Ed Morland
@edmorland.bsky.social
Mostly lurking but enjoy the sudden bursts of sport, SFF, board games or far more likely reposted content. (he/him)
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Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
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New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange.
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
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Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
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Book launches - survival, celebration and chocolate | Lorraine Wilson
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November 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange.
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live. :)
Intergalactic Mixtape #28
Hey! It was a pretty quiet week as the year winds down, but I’ve slowly started making both my 2026 reading list and my 2019 reading list, which is part of...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live. :)
Is it Christmas yet?
No, people please stop.
Is it however a perfectly reasonable time to start sweatrng about your inability to solve book name puzzles?
Absolutely
No, people please stop.
Is it however a perfectly reasonable time to start sweatrng about your inability to solve book name puzzles?
Absolutely
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Is it Christmas yet?
No, people please stop.
Is it however a perfectly reasonable time to start sweatrng about your inability to solve book name puzzles?
Absolutely
No, people please stop.
Is it however a perfectly reasonable time to start sweatrng about your inability to solve book name puzzles?
Absolutely
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As we approach the end of the year, it's a great time to record things you love! Not just for the Hugo Awards, but in general. The rec sheet is a handy resource for nomination, but also at its heart a rec resource in a loud, busy media environment.
The Hugo Awards (2026)
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November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
As we approach the end of the year, it's a great time to record things you love! Not just for the Hugo Awards, but in general. The rec sheet is a handy resource for nomination, but also at its heart a rec resource in a loud, busy media environment.
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Episode 6 of our close reading of Lord of the Rings! This one has a very restrained dearth of verse chat, but a return to a lot of the themes of previous sections, as we head down into the dwarf-dolven* halls of Khazad-dûm.
*this is just extremely funny to me
*this is just extremely funny to me
A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 5 – The Limits of Foresight
Episode six of our close reading takes us through chapters III – The Ring Goes South, IV – A Journey in the Dark and V – The Bridge of Khazad-dûm. In contrast to the last section,…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Episode 6 of our close reading of Lord of the Rings! This one has a very restrained dearth of verse chat, but a return to a lot of the themes of previous sections, as we head down into the dwarf-dolven* halls of Khazad-dûm.
*this is just extremely funny to me
*this is just extremely funny to me
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I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
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Here is my Bond idea: I'm imagining a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead treatment, where the Bond movie is background to two hapless MI5 newbies.
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Here is my Bond idea: I'm imagining a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead treatment, where the Bond movie is background to two hapless MI5 newbies.
This is a really stupid bit of discourse for any of us to be having but if we're going to this thread is actually interesting and thoughtful on it.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a really stupid bit of discourse for any of us to be having but if we're going to this thread is actually interesting and thoughtful on it.
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New week at SH, and in Reviews we open with a doozy: @shinjinidey.bsky.social on Paul Kincaid's Colourfields (@briardenebooks.bsky.social). Who doesn't love reading a critic on a critic?
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
Colourfields is constituted by tensions inherent to the genre.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New week at SH, and in Reviews we open with a doozy: @shinjinidey.bsky.social on Paul Kincaid's Colourfields (@briardenebooks.bsky.social). Who doesn't love reading a critic on a critic?
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
I know everyone gets media training, there's very little benefit in being honest, and being interviewed in your, at best, second language is tough but surely someone could have given him a better line than "We know this (the Principality) is a really tough place to come"
We know that's not the case
We know that's not the case
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I know everyone gets media training, there's very little benefit in being honest, and being interviewed in your, at best, second language is tough but surely someone could have given him a better line than "We know this (the Principality) is a really tough place to come"
We know that's not the case
We know that's not the case
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live! 🥳
Intergalactic Mixtape #27
Hey! This week there’s World Fantasy Award news, the regular deluge of new book lists for the month, and a diverse collection of reviews! And speaking of...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! 🥳
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October blog is UP! Typical of my kind of Halloween, things got very WW2 and Frankenstein focused.
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
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Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
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Only Monsters Play God, or, my October 2025 in media
I had planned for my October to follow a pretty standardly Halloween vibe: scary books, lightly spooky movies. But I am who I am, so after one attempt at...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
October blog is UP! Typical of my kind of Halloween, things got very WW2 and Frankenstein focused.
