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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, excellent point, I've been thinking that generally for a while, even the previous album too was in line with the mood of the leading edge of current SFF. Also, yes, The Everlasting is seriously good.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

LRT: Not that I was a fan of current BBC management anyway. This just further pushes mainstream media into solely being a political tool. I can't see anyway 'back' to an objective national media in UK.

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely nuts

Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event

When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit

Davie says

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

I just meant 'modern' not 'modern modern' ... but maybe 'modern modern' has possibilities.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF

Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · Oct 1

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:

fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF

Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · Oct 1

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:

fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 3d

"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon

EdinburghEye @edinburgheye.bsky.social · 3d

At #PictCon on Scottish science-fiction- someone FINALLY mentioned Margaret Elphinstone. #TheIncomer #ASparrowsFlight

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 3d

It's beginning to feel a bit like ... PictCon 1 #Pictcon

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 3d

Not technically on 'the road' as I'm sitting in the hotel in Perth, where I have just finished this #ScottishSFF post on Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction. An Elflandish take on what happened to the revolution! Remember, it's all about the practices it codes for...

Road from Glasgow 2024 to PictCon 1: Ken MacLeod, The Star Fraction (1995)

Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF, which began in the run-up to the Glasgow WorldCon and are now continuing on to PictCon 1 in November 2025 and will continue afterwards. I began this seri…

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 4d

A quick reminder that i have a weirdish dark fantasy novel available on Audible.

And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)

Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 5d

'University of Little England'

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 9d

Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns...

This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!

Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com

Purple background, white text, which says The real-world history and stories about "witches directly inform the portrayal of Discworld's witches. Discworld's sex work and sex workers are similarly informed by real-world history and narratives. More specifically, the ways in which Mrs Rosemary Palm is "almost a witch" can constructively frame some real-world conversations around marginalisation, power, and autonomy... "Almost a Witch," Freyja Stokes

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 9d

Nice review, Niall!

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 9d

Seeing lots of nice pics from Brighton on social media. Here's one of me on Aberystwyth seafront about 45 mins ago. Nice here but looked like it was raining out to the west towards Ireland.

Selfie of well-wrapped-up non-binary person with grey beard on Aberystwyth seafront. Consti (the hill) in background to the north. Waves lapping on the shore.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for posting this. Timely, as I am thinking about Mitchison and other Scottish SFF writers, such as Margaret Elphinstone and Ken MacLeod, at the moment before heading to Perth for the PictCon 1 SF convention next weekend.

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

Prof @thehubble101.bsky.social has excellent blog posts on Naomi Mitchison’s #HistoricalFiction & #ScienceFiction – THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS, MEMOIRS OF A SPACEWOMAN, THE CORN KING & THE SPRING QUEEN & others – & the crossovers between them
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Naomi Mitchison – Prospective Cultures

Posts about Naomi Mitchison written by Nick Hubble

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 10d

Fantastic news. Great to see Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming out next year in a new edition.

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

“Read it now” – Ursula K. Le Guin

Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, TRAVEL LIGHT is a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing, & is being republished in the UK in March 2026 by Virago
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Travel Light

A REDISCOVERED FANTASY CLASSIC - INTRODUCED BY SAMANTHA SHANNON'No one knows better how to spin a fairy tale than Naomi Mitchison' OBSERVER'I felt, very powerfully, that I had been waiting for Travel ...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

“Read it now” – Ursula K. Le Guin

Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, TRAVEL LIGHT is a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing, & is being republished in the UK in March 2026 by Virago
💙📚
9.5/10
store.virago.co.uk/products/tra...

Travel Light

A REDISCOVERED FANTASY CLASSIC - INTRODUCED BY SAMANTHA SHANNON'No one knows better how to spin a fairy tale than Naomi Mitchison' OBSERVER'I felt, very powerfully, that I had been waiting for Travel ...

store.virago.co.uk

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

“In the year CS Lewis published THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE… Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children”

@profrmaslen.bsky.social on how THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, world war, & the supernatural
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Naomi Mitchison, The Big House (1950)

In the year C. S. Lewis published The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 1950, Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children. Unlike Lewis’s book, The Big House is intimately…

thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

Prof @thehubble101.bsky.social has excellent blog posts on Naomi Mitchison’s #HistoricalFiction & #ScienceFiction – THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS, MEMOIRS OF A SPACEWOMAN, THE CORN KING & THE SPRING QUEEN & others – & the crossovers between them
💙📚
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prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/tag/naomi-mi...

