Eóin Dooley
@eoindooley.bsky.social
He/him. Lapsed cognitive scientist turned writer. SFWA, BFS & MSc. Words in various places. BSFA ‘25 longlister
Debut novella NO SYMPATHY available with @press-android.bsky.social
Book links: https://linktr.ee/dooleyeo
Site: https://eoindooley.carrd.co
Debut novella NO SYMPATHY available with @press-android.bsky.social
Book links: https://linktr.ee/dooleyeo
Site: https://eoindooley.carrd.co
I've joked before about the suggested books No Sympathy gets on Goodreads - it's a hilariously incoherent mix - but the first non-fiction recommendation really got me
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I've joked before about the suggested books No Sympathy gets on Goodreads - it's a hilariously incoherent mix - but the first non-fiction recommendation really got me
Delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of @bansheepress.bsky.social’s 20th issue.
ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.
ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of @bansheepress.bsky.social’s 20th issue.
ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.
ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.
Book launch news! Tomorrow, DREAD MONDAYS will be published by @whisperhousepress.bsky.social. Among many other great stories will be my own KOSCHEI'S THREAD. It's a terrific anthology by a terrific editor 🖤🎃🧠🧟
#WhisperHousePress #Horror #CostsOfLiving #DreadMondays #BookLaunch #booksky #horrorsky
#WhisperHousePress #Horror #CostsOfLiving #DreadMondays #BookLaunch #booksky #horrorsky
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Book launch news! Tomorrow, DREAD MONDAYS will be published by @whisperhousepress.bsky.social. Among many other great stories will be my own KOSCHEI'S THREAD. It's a terrific anthology by a terrific editor 🖤🎃🧠🧟
#WhisperHousePress #Horror #CostsOfLiving #DreadMondays #BookLaunch #booksky #horrorsky
#WhisperHousePress #Horror #CostsOfLiving #DreadMondays #BookLaunch #booksky #horrorsky
Recently read: The Trading Game. Gary Stevenson is one of the most interesting UK economic commentators active right now, given his unusual CV. The book feels like a jazzed-up biopic. Very fun, but the actual economic kernels you get are better learned through his YouTube channel. 💙📚
July 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Recently read: The Trading Game. Gary Stevenson is one of the most interesting UK economic commentators active right now, given his unusual CV. The book feels like a jazzed-up biopic. Very fun, but the actual economic kernels you get are better learned through his YouTube channel. 💙📚
Post yourself from another era
July 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Post yourself from another era
Recently read: The Safekeep. A beautiful, tender novel featuring my eternal weakness: an avoidant shut-in. The plot is elegant, the emotions deep and complicated, and the fixation on housing remarkably Gothic. The audiobook definitely added to the overall experience as well. Easy recommendation.
June 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Recently read: The Safekeep. A beautiful, tender novel featuring my eternal weakness: an avoidant shut-in. The plot is elegant, the emotions deep and complicated, and the fixation on housing remarkably Gothic. The audiobook definitely added to the overall experience as well. Easy recommendation.
Recently read: No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku). A great, dark read. Quite a lot in here, but my take is it explores how fixating on your own deficits in service of living up to societal ideals can ultimately make you a much worse person. Recommended if you want a short, melancholic novel.
June 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Recently read: No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku). A great, dark read. Quite a lot in here, but my take is it explores how fixating on your own deficits in service of living up to societal ideals can ultimately make you a much worse person. Recommended if you want a short, melancholic novel.
Recently read: The Commune Form. An excellent excursus of lives lived outside the state. There’s a few things I’ll be taking from this. A big one is the reframing acts of “resistance” as acts of “defence”. The former emphasises the hostile power, the latter, the desire to protect something we love.
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Recently read: The Commune Form. An excellent excursus of lives lived outside the state. There’s a few things I’ll be taking from this. A big one is the reframing acts of “resistance” as acts of “defence”. The former emphasises the hostile power, the latter, the desire to protect something we love.
Recently read: CCRU, 1997-2003.
This book is remarkable. I have no idea what it is. Theory, fiction, prose, poetry, grimoire, shitpost, all blended together in a Mythos about hyperstitious demonology, occult time wars, and cybergothic decay. An unhinged, nonsensical tome, yet still very engaging.
This book is remarkable. I have no idea what it is. Theory, fiction, prose, poetry, grimoire, shitpost, all blended together in a Mythos about hyperstitious demonology, occult time wars, and cybergothic decay. An unhinged, nonsensical tome, yet still very engaging.
