bennett, to bookstodon
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downside of masto's particular set of affordances is I can't figure out who posted this, and who boosted it into my timeline. But thank you both!!

"Lester del Rey... intuited that what millions wanted from a publishing industry urgently optimizing to keep up with capitalism was to escape the modern age into a world where capitalism and industry had never happened. There is magic in that. At least I thought so, as a kid. But there’s also, in del Rey’s vision, a formulaic—let’s face it, industrial, rationalized—conception of culture and a pernicious nostalgia that courts sexism and white supremacy. Today, fantasy is, along with romance, our wildest, most flourishing genre. It might not be this way were it not for Lester del Rey, even if his legacy now is as the wizard so many writers and readers choose to battle against."

https://slate.com/culture/2023/10/lester-del-rey-invention-fantasy-book-publishing.html

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queerscifi, to lgbtqbookstodon
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QSFer Kelley York has a new MM queer dark fantasy out (bi, gay, lesbian): Into the Glittering Dark.

How do you control something that cannot be tamed? As magi apprentices, Everis and Wren have led a relatively peaceful life. But when the king dies under suspicious circumstances and...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-into-the-glittering-dark-kelley-york/

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SceNtriC, to ksiazki Polish
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Fani mitologii słowiańskiej poczują się tutaj jak w domu, ponieważ autorka zrobiła bardzo dobry research i umiejętnie wplotła poszczególne (satysfakcjonujące) stwory w opowieść, dodając też coś od siebie. Jeśli ktoś dodatkowo lubi tatrzańskie klimaty (ja nie) i/lub taniec (ponownie - ja nie), to będzie wniebowzięty. To jedna z bardziej spójnych pod kątem świata książek.

Jako opowieść jest to IMHO mariaż pomiędzy fantastyką, a gdzieniegdzie realizmem magicznym - dużo rzeczy płynie, świat doczesny przenika się z magicznym i... no właśnie, płynie. Brakowało mi tutaj czasem położenia na coś nacisku i lekki chaos, przez który nie mogłem się skupić. A skupić tutaj trzeba się mocno ze względu na trudniejszy niż zwykle język.

Tym niemniej, niezła pozycja.

Pełna opinia: https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/taniec-gor-zywych/opinia/79170833

@ksiazki

AdvaShaviv, to adhd Dutch
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Happy ! 🥳
My favorite lines of today from my :

~~
“Nice to meet you, Berman,” brightened the woman, looking kindly at the rest of them.

Berman huffed, rolled his eyes and was gone. Still there, physically—just a growling distance away—but safely enclosed within a refusal pose.
~~

I often wish I could do that, too, when I don't have enough mental energy to talk to new people.

Or to ones I already know.

Can you relate?...

@adhd

Firlefanz, to bookstodon
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Last day to grab some free books in Fantasy and SF. Yes, they are free to download from all stores. No email necessary.

Hop on over and stuff your eReader!

https://dashboard.bookfunnel.com/bundles/board/aqmwsfdk9n

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queerscifi, to lgbtqbookstodon
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Today's release: Sebastian Nothwell's MM historical fantasy Fiorenzo:

Fiore has a plan. Find a wealthy elderly gentleman, delight him until the end of his days, and retire on the inheritance. It’s the best outcome a low-born courtesan in the city of Halcyon can hope for...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-fiorenzo-sebastian-nothwell/

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Nike_Leonhard, to buechermachen German
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Was mich die Tage gefreut hat: Eine Freundin erzählte, dass sie einer Bekannten meine Märchensammlung als Reiselektüre mitgegeben hat. Zwei Tage später meldete die sich noch mal. Sie bräuchte eine neue Empfehlung, denn sie hätte den Fehler gemacht, vor der Abreise reinzulesen. "Und dann konnte ich nicht mehr aufhören. Da ist ja ein Märchen besser als das andere!"
@buchstodon @buechermachen

tinadonahuebooks, to bookstodon
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Literatopia, to buchstodon German
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von

„Die Stadt aus Messing“ vereint die Magie aus mit komplexer, historischer Fantasy, in der sich alte Konflikte neu entzünden. Diebin Nahri findet sich in Daevabad in einem Pulverfass wider, das bereits brennt und kurz vor der Explosion steht.

@buchstodon

https://www.literatopia.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27392:die-stadt-aus-messing-s-a-chakraborty&catid=62&Itemid=129

queerscifi, to lgbtqbookstodon
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Today's queer spec fic release: Eric Alan Westfall's eclectic MM collection 3 Gods, 2 Bets, 1 Texan:

A pair of competitive trickster gods strut into a Texas bar…and the Dragon King gives his seventh son an unknown Caravaggio for his hundredth hatchday. What could go wrong?

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-3-gods-2-bets-1-texan-eric-alan-westfall/

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queerscifi, to lgbtqbookstodon
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Today's indie author review! You Can Do Magic by R.L. Merrill:

"A very intense and emotional read... it's a good book, a love story between two guys brought together by the fates and other interferences, and some smiles and quite a few chortles."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2023/09/29/review-you-can-do-magic-r-l-merrill-2/

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slhuang, to random
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smol thread!

Do you ever do something as an author that's SO VERY CLEVER AND CHALLENGING and then

and then

nobody notices?

