Jonathan Laidlow
jonlaidlow.bsky.social
Jonathan Laidlow
@jonlaidlow.bsky.social
Cumbrian in Brum, writes a bit. Stories in Strange Horizons, Liminal Stories, StarshipSofa, Interzone and IZ Digital, and more. Codexian. Short fiction reviews at supernova.reviews, short fiction at jonlaidlow.com, webmaster & editor at ultan.org.uk
What do you mean you don't have an ebook of Last Dragoners, get it now from the Subterranean site!
This affects the ebook of my mythic realist novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. If you want to get the ebook, you can order it directly from the @subpress.bsky.social here. It's about a family who may be refugees from another reality, living in Calcutta.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It's true, I'm busy talking puffins with the corpse-dredger, the murderer, and PC Beak in Seaforth. But I did take the time to read this issue of Parsec and it's fabulous, as Alan says in his review. Why aren't you subscribing to Parsec? pspublishing.co.uk/parsec-79-c....
October 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A wonderful read, and a beautifully presented book too!
Just dropping this here again for anyone who's interested.
#giveaway
July 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Filling my current story with em-dashes (or en-dashes, I'm entirely unsure at this point) because that's the way the prose wants to be. If it was good enough for Sterne in Tristram Shandy (subject of my long abandoned attempt to become a Dr) then it's good enough for me!
July 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Bystanding (2018)

First published at Factor Four magazine 2018 Dave sits on the roof of the old Ford out by the farm gate with a beer. It hasn’t been a working farm for nearly a decade, but the yard and outbuildings were why he bought the place, and they’re filled with the broken-down vehicles he…
Bystanding (2018)
First published at Factor Four magazine 2018 Dave sits on the roof of the old Ford out by the farm gate with a beer. It hasn’t been a working farm for nearly a decade, but the yard and outbuildings were why he bought the place, and they’re filled with the broken-down vehicles he collects and occasionally repairs. The Ford Cortina, though, is beyond restoration, and with the engine stripped out it’s just a place for the kids to play, or for him to go sit with his thoughts in the night.
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July 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Alan reviews the latest edition of the excellent @shoreinf.bsky.social‬ - Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.
Shoreline of Infinity #39 (Summer 2025)
Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.  Alan reviews the latest Shoreline of Infinity
supernova.reviews
July 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Random literary ramble post about how an idea can travel. In Gene Wolfe's Book of the Short Sun (2000) we meet the inhumi of Green, shapeshifting aliens that take on the characteristics of their prey in order to impersonate them and get close enough to feed...
July 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Andrew’s story is brilliant! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Let me put it this way: Have you ever read a Malaysian retelling of Cupid and Psyche that features Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" and Malay hair metal music?
What if Psyche was a Gen-X Malaysian transplanted from her home because of an otherworldly visitation? What if there were a race of Cupids? Read on to find out more in this mythic fantasy with cozy vibes, found family and dark academia overtones.

mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... 🧜‍♀️ 💙 📚

#BookSky
May 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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PodCastle is very proud to join in celebrating Disability Pride Month with Disability Pride & Magic: a month of fantastic stories centering disabled characters and experiences.

See announcement on our website: podcastle.org/2025/06/30/d...
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Issue 42 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/

Six new stories in text and audio formats, and reviews too!

Many thanks to @SeanMacKendrick.bsky.social, Cheryl Ntumy, Anna Ziegelhof, Travis Ezell, Charlie Winter, Josh Pearce, @faceyouhate.bsky.social, and Micah Hyatt on voice!
June 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Republishing an old story as I rebuild my website - this is "Inundated" a fantasy which is my Mum's favourite. It was also a Far Fetched Fable podcast. It was sold to Ecotones - an original small press anthology - and it was my first sale.
Inundated (2015)
 Yuri woke up to the sound of waves breaking at the end of the street, and knew that the undines had breached the final defences. Even his house, one of the furthest from the harbour, would be theirs once again, like the rest of the city. He had slept in the upper bedroom and now looked out into the morning, surveying the city.
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June 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
While avoiding writing more of the puffin story, I thought I'd revisit an old draft of a near future short that I really liked. Oh. Nope! I don't think that's fixable! What about this story about aliens and sandwiches....
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The puffins will have their revenge....
June 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A memory-wiped mermaid-siren rehearsing for her storyteller exams tries to piece together events from the past, present and future while around her wars between merkingdoms are fomenting. 🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♂️

Check out Watermyth!

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December 29, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Am going to celebrate #Bloomsday by putting on the audiobook of Ulysses read by Jim Norton (Father Ted's Bishop Brennan) that I bought three Bloomsdays ago and and have still failed to complete... (not because he's not bloomin' marvellous, I might add). The failure is mine...
June 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Today is the last day for Plott Hound's summer submission period! Slip those animal stories, poems and essay pitches through the dog door before midnight MST.
June 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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There’s still time to grab your ticket for this brilliant workshop with @bonabooks.bsky.social. Tomorrow, June 16th at 7pm. Tickets are £5 for BFS members and £10 for non-members

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Writing Queer People, Editing Queer People – a Workshop with Bona Books – The British Fantasy Society
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June 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@interzone.press issue 302 has dropped but I’m behind! Here’s my review of the previous issue over at my side project, Supernova…
June 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Gull from Seaforth likes his chips green and his sausages fishy... This next Seaforth tale that I'm working on may become a novelette or even a novella...
June 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Hello I did my first trope map did I do it right?

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💙 📚 #Booksky #Romancelandia #Mermaids #writingcommunity
June 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Back to my reviewing side project. I looked at the backlog of short fiction to review and thought, I know – I'll review a novella!
June 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Mythaxis #41 – Spring 2025

Some strong stories in the latest edition of Mythaxis.
Mythaxis #41 – Spring 2025
Some strong stories in the latest edition of Mythaxis.
supernova.reviews
May 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM