Will E 124C 41+
@willekysff.bsky.social
SF/F fan writer and bookseller. Outer space Kentuckian. To you astro-pigs: the moon belongs to the people! Mutation or death!
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For May Day: William Morris! Socialism! Work! Technology! Check out my confessional review of the 1890 utopian novel News From Nowhere.
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Some books I bought today.
May 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Some books I bought today.
A testament to wasted time— unposted political polemics in my notes app.
May 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A testament to wasted time— unposted political polemics in my notes app.
Oh this looks dope.
Out latest release is now available for pre-order! It's our first non-fiction publication, a biography about the first author to publish original SF in Amazing Stories
bookshop.org/a/197/979898...
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Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles: Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer and the Birth of Science Fiction
Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer and the Birth of Science Fiction
bookshop.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oh this looks dope.
Saturday morning stack 📚
May 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Saturday morning stack 📚
For May Day: William Morris! Socialism! Work! Technology! Check out my confessional review of the 1890 utopian novel News From Nowhere.
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
May 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For May Day: William Morris! Socialism! Work! Technology! Check out my confessional review of the 1890 utopian novel News From Nowhere.
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
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Check out my latest newsletter! It features a review of Ward Moore’s 1953 “What if South won the Civil War?” science fiction novel Bring the Jubilee and a collection of my little thoughts on alt history generally.
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April 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Check out my latest newsletter! It features a review of Ward Moore’s 1953 “What if South won the Civil War?” science fiction novel Bring the Jubilee and a collection of my little thoughts on alt history generally.
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
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My review of Robert Silverberg’s New Wave novel Downward to the Earth covers white guilt as a historically constituted phenomenon, Heart of Darkness, and the book as a negative example of how not to explore colonialism in science fiction.
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April 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My review of Robert Silverberg’s New Wave novel Downward to the Earth covers white guilt as a historically constituted phenomenon, Heart of Darkness, and the book as a negative example of how not to explore colonialism in science fiction.
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
Check out my latest newsletter! It features a review of Ward Moore’s 1953 “What if South won the Civil War?” science fiction novel Bring the Jubilee and a collection of my little thoughts on alt history generally.
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
April 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Check out my latest newsletter! It features a review of Ward Moore’s 1953 “What if South won the Civil War?” science fiction novel Bring the Jubilee and a collection of my little thoughts on alt history generally.
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
Melting my mind with social media this morning.
April 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Melting my mind with social media this morning.
I uh also really like Puff Daddy’s Godzilla music video but will not be posting links to Sean Combs-related things at this time.
April 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I uh also really like Puff Daddy’s Godzilla music video but will not be posting links to Sean Combs-related things at this time.
As with last skeet, file this one under music video movie tie-ins that were better than the movie they tied into. I forgot Stevie Wonder had a cameo in this. The original cut of this had an action scene in the middle of it. This cut without it is better. youtu.be/_zXKtfKnfT8?...
Will Smith - Wild Wild West ft. Dru Hill, Kool Mo Dee
YouTube video by WillSmithVEVO
youtu.be
April 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
As with last skeet, file this one under music video movie tie-ins that were better than the movie they tied into. I forgot Stevie Wonder had a cameo in this. The original cut of this had an action scene in the middle of it. This cut without it is better. youtu.be/_zXKtfKnfT8?...
I can’t tell if this music video is better than it has any right to be or if I just feel nostalgic about Val Kilmer and Jim Carrey running around in the back aground. The Batmobile etc. antics are really something. youtu.be/hDd2G_V1rzc?...
Seal - Kiss From A Rose (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by Seal
youtu.be
April 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I can’t tell if this music video is better than it has any right to be or if I just feel nostalgic about Val Kilmer and Jim Carrey running around in the back aground. The Batmobile etc. antics are really something. youtu.be/hDd2G_V1rzc?...
Love the title of this book by Edgar Wallace. I am hoping it is as breezy as the other stuff I’ve read by him.
April 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Love the title of this book by Edgar Wallace. I am hoping it is as breezy as the other stuff I’ve read by him.
Doing research for two blogposts and one article this morning, meaning reading three different novels. Feels good to be honest.
April 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Doing research for two blogposts and one article this morning, meaning reading three different novels. Feels good to be honest.
Feelin’ like I need boat shoes to complete this fit.
April 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Feelin’ like I need boat shoes to complete this fit.
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ICYMI: the limited print run of this beauty is now a fond memory BUT if you missed it, this epub version's still available
kyr-1066.itch.io/as-the-shore...
kyr-1066.itch.io/as-the-shore...
As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood by KYR_1066
A shadowed tale about brothers, blood magic and bad blood
kyr-1066.itch.io
April 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
ICYMI: the limited print run of this beauty is now a fond memory BUT if you missed it, this epub version's still available
kyr-1066.itch.io/as-the-shore...
kyr-1066.itch.io/as-the-shore...
Lol I can’t imagine anything more off brand and decadent than a 2015 Folio Society edition of News From Nowhere going for >$300. The book should be attractive. But it should also be at a useful and readable price.
April 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Lol I can’t imagine anything more off brand and decadent than a 2015 Folio Society edition of News From Nowhere going for >$300. The book should be attractive. But it should also be at a useful and readable price.
The last passage in tonight’s Moby-Dick audiobook listen before the timer cut out was Captain Ahab saying, “I won’t smoke dirty pipes like Stubb but I like cigars[.]” /1
April 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The last passage in tonight’s Moby-Dick audiobook listen before the timer cut out was Captain Ahab saying, “I won’t smoke dirty pipes like Stubb but I like cigars[.]” /1
Woke up from a nice little nap. I would like to watch the new Andor but I’d also like to work on projects and spend time with my non-Star Wars-watching girlfriend. Am I weird for reacting to the demands of a new TV show I want to watch by questioning whether I have time?
April 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Woke up from a nice little nap. I would like to watch the new Andor but I’d also like to work on projects and spend time with my non-Star Wars-watching girlfriend. Am I weird for reacting to the demands of a new TV show I want to watch by questioning whether I have time?
Perfect writer’s workspace tbh.
April 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Perfect writer’s workspace tbh.
My review of Robert Silverberg’s New Wave novel Downward to the Earth covers white guilt as a historically constituted phenomenon, Heart of Darkness, and the book as a negative example of how not to explore colonialism in science fiction.
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
April 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My review of Robert Silverberg’s New Wave novel Downward to the Earth covers white guilt as a historically constituted phenomenon, Heart of Darkness, and the book as a negative example of how not to explore colonialism in science fiction.
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
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In today’s newsletter, I tackle Roger Zelazny’s New Wave novel This Immortal which shared the 1966 Hugo with Dune. I use Dune as a point of comparison, especially contrasting the perspective from which the two novels take on the colonizer-colonized relationship
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April 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In today’s newsletter, I tackle Roger Zelazny’s New Wave novel This Immortal which shared the 1966 Hugo with Dune. I use Dune as a point of comparison, especially contrasting the perspective from which the two novels take on the colonizer-colonized relationship
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
Current read: News From Nowhere by William Morris, perhaps the most humane vision for society I’ve encountered. Moving.
April 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Current read: News From Nowhere by William Morris, perhaps the most humane vision for society I’ve encountered. Moving.
Sort of all over the place and scatterbrained which I feel entitled to be on a Sunday morning. Finally landed on some short stories by Richard Brautigan from this collection my friend got me for my birthday. Short and playful enough to hold my attention.
April 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Sort of all over the place and scatterbrained which I feel entitled to be on a Sunday morning. Finally landed on some short stories by Richard Brautigan from this collection my friend got me for my birthday. Short and playful enough to hold my attention.