June 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Recently read: CCRU, 1997-2003.
This book is remarkable. I have no idea what it is. Theory, fiction, prose, poetry, grimoire, shitpost, all blended together in a Mythos about hyperstitious demonology, occult time wars, and cybergothic decay. An unhinged, nonsensical tome, yet still very engaging.
This book is remarkable. I have no idea what it is. Theory, fiction, prose, poetry, grimoire, shitpost, all blended together in a Mythos about hyperstitious demonology, occult time wars, and cybergothic decay. An unhinged, nonsensical tome, yet still very engaging.
Brb learning how to write.
May 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Brb learning how to write.
Recently read: Inherent Vice. Had a great time — classic noir filtered through a cloud of pot smoke and postmodern anxiety, featuring a hard-boiled detective who is also a major hippie. Pretty accessible, despite it being Pynchon. Plus, I am convinced that this book is foundational to Disco Elysium.
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Recently read: Inherent Vice. Had a great time — classic noir filtered through a cloud of pot smoke and postmodern anxiety, featuring a hard-boiled detective who is also a major hippie. Pretty accessible, despite it being Pynchon. Plus, I am convinced that this book is foundational to Disco Elysium.
First order from Temu is admittedly a banger
May 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
First order from Temu is admittedly a banger
Back home from Eastercon / Reconnect. Really enjoyed my time there. I’m only a convention newbie, but that was the first one where I felt like I understood how to properly get into the swing of things.
Also picked up a serious book haul, because of course. #booksky
Also picked up a serious book haul, because of course. #booksky
April 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Back home from Eastercon / Reconnect. Really enjoyed my time there. I’m only a convention newbie, but that was the first one where I felt like I understood how to properly get into the swing of things.
Also picked up a serious book haul, because of course. #booksky
Also picked up a serious book haul, because of course. #booksky
Recently read: One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand. Curious little book. Not sure if it was the audiobook production or the translation but the prose often didn’t land for me, yet at the same time the way the theme unfolds perfectly matches the arc of the existential crisis I had when I was 16. 📚💙
April 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Recently read: One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand. Curious little book. Not sure if it was the audiobook production or the translation but the prose often didn’t land for me, yet at the same time the way the theme unfolds perfectly matches the arc of the existential crisis I had when I was 16. 📚💙
Recently read: Parable of the Sower. My first Octavia Butler, which is embarrassing to admit. Such a compelling voice. The story was a lot bleaker than I was anticipating. The cover quote likens it to other dystopian works but it reminded me of The Road above all, and tbqh I think it surpasses it 📚💙
April 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Recently read: Parable of the Sower. My first Octavia Butler, which is embarrassing to admit. Such a compelling voice. The story was a lot bleaker than I was anticipating. The cover quote likens it to other dystopian works but it reminded me of The Road above all, and tbqh I think it surpasses it 📚💙
Recently read: The Bee Sting. I had forgotten how big a fan I was of Skippy Dies, until I read this. An impressively complex family saga, brilliantly told. Definitely errs on the tragic side of the tragicomic. Stuff this honed in on Irish parochialism can be hit-or-miss for me, but this hit. 💙📚
April 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Recently read: The Bee Sting. I had forgotten how big a fan I was of Skippy Dies, until I read this. An impressively complex family saga, brilliantly told. Definitely errs on the tragic side of the tragicomic. Stuff this honed in on Irish parochialism can be hit-or-miss for me, but this hit. 💙📚
Recently read: The Ministry For The Future. Compelling and prophetic, but have to agree with criticism that it’s overly optimistic. Media disinformation feels like the biggest blind spot, among others. Still, the range of thoughts it prompted in me assure its status as solid SF. Great audiobook too.
March 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Recently read: The Ministry For The Future. Compelling and prophetic, but have to agree with criticism that it’s overly optimistic. Media disinformation feels like the biggest blind spot, among others. Still, the range of thoughts it prompted in me assure its status as solid SF. Great audiobook too.
