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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

For a long time if anyone happened to search my name on Amazon, this guy's face would come up on a ton of merchandise. I finally got sick of it, bought the little bastard, and stuck in between a couple of bookshelves in my office.

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Umberto D. This movie is killing me. This old guy can't make rent and winds up on the street with his dog.

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Really digging Frank Miller's autobiography. Totally lost and in love with the 1970s New York stuff. Really great.

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"The Howling Man" Charles Beaumont wrote the Twilight Zone script from his own short story. A long time ago I read the story to my little kids on Halloween. Pleasant dreams, kids!

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Reading this early Berlin novel by Nabokov, one of my favorite writers. A deceptively simple story. Love the covers of these Vintage editions.

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Blitz. New movie on Apple TV. I had some quibbles but it still gets my high recommendation. Parts of the child's journey on the train and later through the London blitz were Dickensian in the best sense, with that weird flavor of heightened beauty and horror.

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Minor breakthrough on this story when my character has a dream about his father being transformed into a crow chained to a desk and pecking at typewriter keys. It makes sense, trust me!

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

For all my OCD friends. For everyone else, I envy you.

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ErinLindiCairns @erincairns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

@jackskill.bsky.social "Salvage Opportunity" is amazing. I love a good lonely drama, and robots/what makes them more, is a personal kink of mine. That they're all existing just to stake a hold on a planet is such a fun setup for the 'hell is being alone with your own damage' scenario. The end is ❤️👍

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Here's a short piece about the dream logic of "The Ledgers," my latest Asimov's story. Hey, if you love short stories like I do you might consider subscribing time the mag. fromearthtothestars.com

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From Earth to the Stars

The Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Author & Editor Blog

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Bought in the 80s but kept bouncing off the title story. Remained on various shelves in various rooms for decades. Once in a while I'd look at it. Decades don't feel real. Tonight I finally read the story. It was good. The paper had turned yellow. The cover came off. When does my cover come off?

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

R.I.P. Michael Bishop. Wonderful writer and one of the kindest people I've ever known. Not that I knew him well, but with Michael even a handfull of encounters tells what kind of person he was. Besides talking at a conventions over the years we carried on a brief correspondence. He will be missed.

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Seattle people! We're celebrating the launch of Jack Skillingstead's terrific new collection, THE WHOLE MESS. Come out Wed Nov 15 to University Book Store. Jack, Nancy Kress, and Me will be reading. @jackskill.bsky.social

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UBS presents Jack Skillingstead, Nancy Kress, and Daryl Gregory

It's a Science fiction, fantasy & horror night at the bookstore

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Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

This event in Brooklyn was a lot of fun. From left to right: Randee Dawn (organizer), me, Nancy Kress, Vajra Chandrasekera (debut novelist, Richard Jeffrey Newman (poet), and Stephanie Wrobel (thriller novelist).

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