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#hopepunk #stories from #Africa
#bookstodon #books #speculativefiction #Futurism #Fantasy #fantasy #urban #MagicalRealism
Omenana Issue 22: Positive Visions of Democracy - omenana.com
15 stories, from writers from across Africa and one from South America, that explore the theme of “Positive Visions of Democracy” in ways that excite and uplift and call to hope.Admin (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine)
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Precisely why the real villains in my uplifting #climatefiction #book "A New Faith" are #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs They are completely anti-#democracy and they don't hide their goals anymore!
#climate #climatechange #ai #genai #tech #hopepunk #mystery #thriller #bookstodon #books
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
Announcing The Linux Command Line Seventh Internet Edition and Third Print Edition
Good News Everyone!
I have just released the Seventh Internet Edition of my book. Along with the Internet Edition release we're just a few days from the general availability of the new print edition which is based on the aforementioned Internet Edition.
See all the details here: linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
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Why I - an #independent #author - chose to self-publish by first #book "A New Faith" on ghost.org
It is an uplifting #climatefiction #story with elements of #mystery #thriller
Check it out at: tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#bookstodon #books #amwriting #writerscoffeeclub #scribesandmakers #wordweavers #writing #writers #writersofmastodon
The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul
How did we get here? And how do we get back?Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker)
Oh, there's something like #portfolioDay ! Okay, so, I'm an #author, #podcast host and data privacy expert with a strong focus on #ITsecurity awareness. I write #nonfiction, crime and #scifi in German and English. The last two years I mainly spent with making #books and podcasts for others, like the lovely Eltville #WeinSchreibereien anthology and podcast.
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les seaux
Jules Verne
tags : on a marché au fond de la piscine (Tintin), Nautilus en plastique, #underwater #water #children #books
3d sunglasses...
#3d #sunglasses #desktop #perspective #notebook #baseball #globe #typewriter #books #animatedgif
Formas híbridas humano / Avecina en el Ídolo de Torrecera.
Imagen perteneciente al libro “EL YO EN LA COMUNICACIÓN. La identidad que se comunica.”
El Ídolo Cilindro Oculado, perteneciente al Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Jerez.
Grupo INTERCOM (UAN).
Proyecto I+D Avecinas-CM. Procesos Humanos y Sociales 2024. PHS-2024/PH-HUM-354. Comunidad de Madrid.
#birds #books #art #history #archaeology #museum
These videos inspire me to keep sharing Hebrew everyday.
To know that my resources are being used and valued around the world, that Hebrew thrives beyond borders adds fuel to my passion.
I’m ready to see more pictures and videos ❤️
#HebrewBooks #BookReview #HebrewByInbal #Books #ReadAndWrite
Fueron superventas, pero apenas nadie se acuerda de sus libros. #libros #books
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Escritores y libros populares pero olvidados
Blog personal que recopila entradas de interés sobre ciencia, historia, lugares exóticos y datos inusuales. Si te gusta lo extraño, es tu sitio.TDI (Resolviendo la incógnita)
Cuarenta años sin Juan Rulfo
> 'Pedro Páramo', del autor mexicano Juan Rulfo, sigue siendo un marco de referencia y su protagonista, un personaje muy vivo y un arquetipo de absoluta vigencia
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Cuarenta años sin Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo, de Juan Rulfo, sigue siendo un marco de referencia y su protagonista, un personaje muy vivo y un arquetipo de absoluta vigenciaC. Rubio Rosell (Zenda)
If Russia Wins: A Scenario by Carlo Masala, 2025
If Russia Wins is a fascinating and deeply-researched future counterfactual about what the world might look like should Putin succeed in Ukraine.
#books
#nonfiction
#hypothetical
#Russia
#Ukraine
#Europe
#NATO
James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room" impressed me both for its exploration of love, sex, and sexual identity and for the skill with which the author has the narrative unfold; I was gripped from beginning to end.
Although the protagonist is white, I know that some critics believe that the theme of race is obliquely present by virtue of the salience of various kinds of minority identity throughout the novel.
Quite aside from it being a "good read", I would recommend it to anybody interested in the literary treatment of bisexuality.
Expatriation also figures as an important theme. These words hit home with this migrant:
>> You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. <<
"Home", of course, can be more than a geographical location.
