muninnhuginn | Entries tagged with 2017 read

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Shorts

- Attrib.: by Eley Williams (K)

- A christmas story. Be careful what you ask for, especially if you have dodgy handwriting by opusanglicanum (https://opusanglicanum.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/a-christmas-story/)

- You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison (K)

- Bethany on Jura by William Boyd (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/24/bethany-on-jura-original-short-story-by-william-boyd-george-orwell)

- The Do-Over by Jacob A. Boyd (DSF)

- Childished by jez patterson (DSF)

- Improbable Botany, ed. Gary Dalkin (K, kickstarted)

Fiction

- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (K)

Non-Fiction

- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/08/shaken-baby-syndrome-war-over-convictions

- http://www.history.com/news/the-delusion-that-made-nobles-think-their-bodies-were-made-of-glass

- Charlotte Wood: We’re told female anger is finding its moment. But I can’t trust it (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/18/charlotte-wood-were-told-female-anger-is-finding-its-moment-but-i-cant-trust-it)

- The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots by Katherine Davis-Young (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/khipus-inca-empire-harvard-university-colonialism.amp)

- The King is Dead by Nancy Jane Moore (http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2017/12/07/the-king-is-dead/?doing_wp_cron=1512737945.5262739658355712890625)

- Don’t Diss Dystopias by Ramez Naam (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/09/neal_stephenson_hieroglyph_in_defense_of_dystopian_science_fiction.html)

- Seamus Heaney: The Christmas card maker by Freya McClements (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/seamus-heaney-the-christmas-card-maker-1.3330340?mode=amp)

- THE DATA THAT THREATENED TO BREAK PHYSICS by Ransom Stephens (http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-data-that-threatened-to-break-physics-rp?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication)

- The Bitcoin Paradox BY SIMON DEDEO (http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-bitcoin-paradox?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=the-bitcoin-paradox)

- Does Survival of Cryptocurrency Technology Depend on Human Emotion? by Amanda B. Johnson (https://gigaom.com/2017/12/28/does-survival-of-cryptocurrency-technology-depend-on-human-emotion/)

- Charlie Stross: Bitcoin should die in a fire (https://boingboing.net/2013/12/19/charlie-stross-bitcoin-should.html)

- Designing for Blockchain (https://medium.com/emerson-stone/designing-for-blockchain-f0e8c25997bd)

- 'The difficulty is the point': teaching spoon-fed students how to really read by Tegan Bennett Daylight (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/24/the-difficulty-is-the-point-teaching-spoon-fed-students-how-to-really-read)

Knit
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- Secret Santa hat for work
- Socks (boring, afterthough heels, bright colours)

Read:

Shorts

- KODOKUSHI by JENNIFER HARVEY (https://everydayfiction.com/kodokushi-by-jennifer-harvey/)

- The Bitten Body by A. C. Spahn (DSF)

-IF THE SHOE FITS by ROBIN JOY WIRTH (https://everydayfiction.com/if-the-shoe-fits-by-robin-joy-wirth/)

- Emergency Scenarios by Kelly M Sandoval (DSF)

- Gralgash of Varn by Jessica Freely (DSF)

- Fig Prince by Eric Horwitz (DSF)

- Bitter Grounds by Neil Gaiman (https://www.tor.com/2017/10/31/reprints-neil-gamain-bitter-grounds-2/)

- Snow, Blood, Fur by Theodora Goss (DSF)

- INK OF THE GODS BY OLIVIA BERRIER (DSF)

- Stealing Tales by Mari Ness (DSF)

- The Mysterious Mauling by A. C. Spahn (DSF)

- The Unsubtle Sphinx by A C Spahn (DSF)

- The No-Sick Box by Philip Apps (DSF)

Fiction

- Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel by Patrick deWitt (WBC)

- Accelerando by Charles Stross (K)

Non-Fiction

- Novelist and Documentarian John Crowley Talks H.G. Wells and Movies: The Sleeper Awakes and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis by John Crowley (https://www.tor.com/2017/11/02/h-g-wells-at-the-movies-john-crowley/)