Y'all I wrote 1 of 5 POVs in a 3rd person book entirely without personal pronouns and I don't think anyone's mentioned it at all 🤣🤣🤣

slhuang,
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Why did I do it? Well when a book is "translation convention" from a language that doesn't gender pronouns --

and the group is genderdiverse-norm in the midst of a regressive society --

but there's no misgendering via pronoun or in-POV way to introduce neopronouns --

#TheWaterOutlaws
#language
#linguistics #fantasy #pronouns #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

slhuang,
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end of thread. here is the book btw!

my 150,000-word novel with one of the 5 third-person POVs written pronoun-less!

THE WATER OUTLAWS:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250180421/thewateroutlaws

plus yanno lots of swordfights 😆⚔️

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bogiperson, to shortstory
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HAVE YOU SEEN MY NEW COVER

Power to Yield and Other Stories, coming very soon from Broken Eye Books. Cover art by the inimitable Galen Dara!

Preorders (paperback and hardcover!) - https://www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c59/Power_to_Yield_and_Other_Stories.html#/

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MonadicBlurbs, to bookstodon
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Hey there!

Check out this recent review of my novel, Below the Heavens - JiangXi.

I have the entirety of the novel published on Royal Road for free. I'm actively publishing the second novel of the series as well! You can find the link to both in my bio.

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SceNtriC, to ksiazki Polish
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Powiem tak - nie jestem w stanie ocenić tej książki obiektywnie. Ma swoje wady, ale chłonąłem ją jak głupi, przypominając swoje dzieciństwo i to, jak nieuzbrojony w Internet łapałem wszystkie informacje o Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms oraz M:tG (choć nie o tym ostatnim jest ta książka, mimo że zawiera wzmiankę). Głównie działo się to przez gry wideo, ale fascynowały mnie nawet instrukcje do pierwszego BG (to były grube książeczki), zestawy kart, fanowskie artykuły, książki (chyba miałem nawet coś o Drizzcie) i wreszcie podręczniki gracza i bestiariusze do 3. edycji DnD. I chociaż nie grałem za długo w papierowe RPG-i i w sumie nie jestem aż takim fanem takiej rozrywki, to lubię o niej czytać i uważam, że można mnie zaliczyć do fanów światów fantasy, co teraz objawia się głównie w czytanych lekturach.

Co ciekawe, to wszystko działo się po wydarzeniach, które zostały opisane w tej książce, bo kończy się ona w 1997 roku. Ale nie zmienia to faktu, że zawiera tyle informacji, które uporządkowały mi historię i tyle razy przypomniałem sobie, że kiedyś nie miałem innych problemów jak np. zapoznawanie się z nowymi światami, że uważam, iż to lektura dla każdego fana RPG-ów. Docenią ją też ci, którzy lubią czytać o tym "wrednym kapitaliźmie", kiepskim prawie pracowniczym, a także podumać nad losem poszczególnych pracowników.

Pełna opinia: https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/upadek-smoka-tajemna-historia-dungeons-amp-dragons/opinia/79131406

@ksiazki

queerscifi, to lgbtqbookstodon
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Today's spec fic release: BL Jones' MM urban fantasy Drowning in Danger:

Sixteen years ago, Alex Nova defied the impossible and shook the world to its core. He made children into superhumans and, in doing so, made a villain out of himself. At age twenty, Rex Nova took the consequences...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-drowning-in-danger-b-l-jones/

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NickEast, to horrorbooks
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I support the portal theory of 'Is it Fantasy or is it Horror?'
As something else who enters through the portal, I support it! 😜

@fantasy @fantasybookstodon @horrorbooks @speculativefictioncomedy



oarditi, to bookstodon
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New on my blog is ‘Cheap Wine’, the first episode of my free grimdark fantasy serial, The Blackswords. It’s set in the same world as the novel I’m currently drafting, although it’s a very different kind of story. Enjoy, and please do tell me what you think.

https://oliverarditi.com/2023/09/28/the-blackswords-s1e1-cheap-wine/

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slhuang, to shortsff
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I just got on the sky app so I guess I need to post the same thread 3 places and see what happens For Science:

We have 3 days left in Hugo voting and ~

Why
@StrangeHorizons needs to win a Hugo!! THERE ARE SO MANY REASONS (a thread)


cc: @shortsff

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queerscifi, to lgbtqbookstodon
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Today's queer indie release: R.L. Merrill's MM rock ‘n roll fantasy/paranormal romance You Can Do Magic.

From the author of Foreword Indies Finalist Summer of Hush and BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist Brains and Brawn comes a new installment in the series...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-giveaway-you-can-do-magic-r-l-merrill/

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queerscifi, to lgbtqbookstodon
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Today's double indie author review! You Can Do Magic" by R.L. Merrill.

"Secrets, surprises, romance, betrayals and love... it often left me speechless, in a good way." --Linda

"A fascinating take on the Carnival of Mysteries. 5 stars." --Ulusses

https://www.queerscifi.com/double-review-you-can-do-magic-r-l-merrill/

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michaelshotter, to scifi
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We're less than a week away from the start of season 2, so now's a great time to catch up on any episodes you might have missed.

EPISODE 15 - OCTOBER 3RD, 2023!

YouTube:
http://youtube.com/@ThePostMortemReport

Official Site:
http://postmortemreport.com

@bookstodon @horror @scifi @scifi

NickEast, to writingcommunity
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A combined theme of previous fanart for my story made as a price for a writing contest. That turned out much better than I'd expected☺️

Credit to: https://www.wattpad.com/user/Jincymin

The Last Philosopher is a satirical high-fantasy story with heavy-handed attempts at humour.
It’s free to read. Available on Royalroad and Wattpad. Links are on my profile.

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