#Books #GiovannisRoom #JamesBaldwin #Fiction #AmericanLiterature #USLiterature #AfricanAmericanLiterature #QueerFiction #LiteratureInEnglish #Sexuality #Bisexuality #20thCenturyLiterature #1950s #Homosexuality #Gay #Expatriates #Migrants
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My book, Drystone - A Life Rebuilt, has been out for only five months. A mere babe in the book world. I’ve just seen that Amazon are currently selling the Kindle edition for £1.99. That means I earn less than 20p if someone buys it.
Twenty-fucking-pence.
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #Publishing
I imagine a similar kinda future in my #hopepunk story "A New Faith" (including the design of housing with community space at its heart).
#bookstodon #books #climatechange #thriller #mystery
A New Faith
DOWNLOAD "A New Faith" OR Read each Chapter online (links below). Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 …TinJar
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How to overcome such anti-immigration stance? We need stories to first explore new ideas. To examine them at human-scale instead of in abstract terms. Few stories do that, today. I try to explore this in "A New Faith". The setting is somewhat similar to Denmark.
See - tinjar.ghost.io/anf/a-new-fait…
#bookstodon #books #climate #adaptation #migration
Inside Denmark’s Hardline Immigration Experiment
Once a beacon of liberal values and progressivism, Denmark has increasingly normalized the worldview of the far right, especially when it comes to immigration.Helle Malmvig (NOEMA)
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
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Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language--It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It's Now Free Online
It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia.OC (Openculture.com)
The two novels of Orwell I haven't read are "A Clergyman's Daughter" and "Coming Up for Air".
The former incorporates Orwell's supposedly unsuccessful stab at modernist literary technique; I'm curious to see if it really is a failure.
I know little about the latter, but both the completist and the cultural historian within me want to polish it off anyway.
"Burmese Days" is excellent, and should be pressed into the hands of Neil Ferguson fans and other right wingers inclined to wax lyrical about the British empire.
At some point in the future, I'll post my thoughts on "1984'".
Image: 1943 National Union of Journalists card photo -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain.
#GeorgeOrwell #Books #Literature #BritishLiterature #Fiction #AClergymansDaughter #ComingUpForAir #BurmeseDays #1984 #BritishEmpire #Imperialism #RightWing #LiteraryHistory
Orwell's 1936 novel sees Gordon Comstock quit advertisement copywriting to work on his poetry and maintain his integrity in the face of the "money god".
Comstock's rebellion, like that of Winston Smith a decade later, ultimately fails.
In addition to being struck by the parallels between Comstock's life under British capitalism in the 30's and Smith's under Ingsoc in Airstrip One, I was also impressed by Orwell's sharp descriptions of the indignities of genteel poverty.
#Books #KeepTheAspidistraFlying #GeorgeOrwell #BritishLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #Novels #20thCenturyLiterature
I finished Nabokov's "Pnin" last night.
What a delight it was!
I would recommend getting hold of the Everyman's Library edition, as the introduction by David Lodge id both informative and perceptive.
#Books #Pnin #Nabokov #Fiction #Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #20thCenturyLiterature #CampusNovel #DavidLodge
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Very good discussion of "The Long Heat" by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton. I look forward to reading it.
From a solution perspective, I think #adaptation and especially, mass #migration needs to be a part of the #climate discussions.
I explore this in #fiction format in "A New Faith" - especially, Part 2.
#bookstodon #books #climatefiction
A New Faith
DOWNLOAD "A New Faith" OR Read each Chapter online (links below). Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 …TinJar
Names for avid readers 📚 by language -
English: Bookworm
Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)
French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)
German: Read-rat (Leseratte)
Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)
Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)
Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)
Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)
Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)
Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)
Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách)
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So many great Qs from Thea Riofrancos and Andreas Malm! Well worth the long read/listen.
Three of the imp. characters (Kaija, Camille, and Rachel) in "A New Faith" grapple with some of the issues raised here in Part 2. tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#bookstodon #climatefiction #books #climate
What Justice on a Burning Planet? | The Nation
Andreas Malm and Thea Riofrancos joined The Nation’s Wen Stephenson in an urgent conversation about the left and the climate emergency.Christopher Shay (The Nation)
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Very Serious People say "support oil/gas; win elections"; villains are attacking countries to secure more oil fields. What are those who care about the dying/displaced supposed to do? A theme explored in Part 2 of "A New Faith" tinjar.ghost.io/anf/a-new-fait…
#bookstodon #books #hopepunk #climatefiction
Leftwing militants claim responsibility for arson attack on Berlin power grid
Protest over climate crisis and AI has cut power to tens of thousands of homes which may take days to fully restoreDeborah Cole (The Guardian)
Someday the retailers will have a category for "solarpunk" or "hopeful climate fiction"...but today is not that day.
