cahokiajazz.bsky.social
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You have entered a Constable painting.
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
You have entered a Constable painting.
Herman Diaz's Trust, James Buchan's William Neilson series, and (cough) my forthcoming Nonesuch (Feb 2026 or March 2026 for the Scribner edition). Cough.
October 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Herman Diaz's Trust, James Buchan's William Neilson series, and (cough) my forthcoming Nonesuch (Feb 2026 or March 2026 for the Scribner edition). Cough.
I will feel no surprise whatsoever if Trump or Vance turn up in front of a billboard saying "Don't worry, don't wonder".
October 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I will feel no surprise whatsoever if Trump or Vance turn up in front of a billboard saying "Don't worry, don't wonder".
It's Sarah Mulally, not Guli, but still very good news. (And we get to keep Guli in Chelmsford.)
October 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It's Sarah Mulally, not Guli, but still very good news. (And we get to keep Guli in Chelmsford.)
No! No! She's my bishop, and I don't want to lose her. (The greater good, you say? Never heard of it.)
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
No! No! She's my bishop, and I don't want to lose her. (The greater good, you say? Never heard of it.)
A pleasure to give alt-hist pleasure where alt-hist pleasure was received: I loved the multiple worlds of Promised Land, and of course Hitler as horrible private eye.
August 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A pleasure to give alt-hist pleasure where alt-hist pleasure was received: I loved the multiple worlds of Promised Land, and of course Hitler as horrible private eye.
Looking forward to this very much - but is there an ETA for "Judge of Worlds"? Holding my breath to see the last piece of Kithamar's narrative Swiss watch fitted into place.
June 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Looking forward to this very much - but is there an ETA for "Judge of Worlds"? Holding my breath to see the last piece of Kithamar's narrative Swiss watch fitted into place.
Humour present and correct.
June 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Humour present and correct.
I have indeed already loved them - but I've still pre-ordered them, because I need to own them on paper, and have the three spines spell AUD on my bookshelves.
June 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I have indeed already loved them - but I've still pre-ordered them, because I need to own them on paper, and have the three spines spell AUD on my bookshelves.
If you count alternative history as science fiction, then my Cahokia Jazz might work for you. Only set in 1922, though: canneries and streetcars instead of a spaceport.
May 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you count alternative history as science fiction, then my Cahokia Jazz might work for you. Only set in 1922, though: canneries and streetcars instead of a spaceport.
A trilogy was called for, obviously!
May 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A trilogy was called for, obviously!
And an enormous eeeeeeeeeee!! from me too.
May 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And an enormous eeeeeeeeeee!! from me too.
@daralind.bsky.social [cough] "Nonesuch", March 2026, US; Feb 2026, UK.
May 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@daralind.bsky.social [cough] "Nonesuch", March 2026, US; Feb 2026, UK.
Happy birthday!
April 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Happy birthday!
If only it were also available in contagiously readable, expanded form as a book!
April 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If only it were also available in contagiously readable, expanded form as a book!
Ah, I knew him when he was young in London. Cricket was his game then - batting with a copy of a John Updike novel in his other hand...
April 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Ah, I knew him when he was young in London. Cricket was his game then - batting with a copy of a John Updike novel in his other hand...
The taffeta and pom-pom producers of the British Isles will miss them.
April 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The taffeta and pom-pom producers of the British Isles will miss them.
I absolutely get where you're coming from. And I honestly don't make a habit of turning up to argue like this - it's just that in some ways the question you asked is *the* question a book like this, written by an outsider, has to face up to. Have a good day in Beijing!
April 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I absolutely get where you're coming from. And I honestly don't make a habit of turning up to argue like this - it's just that in some ways the question you asked is *the* question a book like this, written by an outsider, has to face up to. Have a good day in Beijing!
All the same, doing it was a conscious step over the edge of my competence, and I'm sure that in many ways small as well as large I made errors. It was just that no-one else seemed to see the possibility of making the book exist. Right, vanishing now and turning back into a puff of authorial smoke.
April 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
All the same, doing it was a conscious step over the edge of my competence, and I'm sure that in many ways small as well as large I made errors. It was just that no-one else seemed to see the possibility of making the book exist. Right, vanishing now and turning back into a puff of authorial smoke.
The reactions to it I was proudest of were one from someone on GoodReads who'd grown up in the science town of Akademgorodok, and said the feel was right; and the abrasive review of the Russian edition that described my understanding of the Soviet 1960s as, quote, "crude but not ridiculous". 3/
April 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The reactions to it I was proudest of were one from someone on GoodReads who'd grown up in the science town of Akademgorodok, and said the feel was right; and the abrasive review of the Russian edition that described my understanding of the Soviet 1960s as, quote, "crude but not ridiculous". 3/
Had to centre the sensibility of the book in the other world in which it was taking place, while at the same time looking for points of commonality and contact so that the reader had pathways in, to eg the experience of living where money was not decisive. 2/
April 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Had to centre the sensibility of the book in the other world in which it was taking place, while at the same time looking for points of commonality and contact so that the reader had pathways in, to eg the experience of living where money was not decisive. 2/
I am that person. Forgive me for dropping by. On the substantive point: look, I worried all the time I was working on Red Plenty about the very narrow aperture I was staring at Soviet reality through. Hence the footnotes. Hence my constant reminders to myself that, so far as I could, I 1/
April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I am that person. Forgive me for dropping by. On the substantive point: look, I worried all the time I was working on Red Plenty about the very narrow aperture I was staring at Soviet reality through. Hence the footnotes. Hence my constant reminders to myself that, so far as I could, I 1/
Don't think I'm the person you need to hear from about this, but for what it's worth the major bias I was *aware* of when writing it was the bias of Western European social democracy/democratic socialism, which made Bolshevism always look like the homicidal cousin in the attic.
April 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Don't think I'm the person you need to hear from about this, but for what it's worth the major bias I was *aware* of when writing it was the bias of Western European social democracy/democratic socialism, which made Bolshevism always look like the homicidal cousin in the attic.
Doug, look me up at my place of work (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and send me an email there. Ahem.
April 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Doug, look me up at my place of work (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and send me an email there. Ahem.