Wm Henry Morris
@wmhenrymorris.com
gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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Wm Henry Morris
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· Oct 7
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
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No story collection is worth buying for just one story, and I’m definitely not suggesting mine is.
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
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I try to build my whole aesthetic ethos around something and express it in many various ways, and Elena Tonra just says it out loud in four words on stage at a BBC 6 concert:
February 15, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I try to build my whole aesthetic ethos around something and express it in many various ways, and Elena Tonra just says it out loud in four words on stage at a BBC 6 concert:
I try to build my whole aesthetic ethos around something and express it in many various ways, and Elena Tonra just says it out loud in four words on stage at a BBC 6 concert:
February 15, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I try to build my whole aesthetic ethos around something and express it in many various ways, and Elena Tonra just says it out loud in four words on stage at a BBC 6 concert:
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... an insistence on subject matter that was highly personal to the artist, the idea being, I suppose that the best way to overcome provinciality is to combine high skill with unique experience._
February 14, 2026 at 4:26 PM
... an insistence on subject matter that was highly personal to the artist, the idea being, I suppose that the best way to overcome provinciality is to combine high skill with unique experience._
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_Later, I discovered that the problem, if you'll grant me that it was one, with where I had visited is that the local art institute had insisted on training all of its students in a specific method that stressed technical mastery combined with ...
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
_Later, I discovered that the problem, if you'll grant me that it was one, with where I had visited is that the local art institute had insisted on training all of its students in a specific method that stressed technical mastery combined with ...
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Every time you feel the urge to read the trending The Atlantic article of the day, go watch an electronic music tutorial by Bthelick instead: www.youtube.com/channel/UCaM...
Bthelick
I'm a professional musician making dance music, I make Tutorials showing how to do what I do, with new videos every Sunday, and a live stream on the last Sunday of the month.
Buy Me A Coffee
https:/...
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February 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Every time you feel the urge to read the trending The Atlantic article of the day, go watch an electronic music tutorial by Bthelick instead: www.youtube.com/channel/UCaM...
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I’ve asked here and there for recs for romance novels set in the Gilded Age w/working class, artisan, activist, journalist main characters. Still no luck there, but I did find this:
February 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I’ve asked here and there for recs for romance novels set in the Gilded Age w/working class, artisan, activist, journalist main characters. Still no luck there, but I did find this:
Every time you feel the urge to read the trending The Atlantic article of the day, go watch an electronic music tutorial by Bthelick instead: www.youtube.com/channel/UCaM...
Bthelick
I'm a professional musician making dance music, I make Tutorials showing how to do what I do, with new videos every Sunday, and a live stream on the last Sunday of the month.
Buy Me A Coffee
https:/...
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Every time you feel the urge to read the trending The Atlantic article of the day, go watch an electronic music tutorial by Bthelick instead: www.youtube.com/channel/UCaM...
_Later, I discovered that the problem, if you'll grant me that it was one, with where I had visited is that the local art institute had insisted on training all of its students in a specific method that stressed technical mastery combined with ...
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
_Later, I discovered that the problem, if you'll grant me that it was one, with where I had visited is that the local art institute had insisted on training all of its students in a specific method that stressed technical mastery combined with ...
This is good
I wrote about nation, nationalism and the agency of nature in fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin, Susanna Clarke, Hope Mirrlees, and T.H. White: patreon.com/posts/150679...
February 13, 2026 at 10:32 PM
This is good
I’ve asked here and there for recs for romance novels set in the Gilded Age w/working class, artisan, activist, journalist main characters. Still no luck there, but I did find this:
February 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I’ve asked here and there for recs for romance novels set in the Gilded Age w/working class, artisan, activist, journalist main characters. Still no luck there, but I did find this:
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John Rieder’s _Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System_ is interesting so far, but also making me wish for a comprehensive account of how the internet has changed the mass cultural genre system.
What is new? What lingers? What has weakened? What has gotten stronger? And why and how?
What is new? What lingers? What has weakened? What has gotten stronger? And why and how?