You'll find my books under "Metaphysical Sci-Fi" (which it also is)
Book 2 is also kicking butt on the charts while it's free!
(Psst Bk1 is free too)
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#climatechange #books #bookstodon
Entre irse y quedarse duda el día,
enamorado de su transparencia.
La tarde circular es ya bahía:
en su quieto vaivén se mece el mundo.
Todo es visible y todo es elusivo,
todo está cerca y todo es intocable.
Los papeles, el libro, el vaso, el lápiz
reposan a la sombra de sus nombres.
Latir del tiempo que en mi sien repite
la misma terca sílaba de sangre.
La luz hace del muro indiferente
un espectral teatro de reflejos.
En el centro de un ojo me descubro;
no me mira, me miro en su mirada.
Se disipa el instante. Sin moverme,
yo me quedo y me voy: soy una pausa.
Octavio Paz.
#popazo #art #mastoart #quotes #citas #lectura #libros #books #literatura #novela #novel #narrative #literaverso #poem #poetry #poesía
jacobin.com/2026/01/zohran-mam…
"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." - #zohranmamdani
Message echoed in "A New Faith" by Kaija, the mayor of Sequoia in the final chapter.
#bookstodon #books #climatefiction #hopepunk #adaptation #migration #collectivism #mystery #thriller
A New Faith
DOWNLOAD "A New Faith" OR Read each Chapter online (links below). Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 …TinJar
I read some of Baldwin's essays a while ago, but I'm a mite embarrassed to say that I have only just finished my first Baldwin novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain".
Did I love it? No.
Did I admire it? Yes, there is some powerful writing there. I was particularly impressed by Baldwin';s ability to encompass both African American vernacular and elevated biblical cadences without ever descending into hokiness. The psychological insight and narrative organization shown in the account of Esther's liaison with Gabriel struck me as brilliant.
The book also interested me as a document of midcentury US culture -- a social history approach that I'm sure Baldwin would have despised as reductive and unliterary!
I wonder if I might enjoy "Giovanni's Room" more, in part because I want to explore sexual rather than spiritual identity.
#Literature #JamesBaldwin #USLiterature #AfricanAmericanLiterature #Books #Fiction #Novel
Happy Tolkien's birthday to all who celebrate!
#JRRTolkien #Birthday #books #livres #bookstodon #author #auteur #anniversaire #Hobbit #LordOfTheRings #OTD
Llegué anoche al 82% del libro "Strange Pictures", de Uketsu.
Después de llegar a estas alturas del libro, se me ocurre una pregunta interesante para el club de lectura, aunque creo que está un poco manida para los amantes del true crime: ¿Podría estar justificado el crimen en el caso que se trata en el libro? ¿Qué opinarán sobre la justicia y su aplicación?
Dejaré la pregunta por aquí, por si alguien más quiere responder al debate, siempre con educación.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:..."
Lewis Carroll’s Personal Copy of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ Returns to its ‘Spiritual Home’ in Oxford
The book has been donated jointly to Christ Church and the Bodleian Library, which are both part of the University of Oxford
by Sarah Kuta
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at PG:
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
New year, no reset.
A short essay on continuation, constraint, and why ‘fresh starts’ don’t work for everyone.
‘For me, and for many, the work is not in beginning again but in continuing. Continuation is far less aesthetic than renewal, harder to commodify, and it doesn't lend itself well to announcements, before and after photos, or public commitments. But it is honest.’
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/…
#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #Disability #UK #NewYear
On Not Beginning Again
Why New Year reset culture ignores illness, care, and systemic reality, and what it means to keep going instead of starting again.Kristie De Garis
I know that they still read "An Inspector Calls" in English schools, but I suspect that I might be one of very few who wants to read a JB Priestley novel today.
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#BritishLiterature #Books #JBPriestley #20thCenturyLiterature #Fiction #Novels
JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters'
Though disdained and lampooned by the literati, the author of Angel Pavement was extraordinarily successful in his day. It's our loss if his novels are all but forgotten now, writes DJ TaylorDJ Taylor (The Guardian)
Erstes #Buch 2026: Shadow Ticket von Thomas #Pynchon. Sehr gemocht, auch aus nostalgischen Gründe, weil das praktisch ein Prequel zu Gravity's Rainbow ist. (Vermutlich auch sein letzter Roman. Der Mann ist schließlich fast 90.)
