about the Wheel of Time adaptation and how it repeats some of the orientalism that Ahmed describes even as it attempts to be better about representation than other shows.
When I read it earlier today, I thought about the Wheel of Time adaptation and how it repeats some of the orientalism that Ahmed describes even as it attempts to be better about representation than other shows.
I'd say stock up on everything that catches your eye.
But at the very least pick up Alex Jeffers's A Mourning Coat so you are prepped for my next piece of long-form criticism, which will likely drop next week.
But at the very least pick up Alex Jeffers's A Mourning Coat so you are prepped for my next piece of long-form criticism, which will likely drop next week.
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'd say stock up on everything that catches your eye.
But at the very least pick up Alex Jeffers's A Mourning Coat so you are prepped for my next piece of long-form criticism, which will likely drop next week.
But at the very least pick up Alex Jeffers's A Mourning Coat so you are prepped for my next piece of long-form criticism, which will likely drop next week.
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For Strange Horizons, I've been working on a review of A Granite Silence, Nina Allan's fascinating examination of a historical crime as a network of jostling stories. The review went online yesterday: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
A Granite Silence by Nina Allan
In her latest novel, Allan steps in a different direction again.
strangehorizons.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
For Strange Horizons, I've been working on a review of A Granite Silence, Nina Allan's fascinating examination of a historical crime as a network of jostling stories. The review went online yesterday: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
I think this is a book all fiction writers should read:
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I think this is a book all fiction writers should read:
I appear to be the only one wearing a mask and earplugs in this theater, but that’s fine. I like not being sick and not experiencing hearing loss.
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I appear to be the only one wearing a mask and earplugs in this theater, but that’s fine. I like not being sick and not experiencing hearing loss.
Minnesota folks: I visited The Museum of Russian Art yesterday for the first time, and their exhibition of paintings by two artists from Novosibirsk is worth seeing. It runs through March 8, 2026.
tmora.org/2025/09/12/t...
tmora.org/2025/09/12/t...
Two Siberian Artists at the End of the Soviet Era
TMORA presents forty paintings created by two Novosibirsk artists at the end of the Soviet epoch. Not a lot of art reaches the Western Hemisphere from Siberia. This remarkable collection was brought t...
tmora.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Minnesota folks: I visited The Museum of Russian Art yesterday for the first time, and their exhibition of paintings by two artists from Novosibirsk is worth seeing. It runs through March 8, 2026.
tmora.org/2025/09/12/t...
tmora.org/2025/09/12/t...
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Anyway, the point is this: writers can be very poor too. Writers in the global north can be remarkably poor. Cultural capital is not easily exchanged for economic capital, especially in this era of tech disparagement of the arts.
Think of the poorest American you can imagine. That can be a writer.
Think of the poorest American you can imagine. That can be a writer.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Anyway, the point is this: writers can be very poor too. Writers in the global north can be remarkably poor. Cultural capital is not easily exchanged for economic capital, especially in this era of tech disparagement of the arts.
Think of the poorest American you can imagine. That can be a writer.
Think of the poorest American you can imagine. That can be a writer.
every meme has its thorn
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
every meme has its thorn
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casaubon as a lovecraft protagonist who never actually encounters the blasphemous horrors
been enjoying Middlemarch as a novel about why you shouldn’t marry H.P. Lovecraft
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
casaubon as a lovecraft protagonist who never actually encounters the blasphemous horrors
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Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three is how I describe my new(ish) story collection & the more distance I get from publishing it the more I’m convinced that description fits: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three is how I describe my new(ish) story collection & the more distance I get from publishing it the more I’m convinced that description fits: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three is how I describe my new(ish) story collection & the more distance I get from publishing it the more I’m convinced that description fits: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three is how I describe my new(ish) story collection & the more distance I get from publishing it the more I’m convinced that description fits: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
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The reviews are in!
The Curators by Maggie Nye
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago
reviewed by Shannon Fay
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
reviewed by Ian J. Simpson
Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
#bookreviews
The Curators by Maggie Nye
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago
reviewed by Shannon Fay
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
reviewed by Ian J. Simpson
Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
#bookreviews
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The reviews are in!
The Curators by Maggie Nye
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago
reviewed by Shannon Fay
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
reviewed by Ian J. Simpson
Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
#bookreviews
The Curators by Maggie Nye
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago
reviewed by Shannon Fay
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
reviewed by Ian J. Simpson
Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
#bookreviews
At just 5k words with another 800 or so to go. Then a revision or two, and if all goes well, it'll go up on wmhenrymorris.com on Dec. 1.
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
At just 5k words with another 800 or so to go. Then a revision or two, and if all goes well, it'll go up on wmhenrymorris.com on Dec. 1.
walking is nice
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
walking is nice
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
Call me basic and belated, but I just listened to Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt for the first time, and I love it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Call me basic and belated, but I just listened to Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt for the first time, and I love it.
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You can doomscroll or you can make zines
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
You can doomscroll or you can make zines
_ In fact, this past May at the Google I/O developer conference, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that he thinks we might not need to render web pages at all in an agent-first world_
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
_ In fact, this past May at the Google I/O developer conference, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that he thinks we might not need to render web pages at all in an agent-first world_
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
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This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
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NBA Executives around a summoning circle working around the clock to prove that magic is real so they can cast Cure Light Wounds on all the players instead of having them play 1 less game a season
Shams: NBA launching league-wide biomechanics assessment program in attempt to reduce injuries moving forward.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
NBA Executives around a summoning circle working around the clock to prove that magic is real so they can cast Cure Light Wounds on all the players instead of having them play 1 less game a season
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
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_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
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more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
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_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_