October 2021

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October 2021

Read:

Fiction:

• The Green Man's Challenge by Juliet E. McKenna (K)
• Scales and Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis (K)

 

Shorts:

•  A Guided Meditation for Pandemic Anxiety (As Approved by Our Lord Xanthalu) by Effie Seiberg (DSF)
• Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones (https://www.tor.com/2021/10/11/read-wait-for-night-by-stephen-graham-jones/)
• Seven Reasons your Blind Date is staring at the Mysterious Iron Ring on Your Hand by Dani Atkinson (DSF)
• Hidden in Her Wild Red Eyes by Dafydd McKimm (DSF)
• The Last Navigator by Marissa Lingen (DSF)
• SMALL MONSTERS by E. Lily Yu (https://www.tor.com/2021/10/20/small-monsters-e-lily-yu/)
• Emily and the What-if Imp by GWYNNE GARFINKLE (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/emily-and-the-what-if-imp/)
• Chocolate by Gwen Whiting (DSF)
• PINK UMBRELLA by TIM BOITEAU  (https://everydayfiction.com/pink-umbrella-by-tim-boiteau/)
• Obstructionby PAMELA RENTZ (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/obstruction/)

 

Poetry:

•  “The Wife of Usher’s Well” (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/04/poem-of-the-week-the-wife-of-ushers-well)

 

Non-Fiction:

•  Attachment bonds between domestic cats and humans by Kristyn R. Vitale, Alexandra C. Behnke, Monique A.R. Udell (https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31086-3)
• Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online by Huib Modderkolk (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/14/leave-no-trace-how-a-teenage-hacker-lost-himself-online)
• The Fable of the Gazelle by Max Gladstone (https://maxgladstone.substack.com/p/the-fable-of-the-gazelle)
• He’s a poet and the FBI know it: how John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem alarmed the Feds by Ralf Webb (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/18/john-giorno-dial-a-poem-returns-fbi-feds-instapoet)
• Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past by David Graeber and David Wengrow (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/19/unfreezing-the-ice-age-the-truth-about-humanitys-deep-past)
• Stitching Hope by Kamala Thiagarajan (https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/stitching-hope/)
• Lord of the Sommes by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/lord-of-the-sommes-72396664f4c0)
• Longthorpe Tower and how mediaeval audiences saw their world by Michael Smith  (https://unbound.com/books/werewolf/updates/longthorpe-tower-and-how-mediaeval-audiences-saw-their-world)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”:

•  Narrow (https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2021/09/29/narrow/)
• Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future (online from Glasgow  Uni)