Timothy S. Miller
@timothysmiller.bsky.social
fantasy, science fiction, medieval studies, plants
he/him
unicorn book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
Earthsea book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1
he/him
unicorn book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
Earthsea book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1
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Quick reminder that, not only is Christmas around the corner, the deadline for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize is only six weeks away - 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
cfp | call for papers
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December 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Quick reminder that, not only is Christmas around the corner, the deadline for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize is only six weeks away - 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
Surreal experience: a quarter century or so after I'd always be asking my parents to buy me more Magic: The Gathering cards all the time, here I am saying "No, I'm not buying you more Magic: The Gathering cards" to my own twelve-year-old...
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Surreal experience: a quarter century or so after I'd always be asking my parents to buy me more Magic: The Gathering cards all the time, here I am saying "No, I'm not buying you more Magic: The Gathering cards" to my own twelve-year-old...
Somehow back down in the unicorn hole once again
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Somehow back down in the unicorn hole once again
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Proud to be sponsoring this event next summer.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Proud to be sponsoring this event next summer.
I have no idea what governs the price changes for my books even though I now co-edit the series they're published in, but for whatever reason the Beagle book is sitting at a much more affordable price at the moment: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn”
This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I have no idea what governs the price changes for my books even though I now co-edit the series they're published in, but for whatever reason the Beagle book is sitting at a much more affordable price at the moment: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Very disturbing to see that Grammarly itself now offers an "AI Humanizer" as one of its core services. Our university provides Grammarly subscriptions to students...
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Very disturbing to see that Grammarly itself now offers an "AI Humanizer" as one of its core services. Our university provides Grammarly subscriptions to students...
"Anyone with perfect posture was faking it, overcompensating for entrenched trauma."
October 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"Anyone with perfect posture was faking it, overcompensating for entrenched trauma."
Did kids these days still know about CliffsNotes? When I say "It's like the Cliffsnotes version of X," should I be saying something like "It's like the AI summary version of X"?
September 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Did kids these days still know about CliffsNotes? When I say "It's like the Cliffsnotes version of X," should I be saying something like "It's like the AI summary version of X"?
This is such a huge problem: I'm googling a quotation to find a page number, and the AI overview confidently produces total nonsense that would mislead students and others. (This is of course a quotation from noted Jung distiller China Miéville speaking to the subject of "Marxism and Fantasy.")
September 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is such a huge problem: I'm googling a quotation to find a page number, and the AI overview confidently produces total nonsense that would mislead students and others. (This is of course a quotation from noted Jung distiller China Miéville speaking to the subject of "Marxism and Fantasy.")
It was possibly a mistake to assign the entire Tales of Nevèrÿon, because now I just want to spend the entire semester talking about the series.
September 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It was possibly a mistake to assign the entire Tales of Nevèrÿon, because now I just want to spend the entire semester talking about the series.
What is going on in the world?
August 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
What is going on in the world?
I would give a copy of this book to everyone in my neighborhood but I think they already hate us enough:
www.bloomsbury.com/us/lawn-9798...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/lawn-9798...
Lawn
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landsc…
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June 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I would give a copy of this book to everyone in my neighborhood but I think they already hate us enough:
www.bloomsbury.com/us/lawn-9798...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/lawn-9798...
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A new experience: an undergraduate sending me a request for an article I never wrote based off a fake AI citation.
May 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A new experience: an undergraduate sending me a request for an article I never wrote based off a fake AI citation.
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Beautiful new medieval-themed issue of our UoM undergrad English Literature journal, with a foreword by me (doing my best to explain why medieval literature is worth studying): www.polyphonyjournal.com
Home | Polyphony
Polypghony
www.polyphonyjournal.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Beautiful new medieval-themed issue of our UoM undergrad English Literature journal, with a foreword by me (doing my best to explain why medieval literature is worth studying): www.polyphonyjournal.com
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After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵
Classes are done: we're closing so many browser tabs today.
April 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Classes are done: we're closing so many browser tabs today.
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The latest issue of EXTRAPOLATION has a bunch of great reviews, including my review of Matthew Sanger's AN INTRODUCTION TO FANTASY.
Check it out (or, if you don't have access, DM me for a copy!).
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Check it out (or, if you don't have access, DM me for a copy!).
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Reviews of Books | Extrapolation
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The latest issue of EXTRAPOLATION has a bunch of great reviews, including my review of Matthew Sanger's AN INTRODUCTION TO FANTASY.
Check it out (or, if you don't have access, DM me for a copy!).
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Check it out (or, if you don't have access, DM me for a copy!).
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Can it be true that the audiobook of @alexpheby.bsky.social 's Mordew doesn't include the glossary? Unconscionable! I almost want to write a journal article on the glossary by itself.
April 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Can it be true that the audiobook of @alexpheby.bsky.social 's Mordew doesn't include the glossary? Unconscionable! I almost want to write a journal article on the glossary by itself.
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Thanks to our contributors @grmorgan.bsky.social @timothysmiller.bsky.social @dretaylorpirie.bsky.social @nomad93.bsky.social @larsschmeink.bsky.social and many others. You can see the full table of contents here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Thanks to our contributors @grmorgan.bsky.social @timothysmiller.bsky.social @dretaylorpirie.bsky.social @nomad93.bsky.social @larsschmeink.bsky.social and many others. You can see the full table of contents here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
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You have two weeks left to nominate books for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
Nominations close March 31st.
Which books will join those shortlisted the last three years? (Yes, we fit them all in this picture.)
www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...
Nominations close March 31st.
Which books will join those shortlisted the last three years? (Yes, we fit them all in this picture.)
www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...
March 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
You have two weeks left to nominate books for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
Nominations close March 31st.
Which books will join those shortlisted the last three years? (Yes, we fit them all in this picture.)
www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...
Nominations close March 31st.
Which books will join those shortlisted the last three years? (Yes, we fit them all in this picture.)
www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...
"...it was less that they were two separate people and more that they were a single person with two different ways of being in the world, each of which both knew."
February 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"...it was less that they were two separate people and more that they were a single person with two different ways of being in the world, each of which both knew."
As a consequence of my desire to avoid doomscrolling lately, I feel I've only really been using this site when I'm self-promoting. So, to counter that trend, here is an out-of-context passage from a novel, which is how I used to post in the good old days of social media...
February 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
As a consequence of my desire to avoid doomscrolling lately, I feel I've only really been using this site when I'm self-promoting. So, to counter that trend, here is an out-of-context passage from a novel, which is how I used to post in the good old days of social media...
My Chaucer course just had a lovely visit with author Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com. What better way to talk about interactive fiction than interacting with the author?
February 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My Chaucer course just had a lovely visit with author Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com. What better way to talk about interactive fiction than interacting with the author?
I don't really know why (and when) my Wizard of Earthsea book sometimes costs much less, but the ebook version appears to be only $16.99 right now: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Ursula K. Le Guin’s
This introduction to Ursula K. LeGuin's
link.springer.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I don't really know why (and when) my Wizard of Earthsea book sometimes costs much less, but the ebook version appears to be only $16.99 right now: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...