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For the lovers of books, National Book Lovers Day is every day. #fediverse #social #indieAuthors #indieAuthor #indie #bookstodon #books #book #bookLovers #BookLover #romance #love #writingCommunity #readers #reading #readingCommunity #readin2026 #lgbtqia #lovetriangle
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For the lovers of books, National Book Lovers Day is every day. #fediverse #social #indieAuthors #indieAuthor #indie #bookstodon #books #book #bookLovers #BookLover #romance #love #writingCommunity #readers #reading #readingCommunity #readin2026 #lgbtqia #lovetriangle
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Happy International Cat Day! Just received my first bad review on my book GOOSE CREEK HOLLER. Pretty harsh, and while I get where the reviewer is coming from, did he actually read the part about the other Southern delicacies consumed by the Appalachian family of Buchnells? It also starts with a "G". I think not, or he might have given a more favorable review and at least a one paw up. And it's hollar, not holler, Mr. Harrison. Sheesh, reviewers. #cats #cat #bookReview #reviews #review #mastodon #fediverse #books #booksky #bookstodon #book #humor #fun #caturday #saturday #goose #goosecreekholler #sophiajanehayden #novels #novel #Southern #Appalachia #Appalachian #mysteryThriller #mystery #writingCommunity #writing #writer #writers #scribesAndMakers #writingCommunity #reading #read #readersofmastodon #readingCommunity #readin2026 #felines #harrison #catskills #words #iamwriting
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Happy International Cat Day! Just received my first bad review on my book GOOSE CREEK HOLLER. Pretty harsh, and while I get where the reviewer is coming from, did he actually read the part about the other Southern delicacies consumed by the Appalachian family of Buchnells? It also starts with a "G". I think not, or he might have given a more favorable review and at least a one paw up. And it's hollar, not holler, Mr. Harrison. Sheesh, reviewers. #cats #cat #bookReview #reviews #review #mastodon #fediverse #books #booksky #bookstodon #book #humor #fun #caturday #saturday #goose #goosecreekholler #sophiajanehayden #novels #novel #Southern #Appalachia #Appalachian #mysteryThriller #mystery #writingCommunity #writing #writer #writers #scribesAndMakers #writingCommunity #reading #read #readersofmastodon #readingCommunity #readin2026 #felines #harrison #catskills #words #iamwriting
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No 16: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
I listened to the Leonard Nimoy narration from the Internet Archive.
Did not like. Never been a fan of audio-books which never match the pace and emphasis I'd place on reading the text myself, so I end up re-constructing it to myself simultaneous with listening which is exhausting and infuriating.
But the story is well worth a read/listen.
What will remain once humans are gone? What poetry will survive us?
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No 16: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
I listened to the Leonard Nimoy narration from the Internet Archive.
Did not like. Never been a fan of audio-books which never match the pace and emphasis I'd place on reading the text myself, so I end up re-constructing it to myself simultaneous with listening which is exhausting and infuriating.
But the story is well worth a read/listen.
What will remain once humans are gone? What poetry will survive us?
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No 15: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
A re-read concurrent with watching TV series. Quite glad I did, as they differ considerably.
I like the triple headed 1st person narrative. It weaves the events through one another, allowing the assumptions of motivation and actual motivations to weave and form whole cloth.
I dislike the ending, where it breaks to the colloquia. A cliche I feel Atwood is above.
I think it's time to put this & Handmaid on a must-read list for young women.
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No 15: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
A re-read concurrent with watching TV series. Quite glad I did, as they differ considerably.
I like the triple headed 1st person narrative. It weaves the events through one another, allowing the assumptions of motivation and actual motivations to weave and form whole cloth.
I dislike the ending, where it breaks to the colloquia. A cliche I feel Atwood is above.
I think it's time to put this & Handmaid on a must-read list for young women.
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No 14: The Cut-Throat Trial by The Secret Barrister
How many defendants are guilty? Will the right ones go to jail?
Really did not want to put it down. Like peeling an onion. Every page earned its ink. No assumption left intact. The gamut of barrister and defendant character archetypes developed to the last page.
Only gripe: it could have used a diagram of the courtroom at the start. Layout still confused in my head, even after looking at diagrams online.
#ReadIn2026
https://thesecretbarrister.com/2025/08/28/the-cut-throat-trial-publication-day-and-the-terror/ -
No 14: The Cut-Throat Trial by The Secret Barrister
How many defendants are guilty? Will the right ones go to jail?
Really did not want to put it down. Like peeling an onion. Every page earned its ink. No assumption left intact. The gamut of barrister and defendant character archetypes developed to the last page.
Only gripe: it could have used a diagram of the courtroom at the start. Layout still confused in my head, even after looking at diagrams online.
#ReadIn2026
https://thesecretbarrister.com/2025/08/28/the-cut-throat-trial-publication-day-and-the-terror/ -
No 13: All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
I fucking loved it, but it's really hard to describe!
