January 2023

Read:

Fiction:

• The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter (reread)
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre (reread)
• The Jewel that Was Ours by Colin Dexter (reread)

 

Shorts:

• A Wish by Edoardo Albert (DSF)
• Inhuman by Eric S. Fomley (DSF)
• The Tintinnabulation at the End of the World: a Christmas Story by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/the-tintinnabulation-at-the-end-of-the-world-a-christmas-story-139d03aaf217)
• A Man Walks Into a Bar: In Which More Than Four Decades After My Father’s Reluctant Night of Darts on West 54th Street I Finally Understand What Needs to Be Done by SCOTT EDELMAN (https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-man-walks-into-a-bar-or-in-which-more-than-four-decades-after-my-fathers-reluctant-night-of-darts-on-west-54th-street-i-finally-understand-what-needs-to-be-done/)
• There Are No Butterflies on Proxima B by Kyle Robert Annasenz (DSF) THE LAST! :-(
• MI AMOR by RUBY ZEHNDER (https://everydayfiction.com/mi-amor-by-ruby-zehnder/)
• BLUE HYDRANGEA by KATHERINE SANKEY (https://everydayfiction.com/blue-hydrangea-by-katherine-sankey/)
• Glimpses in Amber by ADAM-TROY CASTRO (https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/glimpses-in-amber/)
• Rat King by S. M. Hallow  (https://crowcrosskeys.com/2022/12/24/rat-king-s-m-hallow/)

 

Poetry:

• The Secret of the Machines BY RUDYARD KIPLING (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46786/the-secret-of-the-machines)
• For You Were Strangers in Egypt by ELIZABETH R. MCCLELLAN (https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/for-you-were-strangers-in-egypt/)
• If Lear Wrote Carroll by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/if-lear-wrote-carroll-d02ea9e32eb1)
• As the Witch Burns by MARISCA PICHETTE (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/poetry/as-the-witch-burns/)
• Dog in Bed by JOYCE SIDMAN (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56332/dog-in-bed)

 

Non-fiction:

• Woddis, ‘The Soldier’ (1975) by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/woddis-the-soldier-1975-3c9795fba045)
• ‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts on an understaffed NHS ward by William Fear (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/05/nhs-hospital-ward-understaffed-12-hour-shifts-we-cant-even-get-basic-care-done)
• Wheel running in the wild by Johanna H. Meijer and Yuri Robbers (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2014.0210)
• Dungeons & Dragons’ New License Tightens Its Grip on Competition by Linda Codega (https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634)
• I wrote a story for a friend by Julian Gough (https://theeggandtherock.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-story-for-a-friend)
• How we fell under the spell of witcherature by Anya Bergman (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/06/how-we-fell-under-the-spell-of-witcherature)
• Disguising solar panels as ancient Roman tiles in Pompeii by Diego Giuliani (https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-disguising-solar-panels-ancient-roman.html)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré by Ian Sales (https://ian-93054.medium.com/the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-john-le-carr%C3%A9-16098223f8db)
• Engine Summer, John Crowley by Ian Sales (https://ian-93054.medium.com/engine-summer-john-crowley-fcf79159ff4b)
• The Land Beyond Spacetime: Dinosaurs and Cosmic Horror by Fletcher Wortmann (https://www.tor.com/2023/01/04/the-land-beyond-spacetime-dinosaurs-and-cosmic-horror/)
• No, sir, we’re afraid it is YOUR fault if our system doesn’t work by Alistair Dabbs (https://autosaveisforwimps.substack.com/p/no-sir-were-afraid-it-is-your-fault)
• Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as women, philosophers argue by Tom McClelland (https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/men-may-not-perceive-domestic-tasks-as-needing-doing-in-the-same-way-as-women-philosophers-argue)
• This Stripped-Down Blogging Tool Exemplifies Antisocial Media by CLIVE THOMPSON (https://www.wired.com/story/this-stripped-down-blogging-tool-exemplifies-antisocial-media/)
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s Life in Languages BY CAMERON RASMUSSON (https://multilingual.com/issues/october-2022/j-r-r-tolkiens-life-in-languages-inventing-and-adapting-the-lexicons-of-middle-earth/)
• Outlook? Terrifying: TV weather presenters on the hell and horror of the climate crisis by Sam Wollaston (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/outlook-terrifying-tv-weather-presenters-on-the-hell-and-horror-of-the-climate-crisis)
• Publishing ‘The Lord of the Rings’ by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/publishing-the-lord-of-the-rings-2b087b0c758e)
• Three years after Brexit, where is the new golden age that they promised us? by Andrew Rawnsley (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/22/three-years-after-brexit-where-is-the-new-golden-age-that-they-promised-us)
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/)
• The Scandinavian folk clothing right for now by Matilda Welin (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230110-the-scandinavian-folk-clothing-right-for-now)
• Learning styles don’t exist by Carl Hendrick (https://aeon.co/essays/the-evidence-is-clear-learning-styles-theory-doesnt-work)
• Otherlands author Thomas Halliday: ‘Some people have insisted on reading the book backwards’ by Killian Fox (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/28/otherlands-author-thomas-halliday-some-people-have-insisted-on-reading-the-book-backwards)
• ‘A lot of the demons seem a little cheesy now’: Sarah Michelle Gellar on Buffy, her burnout and her comeback by Elle Hunt (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/30/sarah-michelle-gellar-interview-wolf-pack-buffy)