Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 12/10/2026When's the next international break, when nufc weren't playing you could imagine they'd be good when the prem started up again 010 1
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Will Osula I'm your biggest fan please score 2 or 3 goals very quickly thanks 000 0
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 12/10/2026That's what we miss when Fab's not in the team too, 1 or 2 fucking bombs a season 000 0
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 12/10/2026MFP seems really confident then, natural goalscorers always dummy there 000 0
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm still confident here, if there's one thing nufc are good at it's breaking down a team sitting back defending a lead 100 1
Reposted by Mike Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026BCS #467, Eighteenth Anniversary Double-Issue: bonus stories out today @tommarcinko.bsky.social and @katarinagarcia.bsky.social, podcast of Garcia read by MK Hobson @saltpdx.bsky.social, alongside KJ Parker and Zet Madej stories last week. beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...beneath-ceaseless-skies.comBeneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #467, Eighteenth Anniversary Double-Issue by Scott AndrewsFeaturing two bonus stories and new cover art: "Garden of Solitude" by Bruce Brenneise. Oh Grave, Thy Victory by K.J. Parker. Every Force Evolves a Form by Tom Marcinko. In Search of Better Deaths by ... 0103 10
Reposted by Mike A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A little longer episode for a little longer shortlist: @chloroformtea.bsky.social & @casella.bsky.social talk through the 9 books on the @ursulakleguin.com Fiction Prize shortlist!ancillaryreviewofbooks.orgA Meal of Thorns 60- 2026 UKLG List with Roseanna PendleburyOnly in its 5th year of operation, the Le Guin Fiction prize has already become something of a critical darling, with very interesting shortlists and winners that rarely overlap with other genre aw… 22514 25
Reposted by Mike Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Has the Booker shortlist piqued your interest in M John Harrison? If so, do NOT listen to Explanatory Collapse, a podcast covering the entirety of his published work in chronological order. It's over 63 hours long, it's just one guy and he seems to view the project as a means of self-flagellation 45210 52
Reposted by Mike Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026🎙️CRITICAL FRIENDS RETURNS🎙️ In the latest @strangehorizons.bsky.social criticism podcast, @electrapritchett.bsky.social & @ajodasso.bsky.social talk to me about popular fiction: what is it, what does it do, why - and how - should we read it? Books, films, TV, more: what makes popular lit … popular?strangehorizons.comCritical Friends Episode 27: Pop FictionIn this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, A. J Odasso and Electra Pritchett join Dan Hartland to talk about popular fiction. 12515 25
Reposted by Mike A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Our episode on this year's Worldcon (@laworldcon.bsky.social) is live! Featuring interviews with @thomasha.bsky.social, @alexyquest.bsky.social, & more, and a live podcast mash-up with @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social, @octothorpecast.bsky.social, & @worldbuildcast.bsky.social! Plus: the coffee report.ancillaryreviewofbooks.orgA Meal of Thorns 58- LACON VWorldcon episode time: we’ve got interviews, we’ve got a coffee report, we’ve got an only-mildly chaotic group podcast attempt! Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at … 02412 24
Reposted by Mike Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 03/09/2026In "Misplaced in Translation", @coimeas.bsky.social looks at translated SFF that genre fans should seek out. This week, it's Mitsuse Ryū's 10 BILLION DAYS AND 100 BILLION NIGHTS:ancillaryreviewofbooks.orgMisplaced In Translation: 10 Billion Days and 100 Billion NightsNat Harrington Pilate turned again and did not look back. It was only when he had reached the walk leading to his residential chambers that it occurred to him that he hadn’t seen the expression on … 02514 25
Reposted by Mike British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Robin speaks to @rymkechacha.bsky.social about her latest novel, THE APPLE AND THE PEARL. We also get into spinning plots, tricksters of the world, when corvids attack, a reading taskforce, and a good deal more. britishfantasysociety.org/blog/bfs-pod... 093 9
Reposted by Mike A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Surreal & stagey, shifting yet solid: @pyramidmaster.bsky.social joins to discuss Fleur Jaeggy's THE WATER STATUES (tr. Gini Alhadeff), a powerful book that has us thinking about knowability, genre, and atmosphere.ancillaryreviewofbooks.orgA Meal of Thorns 57- THE WATER STATUES with Langdon HickmanA deeply strange and arresting short novel, The Water Statues defies easy categorization but has a powerful and cerebral atmosphere, putting us in mind of a lot of other works—including Clark… 082 8
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Point off those is decent I suppose. Non contact injuries for the lot of them please 000 0
Reposted by Mike George Caulkin @georgecaulkin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026These KK words, featured so beautifully by @worflags.org.uk are from an interview I did with him in The Times before it all fell apart in his 2nd spell at #NUFC. It sums up his attitude to life & football so perfectly. We should all be dreamers at heart. ❤️ 7❤️ www.thetimes.com/sport/footba... 29814 98
Reposted by Mike rymkechacha.bsky.social @rymkechacha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Thank you so much @robincmduncan.bsky.social for having me on the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social podcast to talk about The Apple and the Pearl britishfantasysociety.org/blog/bfs-pod...britishfantasysociety.orgBFS Podcast: Long Story Short – The British Fantasy Society 051 5
