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Kevin Hearne's avatar Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social
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Small time change for anyone who’d like to come see @maxgladstone.bsky.social and me in Massachusetts! There’s an Irish pub two blocks up the street called The Indo if you wanna come raise a glass and try the fish and chips with us at 5. Hope you (or your friends) can make it!

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Catherine Hill's avatar Catherine Hill @ctjhill.bsky.social
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Seen on Amazon today, apparently the Time War can be Lost on your window feeder. @amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social
Though given I'm in the middle of England it would be very noteworthy to have either of these birds show up.

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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Thanks so much! And—hello! Lot of water under the bridge, indeed

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ceej's avatar ceej @ceej.online
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WONKA: *quickly slamming a door labeled LICORICE WHIPS* That's not part of the tour. That's for something else

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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It's funny because when I was reading Blood Meridian for the first time my brain couldn't stop drawing Tolkien parallels... and on this re-read of The Hobbit I'm struck by how little T. cares about most of the mishegoss you'll hear called "worldbuilding" (though when he cares, he cares intensely)

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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Thank you so much for this, Paul. Sorry I missed it when it was first going around.

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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Thank you, Paul! Sorry for the delayed response, I've been off socials for a minute

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Peter Keep's avatar Peter Keep @mathprofpeter.bsky.social
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'In Kai's experience, when a service touted their probabilistically verified demonic algorithms, they usually meant "we run a simple regression and hope for the best."'

@maxgladstone.bsky.social books are the best, a fantasy AI is still just 3 prediction models in a trenchcoat used irresponsibly

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Brent C. Lambert's avatar Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social
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If this isn’t just a completely terrifying way to show how cosmically immense your world ending antagonist is. Thanos could never!!!

(Source: WICKED PROBLEMS by the incredible @maxgladstone.bsky.social )

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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It is! Releases.... late July, I believe.

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Tom Gauld 's avatar Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
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Monkeys! Fighting! Magic! Monks! Pigs! My french publishers gave me a copy of their amazing new book. 800 pages of adventure with hundreds of woodcut illustrations by disciples of Hokusai. Have a look inside here:
www.editions2024.com/livres/pereg...

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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I certainly do! Feel like I'm constantly stumbling onto my new favorite book from 1983.

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Jesse Lansner's avatar Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com
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Special delivery from Italy. Even there they know about “IL TWEET CHE HA CAMBIATO LA STORIA DELL'EDITORIA MONDIALE” (The tweet that changed the history of the publishing world)

@amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social

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Jen Anderson's avatar Jen Anderson @sayitagainjen.bsky.social
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What I've realized is that I'm much more likely to have these issues when the narrative isn't great. When the book actually rules, I don't have the focus problems. I'm FINALLY getting around to @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Craft Sequence, and I'm absolutely tearing through them.

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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Yeah, "still highly active on twitter" is a thing. It's not *always* like that but... often

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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That... scent... turned me off OSR as a whole for a long time. I'm sure it's done the same for other folks; when I finally played Shadowdark (for instance) at a con I was surprised to find it a fun, pacey romp, great at pulling a pickup table together. Gatekeeping doesn't help—just keeps folks out.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller's avatar Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social
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I left academia for many structural reasons (chief of which was the inability to have a research-primary job with any security in a place I could bear to live) - But the inciting incident was being offered a fiction publishing and an academic publishing contract at the same time. $$ vs nothing.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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As someone who studies government, I want to say as clearly as possible that Trump 2.0 will not be the disorganized shitshow that the first term was. They have a credible plan to govern in an explicitly authoritarian model.

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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BREAKING NEW YORK SUPREME COURT FINDS RTS ARE ENDORSEMENT

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller's avatar Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social
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So do you all remember the story I was going on and on about a month or two ago, the one with the art bullshit and the stunt-writing POVs?

You can read it in Uncanny 58 (soon - May 7! - at uncannymagazine.com), along with a slew of truly awesome other stories, poems, & essays. Get ready.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden's avatar Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.bsky.social
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Exactly — they’ll grasp at any alternate explanation, “indoctrination”, “social contagion”, anything to avoid realizing that the protesters are normal human beings having a normal human reaction, whereas the straw-graspers are demented, unlikeable freaks.

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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All the whining and the passive-aggressive “Really, Max??” nonsense. No sense of mission or determination or direction. I get enough unrelenting doomerism on social media, thanks

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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All of this. Also, besides positioning themselves in court, it's also generally beneficial to the people that own and run publishers if everyone (writers, their own employees, people in general) thinks books don't sell and make money: it lowers expectations in advances, marketing, salaries, jobs

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Madeline Ashby's avatar Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social
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In case you’re curious: John Lennon got it from the American Rifleman magazine, and they probably got it from Charles Schulz.

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Proof of Burden's avatar Proof of Burden @proofofburden.bsky.social
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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom Log off

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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I didn’t pick it up until my 20s, but DAMN was it an eye-opener.

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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Arthur showing up at the opening of book 2! The sheer bravado of “oh yeah ALSO the Matter of Britain”

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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People sleep on Fionavar. It’s definitely doing its own thing vs Kay’s other work, and the influences are clear, but what an all cylinders heavy metal album cover project

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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(Stout is a leading exhibit for the argument that the best fight scene is one you don’t write)

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Max Gladstone's avatar Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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Any Rex Stout book where Archie lays someone out in a subordinate clause

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