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I'm Oliver Arditi, a fantasy worldbuilder, conlanger, and storyteller, working my way towards publication. #writing #reading #fantasy #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #conlangs

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Just finished this on the train to that London for the BSFA winter social. It’s an exciting, well constructed, Wuxia inspired fantasy thriller, in a gorgeous Daphne Press edition I won in a raffle at Fantasycon!
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I don’t normally enjoy children’s books, but this cosmic, Blakeian fantasy about race, freedom, creativity and spirituality is pretty mind blowing!
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This is both a very readable introduction to, and a fascinating systematic taxonomy of spec-fic genres. Fun to read and very informative.

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Episode 3 of my free grimdark fantasy series ‘The Blackswords’ is now available on my website. Join our intrepid antiheroes in a frantic dash for the docks to board a ship to safety. (Link in bio).
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Jack Vance’s ‘Tales of the Dying Earth’ is hugely influential (a whole sub-genre is named for it), but more to the point, it’s a hilarious and entertaining read.
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This is a wonderfully pragmatic approach to the language wrangling that writers have to do! Putting it into the mouths of some characters makes it even better.
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I picked this up at Fantasycon to see whether I wanted to subscribe. It’s superb! It’s hard to pick a single standout story, but I loved ‘The Alien Invasion’ by Ely Percy, and ‘Space’ by John Buchan (‘author of ‘The 39 Steps’). @shorelineofinfinity #sf #sciencefiction #shortstories #bookstodon @bookstodon

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Here’s a typically sour but perceptive Wrey Gardiner quote. Almost every sentence in that book is an epigraph!
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I’ve just finished this gorgeous novella by Priya Sharma. Very complex in all the good ways, and transparently simple in all the beautiful ones.
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Available now on my blog is ‘Lights Out’, the second 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/2023/10/29/the-blackswords-s1e2-lights-out/

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The heart of this collection is an excoriating and hilarious satirical novella about the post-war American comics industry, but my favourite was ‘Hypothetical Lizard’, a stunningly beautiful queer secondary-world fantasy.
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This wonderful quote from one of my favourite authors is a devastating rejoinder to all the revenge/power fantasies that tend to pass for excitement in fiction…
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Delivered by Signor Postino while I was at work today: a treat I got myself (Niall Harrison‘s book of reviews) and birthday gifts from my dear friend, the lovely Al Lindsay
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I re-read this after 35 years—and found it to be action-packed, baroque, philosophical, freakishly inventive, and utterly hilarious.
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@katrintheresa @bookstodon I re-read it because I’m on a mission to read all of Moorcock’s ‘Eternal Champion’ books in order—some I’ve never read before, but many I read as a teenager.

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My reading among the Baroque and Arabo-Norman palazzi of Palermo. Clear, balanced, informative, and incredibly broad for such a concise book.
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This quotation, written in the context of a discussion of language in worldbuilding, helps me to understand why I find it necessary to construct languages myself.
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We found this Italian translation of Tolkien’s ‘Tree and Leaf’ in our Airbnb in Palermo.
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This is a sumptuous piece of linguistic worldbuilding, that explores the relationship between subjectivity and collectivity, through well-imagined characters and exciting plotting.
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@SallyStrange @bookstodon Haha totally failed to upload the photo 🤣

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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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A beautifully stated observation from a game whose rules are a work of literature in their own right.
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@grenra_solarium @bookstodon It’s this game: https://thornygames.com/pages/dialect

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The dedication of the book I’ve just started reading. By an insane coincidence, today (September 26) is the anniversary of the day Stanislav Petrov saved the world. Bonus points if you tell me what book it is!
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This doesn’t always convince, especially the dialogue, but the language is powerful, and the storytelling is beautifully mysterious (I’m talking about the book, not the chana masala).
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This was our turnout for the inaugural meeting of Eastworlds, the East Anglian science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction society. Come along to the next one and find your people!
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