July 2022

July 2022

Read:

 

Shorts:

•  You Always Have to Ask by Philip Apps (DSF)
• THE MORNING AFTER by PHIL ODDY (https://everydayfiction.com/the-morning-after-by-phil-oddy/)
• Critical Mass by Peter Watts (https://gizmodo.com/lightspeed-sci-fi-short-story-critical-mass-peter-watts-1849141915)
• The Life and Death of Atomic Tangerine by MICHELLE MUENZLER (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-life-and-death-of-atomic-tangerine/)
• Lena by qntm (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo or https://dump.cy.md/4042875593f06aa0cbe7722295831c10/Screenshot_2121-02-22%20MMAcevedo%20-%20Wikipedia.png)
• The Time Traveler by Pamela Horitani (DSF)
• The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H G Wells (http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/2865/)
• The Tempest in the Glasswork by Tarver Nova (DSF)

Poetry:

• Night Vision by Josie George (https://twitter.com/porridgebrain/status/1545477495931166724)
• Epilogue by Oliver Tearle (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/147446/posts/4122691356)
• Ahab in Rehab by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/poem-ahab-in-rehab-413cae41a3c1)

 

Non-Fiction: 

•  The non-drama that could become a real crisis by Chris Grey (https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-non-drama-that-could-become-real.html)
• Why Are So Many Fantasy Novels Published As Trilogies? by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/why-are-so-many-fantasy-novels-published-as-trilogies-d183b8bfa723)
• ‘A massive betrayal’: how London’s Olympic legacy was sold out by Oliver Wainwright (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/30/a-massive-betrayal-how-londons-olympic-legacy-was-sold-out)
• Promised land: how South Africa’s black farmers were set up to fail by Eve Fairbanks (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/south-africa-apartheid-land-reform-black-farmers-set-up-to-fail)
• ‘They got rid of our oak doors!’ – the story of Britain’s national property obsession in one housing chain by Tom Lamont (https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jul/09/story-britains-national-property-obsession-one-housing-chain?CMP=twt_b-gdnsaturday)
• The Tiffany Problem — When History Makes No Sense by Jennifer R. Povey  (https://medium.com/swlh/the-tiffany-problem-when-history-makes-no-sense-703b86522627)
• My Boris Johnson story by Jeremy Vine  (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-boris-johnson-story)
• Did Medium Succeed? by NATHAN BASCHEZ (https://every.to/divinations/did-medium-succeed)
• MBS’s $500 Billion Desert Dream Just Keeps Getting Weirder by Vivian Nereim (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mbs-neom-saudi-arabia/)
• ‘Vote me, get Thatcher’: why the Tories are still obsessed with the Iron Lady by Zoe Williams (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/21/vote-me-get-thatcher-why-the-tories-are-still-obsessed-with-the-iron-lady)
• ‘The deepest silences’: what lies behind the Arctic’s Indigenous suicide crisis by Hugh Brody (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/21/the-deepest-silences-what-lies-behind-the-indigenous-suicide-crisis)
• ‘Weird, wonderful’: rare dig at Arthur’s Stone writes new story of neolithic site by Steven Morris (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/22/weird-wonderful-rare-dig-at-arthurs-stone-writes-new-story-of-neolithic-site)
• ‘The deepest silences’: what lies behind the Arctic’s Indigenous suicide crisis by Hugh Brody (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/21/the-deepest-silences-what-lies-behind-the-indigenous-suicide-crisis)
•  ‘They couldn’t even scream any more. They were just sobbing’: the amateur investors ruined by the crypto crash by Sirin Kale (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/12/they-couldnt-even-scream-any-more-they-were-just-sobbing-the-amateur-investors-ruined-by-the-crypto-crash)
• ‘Thank the lord, I have been relieved’: the truth about the history of abortion in America by Tamara Dean (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/12/thank-the-lord-i-have-been-relieved-when-abortion-was-safer-than-childbirth)
•  Fragments of Fantasy by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/fragments-of-fantasy-b69c52dbf607)
• There Are Holes on the Ocean Floor. Scientists Don’t Know Why by Christine Chung  (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/science/holes-ocean-floor-mystery.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur)
•  Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater? by Jody Rosen (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/28/bicycle-graveyards-why-do-so-many-bikes-end-up-underwater)
• ‘Vote me, get Thatcher’: why the Tories are still obsessed with the Iron Lady by Zoe Williams (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/21/vote-me-get-thatcher-why-the-tories-are-still-obsessed-with-the-iron-lady)
•  Poisoned oaks, slain sycamores: who’s behind Britain’s tree murders? by Sam Wollaston (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/poisoned-oaks-slain-sycamores-whos-behind-britains-tree-murders)
•  I ordered an AI-generated perfume to learn how it interprets the world by Lidia Zuin (https://lidiazuin.medium.com/i-ordered-an-ai-generated-perfume-to-learn-how-it-interprets-the-world-111c11b29c8d)

 

Yeah, still the pandemic:

• Three myths about COVID-19 — and the biggest challenge that lies ahead by Professor Chris Goodnow (https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022-07-29/covid-19-three-myths-challenge-lies-ahead)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”/Attended:

•  Lunch@MJP@TheShepherds (celebrating LL's degree result)