- The Last of the Iron Lungs by Jennings Brown (https://gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-iron-lungs-1819079169)

- How the sandwich consumed Britain by Sam Knight (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain)

Read:
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Shorts:
- LOOKING AT EAKINS BY DAVID MACPHERSON (https://everydayfiction.com/looking-at-eakins-by-david-macpherson/)
- Crispin’s Model by Max Gladstone (https://www.tor.com/2017/10/04/crispins-model/)
- The Eternal Army by M.K. Hutchins (DSF)
- The Interrogation by Kelly Jennings (DSF)
- Automaton by Matt Handle (DSF)
- A Cost-Effective Analysis for the De-Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth by Ronald D Ferguson (DSF)
- Eyelet You Go by H. L. Fullerton (DSF)
- A Dragon's Nature by Floris M. Kleijne (DSF)
- Glass by Adam Dean (DSF)
- He Stole More Than Christmas by Mark Darby (DSF)
- ENGLAND EXPECTS by GEORGE HAMILTON (https://everydayfiction.com/england-expects-by-george-hamilton/)
- Astronauts Can't Touch You by Carlie St. George (DSF)
- Sun, Moon and Talia by Giambattista Basile (http://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2012/05/sun-moon-and-talia-by-giambattista.html)
- ZeroS by Peter Watts (https://www.tor.com/2017/10/11/reprints-zeros-peter-watts/)
- The Lies I've Told to Keep You Safe by Matt Dovey (DSF)
- The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter by Sam J. Miller (https://www.tor.com/2017/10/18/the-future-of-hunger-in-the-age-of-programmable-matter/)
- Tiny Terrors: Fifty Word Increments of Horror by Sarina Dorie (DSF)
- ‘Fox 8’ by George Saunders (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/21/george-saunders-fox-8-short-story-man-booker-prize-lincoln-bardo)
- The Broken Thing by Michael S Panetta (DSF)
- Someone Is Wrong on the Internet! by Sean Dornan-Fish (DSF)
- The First by Paul McAuley (https://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-first.html)
- SCARLET WOMAN BY FIONA HONOR HURLEY (https://everydayfiction.com/scarlet-woman-by-fiona-honor-hurley/)
- VORAREPHILIA VAMPIRICA by BENJAMIN LOGAN MILLER (https://everydayfiction.com/vorarephilia-vampirica-by-benjamin-logan-miller/)

Novels:
- The Furthest Station: A PC Grant Novella by Ben Aaronovitch (K)
- The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M Harris (K)
- The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima (WBC)
- The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
- Strange Meeting by Susan Hill (K)

Knit:
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Eyeballs
Pumpkin

Sewed:
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Pear

Read:
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Shorts:
- Doomsday by Peter Wood (https://everydayfiction.com/doomsday-by-peter-wood/)
- Last by Willian Shunn (https://seat14c.com/future_ideas/42E)
- Creation Myth by Paul Starkey (DSF)
- The Winter Gardener by Sean Williams (DSF)
- Thank You for Your Service by Steve Zisson (DSF)
- Starr Striker Should Remain Capitol City's Resident Superhero, by Keisha Cole, 10th Grade Student
by Amanda G Helms (DSF)
- Metal and Flesh by Marie Vibbert (DSF)
- GOLDEN MORNING by DAN METZGER (https://everydayfiction.com/golden-morning-by-dan-metzger/)
- TO PARIS AT 2:00 A.M. • BY STEVEN MCBREARTY (https://everydayfiction.com/to-paris-at-200-am-by-steven-mcbrearty/)
- AFTERMATH • BY A. ELIZABETH HERTING (https://everydayfiction.com/aftermath-by-a-elizabeth-herting/)
- THE QUEEN’S ROSES • BY CONNOR MURNION (https://everydayfiction.com/the-queens-roses-by-connor-murnion/)

Novels:
- Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (The Cthulhu Casebooks) by James Lovegrove (K)
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (K)
- Fatherland (25th Anniversary Edition) by Robert Harris (K)
- The Boolean Gate (Dead Romantics) by Walter Jon Williams (K)

Knit:
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Mr French's Famous Cab Chase (it's my hat project and I'll call it what I like!)

