Nick Hubble
@thehubble101.bsky.social
Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher, critic, academic. Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Columnist, Vector: #SFFResistance. Blogs on SFF at Prospective Cultures - current topics: #ScottishSFF #CriticismForInterestingTimes. https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
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Nick Hubble
@thehubble101.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Tricia Sullivan’s Occupy Me (2016)
This review first appeared in Foundation 125 (2016): 112-115 [I’ve added additional links to this blog version] Tricia Sullivan, Occupy Me (Gollancz, 2016, 266pp, £16.99) Reviewed by Nick Hubble (B…
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I'm sitting in 'Who Runs the World? Feminism in SFF' at #Eastercon. Long discussion of how women SFF writers disappear. I'm starting a daily thread of reviews of books from a few years ago which still deserve to be read and discussed. First up, Tricia Sullivan's Occupy Me (2016). (1/-)
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Maybe the Birds, by @ajashworth.bsky.social featured on MIT Reader from @mitpress.bsky.social
@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF
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@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF
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A.J. Ashworth: ‘The Guide’
Across millennia, a cave painter and a son confront the shadows of creation and loss. A story from A.J. Ashworth’s new collection “Maybe the Birds.”
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October 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Maybe the Birds, by @ajashworth.bsky.social featured on MIT Reader from @mitpress.bsky.social
@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF
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@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF
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I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should
LRT: Not that I was a fan of current BBC management anyway. This just further pushes mainstream media into solely being a political tool. I can't see anyway 'back' to an objective national media in UK.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
LRT: Not that I was a fan of current BBC management anyway. This just further pushes mainstream media into solely being a political tool. I can't see anyway 'back' to an objective national media in UK.
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This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
I just meant 'modern' not 'modern modern' ... but maybe 'modern modern' has possibilities.
Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF
If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I just meant 'modern' not 'modern modern' ... but maybe 'modern modern' has possibilities.
Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF
If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF
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"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
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At #PictCon on Scottish science-fiction- someone FINALLY mentioned Margaret Elphinstone. #TheIncomer #ASparrowsFlight
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
At #PictCon on Scottish science-fiction- someone FINALLY mentioned Margaret Elphinstone. #TheIncomer #ASparrowsFlight
Not technically on 'the road' as I'm sitting in the hotel in Perth, where I have just finished this #ScottishSFF post on Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction. An Elflandish take on what happened to the revolution! Remember, it's all about the practices it codes for...
Road from Glasgow 2024 to PictCon 1: Ken MacLeod, The Star Fraction (1995)
Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF, which began in the run-up to the Glasgow WorldCon and are now continuing on to PictCon 1 in November 2025 and will continue afterwards. I began this seri…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Not technically on 'the road' as I'm sitting in the hotel in Perth, where I have just finished this #ScottishSFF post on Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction. An Elflandish take on what happened to the revolution! Remember, it's all about the practices it codes for...
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A quick reminder that i have a weirdish dark fantasy novel available on Audible.
And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A quick reminder that i have a weirdish dark fantasy novel available on Audible.
And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
'University of Little England'
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
'University of Little England'
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Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns...
This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns...
This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
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As if by magic, this review (the Swift one, aka read this everyone) is now online. locusmag.com/review/when-...
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
As if by magic, this review (the Swift one, aka read this everyone) is now online. locusmag.com/review/when-...
Seeing lots of nice pics from Brighton on social media. Here's one of me on Aberystwyth seafront about 45 mins ago. Nice here but looked like it was raining out to the west towards Ireland.
November 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Seeing lots of nice pics from Brighton on social media. Here's one of me on Aberystwyth seafront about 45 mins ago. Nice here but looked like it was raining out to the west towards Ireland.
Thanks for posting this. Timely, as I am thinking about Mitchison and other Scottish SFF writers, such as Margaret Elphinstone and Ken MacLeod, at the moment before heading to Perth for the PictCon 1 SF convention next weekend.
Prof @thehubble101.bsky.social has excellent blog posts on Naomi Mitchison’s #HistoricalFiction & #ScienceFiction – THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS, MEMOIRS OF A SPACEWOMAN, THE CORN KING & THE SPRING QUEEN & others – & the crossovers between them
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Naomi Mitchison – Prospective Cultures
Posts about Naomi Mitchison written by Nick Hubble
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November 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Thanks for posting this. Timely, as I am thinking about Mitchison and other Scottish SFF writers, such as Margaret Elphinstone and Ken MacLeod, at the moment before heading to Perth for the PictCon 1 SF convention next weekend.
Fantastic news. Great to see Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming out next year in a new edition.
“Read it now” – Ursula K. Le Guin
Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, TRAVEL LIGHT is a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing, & is being republished in the UK in March 2026 by Virago
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9.5/10
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Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, TRAVEL LIGHT is a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing, & is being republished in the UK in March 2026 by Virago
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9.5/10
store.virago.co.uk/products/tra...
