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Andrew Variously
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Andrew Critchley: real person, technical writer, lives in Spain, reads a lot.

Andrew (Leon) Hudson: unreal person, genre writer, edits Mythaxis Magazine (mythaxis.co.uk)

https://linktr.ee/andrewleonhudson
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addi.social
Releasing my horror novelette "The House of Forgotten Things" into the world today! In the spirit of "Fuck Amazon," the book is only available on my Payhip store, which provides information for downloading and transferring to your device!

Please share! 🥹

payhip.com/b/Dxa78
NOVELETTE AVAILABLE NOW A picture of the cover (Black silhouette of a house, trees, and fence over a red sky. Text: The House of Forgotten Things by Addison Smith" Arrows point to the cover, denoting "Generational Trauma, Haunted Cellar, Karma Ghosts, Twisted Tradition, Haunted House."
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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tricon-hfx.bsky.social
What kind of programming will you find at TriCon? All kinds of stuff, like the Blue Pencil Cafe!

Sign up for a 1-on-1 session with an editor! Spaces are limited, & sign-ups open December 22nd!

Featuring @englelaird.bsky.social, @mythaxis.bsky.social, and @heartlines-spec.com, with more to come!
A blue card reading "Featured Programming" and "The Blue Pencil Cafe" leads three circular avatars of editors, Rebecca Bennett, Carl Engle-Laird, and Andrew Leon Hudson. A white TriCon logo is in the bottom right corner, and a yellow button reading "Sign-ups begin December 22nd" in the bottom left.
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Just finished the best book I'll read this year: "A Natural History of Empty Lots" by @christopherbrown.bsky.social – thanks for writing something so beautiful!

Pic (because why not? 🙂) is Barcelona as viewed from one of the wooded hills within the city, beside Parc Güell and just uphill from home.
Picture of Barcelona, taken from a wooded hill within the city with a clear, pale morning sky and the ocean horizon in the distance
November 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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addi.social
Putting out my shingle for a limited number of customers for November! All proceeds go to getting me a new computer that can handle design better than my poor laptop. Please share, and if you are interested, drop me a DM!
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Think I'm going to grow my moustache party-long but keep it business-short online to maximise the admiration/horror when I'm encountered in person
October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Guess what? Delighted to welcome contributors new and returning, and delighted by their stories: serious, moving, sinister, and heartfelt. Also some great audio versions and other reading recs.

Thanks to all who've gotten involved!
mythaxis.bsky.social Mythaxis Magazine @mythaxis.bsky.social · Sep 28
Issue 43 of Mythaxis Magazine is live!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/

Six new stories in text/audio, four long and short form fiction reviews!

Many thanks to @slashnburnett.bsky.social, AM Sutter, Anna Koltes, Olufunmilayo Makinde, Christina Ladd, Siobhan Ekeh, Mattia Ravasi, and Micah Hyatt on voice!
The cover art for Mythaxis Issue 43 is Synthwave by Michal Kváč, a retro-style image showing a cityscape before a huge, blue, rising sun on an infinite plane.
September 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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September 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Very sad today: RIP, Tom Lehrer.

I've been a fan for maybe 40 years. He was a favourite of my grandfather, and my mum introduced me to "An Evening Wasted with..." (and deftly dodged my confusion about the Oedipus Rex lyrics).

I'll poison a dove for you today, Mr. Lehrer 💔🕊️🥹

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Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (Full Album) (Public Domain)
YouTube video by Kevin Palmeri
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July 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Ten (technically eleven) authors by whom I've read more than five books (who aren't on the same list as @addi.social 😉):

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Patrick O'Brian
Edith Pargeter (as Ellis Peters)
Colin Dexter
John Sandford
Ian Fleming
Kim Stanley Robinson
Stephen King
Enid Blyton
Frank Herbert
addi.social Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social · Jul 28
Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books:

This list mostly represents stuff I read as a teenager.

Terry Brooks
Robert Jordan
Brandon Sanderson
Terry Pratchett
Piers Anthony
Douglas Adams
James SA Corey
Nnedi Okorafor
Grady Hendrix
Martha Wells
llygodenfawrdur.bsky.social TheStainlessSteelRat @llygodenfawrdur.bsky.social · Jul 12
Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books:

Stark Holborn
Si Clark
Gareth L Powell
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Andrew Vachss
Walter Moseley
Jonathan Kellerman
John Sandford
Martha Wells
Alan Dean Foster

might do 10 more later.
July 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
I was at London's the National Gallery last week, and surprised to discover that Joseph Wright 'of Derby' was using Generative "AI" to do his paintings for him back in 1768.
Photo of "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright 'of Derby', a beautiful oil painting of a scene that would get you well cancelled if you tried it these days. Close up on a painting of a girl's face that looks like an AI botched it, from "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright 'of Derby'
July 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Finally got myself back to Blighty and collected my copy(z) of MOTIVES UNKNOWN from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social - cue immediate reading binge, now completed

It's this, buy a copy:

deadinkbooks.com/product/moti...

