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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 08/10/2026

We're proud to sponsor the Words Around the World series, part of San Francisco’s annual @litquake.bsky.social Festival. ✨️Join us for a series of literary events celebrating global literature with international writers and translators throughout the months of Oct. and Nov: buff.ly/xBf0P1i

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks for sending Nu around! Glad to be included— and Shana tova btw!

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There’s always me, I read your skeets, fwiw.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sure that a$$h@t will find a way to ruin those too.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The insinuation, in addition to the abysmal lab security suggested, is that Russia may be once again working on biological weapons. I certainly find that likely, given the track record of that country. Ugh.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ah yes, the UK. That explains it. Glad you found it nonetheless!

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Strange that you had trouble finding a site to preorder from; ordinarily that's possible at Amazon, Bookshop, Abrams Books' website, Barnes and Noble, and so forth. Please let me know if you had trouble finding it at these locations, and thanks.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Feeling discouraged today, and weary, and generally under the weather. And it's chag, which means I should be happy. Tough luck I guess.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chronicle is hot garbage. Has been for years.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Book talk on Horde of the Counterwind and SFFF literature and beyond, Saturday, October 24, 2026 with Alain Damasio and translator Alexander Dickow, get tickets and information at Villagewell.com. Join us!

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It has, hasn’t it (if I do say so myself, as Paul’s brother)? One of my faves, though “friends with machines” on the self titled might be one of my all time fave single tracks.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

these dem consultants tell dems to echo right wing narratives to "take the issue off the table" but all it does is validate the right wing attack and anger center left/progressive support and make it more likely the candidate will lose

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Matt (and Shaily): I cannot access your article due to the paywall and would like to read it. Can I trouble you to email it to me as a courtesy to an interested colleague? I share your outrage and the feeling of alienation your quote suggests.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. 👇

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My wife, who is in fluid dynamics, told me about this story, and it shows, AGAIN, that these tech bros are the absolute worst of the dregs of humanity, truly filthy scourges.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Alain Damasio+Alexander Dickow in convo w/Edward Gauvin, Telegraph Hill Books, 1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco, 7-8:30pm Tues Oct. 20. Litquake event. Link for tickets/RSVPs (space limited). Ty! @telhilit.bsky.social @catranslation.org @litquake.bsky.social litquake2026.sched.com/event/2WFKH/...

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Double thanks, Jay! Hope you're well and will write you soon! :D

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In such cases, i add: and so is the spirit 🙄

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

this. so much this. our media is still stuck on asking every dem about a podcaster while our government literally disappears people from schools, courthouses, and places of work and worship.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

At this stage of the game, I would stop talking to any MAGA family member, no matter how close.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I didn’t take it the wrong way, no worries! There are indeed neologisms and puns and wordplay of all kinds, and it is quite poetic prose!

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Stick with it. All will become clear, depending on how well you read English to begin with (I say that only because the post is not in English and I have no way of knowing the specifics of your language skills, so no offense meant).

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

sometimes I limp away fussing (flying is more difficult)

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Hugo winner for Best Game or Interactive Work is based on the French SFF novel LA HORDE DU CONTREVENT by Alain Damasio, which is coming out in October in English from Alexander Dickow as THE HORDE OF THE COUNTERWIND- a masterful translation #SFinTranslation

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Horde of the Counterwind: An Epic Voyage to the Upper Reaches The Cult Classic That Inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

France’s defining fantasy/science fiction odyssey of the 21st century, the basis of the award-winning video game Expedition 33 and now published in English for the first time, celebrates twenty-three ...

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There are many women who drink the koolaid, alas.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Cornelia the snake has returned after her little “jaunt”. Hurray, what a relief!

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

16 months ago: Never forget how it started.

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"What person will be able to breathe upon this earth when the stones, anywhere at all, for the sport of it, without order or decorum, burst into flames?" - Alexander Dickow's translation of Horde of the Counterwind #amreading #SFinTranslation

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You could call it “the fantastic”. The French won’t mind.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That's where I see a potential problem, but there may still be an idea behind that gesture. Gotta wait and see to some extent. Not saying you should give them infinite grace, but --

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I agree, but I also think that the reaction you showed leads directly to a logic of "dumbing down", without promoting proper scaffolding.

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dickowalexander.bsky.social @dickowalexander.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In this case, I would provide preparatory materials for an article of the kind you describe, to give the students a foothold as they approach the text. But I would still give this instructor the benefit of the doubt -- for now.

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