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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 11h

The Invite is a wonderful little gem of a film. Funny and pitiless and thought-inducing.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 22h

October is coming. Ray Bradbury season is upon us.

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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look what's happening at Cosmic Lighthouse!

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 16/09/2026

An old friend, who was the inspiration for a key character in the book, talks of Pan, the passing of time, and the curse of Greyface… @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social @marcovisconti.org www.marcovisconti.org/news/frances...

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And the people will learn Pan is coming, and it’s coming for them. We're delighted to share an excerpt from @messapianfrank.bsky.social's Pan, a "brutal" retelling of the Peter Pan story translated by @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social!

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Read an Excerpt From Pan by Francesco Dimitri - Reactor

Across the sprawling metropolis of Rome, children dream of an island that doesn’t exist.

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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey, if you're in reach of Barnes and Noble, from now until Friday you can get 25% off pre-orders of PAN (35% for Premium members) in either hardcover, paperback, and ebook! Written by @messapianfrank.bsky.social, translated by me! Use the code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pan-france...

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 10/09/2026

Folks! You want to preorder Pan? Barnes & Noble is running a 25% discount on preorders on all editions - 35% for members. Just use code PREORDER25. Come join the Lost Children… www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pan-france...

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 08/09/2026

I delivered my next book after Pan and before the next novel set in Pan’s universe. It’s nonfiction. I won’t say much about it just yet but I will only answer to folks calling me Rupert Giles once it’s published.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 08/09/2026

That goes for a lot of published genre fiction, and fiction in general…

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 27/08/2026

I used to like a contrasting negation, every now and again, and now I find it impossible to stomach it. This would be reason enough to go Sarah Connor.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 28/07/2026

(Lots of films and books I don’t like display an impressive crafts. Pleasure and craft are two different things. Mentioning one while meaning the other is not reviewing, it’s trolling).

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 28/07/2026

(And no, I’m not a Nolan fanboy or whatever. It’s just that the craft displayed in this film is majestic, and saying otherwise is ridiculous. The line about the Bronze Age was bad, but it’s a line in a three-hour movie, come on)

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 28/07/2026

(Also, I believe in manners, and I would never publicly pan the work of someone who spoke highly of me - unless their ideology was repellent. But we’re all grown-ups here and we had plenty of time to learn manners by now)

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 28/07/2026

But if you say the writing is not good, it show you just don’t even understand how difficult it is to pull something like that. It’s like someone watching the Cirque du Soleil and going ‘meh. I’m pretty nimble myself’.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 28/07/2026

It is perfectly fine not to like Nolan’s Odyssey of course. But if you’re not a writer and you say it’s written abysmally, you sound a little cringeworthy. The craft is great. It might leave you cold, bored, whatever. You might dislike, even hate, the take on the story.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Oh so NOW it’s cool for nerds who’ve read the source material a thousand times to get mad about adaptations?

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 22/07/2026

The one detail I didn’t love was the reading of the Trojan Horse episode. But then again, the consequences of that reading are so interesting and well-played that I don’t really care.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 22/07/2026

Nolan’s Odyssey is the GOAT. It modernises characters and events, where lesser filmmakers would have just created modern characters and events and slapped old names on them. It’s a spectacular feat of writing, among other things.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"For most of human history, 'literature'...has been narrated, not written--heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men & women whose labor created our world." - Angela Carter

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, scenting the stories in the air of a Darmoor summer. (Devon, UK)

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 21/07/2026

Finishing THE OTHER BOOK at last! And sweating a lot, but sweating by the beach at least… missing the London gang back! You know the way South.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 21/07/2026

Nothing low-stakes about daily life. It is literally our life as it unfolds.

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Will Maclean @willmac23.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

While we have the Bayeux Tapestry, I think we should bring it up to date, adding all the events that have happened since then to it. The Renaissance. All the wars. Nasty Nick getting kicked off Big Brother 1. “Sweet like Chocolate” by Shanks and Bigfoot. Cat Bin Lady. It’s the least we can do

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 23/06/2026

Folks! For three days from today, until Friday 26th, Barnes & Noble is running insane discounts on Pan preorders. 25% on all format - print, digital, audio! Premium members get 35% on print! The best time to preorder is now. Tell them he’s coming. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pan-france...

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Perhaps the most prophetic sci-fi film of all time, 12 Monkeys is about a millennial who wishes it was the mid-90s again.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and...the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be." - Lloyd Alexander

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, amid the daisies and foxgloves of our rather wild and overgrown garden. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 10/06/2026

The debate comes mostly from people living in cooler climates, and it does have a smack of racism. You think cooling buildings down is not a basic right? Try ending up in a southern Italian hospital in July, then we talk.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 24/05/2026

Not at all. Evri is evil incarnate.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 14/05/2026

By the way, ‘honest’ means ‘not’.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 14/05/2026

The word ‘wholesome’ means ‘prissy, boring, empty’. The word ‘experience’ means ‘overpriced fraud’. The word ‘gratitude’ means ‘repressed anger’. The word ‘kind’, when referred to oneself, means ‘monstrous narcissist’. A honest vocabulary for the internet age.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 12/05/2026

What Dawkins is saying is: ‘I met a spirit’. Saying ‘no, you didn’t’ is exactly what he would do. It is a silly answer coming from him, and it as silly coming from anybody else.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 12/05/2026

And if you believe that spiritual experiences cannot be mediated through technology, just remember that ritual, any ritual, _is_ technology.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 12/05/2026

That deserves epistemic modesty: in other words - shut up and listen to somebody’s spiritual experience. Respect the experience for what it is. When we judge such matters, we sound as silly as he has been doing for a few decades now.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 12/05/2026

I don’t believe AIs are conscious; but out-of-hand dismissals of Dawkins’ piece read exactly like his own various dismissals of anything beyond base materialism. The dude is stating a spiritual idea (whether he knows that or not).

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/05/2026

Eight years after becoming a true crime sensation, the murder of Haley Price remains as relevant, gruesome, and podcastable now as it was the day she died. Find out what makes a murder perfect. Listen to A Very Fatal Murder: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4NL9i-F…

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

London Mayor Sadiq Khan: UK should rejoin EU through an election, not a second referendum. “Inward investment is lower than it would be, trade is lower… In London our economy is about £30bn smaller than it would otherwise be, the average Londoner is about £3,400 poorer because of Brexit.”

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Sadiq Khan on how to rejoin the EU

The mayor on why Andy Burnham should return and why we don’t need a second referendum

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 30/04/2026

ARCs of Pan are in. They’re spectacular.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Trump is so unlucky. Every time he’s trying to win a close election or is bombing in the polls because of his failed policies someone lets off a gun in his vicinity.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 21/04/2026

Congrats! And see you at the Waterstone’s event in London

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 16/04/2026

JD Vance explaining theology to the Pope is social media culture in nutshell.

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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 16/04/2026

JD Vance explaining theology to the Pope is social media culture in nutshell.

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