July 2024

Read:

Fiction:

Shorts:

Non-fiction:

Painting and Sculpture: a Speculative Cultural History by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/painting-and-sculpture-a-speculative-cultural-history-b8cb8258bd7c)
‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s by Michael Aylwin (https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jul/09/how-alzheimers-undid-my-dazzling-creative-wife-in-her-40s)
Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world by Mark Miodownik (https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/04/revolution-in-the-air-how-laughing-gas-changed-the-world)
The Dead-Eyed Rich by George Monbiot (https://www.monbiot.com/2024/07/25/the-dead-eyed-rich/)
My family and other Nazis by Martin Pollack (https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/my-family-and-other-nazis)
Simple Weave: Weave without a large loom by Kerstin Neumuller
Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project by Richard Speed (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/16/jon_kern/)

Poetry:

Visited:

From:

armb

I meant to link this last month, and you've probably seen it and the linked online stories, but in case:
https://locusmag.com/2024/06/2023-nebula-awards-winners/

And from a session today in Glasgow:
https://www.sfcaledonia.scot/

I find things and then forget about them, so even duplicate recommendations are welcome.

You might enjoy this:
https://giganotosaurus.org/2023/10/01/on-the-english-approach-to-the-study-of-history/

I know I was reading it waiting for the dealers' room to open, but can't remember for sure where it was linked from - probably Discord.

Between blotch and blok