Heads up:
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey is on US ebook sale for $2.
Farthing (Small Change Book 1) by @bluejo.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $2.
I got copies of each of those for random giveaway.
Racist asshole Larry Niven also has a book on sale, and I did not get any copies of it.
Broad blue empty river with a weatherbeaten boat waiting for its next rider.
Quiet view of the Rhein.
Two gondolas crossing on the canal, with palazzi behind
#SomethingBeautiful Venice, gondolas on the canal
Looking through a pointed arch at gondolas on a canal and palazzi on the other side, with red flowers in a windowbox in the foreground
#SomethingBeautiful Venice, gondolas, another photo I looked at a lot while writing Evwetbody's Perfect.
The bridge over the canal, a gondola, palazzi, water.
#SomethingBeautiful the Rialto bridge in Venice.
Both sides of a wide canal with a gondola and other boats, the water shining, palazzi on either side
#SomethingBeautiful Venice looking like a Canaletto.
It's the exact kind of thing people wouldn't believe.
The book "Trace Elements. Conversations on the project of Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer
I've never really been interested in manga/anime, but the "Mitfreude" essay by @adapalmer.bsky.social in her and @bluejo.bsky.social|s new essay collection is RIVETING!
(As is the whole book. After becoming a Jo Walton Ultra last year, I've been eagerly awaiting it and it does not disappoint.)
This month, @bluejo.bsky.social touches on Michael Chabon and mainstream lit, as well as Le Guin, Eco, and the latest from Kate Elliott. She also recommends three brand-new books that are finally out from Cameron Reed, John Chu, and Francis Spufford!
The water is shining, but the buildings on either side are dark. There are little boats tied up, and a palazzo in front
#SomethingBeautiful another "sidestreet" canal in Venice
A palazzo going right down to the water with wisteria growing on it, arched doorways, a gondola, green canal water, bright light in the distance.
#SomethingBeautiful Venice, looking down a "sidestreet" canal. (The subtext of all these Venice pics is softening people up to be able to picture the Serenissima in Everybody's Perfect, out from Tor in June. This is one I looked at a lot when writing.)
A spectrum of colours wash through a spectrum of faces--each one a Renaissance genius.
www.exurbe.com/lgbtqia-rean...
Ada Palmer on renaissance figures of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum
Review: EVERYBODY’S PERFECT by Jo Walton
Publishers Weekly: An exercise in elaborate worldbuilding, this ambitious outing from Hugo and Nebula Award winner Walton (Or What You Will) transports readers to the fantastical city of the Serenissima, “built on nothing but layers of magical mist and…
There is a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they are absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.
— Jo Walton
A round painting, with Mary in the middle and baby Jesus holding a pomegranate on her lap. Around are angels with fascinating faces.
#SomethingBeautiful Botticelli's Madonna of the Pomegranate. In the Uffizi.
My copy of Cameron Reed's WHAT WE ARE SEEKING arrived today, and the opening paragraph is everything @bluejo.bsky.social said it would be.
I can't tell you how excited I am for this book. I'd have to use interpretive dance—and while my hips don't lie, they do creak. A lot. Just take my word for it?
Venice, a canal curving, palazzi at the side with red and white striped poles
#SomethingBeautiful Venice. Those red and white striped poles are for gondola parking.
The fish is a magic fish with a magic healing liver! It's integral to the plot!
Renaissance painting, the angels and the boy are walking across a stony landscape, all angels have different coloured wings.
#SomethingBeautiful the archangel Raphael, Michael, and Gabriel, going for a walk with Tobias and his little dog. Renaissance painting by Botticini. From the Uffizi.
Photo of yellow and red tulip in flowerbed.
Fleur.
A narrow canal running between houses, boats tied up on each side, really showing how the canals are the streets and this one is a backstreet.
#SomethingBeautiful looking down a canal in Venice
A white mask with music on it, and a gold mask with a green garland, other masks behind, and a sign saying Mascgere Ca del Sol
#SomethingBeautiful a mask shop in Venice
Le premier astronaute de l’histoire à parler français à destination de la Lune : le Canadien Jeremy Hansen 🇨🇦
Little wooden blocks that make a church, on a shelf with a vase of paper daffodils and a marble Thorn Puller statue and part of School of Athens behind and various bits of Italian paper.
Happy Easter
Gondolas bobbing moored, on green water, behind is a row of palazzi in salmon and white
#SomethingBeautiful Moment of Venice: gondolas at the side of a canal
🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth
Thank you again for the lovely biro (everyone admires it.)
