Yeah I have a load of old paperbacks

Very fun if you can get them, James Bond without the misanthropy

Have you read the Modesty Blaise series?

Loads of fun and the author likes his characters, and the leads are on the right side

Period typical homophobia, mentions of rape and assault, but often manages to swerve the racism

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Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto, which is a super queer space opera heist

Edie landed up in prison due to betrayal by ex Angel, but now they're back together for one last job

Ocean's Eight in space if everyone was queer and PoC

Fluffy white cat with dark splodges nesting in grass

This one seems to be a different variety

I actually did her Guest of Honour interview at Eastercon a couple of weeks ago, we talked about how she tortures her characters!

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To be fair her latest one, The Vengeance, is not like that, it's much more of a romp

Believe all the trigger warnings from the front

Tell me what you think of Poet Empress, I have a lot of thoughts

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The Bookshop Below by Georgia Summers

I've only just started it but it has a sharp opening

Plus the bookshop magic explains that little street with all the bookshops off Charing Cross Road, I did always wonder

I love this book, it slowly built and snuck up on me

A white woman in a pink floral dress interviewing a white woman in a black dress with silver stars. We are both on stage seated in black armchairs

A white woman in a black dress with silver stars, gesticulating as she talks

A white woman in a pink floral dress interviewing a white woman in a black dress with silver stars. We are both on stage seated in black armchairs

I've been a fan of @emmanewman.bsky.social 's work since the Split Worlds came out, so it was a delight to be able to do her Guest of Honour interview yesterday at Eastercon

We talked about how she tortures her characters, writing neurodivergence, about hope in dark times, and much more #eastercon

Forthcoming Eastercons
Seated:
2027 - Glasgow
2028 - Birmingham
Bids:
2029 - Chester
2030 - Birmingham
2031? - Belfast

Good morning from Eastercon!

I'm rereading Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman, which is the start of a great series about the Fae in modern Britain and the humans who work for them (by choice or not) or against them

Gorgeous world and characters

Hello! I'm reading Vile Lady Villains by Danai Christopoulou, which is about Lady Macbeth and Klytemnestra being taken out of their stories and travelling with each other across a strange metafictional landscape

I got a review copy as I will be reviewing it for Ancillary Review of Books

We read this for Fantasy Book Club last week, sharply divided between people who adored it and people who didn't think it quite worked

But we all loved the ambition and chutzpah

A cartoon showing Tom Lehrer 's tombstone with pigeons, one of which is dead from a poisoned grain

RIP

Yeah, I love the Kingfisher books

Poet Empress is definitely the far end of the scale from those though!

Poet Empress does all of that but asks how far can it go, where is the line? If you understand the monster can you really forgive? Should you? How far will you go?

(The book has trigger warnings and you should definitely believe them)

The core of a lot of the Romantasy boom is fear of male power

He may be a dangerous violent war criminal and treat me horribly, but I'm special to him, he loves me and trusts me and anyway it's not his fault he had a terrible childhood and we should pity him really

I'm still thinking about Poet Empress

It's very much a Romantasy without the romance, and brought a lot of things in focus for me

Hello! Just started The Dirty Version by Turner Gable Kahn, in which the author of a beloved dystopian feminist sci fi novel fights the Hollywood dumbed down sexy film adaptation

Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit is mind-blowing space opera with amazing characters

Distortion field damnit

My schedule - SFF and the age of sail & the RJ Barker book club on Friday, interviewing Emma Newman and the Romantasy panel on Sunday, Writing in a collaborative universe on Monday

And here's my Eastercon schedule

Also my dragons will be in the art show, with prints on sale too

#eastercon
#eastercon2026
#iridescenceeastercon
#dragons

Really looking forward to interviewing you in the GoH slot!

But yeah probably tech don't have an invisibility distribution field yet

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Just started These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs, which is a space opera heist, I'm looking forward to it

Marine Science Fiction Writer Blacklisted for Comments On Islamic Center Instapundit and Ace of Spades have already talked about this a little bit, but they’re coming at it from the outside. This has been on my radar for a while, but it’s finally gotten to t…

Well, she tripped up pretty badly on Racefail

Ironically, I can only find the original quotes in this "defence", but you should get the idea

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I learned about it from Julian May, Galactic Millieu series!

Fantasy Book Club - Metal From Heaven by august clarke Come and meet us in a pub to have dinner and a drink and talk about this fascinating book

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Metal From Heaven by august clarke (deliberately not capitalised)

The elevator pitch is "Disaster Lesbians Against Capitalism" which is obviously catnip

Free book club meeting here, 17th March

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I think it does work for a 1950s/60s historical like Mad Men, but I agree it's it should be left there