🙂
Motives Unknown: A Northern Crime Anthology - Dead Ink Books
Welcome to the North. Sprawling cities. Lawless rural landscapes. A long and unforgiving history. Here is where the winds blow cold and the nights are long. An actor takes his preparation a little too...
deadinkbooks.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
As always, huge thanks to our latest group of contributors! Some very nice fiction, some very interesting analysis.

Also, my most grave apologies to Josh Pearce for having to tolerate ME providing the read of his story... 😉
mythaxis.bsky.social Mythaxis Magazine @mythaxis.bsky.social · Jun 30
Issue 42 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/

Six new stories in text and audio formats, and reviews too!

Many thanks to @SeanMacKendrick.bsky.social, Cheryl Ntumy, Anna Ziegelhof, Travis Ezell, Charlie Winter, Josh Pearce, @faceyouhate.bsky.social, and Micah Hyatt on voice!
June 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Speaking not as editor but as, currently, @mythaxis.bsky.social's one-man slushteam, I welcome the prospect of a six month break from submissions. Still lots to do around the zine, though – but I might even finish a bit of writing myself as well 🙂
mythaxis.bsky.social Mythaxis Magazine @mythaxis.bsky.social · Jun 19
With our next issue out in a matter of weeks, a quick heads up to authors: we're closing to new subs until early 2026.

We've some great pieces lined up in advance, and we don't want to keep people waiting for more than a year to see their work published. We'll be on the hunt again Jan 23rd...
June 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
I love all our storychildren equally, of course...
May 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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seventydys.bsky.social
Duncan Fallowell's April 1972 review of Nick Drake's Pink Moon (in Records and Recording magazine).
May 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Guess we know which the 51st state is going to be then.
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Fresh from Belfast Eastercon, it's submissions time!

mythaxis.co.uk/submissions....

We're hungry for sf/f/h with our eye on 2026, but especially for crime subs - slots to fill in our winter All-crime issue.

Photo(shopped) credit to @rickandwrite.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
noumenon.bsky.social
Many congrats to Rick Danforth for winning the BSFA award for Best Audio with THE PERSONAL TOUCH! Very much deserved 😍

(and to Charlotte Ashley for taking the 2nd step in her goal of accepting every major SF award on someone else's behalf 😉)

@rickandwrite.bsky.social @charlotteashley.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Belfast Eastercon has been lots of fun, and @noumenon.bsky.social has been handing out Mythaxis Magazine bookmarks to anyone who'll take them (and maybe even a few who'd prefer not)
April 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
Belated thanks too from the editor! As always, we're delighted to have some great contributors join us – and thanks to YOU too, if you click through and give us a read! 🙂
mythaxis.bsky.social Mythaxis Magazine @mythaxis.bsky.social · Apr 1
Issue 41 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-41/

Six new stories in text and audio formats, and reviews too!

Many thanks to Finale Doshi-Velez, Helen French, Lyra Meurer, @stephenspower.bsky.social, David Stephen Powell, Mattia Ravasi, @addi.social, and Micah Hyatt for the audio!
The cover of issue 41 of Mythaxis Magazine shows a future farming landscape, with water buffalos in the foreground and a huge robotic minotaur working the land beyond, with high towers in the far distance. Audio versions of the stories are available at mythaxis.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
noumenon.bsky.social
I just started reading THE TERMINAL MAN by Michael Crichton, written in '71, and he just described an inkjet printer in the careful-to-convey-the-marvel way you'd describe a quantum computer.
February 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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mythaxis.bsky.social
If you want to sub, you have roughly six hours left:

* We're open to all speculative genres and crime
* Length ideally between 1k and 5k words
* Pay 1cpw, $20 min, via PayPal only

Sub to mythaxismagazine@gmail.com

Window closes Jan 31st!
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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mythaxis.bsky.social
Quick heads up - technical problems mean the Mythaxis site is down (excellently timed to coincide with the close of our current submissions window!). We'll have it back up ASAP.
January 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.
September 15, 2024 at 11:38 AM