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Martin Sorensen

@amartinsorensen.bsky.social
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Book seller, music lover, occasional tv watcher Vox clamantis in deserto

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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s been a while since I lost sleep to a book, but I was up until two this morning finishing @usmantm.bsky.social s upcoming book, A dark and narrow house. Absolutely five out of five stars. I’m now looking forward to next April when it will be in the store. Highly recommended. #booksky
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 07/10/2026
A wild thought. The Ellison media empire is funded with a gargantuan amount of Oracle debt. Oracle has bet the farm on AI. When the AI bubble pops — it will — someone with a lot of cash will be able to buy up those assets for a bargain. Know who has a lot of cash and likes the business? Apple.
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m currently reading an advance cop of A dark and narrow house by @usmantm.bsky.social and wow is this a great book. Comes out next year, mark your calendars. Highly recommended. #booksky
A dark and narrow house by Usman T Malik
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m truly the luckiest person in the world to pass the Samuel R Delany test
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is why I love used book stores. I’m currently reading Terraplane by @jwomack.bsky.social . A hell of a good read. #booksky
Terraplane by Jack Womack
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ve been a ‘constant reader’ of @stephenking.bsky.social since my junior high days. This promises hours of enjoyment and education. #booksky
The art and craft of Stephen King
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I picked up a really cool edition of The Shockwave Rider today. At a used bookstore that isn’t the one I work at . Friends may make fun of me for going into other stores on my day off, but this is why. #booksky #usedbookstore
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My commute music currently is Jelly Roll Morton the complete library of congress recordings. So I’m spending a couple of hours a day with one of the greatest pianists and storytellers of all time. Highly recommended if you’re curious about the origins of jazz. #jazzsky
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026
When the 1950’s tradwife fantasy runs out of f*cks and chooses revenge. 🔥☠️
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today's writing of the talk finds me angry, ranting about folklore, Mars and the lie of AI and attempting to curse Elon bloody Musk.
One day, when that billionaire class – as hollow of humanity as their beloved machines – flee to Mars, they will find they’ve unwittingly taken folklore with them. In all their scraping of our collective data, a phantom infection. The ghost soil will continue to be universal, even in Mar’s red hematite dust. Gremlins will sabotage their rockets. Their mad kings will know its terrors, know how it’s the place where our collective ache for justice lives. Folklore will be an imagined knife to their throats. It will be as a Pijavica chasing their bloodlines. Every rocket’s glare will carry it as ineffable cargo. I say this as promise. I say this as curse. I ask you to imagine it true for all at the bruised margins, suffering their greed for power and water. Say it as true story against their false narrative that we need their monstrous AI agents.
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There is nothing like an unexpected Jonathan Carroll short story to make you see the world around you in mysterious and wonderful ways. #booksky
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s not a perfect comparison, but I feel with trump we are entering the Brezhnev era of American history.
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/08/2026
dudes will always find a way to rock
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
So, oddly enough, two vampire books in my inbox this week..A collection of short stories by @lavietidhar.bsky.social , and a more serious book on the history of belief in vampires. (Personally, I prefer werewolves.) #booksky
The three coffin problem by Lavie Tidhar 
Killing the dead by John Blair
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Trump/Natalie Harp story is like if FATAL ATTRACTION starred Glenn Close and Leonid Brezhnev.
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sitting down today with what looks to be an excellent book on the attempted coup against Gorbachev in 1991. By one of the best writers on the USSR. I don’t know when it will be available in the US, I had mine sent from Oxford. @radiofreetom.bsky.social have you had a chance to read this? #booksky
The August coup by Robert Service.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I finished the new book of short by @zacharymason.bsky.social . Ever story in this is a keeper. Highest possible recommendation. # booksky
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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
2026 #WorldFantasyAward finalists are here! Congrats to all the nominees, particularly our Tachyon authors! buff.ly/ee0pEKf @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @pat-murphy.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @samtasticbooks.com @jhameia.bsky.social @thejillroberts.bsky.social @jacobwesiman.bsky.social
Stack of World Fantasy nominated books with rhino figure on top

    • Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill
    • The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip 
    • The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy 
    • Letters from an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss 
    • Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends edited by Richard Wolinsky
    • Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m currently reading the new book by @zacharymason.bsky.social . A collection of stories dealing with AI. It may end up being my favorite ‘sci-fi’ book of the year. All the stories so far have been bangers. It comes out in December, mark your calendars. #booksky
Fabrications by Zachary Mason
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This came into the store, and was immediately given to me. Looks like it’s time to plan another trip to London. #london #booksky
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My inbox today included an advance copy of the new novel by China Mievelle - 1260 pages, which establishes what I’ll be reading for the next month or so. #booksky
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
451 days until the rugby World Cup #rugby
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I wouldn’t mind the Supreme Court limiting themselves to ‘calling balls and strikes’ if they didn’t insist on changing the strike zone depending on who’s at bat.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If they don't make court reform a non negotiable platform plank, find someone else who will. That is all
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Today The Muses smiled at me. The new book by Emily Wilson, easily my favorite translator of Homer. (I’ve read multiple translations over the years.) I’m really looking forward to diving into this one #booksky #classsics
Crossing the wine dark sea by Emily Wilson
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Alt text
Seattle Space Needle with a pride flag flying from the top. 

Tbe background is an arrange sky and a grey orange mountains. 

Looks a little like cloud city from Star Wars
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
With three bookcases overflowing with books on jazz and blues, it’s increasingly difficult to find a book that I don’t have, and that looks interesting. Today I found one. #jazzsky #booksky
A book on the history of the Monterrey jazz festival. Dizzy, Duke, The Count and me by Jimmy Lyons.
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Sarah Jellen @ebyrdstarr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I just saw someone refer to JD Vance as Hillbilly Vanilli and I am changed.
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Silence is assent @stef47.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Making America Mordor itself #Trump #Swamp
A mashup of a photo of the reflecting pool, looking toward the Washington monument and a painting of Frodo and Sam in the swamps of Mordor. 

https://www.facebook.com/share/19BcR1W7d8/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I picked up The Tommyknockers by @stephenking.bsky.social the other week, and it’s a much better book than I remembered. And I had forgotten about the brief appearance of The Shop, an organization I’d love to know more about. I feel like it would have expanded under trump. #booksky
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
June 14, 2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 14, 2026
On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved “[t]hat six companies of expert riflemen, be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia; that each company cons...
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
⚡️💥🔥⚡️💥🔥⚡️💥🔥⚡️💥🔥
Quoted from James Patrick Parks: "Not sure why Trump is going to a Knicks game. Everyone knows he's been a spurs fan since Vietnam."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Happiness is a new Alan Moore novel. #booksky
I hear a new world by Alan Moore, the second novel in the incredible Long London series.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.
A Great Day in Harlem, 1958 photograph by Art Kane
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I feel like these two biographies could explain a lot about the current state of America #booksky #history
Biographies of Roy Cohn and Carlos Castaneda
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
One of the things that music streaming will never replace is Jazz reissue labels. Mosaic records is the best of the best. This week’s soundtrack is classic fresh bebop. #jazzsky
Two mosaic records reissues, the complete dial modern jazz sessions , and classic savoy bebop recordings, 1945-1949
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is key to why most SFF readers start in childhood, and it can be a struggle to learn how to read SFF as an adult if you didn’t start teen you still knew how to read like a kid.
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
One of the unique entries in the Miles Davis discography is Miles in Tokyo. It’s the second quintet, just before Wayne Shorter joined. Sam Rivers is on sax, and while his style didn’t quite mesh with what Miles wanted, it’s still a great album. This cd offers a broader look. Recommended #jazzsky
Miles Davis quintet the unissued Japanese concerts
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The book gods were kind to me today. Two arcs by two of my favorite authors. The new novel by @tananarivedue.bsky.social and @kyliu99.bsky.social new collection of short stories. My next weeks reading is set. #booksky
Mazywood by Tananarive Due
The passing of the dragon by Ken Liu
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 26/04/2026
[Enter Rumor, painted full of tongues.]
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Anyone who mocks Ocasio-Cortez for being a bartender - rather than seeing those skills are a significant part of her arsenal - is the sort of person who's never in their life gotten a free drink.
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Two excellent books out today if you’re a Shakespeare fan. Judi Dench’s book is out in paperback, and an intriguing book on translating Shakespeare. #booksky #Shakespeare
Shakespeare: The man who pays the rent by Judi Dench
If this be magic by Daniel Hahn
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
As far as literature goes, two things I know for certain. If trump had survived the superflu in @stephenking.bsky.social The Stand, he would have been off to join Randall Flagg like a shot. And Flagg would have set the wolves on him before he got within 100 miles of Las Vegas. #booksky
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I never thought I would say this, but I stand with The Pope.
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Martin Sorensen @amartinsorensen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Today’s in box. (My week starts on Sunday.) London history, unique jazz history-Ponomarev left the USSR in the early 70’s to play jazz in the US, and a history of scientific nature art. #booksky #jazzsky
The art of biodiversity by Eric Hummel
On the flip side of sound by Valery Ponomarev 
Songs of seven dials by Matt Houlbrook
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