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Holding Steady
Before a mammalian cell divides, the spindle — a protein structure — divides the cell’s genetic material in two. As it does, the cytoplasm inside the cell forms a toroidal flow (below, left). Researchers wondered how the spindle manages to stay in place with this flow; the spindle sits just where the flow diverges, a spot that seems ripe for unstable shifts in position. But, contrary to expectations, their analysis showed that — although a smaller spindle would be unstable in that spot — the protein spindle is large enough that its size distorts the cell’s flow and creates a pressure that moves it back into place if it shifts. (Image credit: top – ColiN00B, illustration – W. Liao and E. Lauga; research credit: W. Liao and E. Lauga; via APS Physics)
Left: illustration of the toroidal flow near the spindle (purple) in a cell. Right: schematic of flow near the spindle’s fixed point.#biology #cellDivision #fluidDynamics #numericalSimulation #physics #science
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Mountain ridgelines push oncoming winds up and over their peaks, creating the conditions for some spectacular condensation. If the displaced air is moist enough, it cools and condenses into a cloud that appears to hover over the peak. In reality, winds are constantly moving up and over the mountain, condensing into visible cloud where the temperature is cool enough and then morphing back to water vapor once temperatures increase. This process can create stacked lenticular clouds like those seen here. This spot in New Zealand sees lenticular clouds so often that the formation has its own name: Taieri Pet! (Image credit: satellite image – L. Dauphin, b/w – National Library; via NASA Earth Observatory)
Black-and-white photo of an instance of the Taieri Pet lenticular cloud structure.https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2024/10/lenticular-landscape/
#atmosphericScience #cloudFormation #condensation #fluidDynamics #lenticularClouds #mountains #physics #science #standingWaves
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Mountain ridgelines push oncoming winds up and over their peaks, creating the conditions for some spectacular condensation. If the displaced air is moist enough, it cools and condenses into a cloud that appears to hover over the peak. In reality, winds are constantly moving up and over the mountain, condensing into visible cloud where the temperature is cool enough and then morphing back to water vapor once temperatures increase. This process can create stacked lenticular clouds like those seen here. This spot in New Zealand sees lenticular clouds so often that the formation has its own name: Taieri Pet! (Image credit: satellite image – L. Dauphin, b/w – National Library; via NASA Earth Observatory)
Black-and-white photo of an instance of the Taieri Pet lenticular cloud structure.https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2024/10/lenticular-landscape/
#atmosphericScience #cloudFormation #condensation #fluidDynamics #lenticularClouds #mountains #physics #science #standingWaves
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It feels like a good time for an updated #introduction post--I'm a university #writer by day & (mostly) #HorrorWriter (www.nicolewolverton.com) by night. My #YAHorror novel is coming in summer 2024 (#AMisfortuneOfLakeMonsters, CamCat Books).
I'm a #masters candidate, graduating spring '23 w/ an #Academic interest in #RecreationalFear #Horror.
I #DragonBoat, #Travel, & am an elected #Elections official. I eat a lot of #cheese, #chocolate, & #sriracha, & I read a lot of #books.
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Thunderstorms Make Trees Glow
Scientists have long hypothesized that the high electrical charge of thunderstorms could produce an opposite charge in the ground that would discharge from the forest canopy. But this phenomenon, known as a corona, had never been observed on actual trees. A new study, however, has observed this ghostly ultraviolet (UV) glow from the tips of sweetgum leaves and loblolly pine needles during thunderstorms.
Catching these coronae in action required a new kind of UV detector that was ultra-sensitive to the particular band of UV-light emitted by coronas, hot fires, or mercury lamps. Since the latter two weren’t present during the team’s field observations, they were able to conclude that the light they detected came from coronae.
The group observed that corona discharges were transient, jumping from leaf to leaf and branch to branch across the forest canopy. For any creature capable of detecting that glow by eye, it must be incredible to watch the treetops lit by their own ever-shifting auroras during every thunderstorm. (Image credit: W. Brune; research credit: P. McFarland et al.; via SciAm)
#biology #corona #electrohydrodynamics #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #physics #plasma #science #thunderstorms -
The Best of FYFD 2025
Happy 2026! This will be a big year for me. I’ll be finishing up and turning in the manuscript for my first book — which flows between cutting edge research, scientists’ stories, and the societal impacts of fluid physics. It’s a culmination of 15 years of FYFD, rendered into narrative. I’m so excited to share it with you when it’s published in 2027.
As always, though, we’ll kick off the year with a look back at some of FYFD’s most popular posts of 2025. (You can find previous editions, too, for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014.) Without further ado, here they are:
- Charged Drops Don’t Splash
- Strata of Starlings
- Espresso in Slow-Mo
- The Incredible Engineering of the Alhambra
- Uranus Emits More Than Thought1
- Kolmogorov Turbulence
- Bow Shock Instability
- How Particles Affect Melting Ice
- The Puquios System of Nazca
- Cooling Tower Demolition
- A Glimpse of the Solar Wind
- Bubbling Up
- A Sprite From Orbit
- Cornflower Roots Growing
- How Sunflowers Follow the Sun
What a great bunch of topics! I’m especially happy to see so many research and research-adjacent posts were popular. And a couple of history-related posts; I don’t write those too often, but I love them for showing just how wide-ranging fluid physics can be.
Interested in keeping up with FYFD in 2026? There are lots of ways to follow along so that you don’t miss a post.
And if you enjoy FYFD, please remember that it’s a reader-supported website. I don’t run ads, and it’s been years since my last sponsored post. You can help support the site by becoming a patron, buying some merch, or simply by sharing on social media. And if you find yourself struggling to remember to check the website, remember you can get FYFD in your inbox every two weeks with our newsletter. Happy New Year!
(Image credits: droplet – F. Yu et al., starlings – K. Cooper, espresso – YouTube/skunkay, fountain – Primal Space, Uranus – NASA, turbulence – C. Amores and M. Graham, capsule – A. Álvarez and A. Lozano-Duran, melting ice – S. Bootsma et al., puquios – Wikimedia, cooling towers – BBC, solar wind – NASA/APL/NRL, Lake Baikal – K. Makeeva, sprite – NASA, roots – W. van Egmond, sunflowers – Deep Look)
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Predicting Landslide Speeds
Knowing what speed a landslide will reach helps us predict how much damage they can cause. That speed depends on many factors: the steepness of the terrain, the sliding distance, the thickness of the flowing layer, and the type of grains making up the flow. Researchers found that predictions from previous studies often underestimated the speeds reached by thicker flows. Through laboratory experiments with grains of different shapes, a team found that those models mistakenly assumed a fully-developed flow — in other words, one where the grains have reached a constant final speed. While spherical grains reach that state over a short sliding distance, that’s not the case for other grains.
Instead, the team used their results to build a new predictive model for landslide speeds. This one still depends on incline angle and flow thickness, but it also uses a dynamical friction coefficient to describe the granular material and capture how the flow’s speed varies with distance down the incline. (Image credit: W. Hasselmann; research credit: Y. Wu et al.; via APS News)
#avalanche #fluidDynamics #geophysics #granularFlow #granularMaterial #landslide #physics #science
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KXLG Community Connection: Sandy’s Closet – Nichole Smith w/ First United Methodist Church on August 11, 2025
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KXLG Community Connection: Sandy’s Closet – Nichole Smith w/ First United Methodist Church on August 11, 2025
#KXLGNews #KXLGRadio991 #LiveandLocal #LocalNews #WatertownSD
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KXLG Community Connection: Sandy’s Closet – Nichole Smith w/ First United Methodist Church on August 11, 2025
#KXLGNews #KXLGRadio991 #LiveandLocal #LocalNews #WatertownSD
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https://www.europesays.com/pl/193474/ Włosi zgodni w sprawie Nicoli Zalewskiego. Wystarczy spojrzeć – Przegląd Sportowy Onet #atalanta #genoa #intextvideo_splayer #nicola_zalewski #pawb #PL #Poland #Polish #Polska #Polski #PS_DETAL_NEW #psv2 #screening_general #serie_a #Sport #sport_sport #Sports #wiadomosci_sportowe
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Nicola Matteis | Theatrum Affectuum | Zamek w Lidzbarku Warmińskim
https://youtube.com/watch?v=URpmminIa_o&si=r9OVi-QAl8MVG1N7
#ClassicalMusic
#BaroqueMusic
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Cleveland Nickle Plate Road 2024
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I documented the upper above
track portion of this area that includes the areas that illegal dumping has been going on unchecked. I sat on that slope for nearly an hour trying to get a shot of the train leaving the ground and entering the bridge, no luck, freight trains don't run on a set schedule
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https://pbase.com/tremont/062824 / https://pbase.com/tremont/image/174711449#cleveland #cleflats #nickleplateroad #industry #railroad #graffiti #june2024 .
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Cleveland Nickle Plate Road 2024
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I documented the upper above
track portion of this area that includes the areas that illegal dumping has been going on unchecked. I sat on that slope for nearly an hour trying to get a shot of the train leaving the ground and entering the bridge, no luck, freight trains don't run on a set schedule
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https://pbase.com/tremont/062824 / https://pbase.com/tremont/image/174711449#cleveland #cleflats #nickleplateroad #industry #railroad #graffiti #june2024 .
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Cleveland Nickle Plate Road 2024
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I documented the upper above
track portion of this area that includes the areas that illegal dumping has been going on unchecked. I sat on that slope for nearly an hour trying to get a shot of the train leaving the ground and entering the bridge, no luck, freight trains don't run on a set schedule
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https://pbase.com/tremont/062824 / https://pbase.com/tremont/image/174711449#cleveland #cleflats #nickleplateroad #industry #railroad #graffiti #june2024 .
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Cleveland Nickle Plate Road 2024
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I documented the upper above
track portion of this area that includes the areas that illegal dumping has been going on unchecked. I sat on that slope for nearly an hour trying to get a shot of the train leaving the ground and entering the bridge, no luck, freight trains don't run on a set schedule
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https://pbase.com/tremont/062824 / https://pbase.com/tremont/image/174711449#cleveland #cleflats #nickleplateroad #industry #railroad #graffiti #june2024 .
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Cleveland Nickle Plate Road 2024
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I documented the upper above
track portion of this area that includes the areas that illegal dumping has been going on unchecked. I sat on that slope for nearly an hour trying to get a shot of the train leaving the ground and entering the bridge, no luck, freight trains don't run on a set schedule
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https://pbase.com/tremont/062824 / https://pbase.com/tremont/image/174711449#cleveland #cleflats #nickleplateroad #industry #railroad #graffiti #june2024 .
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Black and white through the writing ages
Every now and again I remember: I have a new book coming out in January! And then I have to go look at the cover.
She Is Here by Nicola Griffith (PM Press, 27 January, 2026). Photo of the author by Kelley Eskridge.And every time I see that photo I smile—it’s one of those absolutely-unaware-of-the-camera pictures of me that I wish I had more of. PM Press had asked for something in black and white, unusual, and ‘not like an author photo’. I was familiar with the Outspoken Author series design aesthetic, so I went on a hunt through my files for B&W shots that might fit. I assumed they’d want ones that most clearly resembled the over-60 writer I am now, so I sent them a handful taken from the Hild era onwards. But it turned out they didn’t like those: I looked too writerly and they wanted something less formal/more arresting. So then I dug a bit deeper and came up with stuff going back to age 20—at least those that I like, which tend to be unposed1, unselfconscious pictures taken when I was not aware of the camera, whether laughing or drinking, performing or lost in my inner thoughts.
The early ones—right through to the one shot at Whitby—were taken with old school analogue cameras loaded with black and white film. The later ones were colour and digital but, in my opinion, look better as black and white. I thought you might like to see them, in chronological order, starting when I’m 20 and moving through to 63.
- Age 20, in Pearson Park, Hull. Photo by Heidi Griffiths (no relation).
- Age 21, rehearsing with the band. Photo by Heidi G or maybe Jan Gordon.
- 22, hungover after an epic night. Photograph by Heidi G.
- 24, playing guitar at home in Hull. Photo by Carol Holmes
- 27, playing beer can percussion at Clarion in East Lansing. Photo by Mark Tiedemann
- 30, at Whitby Abbey. Photo by Kelley Eskridge
- 43 (?), at an awards ceremony. Photo by Mark T
- 45, drinking Guinness at Murphy’s pub in Wallingford for a calendar photoshoot to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Association. Photographer, er, I don’t remember.
- 53, at a local SFWA reading. Photo—I think—by Jennifer Durham
- 54, a reading for one of the multiple HILD tours. Photo by Jennifer D
- 54, another HILD reading. Photo by Jennifer D.
- 58, signing books after winning my second Washington State Book Award. Photo by Kelley E
- 61, me and Charlie Bean one cold but lovely winter morning. Photo by Kelley E
- 63, expounding on the Queer Medieval at Town Hall Seattle. Photo by Libby Lewis
- 63, at World Fantasy mass signing. Photo by either Mark T or Kelley E
The PM Press folks decided that the one taken at Whitby was the one. I thought that was a bit odd. I mean, why choose a photo of a 30 year-old author for a book of collected works by someone who is now 65? I couldn’t quite make it make sense. That is, until I considered the actual contents of the book, which is 150 pages long, the majority of which (86 pages) is fiction. Let me explain.
The 39-page section of nonfiction begins with the oldest piece, a blog post, “A Writer’s Manifesto.” That’s followed by a 2018 Op-Ed I did for the New York Times, then three essays—two of which are from a planned series of epistolary criticism—all written around the same time (2014 and 2015) and published (and republished) in various venues since. There are three drawings, all made in 2024 (none previously published; none of my drawings have been published, except a handful on Patreon). Then four poems, mostly written in my 40s and 50s (none previously published; none of my poetry has ever been published, except a few on Patreon). But the meat of the matter, the bulk of the book, is fiction—and that, interestingly, is in ascending word length and (mostly) reverse chronological order: the earlier I wrote it, the longer it is.
It starts with the shortest and most recently published story, “Glimmer” (2018; 1,000 words; SF). Then “Cold Wind” (2014; 3,600 words; Dark Fantasy). Followed by “Down the Path of the Sun” (4,400 words; 1990; post-apocalyptic SF). Although that last wasn’t published until I was 29 it was actually the first real short story I finished (since I was a fifteen-year old schoolgirl), written when, at aged 25, I decided to teach myself to write with short fiction. It was one of two I used as my submission pieces for Clarion. (The other was “Mirrors and Burnstone—not included in this collection—which just as I turned 28 ended up being my first professionally published piece, in Interzone.) These three are probably my least anthologised stories—in fact, I think “Glimmer” might be the only fiction I’ve ever published that hasn’t been either reprinted (until now) and/or translated into a variety of languages.2
But the biggest thing in the whole book, fully half the page count (17,750 words and 75 pages) is a previously-unpublished novella, “Many Things in Dumnet.” I wrote it in 1989, when I was either 28 or 29, not long before I moved from the UK to the US. It was a commissioned work-for-hire (originally called “Blood and Earth”) for which I was well paid, but when that project collapsed I fought for and got the rights back.3 I made one half-hearted effort in the early 90s to get it published but then withdrew it—because I’d started to see it as part of a larger work: an alt-history/sfnal apocalypse/virus-as-magic novel.4
I rewrote the novella to fit that concept at which point it seemed to me that, shorn of its surrounding-novel concept*, it no longer really made sense as a standalone.
So why is it included in She Is Here? Because, er, well, I made a mistake :)
When Nisi Shawl, the series co-editor, asked me to send initial selections of nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction, I combed through my work and divided each category into three folders: Yes, Maybe, and Hell No. She wanted me to send her about 3 times the amount of work that might end up in the finished volume to give her a wide pool from which to draw and so shape the collection. Given that she didn’t want fiction or nonfiction that had been too widely anthologised, translated, and/or reprinted, and given that I have no notion of myself as poet and am incompetent to judge, I decided to send both the Yes and Maybe folders for all three categories. And while I sent her the right sets (Y, M) of poems and essays, by mistake I sent her all three sets (Y, M, HN) of fiction. And because no two editor’s tastes are alike, Nisi chose the two shortest from Y, a medium-length from M…and the longest HN, the novella. (Hell No not because I thought it badly written but because of * above.)
I baulked. No, I said. This is meant to be a career-spanning retrospective—and what I write best, the short fiction that’s most representative of me, is supercool sex-and-tech SF and sex-and-shivers Dark Fantasy! To me, this novella, stripped of its sfnal alt-history context, reads as an old-school, music-as-magic secondary world fantasy. Sure, but I really like it! she said. But there’s no sex! I said. So what? she said. To which I had no real answer. Plus, look, she said. The book will get more attention if it includes something never before published. I pointed out that the poems were unpublished, the interview was unpublished, and the drawings were unpublished. Sure, she said again. But I really love this story, I really want it, and I mean to have it!
I was still having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that for this entire collection—the nonfiction, the fiction, even the poetry—Nisi had consistently chosen pieces with no sex in them. I wasn’t sure that felt entirely true to me. In particular the fiction she chose feels more gentle and lonely than both my usual short work and my novels: very different to the sharp-edged crime fiction of Aud, the Early Medieval visceral embodiment of the Hild sequence, the seamy dark corners of Slow River, or molten rage of So Lucky.5
But in the end, between them Nisi and Kelley persuaded me that, as a collection—the combination of drawings and interview, poems and essays, as well as the fiction—it works, and more to the point highlights different emotional facets of my creative production. The poems are raw, the nonfiction stern, and the drawings pure, joyful whimsy. So, well, perhaps they have a point: perhaps the more gentle fiction turns She Is Here into a well-rounded showcase of who I am as a creator, not just a writer of fiction: who I am, period.
And of course, now finally seeing the collection typeset and proof-read, and being able to recognise that well over half the book is fiction written before that cover photo of 30-year-old me was even taken, perhaps PM Press chose the right picture after all: the young Nicola standing in a place steeped in the Long Ago dreaming of her own future reworking the past to a purpose.
But don’t take my word for it. You’ll be able to judge for yourself on January 27th. You can pre-order the finished book and book professionals may request a digital galley.
Pre-Order
US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | PM Press
UK: Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | WH SmithRequest a digital galley
- With one exception, which I’m sure will be obvious to you—but I like it anyway. ↩︎
- Ooops, spoke too soon. I just agreed for it to be translated into German for an anthology. ↩︎
- Note to all creators, whether newbie or old-timer: always get your rights back! ↩︎
- I still do. Every now and again I go write a bit, or rewrite another bit, or make some notes… ↩︎
- I think you could argue there’s a kinship with Ammonite, though. ↩︎
#authorPhotos #collection #essays #interviews #newBook #nisiShawl #outspokenAuthorSeries #photos #pmPress #poetry #sheIsHere #shortFiction #zoomorphics
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Black and white through the writing ages
Every now and again I remember: I have a new book coming out in January! And then I have to go look at the cover.
She Is Here by Nicola Griffith (PM Press, 27 January, 2026). Photo of the author by Kelley Eskridge.And every time I see that photo I smile—it’s one of those absolutely-unaware-of-the-camera pictures of me that I wish I had more of. PM Press had asked for something in black and white, unusual, and ‘not like an author photo’. I was familiar with the Outspoken Author series design aesthetic, so I went on a hunt through my files for B&W shots that might fit. I assumed they’d want ones that most clearly resembled the over-60 writer I am now, so I sent them a handful taken from the Hild era onwards. But it turned out they didn’t like those: I looked too writerly and they wanted something less formal/more arresting. So then I dug a bit deeper and came up with stuff going back to age 20—at least those that I like, which tend to be unposed1, unselfconscious pictures taken when I was not aware of the camera, whether laughing or drinking, performing or lost in my inner thoughts.
The early ones—right through to the one shot at Whitby—were taken with old school analogue cameras loaded with black and white film. The later ones were colour and digital but, in my opinion, look better as black and white. I thought you might like to see them, in chronological order, starting when I’m 20 and moving through to 63.
- Age 20, in Pearson Park, Hull. Photo by Heidi Griffiths (no relation).
- Age 21, rehearsing with the band. Photo by Heidi G or maybe Jan Gordon.
- 22, hungover after an epic night. Photograph by Heidi G.