#books #reading #bookstodon
#literature
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A book I'd assign to high school students:
Automatic Noodle - Annalee Newitz
As a companion and an uplifting antidote to the various dystopias they're already reading. Also, cool robots. And another terrific cover.
A book that I should have DNFed:
The Wayfinder - Adam Johnson
I liked most of this book, a historical panorama set at the height of the Tongan empire. It's got a lot of intrigue and excitement and a vividly realized world. But there are more characters than i could care about, and it's a bit repetitive, with the same events unfolding from multiple viewpoints or being retold to different characters too many times, and the ending just wrapped everything up in a bow too fast and too easily, with a plot MacGuffin Indiana Jones would love. I got everything I could want from this book by page 500 of 700.
A book about where I'm from:
The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong
I lived in Connecticut for a decade, and spent some time in certain postindustrial areas, and this book beautifully nailed the hollowed-out strangeness of such places (albeit with much more vibrant, interesting characters and higher drama than I was experiencing in those high school years).
A book people would be surprised that I loved:
Stag Dance - Torrey Peters
Why this is surprising: I thought that Peters' book Detransition, Baby was pretty good, but overhyped. Also, before this year, I hadn't gotten into short stories in a long time. But I had a big short story collection renaissance in 2025, and this collection (three stories and a novella) really let the author stretch into different genres and play with different facets of trans experience.
A book I wish more people were reading:
Eternal Summer - Fransiska Gansler (tr. Imogen Taylor)
A feverish yet taut novel about two women (and a child) in a hotel on the edge of a wildfire zone, and about the weight of trauma and the possibility of trust. The writing is incredibly evocative; it feels like you're walking through the flying ash and looking in strangers' windows, like the protagonist's loneliness is in sync with the world's destruction. I recommended this back in July and I've not forgotten its power.
Two books where I learned a lot:
Your Absence is Darkness - Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. Philip Roughton
Burial Rites - Hanna Kent
Two novels set in rural Iceland. One is a sprawling, nonlinear saga about the loves, dreams, and losses of farmers and philosophers. The other is a historical novel about a murderess sent to an isolated farm while awaiting execution. Though they're fiction, both books really bring the setting alive--preparations for surviving winter, the dramatic landscapes and constant proximity of death, the correspondence of priests and parishioners. Between these two books, I feel like I've glimpsed a vanished place and time. Also, some great Kierkegaard quotes.
Books that made me angry:
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
You know that this is about the genocide in Palestine, but more than that, it's about how these horrors keep happening and being erased, happening and being rewritten, and if you can't feel this book's anger and share in it, you need to fix your heart. The only reason I'm not writing more about it is that it has, fortunately, been recognized in a lot of these lists.
I want to mention Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, and also Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood, two very different books about Covid. It's infuriating how the ongoing effects and casualties of the pandemic are ignored by so many people, especially those in power.
Book that made me cry:
Audition - Pip Adam
I'm not a crier, but this weird, twisty book got to me. What seems somewhat comic at the beginning--a trio of giants on a cramped spaceship must constantly talk or else they keep growing--slowly reveals past human cruelties while hurtling into alien possibilities. There's something beautiful about the ways these characters recover their past and what redemption might be. It's not like anything else you'll read. Maybe if a bit of Chain Gang All-Stars and a bit of I Have Never Known Men were fused together in a Star Trek teleporter accident?...Okay, maybe just stick with "it's not like anything else."
Book that made me laugh:
Art on Fire - Yun Ko-eun (tr. Lizzie Buehler)
A Korean artist travels to California during wildfire season for a prestigious yet mysterious fellowship...curated by a dog. An arrogant dog (with plenty of minions to translate his demands) who reserves the right to burn one of the artist's works at the end of her stay. The obvious art-and-capitalism satire is good, but the absurd details make it hilarious, from the dog's meticulous outfits to the artist's side hustle on a slightly deranged food delivery app.
(And an honorable mention to Emily Adrian's Seduction Theory, a really fun academic satire.)
Favorite audiobook:
Medusa of the Roses - Navid Sinaki, narrated by Michael Crouch
I really didn't listen to many books this year, but this one would stand out anyway. The story follows a gay man in Tehran trying to track down his missing, married lover, while planning to undergo a sex change so they can be together openly. The narrator brings all of that and adds a level of yearning and dreaminess that complements the mythological references and noirish tone.
