Niall Harrison
@niallharrison.bsky.social
reader, critic, fan, he/him
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The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman: Review by Liz Bourke locusmag.com/review/...
December 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman: Review by Liz Bourke locusmag.com/review/...
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the 30th December is a very betwixt and between date. Enliven it with a discussion of The Female Man, with four passionate enthusiasts for Joanna Russ's strange little book. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... Link goes out on the day.
Discussing the Female Man
The Female Man is Farah Mendlesohn's favourite science fiction novel. Melanie Fishbane has been thinking about its Jewishness. Jed Hartman h
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December 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
the 30th December is a very betwixt and between date. Enliven it with a discussion of The Female Man, with four passionate enthusiasts for Joanna Russ's strange little book. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... Link goes out on the day.
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#SFinTranslation in 2025 by the numbers: www.sfintranslation.com?p=15931
In other words...SFT stats!!!🤤
In other words...SFT stats!!!🤤
SFT: Year in Review 2025 – Speculative Fiction in Translation
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December 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#SFinTranslation in 2025 by the numbers: www.sfintranslation.com?p=15931
In other words...SFT stats!!!🤤
In other words...SFT stats!!!🤤
This is a fine discussion, and next year it should be a round table with more reviews editors
Had a lot of fun talking to @casella.bsky.social on @mealofthorns.bsky.social about the year - in books, in the editing mines, in genre (and para-genre).
Come for the general themes, stay for the book recs. Or, y’know, vice versa. And ask yourself, Sisyphus-like: what use is a year wrap-up anyway?
Come for the general themes, stay for the book recs. Or, y’know, vice versa. And ask yourself, Sisyphus-like: what use is a year wrap-up anyway?
A Meal of Thorns 40- 2025 Wrap-Up with Dan Hartland
We’re closing out this strange year with a “big-picture” episode: editor & critic Dan Hartland is on to talk about trends and directions—or lack thereof—in recent …
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December 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is a fine discussion, and next year it should be a round table with more reviews editors
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Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman: Review by Abigail Nussbaum locusmag.com/review/...
December 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman: Review by Abigail Nussbaum locusmag.com/review/...
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Lesley Hall writes about books she's enjoyed this year. Particular standouts are two lengthy romans fleuve--the famous Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell, and the more obscure Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair.
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 16: Lesley Hall
The Pleasures of Reading, 2025 by Lesley Hall During the past year I spent a fair amount of time immersed in two older lengt...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Lesley Hall writes about books she's enjoyed this year. Particular standouts are two lengthy romans fleuve--the famous Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell, and the more obscure Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair.
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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Gwynne Garfinkle's favorite reads of 2025 ranges from the second-wave feminism classic Bear by Marian Engel to John Wiswell's Wearing the Lion, from Nisi Shawl's The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox to Charlie Jane Anders' Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 14: Gwynne Garfinkle
Reading Pleasures of 2025 by Gwynne Garfinkle Charlie Jane Anders, Lessons in Magic and Disaster . Jamie, a trans witch an...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Gwynne Garfinkle's favorite reads of 2025 ranges from the second-wave feminism classic Bear by Marian Engel to John Wiswell's Wearing the Lion, from Nisi Shawl's The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox to Charlie Jane Anders' Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
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I could swear that I contributed to a discussion about these back in the Torque Control days, but I haven't been able to track anything down. I did find @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social linking to a bunch of review discussions in 2008: wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2008/03/revi...
Paul Kincaid on John Updike's rules for reviewing: ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/r...
December 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I could swear that I contributed to a discussion about these back in the Torque Control days, but I haven't been able to track anything down. I did find @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social linking to a bunch of review discussions in 2008: wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2008/03/revi...
Paul Kincaid on John Updike's rules for reviewing: ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/r...
December 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Paul Kincaid on John Updike's rules for reviewing: ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/r...
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Thanks to LitHub Magazine for hosting this roundtable conversation in support of our new book, Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures.
Read more at: lithub.com/on-the-urgen...
Read more at: lithub.com/on-the-urgen...
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thanks to LitHub Magazine for hosting this roundtable conversation in support of our new book, Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures.
Read more at: lithub.com/on-the-urgen...
Read more at: lithub.com/on-the-urgen...
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The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 21
Today Gary and Jonathan talk to Francis Spufford about what he's been reading, what he'd recommend, and his new novel, Nonesuch.
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Today Gary and Jonathan talk to Francis Spufford about what he's been reading, what he'd recommend, and his new novel, Nonesuch.
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Episode 709: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 21 - Francis Spufford
As both the Advent Calendar and the year move slowly towards a close, Gary and Jonathan chat with Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill, Light Perpetual, and the wonderful Cahokia Jazz about what he...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 21
Today Gary and Jonathan talk to Francis Spufford about what he's been reading, what he'd recommend, and his new novel, Nonesuch.