Recently read: My Teaching. I was hoping to find a good introduction to Lacan as he is, for me, one of the more mystifying theorists leftists like to invoke. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. Conversational, sure, but presuming the reader is already on board with psychoanalysis, which I ain’t. 💙📚
March 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Recently read: My Teaching. I was hoping to find a good introduction to Lacan as he is, for me, one of the more mystifying theorists leftists like to invoke. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. Conversational, sure, but presuming the reader is already on board with psychoanalysis, which I ain’t. 💙📚
Recently read: A City on Mars. Smart, funny, with marvellously detailed research. Deserves its Hugo. Helped me articulate my own disinterest in space, which is that it’s so often discussed purely as a set of technical exercises without any practical framework. This doesn’t neglect practicalities. 💙📚
March 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Recently read: A City on Mars. Smart, funny, with marvellously detailed research. Deserves its Hugo. Helped me articulate my own disinterest in space, which is that it’s so often discussed purely as a set of technical exercises without any practical framework. This doesn’t neglect practicalities. 💙📚
Recently read: Pirate Enlightenment. Following on from Black Sails I knew I wanted to read Graeber’s final book. It’s a fun, technical analysis of how pirate politics intersected with Malagasy customs to temporarily create a pre-Enlightenment egalitarian society, whose creation was driven by women.
March 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Recently read: Pirate Enlightenment. Following on from Black Sails I knew I wanted to read Graeber’s final book. It’s a fun, technical analysis of how pirate politics intersected with Malagasy customs to temporarily create a pre-Enlightenment egalitarian society, whose creation was driven by women.
Recently read: Sacred and Terrible Air (Ibex V4)
I’m a big Disco Elysium fan. So I’m sad to report this is hard to recommend to folks not already versed in that world. There are some very cool ideas but the underlying experimental structure (and possibly the translation) inhibits their development.
I’m a big Disco Elysium fan. So I’m sad to report this is hard to recommend to folks not already versed in that world. There are some very cool ideas but the underlying experimental structure (and possibly the translation) inhibits their development.
March 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Recently read: Sacred and Terrible Air (Ibex V4)
I’m a big Disco Elysium fan. So I’m sad to report this is hard to recommend to folks not already versed in that world. There are some very cool ideas but the underlying experimental structure (and possibly the translation) inhibits their development.
I’m a big Disco Elysium fan. So I’m sad to report this is hard to recommend to folks not already versed in that world. There are some very cool ideas but the underlying experimental structure (and possibly the translation) inhibits their development.
Recently read: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. A beautiful and elegant piece of work, which has one of my favourite things of being subtly sci-fi while getting literary plaudits. The book relies heavily on its voice though, so it’s an accurate distinction.
February 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Recently read: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. A beautiful and elegant piece of work, which has one of my favourite things of being subtly sci-fi while getting literary plaudits. The book relies heavily on its voice though, so it’s an accurate distinction.
Went out to see Steve Coogan and pals. Pretty sure this guy used to go by Dr. Merkwürdigliebe.
February 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Went out to see Steve Coogan and pals. Pretty sure this guy used to go by Dr. Merkwürdigliebe.
Recently read: Marxist Modernism by Gillian Rose. It’s very funny (and leftist) for a “conversational introduction” to have a preface talking about how legendarily difficult the writer is. Luckily it actually is a pretty straightforward overview of the Frankfurt school. Lots of nice little insights.
February 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Recently read: Marxist Modernism by Gillian Rose. It’s very funny (and leftist) for a “conversational introduction” to have a preface talking about how legendarily difficult the writer is. Luckily it actually is a pretty straightforward overview of the Frankfurt school. Lots of nice little insights.
Hugo nominations have opened up!
My two eligible works are a novella and a poem.
Links for No Sympathy can be found here: linktr.ee/dooleyeo. Reminder that it's also on the Nebula reading list and the BFSA longlist.
Link for my poem: www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...
Thanks for your time 😇
My two eligible works are a novella and a poem.
Links for No Sympathy can be found here: linktr.ee/dooleyeo. Reminder that it's also on the Nebula reading list and the BFSA longlist.
Link for my poem: www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...
Thanks for your time 😇
February 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hugo nominations have opened up!
My two eligible works are a novella and a poem.
Links for No Sympathy can be found here: linktr.ee/dooleyeo. Reminder that it's also on the Nebula reading list and the BFSA longlist.
Link for my poem: www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...
Thanks for your time 😇
My two eligible works are a novella and a poem.
Links for No Sympathy can be found here: linktr.ee/dooleyeo. Reminder that it's also on the Nebula reading list and the BFSA longlist.
Link for my poem: www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...
Thanks for your time 😇