Naomi Mitchison – Prospective Cultures

Posts about Naomi Mitchison written by Nick Hubble

prospectiveculture.wordpress.com

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

Century Notes: special Naomi Mitchison issue of THE BOTTLE IMP
🧳 travel narrative MUCKING AROUND
🚀 #scifi SOLUTION THREE
🧚 fairy encounters
👻 Mitchison & the supernatural
🚢 Mitchison: traveller & storyteller
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 WE HAVE BEEN WARNED in modern Scotland
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A portrait in oils of “Naomi (Lady) Mitchison”, by Wyndham Lewis, 1938. Mitchison is seated, wearing a long blue dress. A large book is propped open on her knee, and she holds a pen to it in her right hand. She props up her face with her left hand, and regards us with a frown – although there is a half-smile on her lips. A stylised sketch of the crucifixion leans against the wall behind her.

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

“She liked to challenge, she liked to shock, she liked to deliver the unexpected, she liked to experiment”

—Jenni Calder looks at Mitchison’s life & work for the Dangerous Women project
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Naomi Mitchison - Dangerous Women Project

Today's Scottish PEN post is Jenni Calder's wonderful account of writer Naomi Mitchison, who self-identified as 'a witch, a priestess, a shape-shifter'.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane, 1897–1999) was born #OTD, 1 Nov, & saw almost every day of the #C20th. A hugely influential writer, with 80+ books – poetry, politics, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, #ChildrensFiction & more – to her credit, she deserves more attention
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A sepia-tinted monochrome photo of Naomi Mitchison, c. 1925. A young woman looks directly at the camera, leaning forward slightly. Her long dark hair is parted down the middle, and tied behind her head. Her gaze is steady and appraising.

Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 10d

Hello! It’s the weekend and time to relax with the latest Wombling Along as I have a selection of reviews and other online article that may have a temptation or two for you! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

Wombling Along — Runalong The Shelves

Helloooo! A week off is a wonderful thing. There had been a spa break, a movie, seeing old friends and I’m typing this up at World Fantasy Convention is a very windy Brighton. Fun has been had, books...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 10d

Oh my! This is super cool.

Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 11d

We’re delighted that Aberystwyth has been named a UNESCO City of Literature – the first in Wales!

More: tinyl.co/3u04

@librarywales.bsky.social
@uwtsd.bsky.social
@prifweinidog.gov.wales
@unesco.org

Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 10d

As if by magic, this review (the Swift one, aka read this everyone) is now online. locusmag.com/review/when-...

Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 11d

We’re delighted that Aberystwyth has been named a UNESCO City of Literature – the first in Wales!

More: tinyl.co/3u04

@librarywales.bsky.social
@uwtsd.bsky.social
@prifweinidog.gov.wales
@unesco.org

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 14d

'Time is only short of you want to use a person. Otherwise there is the present, which is all the time in the world.'

- Margaret Elphinstone, A Sparrow's Flight: A Novel of a Future.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 18d

This is spot on: 'The Caerphilly byelection win is historic and exposes something I have been saying for months, that Reform as an English nationalist party has a weakness, and that is going to be exposed in Wales and Scotland.'

Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 18d

This morning Plaid Cymru won in Wales. Tomorrow, Catherine Connolly will win in Ireland. Next Spring the SNP will win at Holyrood.
What's Welsh for schadenfreude?https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/__trashed-37/

Caerphilly Exposes Reform’s Achilles Heel

Caerphilly is the Welsh Govan and it exposes the cracks in Broken Britain. What passes for the British media have been playing catch-up this week. The Caerphilly byelection win is historic and expo…

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