John H Gardner
@johnhgardner.bsky.social
Lifetime goal for reading: all winning books / novels (fiction and non-fiction) for Pulitzer, National Book Award, Hugo, Nebula and Locus (SciFi & Fantasy). Gamer since Atari 2600 days.
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2025 Reading Book Thread - a log of the books read during the year. Monthly goal: 4 books from the Pulitzer, National Book Awards, Hugo, Nebula or Locus lists. Will also include non-goal books read. 🧵
Bi-monthly update of lifetime reading goal (as of August 31st, 2025):
August 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Bi-monthly update of lifetime reading goal (as of August 31st, 2025):
While I’m glad that they notify you of expiring titles (included in membership), I wish Audible did a better job of 1) giving more sufficient notice and 2) enablement of push notifications of such expirations. I had several appear at once in the past day.
August 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
While I’m glad that they notify you of expiring titles (included in membership), I wish Audible did a better job of 1) giving more sufficient notice and 2) enablement of push notifications of such expirations. I had several appear at once in the past day.
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Congratulations to this year's Hugo winners, and to the Lodestar and Astounding winners, too!
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Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Winners
The winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 16, 2025 by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World…
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August 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Congratulations to this year's Hugo winners, and to the Lodestar and Astounding winners, too!
locusmag.com/2025/08/hugo...
locusmag.com/2025/08/hugo...
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📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ
August 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ
Listened and look forward to more. Thanks to Christine for putting the work into its creation and congratulations on launching your podcast!
The first episode of Hugo History will drop tomorrow at 9am. It focuses on Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man, 1953 winner. Hosted by @klaxoncomms.com, with guest @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social.
You can find it wherever you find podcasts, but this is a direct link: sites.libsyn.com/586395
You can find it wherever you find podcasts, but this is a direct link: sites.libsyn.com/586395
Hugo History
Join us in discussing all of the Hugo Award winners beginning in 1953. Updated monthly. SciFi/Fantasy.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Listened and look forward to more. Thanks to Christine for putting the work into its creation and congratulations on launching your podcast!
Robert Caro, in his 1982 National Book Award finalist The Path to Power, describes nature’s power of the “gullywashers” of the Texas Hill Country, destroying the hard work of LBJ’s father. That was on the Pedernales River about 50 miles east of Kerrville on the Guadalupe, but similar phenomenon.
July 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Robert Caro, in his 1982 National Book Award finalist The Path to Power, describes nature’s power of the “gullywashers” of the Texas Hill Country, destroying the hard work of LBJ’s father. That was on the Pedernales River about 50 miles east of Kerrville on the Guadalupe, but similar phenomenon.
I was a boy at Camp Stewart during the 1987 flood. Waking up the next morning and seeing a huge rushing river in place of a meandering stream is a surreal experience and one that sticks with you after 40 years. I sincerely pray for those affected. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/04/t...
Death toll from Hill Country flash floods rises to 24 as rescue efforts continue
Local officials said they have rescued or evacuated more than 200 people since the Guadalupe River flooded early Friday morning, but the fate of more than 20 girls missing from a camp remains unclear.
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July 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I was a boy at Camp Stewart during the 1987 flood. Waking up the next morning and seeing a huge rushing river in place of a meandering stream is a surreal experience and one that sticks with you after 40 years. I sincerely pray for those affected. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/04/t...
Bi-monthly update of lifetime reading goal at mid-year point (as of June 30th, 2025):
July 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Bi-monthly update of lifetime reading goal at mid-year point (as of June 30th, 2025):
I’ve been looking for podcasts to help round out my reading and this looks very promising. I enjoyed my first episode and recommend. As a fan of both Cyteen and Downbelow Station (and Arkady Martine) this was great accompanying material.
At least 10% Cyteen by weight, & processed in a facility that also processes Dragonriders of Pern: @byzantienne.bsky.social joins us for a conversation on 40,000 IN GEHENNA, historiographical SF, thorny ideas, and Cherryh's style & influence. With a quick bonus @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social report!
A Meal of Thorns 27 – 40,000 IN GEHENNA with Arkady Martine (and a 4th Street Fantasy Report)
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Arkady MartineTitle: 40,000 in Gehenna by C.J. CherryhHost: …
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June 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’ve been looking for podcasts to help round out my reading and this looks very promising. I enjoyed my first episode and recommend. As a fan of both Cyteen and Downbelow Station (and Arkady Martine) this was great accompanying material.
And more step to a far less interesting, unremarkable history.
It’s going to be real tough to discuss Japanese American internment without saying something negative.
All national parks now have this sign. Sanitizing crimes and erasing memory is one more step towards a white supremacist version of history.
All national parks now have this sign. Sanitizing crimes and erasing memory is one more step towards a white supremacist version of history.
June 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
And more step to a far less interesting, unremarkable history.
Congratulations to all the 2025 Locus award winners! file770.com/2025-locus-a...
2025 Locus Awards Winners
Locus Awards trophy. Art by Shaun Tan. The 2025 Locus Awards were announced June 21 in a ceremony during Locus Awards Weekend in Oakland, CA. SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexande…
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June 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Congratulations to all the 2025 Locus award winners! file770.com/2025-locus-a...
