The French also sensibly imposed a similar requirement

sum-e inkbrush painting of two hills, one smooth and one craggy, with a moon, blossoming tree branches, and petals blowing in the wind above them

The Stars that Rise at Dawn #audiobook part 7 (chapters 12 & 13) is here!

ch 12 (21 mins): vocaroo.com/1jhhXYa8JVek

ch 13: (26 mins): vocaroo.com/1avkmBTX6mRz

I have listened to Diablo Swing Orchestra's album "Swagger and Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole" an absolutely criminal amount of times while working on this book.

While outlining, though, the album of choice was Opeth's "Blackwater Park." No idea what this combination means.

THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling

Nighttime scene with stars in a dark blue sky, and two figures on a brick roof below, one leaning on the wall, the other lying on her back on the ground

Šehhinah #audiobook part 6 (chapters 9, 10, and 11)

9: vocaroo.com/146MOzCL4a49

10: vocaroo.com/1e6mcNbvzgFs

11: vocaroo.com/1eg9kVLLDJKf

Šehhinah #audiobook part 5 (chapters 7 and 8)

7: vocaroo.com/1kQKFygsuT4w

8: vocaroo.com/1mGZe0bbhhLr

Šehhinah audiobook part 4 (chapters 5 and 6)

5: vocaroo.com/15mvoKOMZrUN

6: vocaroo.com/1b2Nyi7WnSJA

a brown hued watercolor of a young man sitting in a corner of a library with one hand on a book on the bench next to him and one against his lips. To he right a woman in an afro peers at him while wringing her hands.

Šehhinah #audiobook chapters 3 (20 mins) and 4 (7 mins)! remarkable how much variation in not just pagecount but speed different chapters are.
vocaroo.com/15A2wMKdxV7L

vocaroo.com/1bnF5rf9RiKc

Drawing from years of reporting, "We Survived the Night" paints a portrait of contemporary Indigenous life alongside a reckoning between a father & son. Join us next week when Julian Brave Noisecat will be here to celebrate this new book from @aaknopf.bsky.social! Tix: NoiseCatBBS.eventbrite.com

I love.... emergent properties.....

excited to be a part of this sturgeon release tomorrow. our water quality team will be represented at Merwin’s Wharf 1-4pm and we’d love to see you there.

Spiderlight Audiobook on Libro.fm “Tchaikovsky nimbly takes the narration from horrific to humorous to epic and back again.”—Library JournalThis program is read by the author.Spiderlight is an exhilarating fantasy quest from Adrian Tc...

Definitely gonna give it a listen!
Here's a non-Audible link for those of us who've hated Amazon since they first came for our local bookshops.
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Merriam-Webster just added 5,000 words to their collegiate dictionary, including “petrichor,” “teraflop,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.”

a brown hued watercolor of a young man sitting in a corner of a library with one hand on a book on the bench next to him and one against his lips. To he right a woman in an afro peers at him while wringing her hands.

Šehhinah #audiobook chapters 3 (20 mins) and 4 (7 mins)! remarkable how much variation in not just pagecount but speed different chapters are.
vocaroo.com/15A2wMKdxV7L

vocaroo.com/1bnF5rf9RiKc

I like the Terraforming Mars board game but it always seems that I go for a corporation that does X, and then get cards that exclusively cater to every other letter of the alphabet. I'm like "I need solutions to generate power" and my entire science team are "Hey I just invented a tardigrade."

Honeyeater Toni Morrison once observed that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was”. Morrison was talking about writing, but her thinking was steeped in the fluvial, the tendency of rivers to reassert themselves in the face of human interference. As Morrison said, “ ‘floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering”.

Toni Morrison wrote that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was”. Morrison was talking about writing and the Mississippi, but she could easily have been talking about the creeks that flow through 'Honeyeater'. satpa.pe/Zo0OpGR

New Year (Rosh Hashanah) postcard. Leviathan, a giant fish, wrapped around the earth

Shanah Tovah and Gut Yontif, everyone!

h/t @shvlman.bsky.social for posting the Leviathan Rosh Hashanah postcard.

Just rewatched The Crow(1994) and wanted to draw Eric with his animal buddies. Very Disney Princess of him.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026 A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

Late pledges are open for 3 more days. Help us hit our first Stretch Goal to fund an extra issue of 3LBE in 2026. More stories, more nightmares! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Mapping NYC’s South Asian Sufi Renaissance Get to know the artists rewriting the rules of South Asian devotional music.

Get to know the artists rewriting the rules of South Asian Sufi devotional music.

a murky indistinct watercolor of a coffeeshop interior, with two people sitting on opposite sides of a table in the midground and a small stream edged with plants in the foreground

Another! I truly don’t know the best way to do these sorts of things on bsky, but here’s chapter 1
vocaroo.com/1dVVGD4oqsxP
and chapter 2
vocaroo.com/1bdcIqZhcqwy

a murky indistinct watercolor of a coffeeshop interior, with two people sitting on opposite sides of a table in the midground and a small stream edged with plants in the foreground

Another! I truly don’t know the best way to do these sorts of things on bsky, but here’s chapter 1
vocaroo.com/1dVVGD4oqsxP
and chapter 2
vocaroo.com/1bdcIqZhcqwy

What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.

I don’t know if We Lived On The Horizon by erika swyler would be considered not having enough attention or not, but it felt like it didn’t make the waves in the world that it did in my brain.

I’ve read a few fascinating essays on the topic of non-omnipotence/non-perfection of god in jewish texts, it’s a fascinatingly fertile topic imo. Definitely interested to know if you’d recommend this one when you finish!

watercolor aerial view of a reddish desert under a blue sky, city skyscrapers appear on the horizon and on a plateau in the foreground there is a parked motorcycle and two trails of smoke rising from the surface

And here’s my #audiobook version of the prologue of Šehhinah book 1, The Stars That Rise At Dawn! About 12 minutes. i’ll get through the series at an unspecified rate voca.ro/1mODI7pOTJyJ

New Breakcore is (Still) Badass The internet’s most undefinable genre just got more undefinable.

Breakcore is mutating. Meet the new monsters.

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Late pledges are up for one week with new rewards, and we hope to hit stretch goals so we can add even more issues and stories next year.

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