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Today Gary and Jonathan talk to Francis Spufford about what he's been reading, what he'd recommend, and his new novel, Nonesuch.
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-2c8t3...
Two reviews drafted today, and it was one of those exciting days where I learned through writing that I don't think quite what I thought I thought about either book.
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Two reviews drafted today, and it was one of those exciting days where I learned through writing that I don't think quite what I thought I thought about either book.
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In an essay for Aqueduct's 2025 Pleasures series, Nancy Jane Moore recounts her experimentation with a new reading practice as well as her reading for LitHub's 100 Notable Small Press books list.
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 11: Nancy Jane Moore
New Ways of Reading by Nancy Jane Moore In mid-December 2024, I embarked on a reading practice unlike any I have ever done be...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In an essay for Aqueduct's 2025 Pleasures series, Nancy Jane Moore recounts her experimentation with a new reading practice as well as her reading for LitHub's 100 Notable Small Press books list.
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.9: Niall Harrison
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2025 by Niall Harrison When I sat down to think about the pleasures I gained ...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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Niall Harrison discusses a selection of a couple dozen titles from his wide-ranging reading this year, ranging from Madeleine Thien to Eva Meijer to Jacek Dukaj.
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.9: Niall Harrison
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2025 by Niall Harrison When I sat down to think about the pleasures I gained ...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Niall Harrison discusses a selection of a couple dozen titles from his wide-ranging reading this year, ranging from Madeleine Thien to Eva Meijer to Jacek Dukaj.
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
I'm reading a book that I want to describe as "gentle". Is that the same thing (in book-categorisation parlance) as "cosy"? Why, or why not?
December 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'm reading a book that I want to describe as "gentle". Is that the same thing (in book-categorisation parlance) as "cosy"? Why, or why not?
I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.9: Niall Harrison
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2025 by Niall Harrison When I sat down to think about the pleasures I gained ...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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Read Nisi's Shawl's "Where and When the Livin is Easy," their love letter to Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.8: Nisi Shawl
Where and When the Livin Is Easy by Nisi Shawl There is a magic land, a land found in a once-upon-a kind of time. For me, a favor...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Read Nisi's Shawl's "Where and When the Livin is Easy," their love letter to Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Interesting thread/discussion
Finished There Is No Anti-Memetics Division by qntm. The feeling of "this is supposed to be in some way unsettling but it very much isn't" never went away. Boggled that it is listed as both SF and horror when I, the mushiest of cowards, was completely unhorrified by it.
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Interesting thread/discussion
The picks in here would make for a pretty interesting Clarke shortlist
Lisa Tuttle offers her “'best of the best of 2025'”—the books that I’d want on the list if I were a judge for The Clarke Award or World Fantasy or similar.
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.4: Lisa Tuttle
Pleasures of Reading in 2025 By Lisa Tuttle Because I am still writing a monthly roundup of SF/Fantasy/horror books for The Guard...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The picks in here would make for a pretty interesting Clarke shortlist
Looks like quite a few genre and genre-adjacent contenders in next years Tournament of Books www.tournamentofbooks.com/the-2026-sho...
The 2026 Shortlist — The Tournament of Books
The books, judges, and Zombie Poll for the 2026 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Looks like quite a few genre and genre-adjacent contenders in next years Tournament of Books www.tournamentofbooks.com/the-2026-sho...
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Check out @niallharrison’s review of BETWEEN WORLDS edited by Gautam Bhatia, which includes: “stories touching on issues around labour, social development, and personal autonomy.”
Between Worlds by Gautam Bhatia, ed.: Review by Niall Harrison
Between Worlds, Gautam Bhatia, ed. (Westland 978-9-371-97654-1, ₹599.00, 364pp, tp) August 2025. In design and execution, Between Worlds is one of the more open-minded books you are likely to come…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Check out @niallharrison’s review of BETWEEN WORLDS edited by Gautam Bhatia, which includes: “stories touching on issues around labour, social development, and personal autonomy.”
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What Sarah Tolmie's been reading. "Conrad. Weird, eh? Why read Conrad in this day and age? Inexcusable old white guy? Well, it’s because, in my mind, Conrad is a weird writer." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 1: Sarah Tolmie
Annual Pleasures by Sarah Tolmie I spent 2023-4 (I chunk time in academic years) trying to figure out what weird fiction was. For tho...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What Sarah Tolmie's been reading. "Conrad. Weird, eh? Why read Conrad in this day and age? Inexcusable old white guy? Well, it’s because, in my mind, Conrad is a weird writer." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Current review book is so good that I find myself resenting having to read it fast enough to make deadline, and also I don't want to jinx things by naming it in case something goes awry in the second half.
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Current review book is so good that I find myself resenting having to read it fast enough to make deadline, and also I don't want to jinx things by naming it in case something goes awry in the second half.