February 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
John Rieder’s _Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System_ is interesting so far, but also making me wish for a comprehensive account of how the internet has changed the mass cultural genre system.
What is new? What lingers? What has weakened? What has gotten stronger? And why and how?
What is new? What lingers? What has weakened? What has gotten stronger? And why and how?
John Rieder’s _Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System_ is interesting so far, but also making me wish for a comprehensive account of how the internet has changed the mass cultural genre system.
What is new? What lingers? What has weakened? What has gotten stronger? And why and how?
What is new? What lingers? What has weakened? What has gotten stronger? And why and how?
February 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
John Rieder’s _Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System_ is interesting so far, but also making me wish for a comprehensive account of how the internet has changed the mass cultural genre system.
What is new? What lingers? What has weakened? What has gotten stronger? And why and how?
What is new? What lingers? What has weakened? What has gotten stronger? And why and how?
i like what reading book-length work (even if the books are short) does to my mind
it does things other media don't/can't
it does things other media don't/can't
February 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
i like what reading book-length work (even if the books are short) does to my mind
it does things other media don't/can't
it does things other media don't/can't
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My latest space-opera story, "Realm of the Shorn," is up at @morningtransport.bsky.social. An Indigenous futurist tale about choosing the future, even when it costs everything.
It features two queer Mexica characters from the 16th century (one pansexual, one patlacheh or trans man).
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It features two queer Mexica characters from the 16th century (one pansexual, one patlacheh or trans man).
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Realm of the Shorn
This week, we are delighted to bring you an evocative new tale from David Bowles’ Midwife series.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
My latest space-opera story, "Realm of the Shorn," is up at @morningtransport.bsky.social. An Indigenous futurist tale about choosing the future, even when it costs everything.
It features two queer Mexica characters from the 16th century (one pansexual, one patlacheh or trans man).
1/
It features two queer Mexica characters from the 16th century (one pansexual, one patlacheh or trans man).
1/
"The more I read, the less I need. At twenty I wanted range. At forty I wanted depth. At sixty I want company, the right company, in the right silence, with no need to arrive anywhere."
(I'm not quite there yet--either sixty or the right silence--but I hope to reach both)
(I'm not quite there yet--either sixty or the right silence--but I hope to reach both)
Stemmed
This blog began with Sartre, with a quotation about the collaboration between writer and reader, pasted into a blank page in January 2009. Reading literature is a collaboration in which the writer exerts a measure of control over interpretation, but that control is never complete. I didn't…
This blog began with Sartre, with a quotation about the collaboration between writer and reader, pasted into a blank page in January 2009. Reading literature is a collaboration in which the writer exerts a measure of control over interpretation, but that control is never complete. I didn't…
Stemmed
This blog began with Sartre, with a quotation about the collaboration between writer and reader, pasted into a blank page in January 2009. Reading literature is a collaboration in which the writer exerts a measure of control over interpretation, but that control is never complete. I didn't know what would follow. I wanted a place to say what reading did to me; not what books meant, not whether they were any good, but the experience to me of what they did.
timesflowstemmed.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
"The more I read, the less I need. At twenty I wanted range. At forty I wanted depth. At sixty I want company, the right company, in the right silence, with no need to arrive anywhere."
(I'm not quite there yet--either sixty or the right silence--but I hope to reach both)
(I'm not quite there yet--either sixty or the right silence--but I hope to reach both)
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I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place:
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place:
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
I have also read Gramsci's Fall (I was suckered in by the title and the cover), and everything Gautam says about it in his newsletter is spot on:
It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
feat. what makes KLF and the Kochi Biennale special, books about revolutions and revolutionaries, rediscovering the classics, and more.
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
feat. what makes KLF and the Kochi Biennale special, books about revolutions and revolutionaries, rediscovering the classics, and more.
Words for Worlds - Issue 114
Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds.
gautambhatia.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I have also read Gramsci's Fall (I was suckered in by the title and the cover), and everything Gautam says about it in his newsletter is spot on:
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Read The Goblin Emperor for the fourth time, and while I get some of the critiques I've seen of it, this time I noticed all the ways in which the text itself pushes back against them.
