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!
Some books I bought today.
May 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Some books I bought today.
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.
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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...
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...
open.substack.com/pub/williame...
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.
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.
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.
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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...
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.
Tfw you are a swamp mutant arising from your lagoon. (Image from 1964 Doctor Who episode “The Expedition.”)
April 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tfw you are a swamp mutant arising from your lagoon. (Image from 1964 Doctor Who episode “The Expedition.”)
Me and these cats are in a similar state of stupor but only one of us is trying to finish a Substack post about Robert Silverberg’s Downward to the Earth.
April 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Me and these cats are in a similar state of stupor but only one of us is trying to finish a Substack post about Robert Silverberg’s Downward to the Earth.
Two library book sales + cleaning out my mom’s office + hanging out with a fellow local pop-up bookseller + a visit to local bookshop.
April 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Two library book sales + cleaning out my mom’s office + hanging out with a fellow local pop-up bookseller + a visit to local bookshop.
Root canal really wiped me out today. (Image from 1964 Doctor Who episode “The Ambush.”)
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Root canal really wiped me out today. (Image from 1964 Doctor Who episode “The Ambush.”)
Me hiding out from organizing our completed tax forms to put in the mail while I watch Star Trek TOS.
April 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Me hiding out from organizing our completed tax forms to put in the mail while I watch Star Trek TOS.
Da life uv luxury.
April 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Da life uv luxury.
Taking a little break from my self-appointed labors to watch Doctor Who.
April 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Taking a little break from my self-appointed labors to watch Doctor Who.
Monday morning! Listening to an Edgar Wallace novel for an article I might write.
April 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Monday morning! Listening to an Edgar Wallace novel for an article I might write.
I want to stay up late watching Doctor Who but a group of Daleks has surrounded me and is forcing me to go to bed.
April 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I want to stay up late watching Doctor Who but a group of Daleks has surrounded me and is forcing me to go to bed.
Spent like 45 minutes adding 1980s sword and sorcery movies etc. to my watchlists on various streaming platforms before abruptly putting on Doctor Who.
April 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Spent like 45 minutes adding 1980s sword and sorcery movies etc. to my watchlists on various streaming platforms before abruptly putting on Doctor Who.
Got some writing in earlier but feeling rundown and kind of in a mood. Now watching Star Trek TOS and considering Yeoman Rand’s hair.
April 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Got some writing in earlier but feeling rundown and kind of in a mood. Now watching Star Trek TOS and considering Yeoman Rand’s hair.
Shoggoths in At The Mountains Of Madness did nothing wrong. Illustration by Gerald Brom.
April 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Shoggoths in At The Mountains Of Madness did nothing wrong. Illustration by Gerald Brom.
In “What are Little Girls Made Of” (S1 E8), Kirk uses his animal magnetism to drive this android so insane she commits murder-suicide. Is it on the nose to name an android Andrea? Screenwriter is Robert Bloch.
April 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
In “What are Little Girls Made Of” (S1 E8), Kirk uses his animal magnetism to drive this android so insane she commits murder-suicide. Is it on the nose to name an android Andrea? Screenwriter is Robert Bloch.
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...