- 24, playing guitar at home in Hull. Photo by Carol Holmes
- 27, playing beer can percussion at Clarion in East Lansing. Photo by Mark Tiedemann
- 30, at Whitby Abbey. Photo by Kelley Eskridge
- 43 (?), at an awards ceremony. Photo by Mark T
- 45, drinking Guinness at Murphy’s pub in Wallingford for a calendar photoshoot to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Association. Photographer, er, I don’t remember.
- 53, at a local SFWA reading. Photo—I think—by Jennifer Durham
- 54, a reading for one of the multiple HILD tours. Photo by Jennifer D
- 54, another HILD reading. Photo by Jennifer D.
- 58, signing books after winning my second Washington State Book Award. Photo by Kelley E
- 61, me and Charlie Bean one cold but lovely winter morning. Photo by Kelley E
- 63, expounding on the Queer Medieval at Town Hall Seattle. Photo by Libby Lewis
- 63, at World Fantasy mass signing. Photo by either Mark T or Kelley E
The PM Press folks decided that the one taken at Whitby was the one. I thought that was a bit odd. I mean, why choose a photo of a 30 year-old author for a book of collected works by someone who is now 65? I couldn’t quite make it make sense. That is, until I considered the actual contents of the book, which is 150 pages long, the majority of which (86 pages) is fiction. Let me explain.
The 39-page section of nonfiction begins with the oldest piece, a blog post, “A Writer’s Manifesto.” That’s followed by a 2018 Op-Ed I did for the New York Times, then three essays—two of which are from a planned series of epistolary criticism—all written around the same time (2014 and 2015) and published (and republished) in various venues since. There are three drawings, all made in 2024 (none previously published; none of my drawings have been published, except a handful on Patreon). Then four poems, mostly written in my 40s and 50s (none previously published; none of my poetry has ever been published, except a few on Patreon). But the meat of the matter, the bulk of the book, is fiction—and that, interestingly, is in ascending word length and (mostly) reverse chronological order: the earlier I wrote it, the longer it is.
It starts with the shortest and most recently published story, “Glimmer” (2018; 1,000 words; SF). Then “Cold Wind” (2014; 3,600 words; Dark Fantasy). Followed by “Down the Path of the Sun” (4,400 words; 1990; post-apocalyptic SF). Although that last wasn’t published until I was 29 it was actually the first real short story I finished (since I was a fifteen-year old schoolgirl), written when, at aged 25, I decided to teach myself to write with short fiction. It was one of two I used as my submission pieces for Clarion. (The other was “Mirrors and Burnstone—not included in this collection—which just as I turned 28 ended up being my first professionally published piece, in Interzone.) These three are probably my least anthologised stories—in fact, I think “Glimmer” might be the only fiction I’ve ever published that hasn’t been either reprinted (until now) and/or translated into a variety of languages.2
But the biggest thing in the whole book, fully half the page count (17,750 words and 75 pages) is a previously-unpublished novella, “Many Things in Dumnet.” I wrote it in 1989, when I was either 28 or 29, not long before I moved from the UK to the US. It was a commissioned work-for-hire (originally called “Blood and Earth”) for which I was well paid, but when that project collapsed I fought for and got the rights back.3 I made one half-hearted effort in the early 90s to get it published but then withdrew it—because I’d started to see it as part of a larger work: an alt-history/sfnal apocalypse/virus-as-magic novel.4
I rewrote the novella to fit that concept at which point it seemed to me that, shorn of its surrounding-novel concept*, it no longer really made sense as a standalone.
So why is it included in She Is Here? Because, er, well, I made a mistake :)
When Nisi Shawl, the series co-editor, asked me to send initial selections of nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction, I combed through my work and divided each category into three folders: Yes, Maybe, and Hell No. She wanted me to send her about 3 times the amount of work that might end up in the finished volume to give her a wide pool from which to draw and so shape the collection. Given that she didn’t want fiction or nonfiction that had been too widely anthologised, translated, and/or reprinted, and given that I have no notion of myself as poet and am incompetent to judge, I decided to send both the Yes and Maybe folders for all three categories. And while I sent her the right sets (Y, M) of poems and essays, by mistake I sent her all three sets (Y, M, HN) of fiction. And because no two editor’s tastes are alike, Nisi chose the two shortest from Y, a medium-length from M…and the longest HN, the novella. (Hell No not because I thought it badly written but because of * above.)
I baulked. No, I said. This is meant to be a career-spanning retrospective—and what I write best, the short fiction that’s most representative of me, is supercool sex-and-tech SF and sex-and-shivers Dark Fantasy! To me, this novella, stripped of its sfnal alt-history context, reads as an old-school, music-as-magic secondary world fantasy. Sure, but I really like it! she said. But there’s no sex! I said. So what? she said. To which I had no real answer. Plus, look, she said. The book will get more attention if it includes something never before published. I pointed out that the poems were unpublished, the interview was unpublished, and the drawings were unpublished. Sure, she said again. But I really love this story, I really want it, and I mean to have it!
I was still having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that for this entire collection—the nonfiction, the fiction, even the poetry—Nisi had consistently chosen pieces with no sex in them. I wasn’t sure that felt entirely true to me. In particular the fiction she chose feels more gentle and lonely than both my usual short work and my novels: very different to the sharp-edged crime fiction of Aud, the Early Medieval visceral embodiment of the Hild sequence, the seamy dark corners of Slow River, or molten rage of So Lucky.5
But in the end, between them Nisi and Kelley persuaded me that, as a collection—the combination of drawings and interview, poems and essays, as well as the fiction—it works, and more to the point highlights different emotional facets of my creative production. The poems are raw, the nonfiction stern, and the drawings pure, joyful whimsy. So, well, perhaps they have a point: perhaps the more gentle fiction turns She Is Here into a well-rounded showcase of who I am as a creator, not just a writer of fiction: who I am, period.
And of course, now finally seeing the collection typeset and proof-read, and being able to recognise that well over half the book is fiction written before that cover photo of 30-year-old me was even taken, perhaps PM Press chose the right picture after all: the young Nicola standing in a place steeped in the Long Ago dreaming of her own future reworking the past to a purpose.
But don’t take my word for it. You’ll be able to judge for yourself on January 27th. You can pre-order the finished book and book professionals may request a digital galley.
Pre-Order
US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | PM Press
UK: Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | WH SmithRequest a digital galley
- With one exception, which I’m sure will be obvious to you—but I like it anyway. ↩︎
- Ooops, spoke too soon. I just agreed for it to be translated into German for an anthology. ↩︎
- Note to all creators, whether newbie or old-timer: always get your rights back! ↩︎
- I still do. Every now and again I go write a bit, or rewrite another bit, or make some notes… ↩︎
- I think you could argue there’s a kinship with Ammonite, though. ↩︎
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Quiet Nights
Nicola Conte feat. Lisa Bassenge#mastoradio
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W tym tygodniu Atari odkupiło od właściciela stronę, sklep i forum – AtariAge – hub angielskojęzycznej społeczności fanów komputerów i konsol Atari. Czy to oznacza koniec niezależności?💰 WSPARCIE:
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https://pegasus-sklep.pl/Osoby, które miały A2600+ już w rękach, przekazały że Atari nieoficjalnie zapewniało ich iż zarówno oprogramowanie samej konsoli, jak i oprogramowanie dumpera romów ma znajdować się na pamięci zapisywalnej i że do konsoli mogą, a nawet powinny się pojawiać się updaty – wgrywane poprzez port USB-C – służący standardowo do jej zasilania.
Potwierdziło się moje (no, nie tylko moje) podejrzenie, że Atari 2600+ będzie działać pod kontrolą emulatora Stella. Osoby stojące bowiem za tym projektem poinformowały, że jakiś czas temu Atari zgłosiło się do nich z informacją, że zamierza Stelle wykorzystywać (do czego oczywiście ma pełne prawo) oraz zaproponowało twórcą Stelli aktywną współpracę przy tworzeniu projektu.
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354123-the-atari-2600-is-live-for-preorders/
Posiadacze konsol Evercade są niepocieszeni. Wydawcy konsoli przesunęli właśnie o kilka tygodni premiery nowych kartridży. I tak kartridże Sunsoft Collection 1 iDelphine Software Collection 1 wyjdą teraz 6 października, a Full Void, Full Void Special Edition, oraz Home Computer Heroes Collection 1 dopiero 14 listopada 2023 r.
Gra miesiąca w Evercade to Bone Marrow.. hmm.. taka wyglądająca na 16-bitową gra puzlowa… dobra nie będę udawał, że wiem o co w niej chodzi.. mimo, że czytałem opis i oglądałem gameplay. No ale – dla fanów gatunku – pewnie perełka?
AtariAge – strona, forum, później sklep, w którym można było kupować gry i reprodukcje (piraty), największe na świecie źródło informacji o komputerach i konsolach Atari i nie tylko Atari, dom dla większości angielskojęzycznej części fanów tematu, po 25 latach istnienia został sprzedany przez jego twórcę właścicielom marki Atari, a on sam (twórca) został pracownikiem firmy na pozycji oficjalnego historyka Atari.
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354609-atariage-atari/
W bibliotece retro konsoli Nintendo Switch – którego przy okazji drugą wersję pokazano niedawno na tajnych pokazach na Gamescomie – pojawiły się kolejne cztery gry – w tym trzy nigdy nie wydane na zachodnich rynkach. Są to – Joy Mech Fight – bijatyka wydana przez nintendo oryginalnie na Famicoma, sportowa gra z kultowej u nas z pegausowych piratów serii gier Kunio-kun – Downtown Nekketsu March Super-Awesome Field Day! też oryginalnie wydanej na Famicoma. Na SNESa mamy grę puzzlową HAL Lab’s Kirby’s Star Stacker, a ostatnią w paczce jest RPG – Quest for Camelot – wydane oryginalnie na Game Boya.
Twórca gier homebrew, Rik Nicol, ogłosił, że rozpoczęły się zamówienia przedpremierowe na nadchodzący jego tytuł Goodboy Galaxy na Game Boy Advance — grę opowiadającą o psim odkrywcy, który utknął na wrogiej planecie.
https://hotpengu.itch.io/goodboy-galaxy-demoJeśli chodzi o gierki na stare platformy, jakie rzuciły mi się w oczy w ostatnim tygodniu, to muszę wspomnieć o bardzo ładnym porcie gry Mario Bros na komputer Amstrad CPC, oczywiście w wersji z 128 KB pamięci i stacją dyskietek. Nie przegapiłem też gry Batmanolo Against The Mutant Attack To Weepingtown na komputer ZX Spectrum 48K – jest to produkcja przygodowo platformowa. A i omawiana tydzień temu gra na Amigę – Tony, trybut dla Tonego Halika – otrzymała kolejną wersję demo!
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And this is yet another reason I adore Nicolle Wallace. As a former (recovering) Republican myself, it's such a lift to see her so passionately implore W to JUST DO THE RIGHT THING.
(She cracks for a moment at 6:30 & her voice shakes for almost a minute)
"Nicolle Wallace calls on her former boss, George W. Bush to break silence on 2024 Election" - MSNBC
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lynsmoXZN6E&si=IFW0OJWju7UlnhdZ#nicollewallace #msnbc #georgewbush #HarrisWalz2024 #KamalaHarris #HarrisForPresident #KamalaForPresident #trump
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@Teri_Kanefield Here’s the link to that segment of Nicolle Wallace’s interview with #AbbyGrossberg on #DeadlineWH (posted by @sarahburris)
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Falls jemand von euch bei Insta ist, dann lasst gerne mal ein Like bei Nicoles Reel. #NicoleHäkeltWeihnachtsdeko #crochet #häkeln
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Koncert #Kanalizacija (LT, rock-jazz / psychedelic) • #ChrystePanie w #Chmury | 27.11 już dzisiaj, będzie gorąco! ) 🔥 Bramkę otwieramy o 19:00, koncerty zaczynamy od 20!
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Zapraszamy do odsłuchu audycji o tym koncercie w @radiokapital 🙉 https://radiokapital.pl/shows/cos-sie-dzieje111/svmerki-zmierzch
Partnerzy: Podróżnych Ugościć, Na obrzeżach, Radio Kapitał, Undertone, Empatia Distro, Independent.pl.
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Plakat Nikolė Kremensaitė, typografia Zhenya Kazei