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
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Apocalypse World is far and away my favorite game, period, and this new edition is *even better*.
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Apocalypse World is far and away my favorite game, period, and this new edition is *even better*.
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New column! This time on a gorgeously eclectic novella, full of the pieces of people's lives and fragments of fairytales, as well as some genuinely thoughtful and interesting themes around community.
The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough: for the latest Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE (@stelliform.press)
Small Press Dispatch: The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough
Roseanna Pendlebury In Syr Hayati Beker’s What A Fish Looks Like, a book of fairytales is transformed by annotation into a collection of new fables, more suited to the climate-change-ravaged future…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
New column! This time on a gorgeously eclectic novella, full of the pieces of people's lives and fragments of fairytales, as well as some genuinely thoughtful and interesting themes around community.
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The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough: for the latest Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE (@stelliform.press)
Small Press Dispatch: The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough
Roseanna Pendlebury In Syr Hayati Beker’s What A Fish Looks Like, a book of fairytales is transformed by annotation into a collection of new fables, more suited to the climate-change-ravaged future…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough: for the latest Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE (@stelliform.press)
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Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Book Review: A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo
A deeply unsettling addition to the series, bringing the connecting thread of food up to the forefront of the story.
@chloroformtea.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
A deeply unsettling addition to the series, bringing the connecting thread of food up to the forefront of the story.
@chloroformtea.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
Book Review: A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo
A deeply unsettling addition to the series, bringing the connecting thread of food up to the forefront of the story. Cover art by Alyssa Win...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Book Review: A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo
A deeply unsettling addition to the series, bringing the connecting thread of food up to the forefront of the story.
@chloroformtea.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
A deeply unsettling addition to the series, bringing the connecting thread of food up to the forefront of the story.
@chloroformtea.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
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An impressive England this weekend dispatched and dismantled a Wallaby side who conquered Twickenham last year- We break down how they did it, and where this team goes next
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So how did England dismantle Australia? | Autumn Nations Series 2025 | Analysis Discussion
YouTube video by Squidge Rugby
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November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
An impressive England this weekend dispatched and dismantled a Wallaby side who conquered Twickenham last year- We break down how they did it, and where this team goes next
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Knew we were at some point getting the third book in this series and glad to have a date.
I guess we're very much getting into the filling out reading lists for 2026 part of the promo cycle.
I guess we're very much getting into the filling out reading lists for 2026 part of the promo cycle.
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Knew we were at some point getting the third book in this series and glad to have a date.
I guess we're very much getting into the filling out reading lists for 2026 part of the promo cycle.
I guess we're very much getting into the filling out reading lists for 2026 part of the promo cycle.
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Calls for reviews & essays: February 2026
Calls for Reviews & Essays: February 2026
The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…
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November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Calls for reviews & essays: February 2026
Dredging this column up now The Last to Drown has won a British Fantasy Award.
It's a wonderfully atmospheric read, prefect for this time of year, and if I or the award can't convince you maybe Roseanna can.
It's a wonderfully atmospheric read, prefect for this time of year, and if I or the award can't convince you maybe Roseanna can.
In the latest Small Press Dispatch, "Answers Painted Darkly by the Sea", @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at how Lorraine Wilson's THE LAST TO DROWN (@lunapress.bsky.social) plays to the strengths of the novella format: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/02/06/s...
Small Press Dispatch: Answers Painted Darkly by the Sea
Roseanna Pendlebury I’ve spoken in this column before about how good novellas can use a limited scope to change the terms of engagement, and use the size constraints to their advantage in crafting …
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Dredging this column up now The Last to Drown has won a British Fantasy Award.
It's a wonderfully atmospheric read, prefect for this time of year, and if I or the award can't convince you maybe Roseanna can.
It's a wonderfully atmospheric read, prefect for this time of year, and if I or the award can't convince you maybe Roseanna can.
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Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them.
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
Save 40% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them.
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
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And the winner is Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi, accepted on her behalf
November 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
And the winner is Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi, accepted on her behalf