Though they rightfully make fun of my reading goal (Poo-litzers, with pinky up), the family enables it as well: much appreciated 2025 Happy Father’s Day gifts of leather/ magnetic bookmarks and clip reading light:
June 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Though they rightfully make fun of my reading goal (Poo-litzers, with pinky up), the family enables it as well: much appreciated 2025 Happy Father’s Day gifts of leather/ magnetic bookmarks and clip reading light:
This podcast is great; I enjoyed their take, especially with the apt reference to the movie Dave and comparison to Ignatius of A Confederacy of Dunces.
June 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This podcast is great; I enjoyed their take, especially with the apt reference to the movie Dave and comparison to Ignatius of A Confederacy of Dunces.
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🎊 And the Nebula for Best Novel goes to... SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN by @wiswell.bsky.social (DAW; Arcadia UK). Congratulations!!! #Nebulas2025 🥳🥳🥳
June 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
🎊 And the Nebula for Best Novel goes to... SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN by @wiswell.bsky.social (DAW; Arcadia UK). Congratulations!!! #Nebulas2025 🥳🥳🥳
While no longer using graph paper for maps, reliving the C64 days of childhood through the Bard’s Tale Trilogy, all 3 now completed. Originally, I never got past Harkyn’s Tower of BT1. Thanks to @inxile.net for remastering this gem of an RPG and @gamepass.xbox.com for its availability.
June 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
While no longer using graph paper for maps, reliving the C64 days of childhood through the Bard’s Tale Trilogy, all 3 now completed. Originally, I never got past Harkyn’s Tower of BT1. Thanks to @inxile.net for remastering this gem of an RPG and @gamepass.xbox.com for its availability.
Congratulations to all the Pulitzer Prize winners announced today!
The 2025 Pulitzer winners and finalists will be announced at 3 pm Eastern time! Watch the livestream here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSCp...
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2025 Pulitzer Prize Announcement Livestream
YouTube video by The Pulitzer Prizes
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May 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Congratulations to all the Pulitzer Prize winners announced today!
Bi-monthly update of lifetime reading goal (as of April 30th, 2025):
May 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Bi-monthly update of lifetime reading goal (as of April 30th, 2025):
Great Sunday morning read.
Trump likes to cite history to defend high tariffs. But in history, context is everything. Let me explain one aspect of Gilded Age tariffs to explain why that precedent doesn’t apply.
The tl;dr is the tariff was critical to maintaining the gold standard. And the gold standard is long gone.
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The tl;dr is the tariff was critical to maintaining the gold standard. And the gold standard is long gone.
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March 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Great Sunday morning read.
Bi-monthly update of lifetime reading goal (as of February 28, 2025):
March 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Bi-monthly update of lifetime reading goal (as of February 28, 2025):
I don’t recall this as a feature last year of Audible but it it is a nice way of showing the only way I could read as many books as I did (long commute times and a couple long trips to and from Indiana / Chicago)
January 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I don’t recall this as a feature last year of Audible but it it is a nice way of showing the only way I could read as many books as I did (long commute times and a couple long trips to and from Indiana / Chicago)
2025 Reading Book Thread - a log of the books read during the year. Monthly goal: 4 books from the Pulitzer, National Book Awards, Hugo, Nebula or Locus lists. Will also include non-goal books read. 🧵
January 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
2025 Reading Book Thread - a log of the books read during the year. Monthly goal: 4 books from the Pulitzer, National Book Awards, Hugo, Nebula or Locus lists. Will also include non-goal books read. 🧵
Year-end book totals and overall numbers. Recap, along with liked / recommended 2024 books read found here:
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December 31, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Year-end book totals and overall numbers. Recap, along with liked / recommended 2024 books read found here:
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Finished my last book of 2024 and with that, a list of my top books of the year.
First, re: goal to read 4 books/mo. toward lifetime goal. In 2024, I read 72, with 68 toward goal (+20 toward yearly goal, +13 over 2023). Read over 30K pages, with a rate at almost 90 pgs / day.
First, re: goal to read 4 books/mo. toward lifetime goal. In 2024, I read 72, with 68 toward goal (+20 toward yearly goal, +13 over 2023). Read over 30K pages, with a rate at almost 90 pgs / day.
December 31, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Finished my last book of 2024 and with that, a list of my top books of the year.
First, re: goal to read 4 books/mo. toward lifetime goal. In 2024, I read 72, with 68 toward goal (+20 toward yearly goal, +13 over 2023). Read over 30K pages, with a rate at almost 90 pgs / day.
First, re: goal to read 4 books/mo. toward lifetime goal. In 2024, I read 72, with 68 toward goal (+20 toward yearly goal, +13 over 2023). Read over 30K pages, with a rate at almost 90 pgs / day.
Book 67 of 2024: Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe (Locus Fantasy 1987, Nebula finalist). My first book by this author. Coupling with a heroic epic, its use of anterograde amnesia in the primary narrator wasn’t off-putting.
December 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Book 67 of 2024: Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe (Locus Fantasy 1987, Nebula finalist). My first book by this author. Coupling with a heroic epic, its use of anterograde amnesia in the primary narrator wasn’t off-putting.
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
Witch King by @marthawells.com
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Witch King by @marthawells.com
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
December 15, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
Witch King by @marthawells.com
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Witch King by @marthawells.com
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann