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Can recommend. The most recent book deservedly won the BSFA Award.
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🇪🇺 🇸🇪 Brexile. SF reader and writer. SF läsare och författare. He/him. Trans women are women, trans men are men. medium.com/@ian-93054
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Can recommend. The most recent book deservedly won the BSFA Award.
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to be fair, you only have to know it's edible now
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Ah. I suspected as much. My copy of Ancient Light unfortunately is in storage
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I don't recall it actually saying that in the novel. It mentions Britain and the Dominion of Earth, but I read that as just the privileging of the UK, the sort of thing you'd find in 1970s sf by Cowper, Coney and Keith Roberts
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Gentle's prose has always been vivid
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"this book is shorter than advertised..."
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Jamie and the Magic Porch
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Slayschool
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I'm about 3 degrees north of you
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I remember when "wokeism" was called "political correctness", and before that "health and safety gone mad". Same old right wing shit, only the name changes
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ICYMI - a 1983 sf novel that still reads good today ian-93054.medium.com/golden-witch...
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thought all the shit was in the water
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something about sunlit uplands?
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incidentally, I don't give a shit about bangers, even though I don't much like korv, but the group does post some useful stuff
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I'm in a FB group called Brits in Sweden. It used to be all "where can I buy bangers in Stockholm?", now it's all I want to move to Sweden with my Swedish partner and it's a complete nightmare
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poopulists
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always wondered how Amis had managed to write such a pile of crap-- no, I lie, I didn't
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sunshine in Sweden.... yup, 20 hours of daylight in June, 20 minutes in December....
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A 40 year old novel proves just as good today... ian-93054.medium.com/golden-witch...
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His forehead has been extended in photoshop to make him look smart. It doesn't.
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tbf, it's mostly academic for me, although any excuse to drink copious amounts of wine
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okay, maybe I'd drink wine instead of petrol...
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this is where I want to start drinking petrol so I can piss on them *and* set them on fire
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Punch a Telegraph Columnist is the new Punch a Nazi (and is much easier, because they're all wets fat on Beaujolais and oysters, and haven't even opened a door for 20 years)
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The Telegraph, not even effective as toilet paper as you'd end up with more shit on your arse than you had before you wiped
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if red day falls on a Thursday here, the Friday is called a klämdag and loads of people take it off even though it's not an official holiday
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N: Reykjavík E: Bangkok S: Pattaya W: Los Angeles
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Delicatessen, Jeunet & Caro's first feature film, is better tho
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otoh, it was a Conservative-owned company that "failed" to vet all the Reform candidates...
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mine hasn't arrived either - tho I'm voting in one of the safest Labour seats in the country, so I'm not really sweating it
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and they don't seem at all bothered by the fact he's a sex-trafficking paedophile
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Tories now claiming the last 14 years are Labour's fault x.com/i/status/179...
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or a mard on
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Sh-eton
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at the least the Tories have the guts to stand by their racist MPs...
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he's been booted out of every job he held - except mayor of London, where he resigned to stand for parliament after accepting the job on the condition he'd never resign and stand for parliament...
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I seem to remember there was another report a few years ago about Russian interference in UK politics... which the Tories refused to release
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Book review/rant, new here - medium.com/@ian-93054/t...
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I'm in two minds, I guess it depends on how well it's done. I can think of series that have done well after their creator died, and ones that haven't
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he's got a fuck of a long way to go before the tories can claim the moral high ground, to be fair
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but but but he's world class talent look see he's published in The Times
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"liturgation" - threatening with holy sacraments
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sadly, only antiputinism is fatal
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British politics in a nutshell: mates are incapable of doing wrong
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they have a choice: vote the Tories out, or start organising for a revolution
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it'll be Thermopylae next
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it's not a political party, it's a company, and Farage is the owner.
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My best books of 2024 so far... ian-93054.medium.com/books-of-the...
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or a trike for 2 year olds
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where do your feet go? Or do you have to use them to propel it?
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