Reposted by Mike Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 22/08/20263) A Mourning Coat by Alex Jeffers (15rt, 8rv) You knew this was going to be here. One of the top 5 novellas I've read in the past decade and shamefully under-read. Moving meditation on grief and brilliant, efficient setting & character work in a very contrained page count. Read it!!!neonhemlock.comA Mourning Coat by Alex Jeffers — neon hemlockPublication date: June 25, 2024. An 8” x 5” novella. Caregiving has taken over Therre’s entire life, eclipsing his own small fame as a costumier. When his father dies, the funeral affairs are compli... 1145 14
Reposted by Mike Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Been Discourse over the past week on whether people should shout more or less about their own books On Here. I'll sidestep that discourse by shouting about *other people*'s books I think are at the v least great fun & think didn't get enough attention. 1 like=1 book w >100 GR ratings & >33 reviews 410820 108
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Bruno injured, Tonali and spurs getting pumped, maybe nufc did... good business? Will not be revisiting this after the inevitable happens tomorrow 160 6
Reposted by Mike Frasier Armitage (inactive) @frasierarmitage.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I had the pleasure of chatting with @rymkechacha.bsky.social back in March about The Apple And The Pearl, her experience as a writer, her place in the literary ecosystem, and the best coincidence involving ballet in the history of interviews! Here’s a link: youtu.be/ZLnuIff0j4A?...youtu.beRYM KECHACHA INTERVIEW | The Apple And The Pearl, ballet, writing, and more...YouTube video by FanFiAddict 1127 12
Reposted by Mike Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New blog post: thoughts on the first four books of Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume. "Balle is thinking more deeply, and more interestingly, about the time loop premise than just about anyone who has played with it in decades." wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/08/rece...wrongquestions.blogspot.comRecent Reading: <i>On the Calculation of Volume I-IV</i> by Solvej BalleThere are tropes that have been around for so long, and become so codified within pop culture, that they hardly feel like science fiction an... 43610 36
Reposted by Mike Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026🫰SNAP! Criticism returns. 🪄 If the novel as a form is interested in simulating realities, what happens when reality is mutable? 🦄 Or, if the novel as a form is unmoored from all that, what role mimesis in the achievement of speculation? 🌳 On trees and renaissance for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org:ancillaryreviewofbooks.orgSnap! Criticism: Rhett Davis & Christopher WarleyDan Hartland An arborescent form is effectively a tree, and—although the sight of what remains of the human embedded in its trunk can be confronting—it may be cut down or removed in the traditional… 11610 16
Reposted by Mike The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 13/08/2026✨ Our 40th anniversary winner! ✨ When There Are Wolves Again by @catamaroon.bsky.social 🐺 An “ambitious study in the power of long-term hope in the face of climate breakdown” 🌍 If you haven't read it already, this is the book you need right now 👉 uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9781... 16824 68
Reposted by Mike The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We’re delighted to share that WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN by E.J. Swift, and published by Arcadia, is the 40th winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year. 024485 244
Reposted by Mike Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A stunningly brilliant book, one of my favourite recent fantasy books. There are very few queer people on earth who don't, in dark moments, wonder what life would be like if they'd been a bit more brave or, on the other side, a bit less reckless. This book distills that ache to its essence. 1239 23
Reposted by Mike Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 22/07/2026I wrote about language, lying & world-building for the NYTBR as expressed in 3 extraordinary & very different books: THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm, THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley, & THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS by SL Huang.nytimes.comNew Science Fiction About Truth and Lies in an Age of War (Gift Article)Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded. 721470 214
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Just like that one book by Le Guin, except we're all the locked up child 000 0
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026FFS you could've saved your Sam Neill memorial t-rex impression til the dressing room 000 0
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Tommy let's not fuck about eh, if we're doing this you bring on world cup Dan Burn 000 0
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026jordan pickford if we win the world cup I will capitalise your name 1 (one) time 000 0
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Lads I had to watch Newcastle fuck up this position all season, can we do anything other than sit back and defend for half an hour. Anything at all 000 0
Reposted by Mike Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I’ve had an unlit flare up my ass for the last 50minutes I don’t know how much longer I can hold on 928355 283
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Bellingham should've given messi the Iverson step over there 000 0
Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Time to make the boy watch the highlights before school so he knows what's up 000 0
