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Brexile. SF reader and writer. SF läsare och författare. He/him. Not trans, but trans women are women, trans men are men.
https://medium.com/@ian-93054
Brexile. SF reader and writer. SF läsare och författare. He/him. Not trans, but trans women are women, trans men are men.
https://medium.com/@ian-93054
whatever planet Trump is living on, it seems to be a nicer place than the one his actual policies are creating
July 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
whatever planet Trump is living on, it seems to be a nicer place than the one his actual policies are creating
new longish review of a Clarke Award nominated novel: ian-93054.medium.com/the-ten-perc...
The Ten Percent Thief, Lavanya Lakshminarayan
This was nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award last year, but lost out to In Ascension (2023, UK) by Martin MacInnes — which I wasn’t as…
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July 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
new longish review of a Clarke Award nominated novel: ian-93054.medium.com/the-ten-perc...
ICYMI - the best books I've read so far this year: medium.com/@ian-93054/b...
Books of the year, Jan to Jun
I’ve been doing this for I don’t know how long, but a few decades at least. I change format every now and again, but the objective remains…
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June 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
ICYMI - the best books I've read so far this year: medium.com/@ian-93054/b...
new post - the best books of the first half of 2025 medium.com/@ian-93054/b...
Books of the year, Jan to Jun
I’ve been doing this for I don’t know how long, but a few decades at least. I change format every now and again, but the objective remains…
medium.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
new post - the best books of the first half of 2025 medium.com/@ian-93054/b...
Watching Willow. Wine has apparently not improved it.
May 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Watching Willow. Wine has apparently not improved it.
new reality TV show idea: you get a has-been reality TV star, who has snorted so many drugs their brain is cheese (the kind with holes), convince them they've been made president, and then wheel out a succession of world leaders for "audiences"
May 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
new reality TV show idea: you get a has-been reality TV star, who has snorted so many drugs their brain is cheese (the kind with holes), convince them they've been made president, and then wheel out a succession of world leaders for "audiences"
I use my Medium blog for long reviews, so here's a new one: ian-93054.medium.com/redshirts-jo...
Redshirts, John Scalzi
According to Barthes in his 1967 essay ‘La mort de l’auteur’, “the death of the author”, a text should be analysed irrespective of the…
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May 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I use my Medium blog for long reviews, so here's a new one: ian-93054.medium.com/redshirts-jo...
new review iansales.com/2025/05/14/s...
Sufferance, Charles Palliser
I’ve been a fan of Palliser’s novels since reading his debut, The Quincunx (1989, UK), a complex Dickensian novel about an orphan and the mysteries surrounding his birth back in the 1990s. Betrayal…
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May 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
new review iansales.com/2025/05/14/s...
Have just seen the Andrex advert. The UK has changed since I left.
May 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Have just seen the Andrex advert. The UK has changed since I left.
new review iansales.com/2025/05/12/o...
On Vicious Worlds, Bethany Jacobs
The second book of the Kindom trilogy, begun with These Burning Stars (2023, USA; see my review on Medium here). There’s a thing called Middle Book Syndrome which often affects trilogies. The first…
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May 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Fresh reviewness: iansales.com/2025/05/09/p...
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
For a novel explicitly constructed as an old Analog-style puzzle story, there are four puzzles in Project Hail Mary (2021, USA) which the novel does not attempt to solve: why did I buy it, why did …
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May 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Fresh reviewness: iansales.com/2025/05/09/p...
I do the blog thing again, and plan to do so going forward, because hell yeah why not and other such meaningless aphasic expressions, although I should add my blog posts are anything but aphasic but what I do know, but read and er marvel and make up your own mind I hope iansales.com/2025/05/06/t...
The Planet Buyer, Cordwainer Smith
Shortlisted for the Hugo Award in 1965. I suspect Smith is better-regarded these days than he was when he was writing. According to sfadb.com, he had only two Hugo nominations: a short story in 195…
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May 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I do the blog thing again, and plan to do so going forward, because hell yeah why not and other such meaningless aphasic expressions, although I should add my blog posts are anything but aphasic but what I do know, but read and er marvel and make up your own mind I hope iansales.com/2025/05/06/t...
I haven't believed Labour is Labour for a long time
April 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I haven't believed Labour is Labour for a long time
new review: ian-93054.medium.com/consider-phl...
Consider Phlebas, Iain M Banks
Consider Phlebas (1987, UK) was Iain M Banks’s first novel — but not Iain Banks’s first novel. Which was The Wasp Factory (1984, UK). Two…
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April 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
new review: ian-93054.medium.com/consider-phl...
Musk is determined to "save" the human race by colonising Mars even if it means destroying Earth in the process.
If Musk had two brain cells to rub together, they've long since been sucked into the vacuum between Trump's ears, where they're busy fighting each other.
If Musk had two brain cells to rub together, they've long since been sucked into the vacuum between Trump's ears, where they're busy fighting each other.
March 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Musk is determined to "save" the human race by colonising Mars even if it means destroying Earth in the process.
If Musk had two brain cells to rub together, they've long since been sucked into the vacuum between Trump's ears, where they're busy fighting each other.
If Musk had two brain cells to rub together, they've long since been sucked into the vacuum between Trump's ears, where they're busy fighting each other.
You have to wonder if the reason Musk supports Trump is because Trump is the only person on the planet who makes Musk look clever
March 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
You have to wonder if the reason Musk supports Trump is because Trump is the only person on the planet who makes Musk look clever
Now the Russians are in the White House, it's time for a new campaign: Make America American Again. MAAA!
March 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Now the Russians are in the White House, it's time for a new campaign: Make America American Again. MAAA!
Let's not forget the US did not help Europe for nothing during WWII. The UK only finally paid off its debt to the US in 2006.
March 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Let's not forget the US did not help Europe for nothing during WWII. The UK only finally paid off its debt to the US in 2006.
Strange how no one is mentioning Israel sided with Russia in the UN resolution about Ukraine
February 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Strange how no one is mentioning Israel sided with Russia in the UN resolution about Ukraine
new review ian-93054.medium.com/life-in-the-...
Life in the West, Brian W Aldiss
I bought an ebook copy of The Squire Quartet, comprising Life in the West (1980, UK), Forgotten Life (1988, UK), Remembrance Day (1993, UK)…
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February 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king,.. if you're a retarded rapist incestuous man-baby-- oh, wait...
February 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king,.. if you're a retarded rapist incestuous man-baby-- oh, wait...
By the time Musk finishes, it's going to like like the UK got off lightly with Brexit
February 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
By the time Musk finishes, it's going to like like the UK got off lightly with Brexit
They got their first $100k by inheriting it or being gifted it.
They got their first million through hard work, luck and contacts, likely more of the last two than the first.
They got their first billion by corrupting the financial and legal environment in which they operate.
They got their first million through hard work, luck and contacts, likely more of the last two than the first.
They got their first billion by corrupting the financial and legal environment in which they operate.
February 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
They got their first $100k by inheriting it or being gifted it.
They got their first million through hard work, luck and contacts, likely more of the last two than the first.
They got their first billion by corrupting the financial and legal environment in which they operate.
They got their first million through hard work, luck and contacts, likely more of the last two than the first.
They got their first billion by corrupting the financial and legal environment in which they operate.
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The next Briardene Book is Colourfields by Paul Kincaid, out in April! An exploration of SF as seen by critics, historians, and biographers, you can pre-order through our shop now: briardenebooks.uk/shop/
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The next Briardene Book is Colourfields by Paul Kincaid, out in April! An exploration of SF as seen by critics, historians, and biographers, you can pre-order through our shop now: briardenebooks.uk/shop/