Sci-fi alt-u where magic exists, but close enough to our own tech-bro nonsense driven environmental precipice to feel salutary. (And for a 10 year old book a little Cassandrian!)
Told through two well-rounded protagonists as they move from childhood to adult agency, changing the world in ways neither could have anticipated.
#ReadIn2026
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No 13: All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
I fucking loved it, but it's really hard to describe!
Sci-fi alt-u where magic exists, but close enough to our own tech-bro nonsense driven environmental precipice to feel salutary. (And for a 10 year old book a little Cassandrian!)
Told through two well-rounded protagonists as they move from childhood to adult agency, changing the world in ways neither could have anticipated.
#ReadIn2026
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No 12: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Book 4 in series. Told in 3 converging timelines from POV of an eclectic group of misfits and misanthropes. Never would I have believed I'd be invested in the character development of a human-size stomatopod, but here I am!
The shape of the story is clear from the start, but that is not the point, the people are. For a very liberal definition of people! Which is one of the things I love about AT's writing.
#ReadIn2026
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adrian-tchaikovsky/children-of-strife/9781035057788 -
No 12: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Book 4 in series. Told in 3 converging timelines from POV of an eclectic group of misfits and misanthropes. Never would I have believed I'd be invested in the character development of a human-size stomatopod, but here I am!
The shape of the story is clear from the start, but that is not the point, the people are. For a very liberal definition of people! Which is one of the things I love about AT's writing.
#ReadIn2026
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adrian-tchaikovsky/children-of-strife/9781035057788 -
No 11: Goodbye To Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
Set in Berlin 1929-32, the waning days of the Weimar Republic, just prior to Hitler's rise to power.
It comprises person-centred sketches; windows into the lives of a cabaret of residents.
The power is in the prose, which catapults you from decay to decadence through an almost dispassionate observer, "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking..."
Still alarmingly relevant.
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No 11: Goodbye To Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
Set in Berlin 1929-32, the waning days of the Weimar Republic, just prior to Hitler's rise to power.
It comprises person-centred sketches; windows into the lives of a cabaret of residents.
The power is in the prose, which catapults you from decay to decadence through an almost dispassionate observer, "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking..."
Still alarmingly relevant.
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No 10: What We Are Seeking, Cameron Reed
A delight. Up there with LeGuin.
Every chapter is world and character building. I felt I was walking through curtain after curtain into a mind-palace of infinite joy and sadness, hope and despair.
There's a spaceship opening, colonisation, alien biomes, civilisations to unpack, LGBTQ+ themes and oh! the people you will meet. You will care, deeply, be sad it's over, but viscerally satisfied at the conclusion.
https://torpublishinggroup.com/what-we-are-seeking/?isbn=9781250364739&format=hardback
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No 10: What We Are Seeking, Cameron Reed
A delight. Up there with LeGuin.
Every chapter is world and character building. I felt I was walking through curtain after curtain into a mind-palace of infinite joy and sadness, hope and despair.
There's a spaceship opening, colonisation, alien biomes, civilisations to unpack, LGBTQ+ themes and oh! the people you will meet. You will care, deeply, be sad it's over, but viscerally satisfied at the conclusion.
https://torpublishinggroup.com/what-we-are-seeking/?isbn=9781250364739&format=hardback
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No 9: The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
First published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, November 1909
Prescient. Humanity creates a machine to sustain itself below ground on a depleted planet.
Emergent tropes that later appear in Asimov's Robot novels, the Matrix and Wall-E, and that's just off the top of my head.
A good exposition of reference rot in academia too.
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
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No 9: The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
First published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, November 1909
Prescient. Humanity creates a machine to sustain itself below ground on a depleted planet.
Emergent tropes that later appear in Asimov's Robot novels, the Matrix and Wall-E, and that's just off the top of my head.
A good exposition of reference rot in academia too.
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
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No 8: Wireless by Charlie Stross, pub Orbit Books
A collection bought for the ones I didn't already have, notably Missile Gap, which was interesting.
The stand out is Palimpsest, Winner of the 2010 Hugo for best novella, for good bloody reason.
Planning an immediate re-read of it.
What if a time war but to the heat death of the universe and back?
Also devil's bargain, proto-Bob, real Bob, a farm and a drunk'n'disorderly pygmy mastodon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless:_The_Essential_Charles_Stross
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No 8: Wireless by Charlie Stross, pub Orbit Books
A collection bought for the ones I didn't already have, notably Missile Gap, which was interesting.
The stand out is Palimpsest, Winner of the 2010 Hugo for best novella, for good bloody reason.
Planning an immediate re-read of it.
What if a time war but to the heat death of the universe and back?
Also devil's bargain, proto-Bob, real Bob, a farm and a drunk'n'disorderly pygmy mastodon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless:_The_Essential_Charles_Stross
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No 7: Vigilance by Allen Stroud
Third in The Fractal Series
Haud yer breeks! We've hit full speed on characters, ships, stations, 'other' bodies and historical snippets ramping up the intrigue, depth of universe and mad-billionaire story-arc.
