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Well, @Casparnova and myself are doing a The Power Fantasy AMA on Reddit, kicking off in an hour's time. Go and ask some questions in advance.
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Oh, I didn't realise that! (I haven't read the whole thing). I thought it was more of an unreliable narrator thing.
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Nevertheless, there is a semiotic energy to a document, a frisson. It’s something exported from the universe of the fiction into our world. Some kind of play with immersion and belief, a paradoxical closeness caused by added distance.
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I know I’m biased here. Some of my earliest readings were Dracula and several British diary novels, and one of favourite sf novels is an in-universe encyclopaedia (The Book of the War, of course). But also, I can tell you I didn’t give a flying fuck about Game of Thrones till I read Fire & Blood.
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There should be more popular novels written like in-universe documents. (I know I mostly mean “epistolary” here, but I’m also including books that are single documents – in-universe histories, encyclopaedias, textbooks, “notes towards” and suchlike.)
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Oh, that sounds absolutely lovely (and totally the kind of thing FP readers would enjoy).
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And @hern.bsky.social and @scriblit.bsky.social and @caraellison.bsky.social and @kellykanayama.bsky.social and @amalelmohtar.com and so! many! more! amazing! people! I spoke to opera singers and escape room designers and indie wrestlers and they all had so much amazing stuff to say
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I ran out of space here but that "more" includes amazing, fascinating people like @bethanyblack.bsky.social and @adityab.net and @seamas.bsky.social and @alicefraser.bsky.social and @illusclaire.bsky.social and @tiernandouieb.bsky.social and @hannahnicklin.bsky.social and @oneshotrpg.bsky.social
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If you like Pratchett, there are so many great guests on this show! @misterabk.bsky.social! @kierongillen.bsky.social! @alasdairstuart.com! @hotelfred.bsky.social! @diane.dianeduane.com! @neillcameron.bsky.social! @louiestowell.bsky.social! @johnrogers.bsky.social! @rachaelstott.bsky.social! More!
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Desert Island Discworld is/was one of my favourite podcasts, and not just because I was on it once! Check out the guest list on that thing.
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That's marvellous! I'll look forward to it.
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I wrote about one of my favourite Jodie Whitaker episodes (yes, I have several) for Jim's newsletter.
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Oh, that sounds marvellous! I have a copy but haven’t read it yet. This might be the ticket!
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This was one of the things I loved most about My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, the document having a presence in the story, the action impacting on the document
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JG Ballard did some fun experiments like this. One of his short stories is entirely structured as the index of a biography.
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That was “The Index”, right? I remember that!
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I have not read that! Adding it to the list.
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The Gravity Falls book is a perfect example of this
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By the time “Alasdair Gray” is “fact-checking” Victoria/Bella’s own account of things, I was reading it with my jaw hanging open. Its sheer audacity made me laugh multiple times!
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That was such a fun book! Adored it.
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"The Secret History of Twin Peaks" is definitely up there in this category for me.
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Ending tonight’s writing session with this: youtu.be/1KrewTmAhkk?...
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I haven’t read it yet, but it’s sitting on my shelf. They go the extra mile of actually reproducing the look and feel of the document, like an artefact acquired from within the fiction. Good stuff!
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I was admittedly was quite high on hospital morphine when I read it, but I seem to remember the Doug Dorst/JJ Abrams S. novel being interesting in that regard?
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House of Leaves is my favorite example of this.
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Have you read POOR THINGS? Because that's one hell of a fictional document.
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Oh, I adored it. Fine, fine movie, but GREAT novel.
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Nevertheless, there is a semiotic energy to a document, a frisson. It’s something exported from the universe of the fiction into our world. Some kind of play with immersion and belief, a paradoxical closeness caused by added distance.
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I know I’m biased here. Some of my earliest readings were Dracula and several British diary novels, and one of favourite sf novels is an in-universe encyclopaedia (The Book of the War, of course). But also, I can tell you I didn’t give a flying fuck about Game of Thrones till I read Fire & Blood.
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There should be more popular novels written like in-universe documents. (I know I mostly mean “epistolary” here, but I’m also including books that are single documents – in-universe histories, encyclopaedias, textbooks, “notes towards” and suchlike.)
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If we really want to know how to separate the art from the artist, we should ask whoever at Marvel dealt with Kirby's original pages between the 1960s and 1990s
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Tonight’s writing music: youtu.be/roMdzHqq-js?...
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Last year the doctor told me I had a hemorrhoid and to stop straining when I poop. I made a conscious effort to stop straining for a year and now it's gone. Can't brag about it. I didn't even tell wife of 30 years. She would just be grossed out. The doctor wasn't even impressed.
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Some days I really *feel* how much I have to be grateful for.
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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine
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gotdamn if this isn’t EXACTLY what destroys relationships of every kind between men and women—family, platonic, workplace, romantic
no amount of love can withstand being shot down every single time she opens her mouth
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—by Marv Wolfman, Marie Severin and John Costanza, 1974
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Comics sure are something.
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