Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 18hgood morning, all ! / was away for a week, looking at books & the manuscripts of Voltaire & Rousseau & Nerval & Potocki, &c. I have returned to a world even more unhinged. Did everyone drink some spiked kool-aid or something ? I'd prefer not to 041
Reposted by Endless BookshelfCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thought for the day (riffing off discourse elsewhere on BSky): AI isn't real. But p-Zombies are real, and LLMs are machines for turning people who outsource their cognitive functioning to "AI" into p-Zombies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical… 1511422
Reposted by Endless BookshelfHoward A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"ethics experts said could violate federal law" “Some ethics experts have argued” “one expert argued” (These are signs that the paper of record is afraid of reporting observable incontrovertible truth without attributing it to others.)nytimes.comA Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran. 0134
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026great to see the sign of Entwhistle Books (publisher of Phil Dick’s Confessions of a Crap Artist, 1975) 100
Reposted by Endless BookshelfMichael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cocktail Hour! Tonight: French Blondes , served with crackers and egg salad. A fresh new flash fiction for garnish. 031
Reposted by Endless Bookshelf#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"The Speak 'n' Spell is structurally related to a child's Speak 'n' Spell, but it costs thirty billion dollars in hardware, is housed in one of the largest factories on Earth, and uses half the voltage in an American State" *Okay, now maybe we're at better grips with it 314341
Reposted by Endless Bookshelf#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026*"The Speak 'n' Spell is turning computer programmers into meat proxies. The Speak 'n' Spell has become a Trump Healthcare Death Panel and is weeding out the old and the helpless" *You get to a point where the previous rhetorical framing is counterproductive 1264
Reposted by Endless BookshelfRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Thank you student journalists/editors.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 17784191
Reposted by Endless BookshelfPaul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hampstead Heath, 07:48 014020
Reposted by Endless BookshelfIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/09/2026Have to schedule a pickup from USPS I think 3221
Reposted by Endless BookshelfIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/09/2026A bunch of my friends came over in the rain to my studio to help me pack the hundreds of field guide pre-orders and I feel so lucky to know so many generous and helpful people!! 1491
Reposted by Endless BookshelfJohn Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 24/09/2026New blog post: Cthulhu's new labyrinthjohncoulthart.comCthulhu’s new labyrinthHere in The North the weather is slowly turning against the wearing of T-shirts outdoors but this week I've made a new shirt available based on an old design. The first Cthulhu Labyrinth came about when I was putting together pages for a Cthulhu calendar in 2012. In the end it didn't get used for the calendar but the design stuck around even though I was never entirely satisfied with it. 052
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026just what the doctor ordered endlessbookshelf.net/2026/09/24/j... / cc : @michaelswanwick.bsky.socialendlessbookshelf.netjust what the doctor ordered – The Endless Bookshelf 000
Reposted by Endless Bookshelf#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 24/09/2026*You have to wonder how E. M. Forster could possibly write a scifi story so awesome, and his method is simple: "What if every advancement that HG Wells is loudly promoting is actually bad for us" 2538
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026the original book-fool Sebastian Brant. Das Narrenschiff. Basel, 1494. / Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire de Fribourg 040
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026how blue is blue ? H.B. de Saussure. Cyanomètre, ca 1788, with his notes / Bibliothèque de Genève 011
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026original maquette for La Prose du Transsibérien (1913) MAH Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève www.mahmah.ch/collection/o... 010
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026what is a word ? and what does that one word mean at this moment in this world ? / asks the translator [of himself], quietly and repeatedly 000
Reposted by Endless BookshelfLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Crowley said, Oh, I shouldn’t. His friend Peter Straub, sitting beside him, said, Oh, yes, you should. So now the Conrad Sulzer branch of the Chicago Public Library has a copy of John Crowley’s Love and Sleep inscribed “To the readers of Chicago Public.” 1243
Reposted by Endless BookshelfLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When I saw John Crowley read at KGB in New York in 2007, I was in the middle of re-reading Aegypt ahead of reading the new, final volume. Love and Sleep was out of print, so I was carrying a copy from the Sulzer branch of CPL. I brought it up in the signing line, and explained. 182
Reposted by Endless BookshelfLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I just finished re-reading John Crowley’s Aegypt series, four books, more than 1500 pages, for the third time but the first since 2007. All I can say is that this is a wildly idiosyncratic, personal, distinctive work that is strange and smart and moving and unlike anything else I’ve ever read. 161
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026current reading ‘Danger : here be epistemological dragons’ — Charles Stross. Wireless [2009]. Ace Books, [2010]. Story collection, including “A Colder War” (funny and very dark). 011
Reposted by Endless BookshelfLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bar and a book while I wait for friends to arrive. 0191
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026back in New Jersey on a fine late summer day 010
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026current reading — David Liss. The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek. Tachyon, [forthcoming, 2026]. / from the @tachyonpub.bsky.social table at @armadillocon.bsky.social 021
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026good morning, friends at AUS absurdly early AUS -> EWR 000
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Bruce Sterling reading his early his collaboration with Howard Waldrop, "The Latter Days of the Law", and discussing it (with abundant backstory) / at Armadillocon 010
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Bruce Sterling discussing his early his collaboration with Howard Waldrop, "The Latter Days of the Law" (with abundant backstory) / at Armadillocon 010
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Don Webb reading “The Cave of the Immortals” from Shadows out of Time / earlier today ar Armadillocon 011
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling in conversation / up next at Armadillocon 081
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026operated by machine minds Chris Brown (aka @christopherbrown.bsky.social ) reading "Wild Cats and Predatory Robots” / at Armadillocon 042
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Darcie Little Badger reading prologue & early chapter of Children of Owl / at Armadillocon 051
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Darcie Little Badger reading at Armadillocon 021
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026in Austin for some research at HRC, then off to Armadillocon where Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling (aka @bruces.bsky.social ) are guests of honor 000
Reposted by Endless BookshelfGraham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026110 Stories. www.nielsenhayden.com/110-stories/nielsenhayden.com110 Stories110 Stories by John M. Ford This is not real. We’ve seen it all before.Slow down, you’re screaming. What exploded? When?I guess this means we’ve got ourselves a war.And look at &#… 025
Reposted by Endless BookshelfJonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ilab.org/article/alai...ilab.orgAlain Riffaud wins 19th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography for landmark Molière catalogue - ILAB - EN 001
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026just read The Ice Maiden by Paul Behm, hilarious zany vampire which injects a much need dose of economic reality into the trope / thanks to @paulduane.bsky.social endlessbookshelf.net/2026/09/03/r...endlessbookshelf.netrecent reading : early september – The Endless Bookshelf 110
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026in today's mail — R. B. Russell. Bibliomancy and Other Essays. Illustrated. [xii], 369 pp. Tartarus Press, [2026]. Collection of essays and reminiscences about books & writers & collecting endlessbookshelf.net/2026/09/03/r... 010
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026this Gloria Steinem interview with Dorothy Parker is choice / whosoever first posted it, I thank you dorothyparker.com/2020/10/glor...dorothyparker.comGloria Steinem 1965 Interview with Dorothy Parker Found – Dorothy Parker Society 052
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026two scarce Swanwick titles on quintessentially American themes The Evolution of the Martini [and] The Once and Future Rye / from the attic temporary-culture.com/product/swan...temporary-culture.comThe Evolution of the Martini [and] The Once and Future Rye. Proceedings of the American Martini Institute | Michael Swanwick – TEMPORARY CULTURE 000
Reposted by Endless BookshelfPaul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Hampstead Heath, 07:44 110915