Specifically, how precarious Maia's political situation actually is for most of the novel.
Specifically, how precarious Maia's political situation actually is for most of the novel.
February 5, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Read The Goblin Emperor for the fourth time, and while I get some of the critiques I've seen of it, this time I noticed all the ways in which the text itself pushes back against them.
Specifically, how precarious Maia's political situation actually is for most of the novel.
Specifically, how precarious Maia's political situation actually is for most of the novel.
Read The Goblin Emperor for the fourth time, and while I get some of the critiques I've seen of it, this time I noticed all the ways in which the text itself pushes back against them.
Specifically, how precarious Maia's political situation actually is for most of the novel.
Specifically, how precarious Maia's political situation actually is for most of the novel.
February 5, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Read The Goblin Emperor for the fourth time, and while I get some of the critiques I've seen of it, this time I noticed all the ways in which the text itself pushes back against them.
Specifically, how precarious Maia's political situation actually is for most of the novel.
Specifically, how precarious Maia's political situation actually is for most of the novel.
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What we can learn from the worldbuilding in Kerstin Hall's Asunder and Silvia Park's Luminous; a passage from Teffi's memoir of fleeing Moscow; and the strange novella I wrote over the holiday season: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...
worldbuilding in Luminous and Asunder and I wrote a novella
WHM discusses Teffi's Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, worldbuilding in Asunder and Luminous, and the novella he wrote during the holiday season.
buttondown.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:28 PM
What we can learn from the worldbuilding in Kerstin Hall's Asunder and Silvia Park's Luminous; a passage from Teffi's memoir of fleeing Moscow; and the strange novella I wrote over the holiday season: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...
What we can learn from the worldbuilding in Kerstin Hall's Asunder and Silvia Park's Luminous; a passage from Teffi's memoir of fleeing Moscow; and the strange novella I wrote over the holiday season: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...
worldbuilding in Luminous and Asunder and I wrote a novella
WHM discusses Teffi's Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, worldbuilding in Asunder and Luminous, and the novella he wrote during the holiday season.
buttondown.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:28 PM
What we can learn from the worldbuilding in Kerstin Hall's Asunder and Silvia Park's Luminous; a passage from Teffi's memoir of fleeing Moscow; and the strange novella I wrote over the holiday season: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...
Dreamcatcher(드림캐쳐) 'JUSTICE' MV
YouTube video by Dreamcatcher official
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January 29, 2026 at 2:43 AM
I'm around here less than I've typically been for numerous reasons (yes, including the ICE occupation of MN, but that's only one factor). It'll likely be like this for the next few months
I do try to check in briefly about once a day, so if you do tag me or DM me, I will see it.
I do try to check in briefly about once a day, so if you do tag me or DM me, I will see it.
January 26, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I'm around here less than I've typically been for numerous reasons (yes, including the ICE occupation of MN, but that's only one factor). It'll likely be like this for the next few months
I do try to check in briefly about once a day, so if you do tag me or DM me, I will see it.
I do try to check in briefly about once a day, so if you do tag me or DM me, I will see it.
it's my favorite time of year!
📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special!
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
26 January 2026
Welcome to the annual Strange Horizons criticism special!
strangehorizons.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
it's my favorite time of year!
A recommendation for tomorrow or the rest of the weekend: watch Christian Petzold's 2019 film Transit (adapted [in an interesting way] from the Anna Seghers novel).
If you have access to Kanopy, it should be available to stream there.
I can't say it's comforting, but it might be cathartic.
If you have access to Kanopy, it should be available to stream there.
I can't say it's comforting, but it might be cathartic.
January 23, 2026 at 3:45 AM
A recommendation for tomorrow or the rest of the weekend: watch Christian Petzold's 2019 film Transit (adapted [in an interesting way] from the Anna Seghers novel).
If you have access to Kanopy, it should be available to stream there.
I can't say it's comforting, but it might be cathartic.
If you have access to Kanopy, it should be available to stream there.
I can't say it's comforting, but it might be cathartic.