Our main cast carry through nicely, with a denouement that leaves a system in chaos and so many questions that I'm really glad to say the fourth book "Anti State" will be released later this month!
https://www.flametreepublishing.com/vigilance-isbn-9781787589391.html
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No 7: Vigilance by Allen Stroud
Third in The Fractal Series
Haud yer breeks! We've hit full speed on characters, ships, stations, 'other' bodies and historical snippets ramping up the intrigue, depth of universe and mad-billionaire story-arc.
Our main cast carry through nicely, with a denouement that leaves a system in chaos and so many questions that I'm really glad to say the fourth book "Anti State" will be released later this month!
https://www.flametreepublishing.com/vigilance-isbn-9781787589391.html
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No 6: Two Hands, Wrapped In Gold, short story by S.B. Divya in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 46
A charming reworking of a classic European fairy story.
#ReadIn2026
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/two-hands-wrapped-in-gold/ -
No 6: Two Hands, Wrapped In Gold, short story by S.B. Divya in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 46
A charming reworking of a classic European fairy story.
#ReadIn2026
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/two-hands-wrapped-in-gold/ -
No 5: Eviction Notice by Celso Antonio de Almeida, short story in Nature Futures, 4 Feb 2026
I think this falls into the category of musing on the Fermi paradox, in the sub-cateogry of, "What if we just haven't understood the message?"
Short and bittersweet.
#ReadIn2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00138-2 -
No 5: Eviction Notice by Celso Antonio de Almeida, short story in Nature Futures, 4 Feb 2026
I think this falls into the category of musing on the Fermi paradox, in the sub-cateogry of, "What if we just haven't understood the message?"
Short and bittersweet.
#ReadIn2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00138-2 -
No 4: Resilient by Allen Stroud
Second in what I note is called The Fractal Series (previously I said trilogy).
Takes our book 1 cast and adds new characters as the setting expands to include Earth & Mars. The prose delivers multiple characters' POV well in tense, short scenes. With terror and treachery at every turn, characters are forced to oscillate between their best and worst instincts to survive.
The third book is lined up!
#ReadIn2026 https://www.flametreepublishing.com/resilient-isbn-9781787587168.html
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No 4: Resilient by Allen Stroud
Second in what I note is called The Fractal Series (previously I said trilogy).
Takes our book 1 cast and adds new characters as the setting expands to include Earth & Mars. The prose delivers multiple characters' POV well in tense, short scenes. With terror and treachery at every turn, characters are forced to oscillate between their best and worst instincts to survive.
The third book is lined up!
#ReadIn2026 https://www.flametreepublishing.com/resilient-isbn-9781787587168.html
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No 3: The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer
The kind of hopeful short that we could all benefit from right now.
Set in Minneapolis after an event that disrupts society and darkens the sky. A nascent community arises from a pinboard and reaches out to others.
I'm off to have a good cry.
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/
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No 3: The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer
The kind of hopeful short that we could all benefit from right now.
Set in Minneapolis after an event that disrupts society and darkens the sky. A nascent community arises from a pinboard and reaches out to others.
I'm off to have a good cry.
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/
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No 2: Fearless by Allen Stroud
Near future tech sci-fi. The reality of early solar system colonisation hits hard as Captain Ellisa Shann leads her crew on a rescue mission. But what's really going on and who is behind it?
Enjoyable twists and turns, meshing human foibles, inter-planetary plots and politics, through the lens of a captain just out to do the right thing.
Very much enjoyed and will be reading 2nd in trilogy next.
https://www.flametreepublishing.com/fearless-isbn-9781787585447.html
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No 2: Fearless by Allen Stroud
Near future tech sci-fi. The reality of early solar system colonisation hits hard as Captain Ellisa Shann leads her crew on a rescue mission. But what's really going on and who is behind it?
Enjoyable twists and turns, meshing human foibles, inter-planetary plots and politics, through the lens of a captain just out to do the right thing.
Very much enjoyed and will be reading 2nd in trilogy next.
https://www.flametreepublishing.com/fearless-isbn-9781787585447.html
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Read In 2026 list starts here!
Number 1: Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston
A trio of unlikely heroes in the shape of an exile, a convict and a sentient ship desperately try to figure out what is threatening their galaxy-spanning civilisation.
Engaging, well written, an author I might like to read more. "What if The Culture but rooted in Indian philosophy?" From Phlebas to Excession in one book.
(Hotston tips hat to Ian M. Banks in the afterword.)
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Read In 2026 list starts here!
Number 1: Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston
A trio of unlikely heroes in the shape of an exile, a convict and a sentient ship desperately try to figure out what is threatening their galaxy-spanning civilisation.
Engaging, well written, an author I might like to read more. "What if The Culture but rooted in Indian philosophy?" From Phlebas to Excession in one book.
(Hotston tips hat to Ian M. Banks in the afterword.)