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Nick Hubble
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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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Yes, excellent point, I've been thinking that generally for a while, even the previous album too was in line with the mood of the leading edge of current SFF. Also, yes, The Everlasting is seriously good.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Nice review, Niall!
November 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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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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
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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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A portrait in oils of “Naomi (Lady) Mitchison”, by Wyndham Lewis, 1938. Mitchison is seated, wearing a long blue dress. A large book is propped open on her knee, and she holds a pen to it in her right hand. She props up her face with her left hand, and regards us with a frown – although there is a half-smile on her lips. A stylised sketch of the crucifixion leans against the wall behind her.
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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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
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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