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Shorts:
- They Have Been at a Great Feast of Languages, and Stol'n the Scraps (by Robert Bagnall) (DSF)
- The Sinner by Marge Simon (DSF)
- Search History by KT Bryski (DSF)
- The Practical Guide to Punching Nazis by Alex Shvartsman (DSF)
- Welcome by Liam Hogan (DSF)
- The Stargirl and the Potter by Jason Erik Lundberg (DSF)
- Masterclass by Cassandra Khaw (DSF)
- Spooky Action at a Distance by Paul Celmer (DSF)
- She Missed Her Chance. by C.J. Maloney (DSF)
- Qibla by Aaron Matthew Walter Knuckey (DSF)
- Spores of Freedom by Jakob Drud (DSF)
- There is a Dimension, I'm Certain of It by April Coan (DSF)
- Hero by Davian Aw (DSF)
- Ballgown Road by Melissa Mead (DSF)
- The Wizard of Wall Street by John Rhea (DSF)
- INCORRUPTIBLE by PETER WATTS (https://seat14c.com/future_ideas/37D)
- The Martian in the Wood by Stephen Baxter (http://www.tor.com/2017/08/02/the-martian-in-the-wood/)
- Rock Paper Scissors by by Brenda Joyce Anderson (DSF)
- We were Goblins by Justin Allen Berg (DSF)
- Paper Hearts by Lynette Mejia (DSF)
- Sixteen Hours by Ken Altabef (DSF)
- A Brief History by Kenneth P Regan Jr. (DSF)
- A Picnic on the Beach by Owen Archlimb (https://everydayfiction.com/a-picnic-on-the-beach-by-owen-archlimb/)
- Doing a Dyno by Robert Douglas Friedman (https://everydayfiction.com/doing-a-dyno-by-robert-douglas-friedman/)
- Will Today be a Good Day? by Helen Combe (https://everydayfiction.com/will-today-be-a-good-day-by-helen-combe)

Novels:
- The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams (K)

Non-fiction:
- The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building by David J. Peterson (K)

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Shorts:
- I Am David's by Damara Dianne (DSF)
- Maybe a Valley by Peter A Schaefer (DSF)
- Who Wants to Live Forever? by Michael Haynes (DSF)
- Last To Know by Leanne A. Styles (DSF)
- The Ivory Hummingbird by Caroline M. Yoachim (DSF)
- If You Build A Robot by Lawrence Allan Pontius (DSF)
- 15 Things You Should Know Before You Say Yes by Michelle Ann King (DSF)
- Pherobomb by Rich Larson (DSF)
- Futures by David Beyt (DSF)
- To the Girl Staring at her Phone by Rebecca Bartels (https://everydayfiction.com/to-the-girl-staring-at-her-phone-by-rebecca-bartels/)
- My Ribs a Cage by Marissa Harwood (DSF)
- 13 Ways to Detect Vampires Online by Luc Reid (DSF)
- Border by Nancy Manchec (DSF)
- Craft Project by Lindsey Duncan (https://everydayfiction.com/craft-project-by-lindsey-duncan/)
- Building a Bridge Too Vast to Cross by Caroline M. Yoachim (DSF)
- The Human I Never Was by Jeremy Szal (https://everydayfiction.com/the-human-i-never-was-by-jeremy-szal/)
- These Deathless Bones by Cassandra Khaw (http://www.tor.com/2017/07/26/these-deathless-bones/)
- The Egress by M. J. Pettit (DSF)
- Red by Ramsey Shehadeh (http://www.tor.com/2017/05/24/red/)
- The Art of Asterculture by Sarah Gailey (http://www.tor.com/2017/05/10/the-art-of-asterculture/)
- A Web of Vice by Brandon Fife (https://everydayfiction.com/a-web-of-vice-by-brandon-fife/)
- Marcher by Chris Beckett (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/marcher/)
- What Goes Up by JT Gill (https://everydayfiction.com/what-goes-up-by-jt-gill/)

