Matthew De Abaitua
@mdeabaitua.bsky.social
The Red Men, IF THEN, The Destructives and Self & I. Science fiction, yes.
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Reach for the stars... New @backlisted.bsky.social, LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon, with @mdeabaitua.bsky.social!
New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Reach for the stars... New @backlisted.bsky.social, LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon, with @mdeabaitua.bsky.social!
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New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
www.backlisted.fm
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
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Great essay.
If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading.
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Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Great essay.
In today's class we will be looking at:
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In today's class we will be looking at:
LinkedIn: The Musical.
October 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
LinkedIn: The Musical.
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Remember 118118? How ridiculous does that service seem now? So of course there's a Fisherian angle to it, which I've penned here
tacity.co.uk/2025/07/16/g...
tacity.co.uk/2025/07/16/g...
“Got your number”: 118118 as the cultural ghosts of a future we never had
In the early 2000s, before the global financial crash ripped the world apart and our world of latent fascistic tumult was cloaked in a burial shroud of capitalist realism, the soon-to-be outgoing L…
tacity.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Remember 118118? How ridiculous does that service seem now? So of course there's a Fisherian angle to it, which I've penned here
tacity.co.uk/2025/07/16/g...
tacity.co.uk/2025/07/16/g...
The stresses of the week have turned this social butterfly into a social caterpillar.
June 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The stresses of the week have turned this social butterfly into a social caterpillar.
This is not our cat. It moved in earlier this week and has made itself very much at home. Our cat Vincent is sulking on top of the wardrobe and won't come down.
June 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is not our cat. It moved in earlier this week and has made itself very much at home. Our cat Vincent is sulking on top of the wardrobe and won't come down.
"He's a legend in his own LinkedIntime."
June 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"He's a legend in his own LinkedIntime."
I've listen to This Mortal Coil's album Blood about twice a day. I only discovered it about a month ago. It's a pocket universe that I never knew existed.
May 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I've listen to This Mortal Coil's album Blood about twice a day. I only discovered it about a month ago. It's a pocket universe that I never knew existed.
In my twenties, I did things because they were cool.
In my thirties, I did things because they made money.
In my forties, I did things to make my mark.
In my fifties, I want to do things because they have meaning.
In my thirties, I did things because they made money.
In my forties, I did things to make my mark.
In my fifties, I want to do things because they have meaning.
May 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In my twenties, I did things because they were cool.
In my thirties, I did things because they made money.
In my forties, I did things to make my mark.
In my fifties, I want to do things because they have meaning.
In my thirties, I did things because they made money.
In my forties, I did things to make my mark.
In my fifties, I want to do things because they have meaning.
Insightful review concerning class and the question of who speaks in a novel by Niall Harrison on of The Mune by Sue Dawes and The Hampdenshire Wonder by J.D. Beresford
The Mune by Sue Dawes and The Hampdenshire Wonder by J.D. Beresford: Review by Niall Harrison
The Mune, Sue Dawes (Gold SF 978-1-91598-324-4, $19.95, 329pp, tp) March 2025. The Hampdenshire Wonder, J.D. Beresford (Sidgwick & Jackson 412pp, hc) 1911. (The MIT Press 978-0-26255-141-0, $19…
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April 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Insightful review concerning class and the question of who speaks in a novel by Niall Harrison on of The Mune by Sue Dawes and The Hampdenshire Wonder by J.D. Beresford
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Unlike my peers
I still drink beers
Twice a week, sometimes three
So this is on me.
Unlike my peers
I still drink beers
Twice a week, sometimes three
So this is on me.
April 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Unlike my peers
I still drink beers
Twice a week, sometimes three
So this is on me.
Unlike my peers
I still drink beers
Twice a week, sometimes three
So this is on me.
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I would like to send love and appreciation to all the libraries, archives, and museums continuing to fight the good fight despite the challenges of our lives. We will be stronger at some point in the future because of these challenges.
April 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I would like to send love and appreciation to all the libraries, archives, and museums continuing to fight the good fight despite the challenges of our lives. We will be stronger at some point in the future because of these challenges.
Who will be the first American president to jetski across the thawed Arctic to celebrate a joint-drilling deal with Russia?
March 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Who will be the first American president to jetski across the thawed Arctic to celebrate a joint-drilling deal with Russia?
From new edition of Nemesis the Warlock.
March 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
From new edition of Nemesis the Warlock.
Then the cat went digital.
March 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Then the cat went digital.
From the good old days when I took dictation from my cat.
March 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
From the good old days when I took dictation from my cat.
All five of my books were used in the Meta AI training. Including The Destructives, a science fiction novel about AIs derived from irresponsibly assembled toxic data sets.
March 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
All five of my books were used in the Meta AI training. Including The Destructives, a science fiction novel about AIs derived from irresponsibly assembled toxic data sets.
That time in lockdown when the cat and I made a big score.
March 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
That time in lockdown when the cat and I made a big score.
I miss Malcolm Bradbury.
I miss a culture that had Malcolm Bradbury in it.
A world in which people made television programmes about the difficulty in adapting literary novels
youtu.be/HcjqNaExUwo?...
I miss a culture that had Malcolm Bradbury in it.
A world in which people made television programmes about the difficulty in adapting literary novels
youtu.be/HcjqNaExUwo?...
17/03/1986 - Film of the Book (The History Man) - BBC2
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March 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I miss Malcolm Bradbury.
I miss a culture that had Malcolm Bradbury in it.
A world in which people made television programmes about the difficulty in adapting literary novels
youtu.be/HcjqNaExUwo?...
I miss a culture that had Malcolm Bradbury in it.
A world in which people made television programmes about the difficulty in adapting literary novels
youtu.be/HcjqNaExUwo?...
But isn't a large language model also a wordcel?
March 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
But isn't a large language model also a wordcel?
Join me in 2018 as we look forward seven years into the future, asking: what will life be like in 2025?
We will be... 3D printing our food!
We will be... 3D printing our food!
February 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Join me in 2018 as we look forward seven years into the future, asking: what will life be like in 2025?
We will be... 3D printing our food!
We will be... 3D printing our food!
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My essay on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction is in the new issue of the @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
Thanks to the editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social
thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Thanks to the editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social
thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Essay | Cusk, Experimentalism and the Limits of Autofiction by Zuhri James - The London Magazine
'Avant-garde, experimental art is still a terrain largely reserved for white artists.' Zuhri James explores the limits of Rachel Cusk's autofiction.
thelondonmagazine.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My essay on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction is in the new issue of the @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
Thanks to the editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social
thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Thanks to the editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social
thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Billionaires are hyperobjects too. Hypersubjects, maybe.
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Billionaires are hyperobjects too. Hypersubjects, maybe.