Travel Light
A REDISCOVERED FANTASY CLASSIC - INTRODUCED BY SAMANTHA SHANNON'No one knows better how to spin a fairy tale than Naomi Mitchison' OBSERVER'I felt, very powerfully, that I had been waiting for Travel ...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Fantastic news. Great to see Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming out next year in a new edition.
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“In the year CS Lewis published THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE… Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children”
@profrmaslen.bsky.social on how THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, world war, & the supernatural
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@profrmaslen.bsky.social on how THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, world war, & the supernatural
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Naomi Mitchison, The Big House (1950)
In the year C. S. Lewis published The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 1950, Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children. Unlike Lewis’s book, The Big House is intimately…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“In the year CS Lewis published THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE… Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children”
@profrmaslen.bsky.social on how THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, world war, & the supernatural
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8/10
thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/naomi-mitchi...
@profrmaslen.bsky.social on how THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, world war, & the supernatural
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thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/naomi-mitchi...
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Century Notes: special Naomi Mitchison issue of THE BOTTLE IMP
🧳 travel narrative MUCKING AROUND
🚀 #scifi SOLUTION THREE
🧚 fairy encounters
👻 Mitchison & the supernatural
🚢 Mitchison: traveller & storyteller
🏴 WE HAVE BEEN WARNED in modern Scotland
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/06/edit...
🧳 travel narrative MUCKING AROUND
🚀 #scifi SOLUTION THREE
🧚 fairy encounters
👻 Mitchison & the supernatural
🚢 Mitchison: traveller & storyteller
🏴 WE HAVE BEEN WARNED in modern Scotland
3/10
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/06/edit...
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Century Notes: special Naomi Mitchison issue of THE BOTTLE IMP
🧳 travel narrative MUCKING AROUND
🚀 #scifi SOLUTION THREE
🧚 fairy encounters
👻 Mitchison & the supernatural
🚢 Mitchison: traveller & storyteller
🏴 WE HAVE BEEN WARNED in modern Scotland
3/10
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/06/edit...
🧳 travel narrative MUCKING AROUND
🚀 #scifi SOLUTION THREE
🧚 fairy encounters
👻 Mitchison & the supernatural
🚢 Mitchison: traveller & storyteller
🏴 WE HAVE BEEN WARNED in modern Scotland
3/10
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/06/edit...
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“She liked to challenge, she liked to shock, she liked to deliver the unexpected, she liked to experiment”
—Jenni Calder looks at Mitchison’s life & work for the Dangerous Women project
2/10
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—Jenni Calder looks at Mitchison’s life & work for the Dangerous Women project
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Naomi Mitchison - Dangerous Women Project
Today's Scottish PEN post is Jenni Calder's wonderful account of writer Naomi Mitchison, who self-identified as 'a witch, a priestess, a shape-shifter'.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“She liked to challenge, she liked to shock, she liked to deliver the unexpected, she liked to experiment”
—Jenni Calder looks at Mitchison’s life & work for the Dangerous Women project
2/10
dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/09/25/n...
—Jenni Calder looks at Mitchison’s life & work for the Dangerous Women project
2/10
dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/09/25/n...
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Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane, 1897–1999) was born #OTD, 1 Nov, & saw almost every day of the #C20th. A hugely influential writer, with 80+ books – poetry, politics, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, #ChildrensFiction & more – to her credit, she deserves more attention
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November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane, 1897–1999) was born #OTD, 1 Nov, & saw almost every day of the #C20th. A hugely influential writer, with 80+ books – poetry, politics, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, #ChildrensFiction & more – to her credit, she deserves more attention
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Hello! It’s the weekend and time to relax with the latest Wombling Along as I have a selection of reviews and other online article that may have a temptation or two for you! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...
Wombling Along — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! A week off is a wonderful thing. There had been a spa break, a movie, seeing old friends and I’m typing this up at World Fantasy Convention is a very windy Brighton. Fun has been had, books...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Hello! It’s the weekend and time to relax with the latest Wombling Along as I have a selection of reviews and other online article that may have a temptation or two for you! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...
Oh my! This is super cool.
We’re delighted that Aberystwyth has been named a UNESCO City of Literature – the first in Wales!
More: tinyl.co/3u04
@librarywales.bsky.social
@uwtsd.bsky.social
@prifweinidog.gov.wales
@unesco.org
More: tinyl.co/3u04
@librarywales.bsky.social
@uwtsd.bsky.social
@prifweinidog.gov.wales
@unesco.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Oh my! This is super cool.
'Time is only short of you want to use a person. Otherwise there is the present, which is all the time in the world.'
- Margaret Elphinstone, A Sparrow's Flight: A Novel of a Future.
- Margaret Elphinstone, A Sparrow's Flight: A Novel of a Future.
October 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
'Time is only short of you want to use a person. Otherwise there is the present, which is all the time in the world.'
- Margaret Elphinstone, A Sparrow's Flight: A Novel of a Future.
- Margaret Elphinstone, A Sparrow's Flight: A Novel of a Future.