Novels:
- Glow by Ned Beauman (WBC)
- One Night @ the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat (K)

Non-fiction:
- SCIENTISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM (IN HONOUR OF JERRY COYNE) (http://www.thewormbook.com/hlog/?p=2295)
- 'It was quasi-religious': the great self-esteem con by Will Storr (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/quasi-religious-great-self-esteem-con))
- Intelligence in the flesh by Professor Guy Claxton (https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/intelligence-flesh)
- Google Glass is back from the dead, and changing the face of manufacturing by Rich Haridy (http://newatlas.com/google-glass-enterprise-edition/50541/)

Current Music: Passenger-The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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Shorts:
- Artist of Love by JT Gill (https://everydayfiction.com/artist-of-love-by-jt-gill/)
- The Promise you Brought by Paul Alex Gray (https://everydayfiction.com/the-promise-you-brought-by-paul-alex-gray/)
- All Miracles Fifty Percent Off by Addison Smith (DSF)
- THE ONCE BLUE HORIZON by JOACHIM HEIJNDERMANS (https://everydayfiction.com/the-once-blue-horizon-by-joachim-heijndermans/)
- EYEBLINK IN BENGHAZI by CARL STEIGER (https://everydayfiction.com/eyeblink-in-benghazi-by-carl-steiger/)
- Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise (DSF)
- New Year's Resolutions 2087 by Mark Cowling (DSF)
- STAGE IIB: ANGER by SHELLEY BERG (https://everydayfiction.com/stage-iib-anger-by-shelley-berg/)
- The Blue Unicorn by Bruce McAllister (DSF)
- Velveteen Rose by Claire Simon (https://digitalculturist.com/velveteen-rose-84a61ec8c8ee)
- Silenced by Melissa Mead (DSF)
- Uber by Sean Williams (DSF)
- Analog Signals by Shawn Proctor (DSF)
- Dragon Lady by S1imon Barker (https://everydayfiction.com/dragon-lady-by-simon-barker/)
- Radio Waves by Icy Sedgwick
- The Undertakerby Sarah Martin (http://www.nycmidnight.com/Competitions/SSC/Stories/TheUndertaker.htm)
- Mad Lib by Sean Vivier (DSF)

Novels:
not a one this month

Non-fiction:
- ‘Kill them, kill them, kill them’: the volunteer army plotting to wipe out Britain’s grey squirrels by Patrick Barkham (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/02/kill-them-the-volunteer-army-plotting-to-wipe-out-britains-grey-squirrels)
- 'They were entwined': the twins found at Dover's white cliffs by Jenny Kleeman (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/10/they-were-entwined-the-twins-found-at-dovers-white-cliffs)
- The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning by Matthew Shaer (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/magazine/the-long-lonely-road-of-chelsea-manning.html)

Read:
Shorts:
- The Opposite of the Big Bang by Nathan J. Bezzina (DSF)
- Sexbot Sunday Jigsaw Puzzle by Leslie J. Anderson (DSF) -- didn't live up to its title :-(
- Clickbait for Paranormals: Six Amazing Secrets from a Ghost's Guide to Getting Ghouls by Sarina Dorie (DSF)
- Nothing Between the Stars by R.W.W. Greene (DSF)
- Sweetlings by Lucy Taylor (http://www.tor.com/2017/05/03/sweetlings/)
- The Simulacra by Lavie Tidhar (https://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/the-simulacra/)
- Innsmouth Legacy: “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys (http://www.tor.com/2017/04/24/innsmouth-legacy-the-litany-of-earth/)
- The Librarian by Kat McNichol (https://everydayfiction.com/the-librarian-by-kat-mcnichol/)
- Fears Like Kafka by Chris Vander Kaay (https://everydayfiction.com/fears-like-kafka-by-chris-vander-kaay/)
- Snail Mail by Steven Fischer (DSF)

