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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

’S e cruinneachadh de sgeulachdan-goirid ficsein saidheansail a th’ ann an 'Iomall' (@luathpress.bsky.social) le Alistair Paul. Bha an leabhar air a’ gheàrr-liosta Duais Chomann Gàidhealach Lunnainn ann an 2026. Lèirmheas le Nathaniel Harrington @coimeas.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/543uh7r2

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

really scraping the bottom of the barrel in a genre (reboots) that is already all about scraping various parts of the barrel

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

was anyone going to tell me they're doing a Highlander reboot film or was I just supposed to find that out myself

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

every "sir" or "dame" or "lady" or "baron" is a reminder of the stubborn persistence of systems that immiserated millions of people for millennia, that continue to extract and hoard wealth now, and that peasants and laborers around the world gave their lives trying to overthrow. they deserve better.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I get it. I used to be that guy, too. but we have to stop taking titles of nobility seriously. even — perhaps especially — if it's an actor or a writer or another artist you like.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in addition to Killboy, What We Are Seeking, and The Heart of the Nhaga, my other most anticipated books for the year are the sequel to Caskey Russell's The Door on the Sea and the last book of Kim Sung-il's Bleeding Empire trilogy, both of which come out in November!

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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mar phàirt de ath-bheòthachadh Lèirmheas Leabhraichean Glaschu agus air Là Nàiseanta na Bàrdachd, tha sinn air ar dòigh bàrdachd ùr ann an Gàidhlig a thaisbeanadh: dàin le Shane Johnstone, Calum L. MacLeòid, Iain MacRàth, Deborah Moffatt agus babs nicgriogair. tinyurl.com/3p32ua7t

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the shifting agency and valence of the last line of "stùc an lochain / lochan toupie / the tarn’s top", too, not to mention the shift in speaker in the Scots section — really good!!

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so we go back to the English and think: oh, not only the "finance" but also the "capital" should make us think of Marx; and we reach the "capietal" in the Scots and are primed to think both of Edinburgh and of primitive accumulation and the Highland Clearances.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

where "capital" in the English section and "capietal" in the Scots both read, by default, only in the sense of "capital city", the use of the adjective "calpach" in Gaelic forces a reevaluation: it ONLY has the sense — unexpected based on the English and Scots — of "capitalist(ic)".

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

[...] to the sprawled ikeas and libraries of my own good capital of finance [...] [...] gu ikeas is paircean is leabharlannan a’ bhaile mhaith chalpaich agam fhìn [...] [...] doun the a seventy-eight tae the bonnie ikeas an leebraries o me capietal toun [...]

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the one that really jumped out at me is the middle of "rear wing / sgiath chùil / hinderweeng":

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

and if you do read all three languages it quickly becomes apparent that in fact each language serves as a commentary / variation on the others, drawing out different resonances and meanings that are not necessarily apparent if you only read one language. these ARE trilingual poems.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

all three languages do, in broad strokes, say "the same thing", but even if you don't read all three languages there are visible differences in formatting and lineation that bely the idea that they can be read as just "equivalent" texts.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

really interested in the framing of these not as translations but as trilingual poems!

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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last November, Gaelic and Scots were recognised as official languages in Scotland for the first time. As the new editors of GRB, we are pleased to present new trilingual poems this National Poetry Day by Harry Josephine Giles. tinyurl.com/3w8ahz3f

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

It’s all very “Lexicographicide,” the short story by Taban lo Liyong that more people should read and teach and discuss.

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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Keep an eye on our website and social media channels from the 1st October for updates. | Cumaibh sùil air ar làrach-lìn & na meadhanan sòisealta bho 1 an Dàmhair airson barrachd fiosrachaidh. | Keep an ee oot on oor website an social media chunnels fae the 1st o October fer updates.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if they were going to make multiple Hobbit movies by adding/making up backstory, one of them should have been a legal drama/comedy of errors about the Sackville-Bagginses trying to get Bilbo declared legally dead

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ohhh I have been wanting to do this for a while (though my concept as it has stood for the last idk how many years since I wrote two paragraphs is not (yet?) especially horny). I look forward to reading it in 2-5 years once you receive your seven-figure advance!

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

close second is Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler's horror fantasy Wrist, one of my all-time favorite books, and its companion short story collection Ghost Lake ("Sturgeon" in particular might be of interest).

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lots of possibilities but I think perhaps my top rec would be Timothy Findley's retelling of the Genesis flood narrative, Not Wanted on the Voyage, a chunk of which is narrated from the perspective of Noah's wife's elderly, blind cat. devastating and really, really good.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

like I think reading these two collections from cover to cover would be a more valuable experience than just picking out whichever chapter(s) are directly relevant to whatever you're working on. but I also think very few edited collections actually have this kind of overarching cohesion in practice.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think a lot depends on the ways the chapters are connected (or not) to each other — I've been working on two collections a friend is co-editing and both have a strong throughline that helps link the chapters, so even if an individual chapter feels weaker in isolation it contributes to the whole.

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In which I tackle Robert Jordan's THE GREAT HUNT (1990), the second in the epically long epic fantasy series Wheel of Time. We've got anxiety about identity, questions about prophecy and fate, lots of trauma and emotional vulnerability, allusions to Arthuriana, and an explosive final battle.

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Reading “The Great Hunt” by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time 2)

Robert Jordan’s The Great Hunt (1990), the second Wheel of Time novel, follows as Rand runs from, confronts, and accepts his identity/fate as the Dragon Reborn.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm thinking about Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising series, which does have prophecies that do end up validated at the end of the series — except that we also learn that "the Dark" has/had prophecies of its own, which presumably contradict those of "the Light" and so ended up NOT (yet?) validated.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

— and as a result don't give enough consideration to 1) whether prophecies are /actually/ shown to work the way characters claim within a given text and 2) the relationship between literary prophecies and real prophecies' retrospective, rather than prospective or teleological, temporality.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think a lot of people get stuck on how characters in fantasy novels /claim/ prophecy works and the fact that the narrative structure of a novel is linear in a way that reality is not (a novel is obviously teleological in a way history isn't) —

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if this book meaningfully had Moiraine in it this review would have convinced me that it was worth another 40 hours of audiobook, but even with Rosamund Pike's audiobook performance I just don't think I could bear that much Rand without Moiraine in the mix to sustain me.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am always saying this about prophecy!! a prophecy can only be validated /in retrospect/, after it has been (determined to be) fulfilled — until that retrospective validation it's just some words.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nora Hikari's science fiction mecha webnovel event Killboy is now available in full at the link below, and the full novel governs. do yourself a favor and give it a read. a brief review: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...

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Killboy / an duilleag gheal

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

don't ask me what I'm supposed to be doing right now........

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

hope this is the right versions — my god that search function is picky.

Mikey's 9 games: Chrono Trigger, Celeste, Journey, World of Warcraft, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Mass Effect, Mega Man 3, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Uniracers.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

èiginn a’ dol am meud: fear ionadail air letheach-shlighe a ruigsinn ann an eadar-theangachadh Gàidhlig de Dragonflight

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

what is "enjoy the camps" if not blackmail????

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

in particular I think Mulvey's discussion of the function of male characters as sites of ego-identification is at least as important as her discussion of the objectification of women and would help avoid a lot of common misconceptions.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

a lot of people would benefit from actually reading Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My thoughts on multilinguality in SFF is always thus: if seasoned SFF readers can absorb conlang, complex structures and twisty plots without much exposition, why can't they absorb earth languages that might be foreign to them?

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19/09/2026

Please learn that "you don't apply the same rules to yourself as you do to others" isn't "exposing" conservatives, and definitely not an effective means of shaming them. They are very intentional and deliberate about this! It's an exercise of power, of deeming themselves exceptional and superior.

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wonder to what extent the situation in Iran resembles the early days of SF Fandom™ in the US, but my sense is that the existence of a paid, traditional print market (magazines, initially) drove the development of a community around early SF, rather than the other way around. much to consider...

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

and even when anglophone web fiction spaces enable the development of a community, these communities are fragmented: Royal Road LitRPG readers don't necessarily interesect with convention-going fandom, or people self-publishing queer sff on itch, or people reading and translating Chinese webnovels…

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

— ditto for self-published work (whether circulating on platforms like Wattpad or Royal Road or through things like Kindle Direct). and then, too, the impact of web fiction is often mediated through traditional publishing, when stuff gets picked up (and revised) by publishers to be "real books".

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chan eil sìth gun cheartas @coimeas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

obviously web fiction has had a place in English-language SFF (the fanfiction to traditional publishing boom of the last decade, e.g.), but it sounds like it's been much more central to the SFF scene in Iran, whereas reskinned fanfic remains somewhat stigmatized/looked down on in English; —

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