Novels:
- Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss (WBC May)

Non-fiction:
- The Multiverse As Muse by Jordana Cepelewicz (http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/the-multiverse-as-muse))
- Overwatch Incest 'Shipping Tests The Limits Of What's Permissible In Fandom by Gita Jackson (http://kotaku.com/overwatch-incest-shipping-tests-the-limits-of-whats-per-1795102769)
- Here's How Much Tesla's New Solar Roof Could Cost by Daniel DiClerico (http://www.consumerreports.org/roofing/heres-how-much-teslas-new-solar-roof-shingles-could-cost/)
- The 6 Most Surprising, Important Inventions From World War I by Simone M. Scully (http://nautil.us/blog/-the-6-most-surprising-important-inventions-from-world-war-i)
Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions by Edward R. Tufte (https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index)

Knit:
- It's Blue not Grey! hat

Read:
Shorts:
- Spring by Julia Robinson (https://everydayfiction.com/spring-by-julia-robinson/)
- All our Bodies in the glass by Rob Francis (https://everydayfiction.com/all-our-bodies-in-the-glass-by-rob-francis/)
- Angels at the Border by Ian Rennie (http://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2017/angels-at-the-border-ian-rennie/)
- Dancing in the Void by Kip Hanson (https://everydayfiction.com/dancing-in-the-void-by-kip-hanson/)
- Falling by Leanne A Styles (https://everydayfiction.com/falling-by-leanne-a-styles/)

Novels:
- The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (K)
- The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin (K)
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin (K)

Non-fiction:
- We need to be more imaginative about modern marriage by Jeanette Winterson (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/08/jeanette-winterson-marriage-monogamy-wedding)

Knit:
- a few hexipuffs
- spun, and plied, a little almost laceweight with the tiddly drop spindle

Read:

Shorts:

- Charity Ball by Gary Cuba (https://everydayfiction.com/charity-ball-by-gary-cuba/)

- Why we hear better when we shut our eyes by Kate Glahn (https://everydayfiction.com/why-we-hear-better-when-we-shut-our-eyes-by-kate-glahn/)

- A Package for Ms. B. by Justin Hoo (https://everydayfiction.com/a-package-for-ms-b-%e2%80%a2-by-justin-hoo/)

Novels:

- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (WBC March)

- Hary Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling

Non-fiction:

- Three days with The Dice Man: ‘I never wrote for money or fame' by Tanya Gold (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/three-days-dice-man-never-wrote-money-fame-tanya-gold)

- Silkworms Spin Super-Silk after Eating Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene by Prachi Patel (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silkworms-spin-super-silk-after-eating-carbon-nanotubes-and-graphene/)

- George Saunders: what writers really do when they write (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write)

"What a pleasure that is; to be, on the page, less of a dope than usual."

- Observation of a discrete time crystal by J. Zhang, P. W. Hess, A. Kyprianidis, P. Becker, A. Lee, J. Smith, G. Pagano, I.-D. Potirniche, A. C. Potter, A. Vishwanath, N. Y. Yao & C. Monroe (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7644/full/nature21413.html)

- Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as art by Lucy Mangan (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/10/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-at-20-the-thrilling-brilliant-birth-of-tv-as-art)

- Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a feminist parable for everyone – including me by Anthony Stewart Head (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/10/20-buffy-vampire-slayer-feminist)

- Dystopian dreams: how feminist science fiction predicted the future by Naomi Alderman (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/25/dystopian-dreams-how-feminist-science-fiction-predicted-the-future)

- Why You Feel the Urge to Jump, The science and philosophy of looking down from a high place. by Jessica Seigel (nautil.us/issue/46/balance/why-you-feel-the-urge-to-jump)