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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

… you’re giving As (and A-pluses?!) to unengaging, boilerplate writing? I think I found the problem...

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Smartest thing I’ve done all year was book out an air conditioned uni room for today. It’s actually a tad chilly.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I’ve had flu, so I missed it yesterday, but! 28 December was my book’s OFFICIAL birthday. Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: Prism, Mirror, Lens (‘PML’ for short) was a labour of love, and is published by @livunipress.bsky.social . Available wherever you buy your books.

My book, Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: Prism, Mirror, Lens, on a pile of paper. Which is half the print outs I made while editing it.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I intend to do a full-on photo shoot with these when I have some free time, but for now, this will do - author copies of my first book, Metafiction and Narratice Worlds in Science Fiction ( @livunipress.bsky.social ) have arrived! Over the moon, and can highly recommend LUP as publishers.

Three copies of Amanda Dillon’s book ‘Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction’ sit stacked on one another.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Quote skeet with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

History (and the interdisciplinary institute of humanities) bringing it today. (Pebble is tired of this shit.) #saveuea

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

UEA HIS (and other wonderful colleagues and friends!) on the picket today! @uea-ucu.bsky.social @ueahistory.bsky.social

A bunch of smiling academics on a picket line.

Some striking academics grinning for the camera.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Solidari-bee on the @uea-ucu.bsky.social pickets this morning. When even nature is joining in (workers of all species unite), I feel like that means something…

A honey bee worker on the UEA picket lines.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Save jobs - save the doggos! (Treatos are pricey.) @uea-ucu.bsky.social #saveuea (Talulah, Lottie, Frankie Peaches, and Pebble showing their solidarity at Cow Drive today.)

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Another great day on the UEA UCU pickets - solidarity, flags, and a lot of support from passers by. #saveuea #weareuea

A wonderful history lecturer wearing a pink UCU cap holds a sign of a goose saying HONK 4 JOBS, drawn in pink.

A history lecturer rides a bike with two UCU flags fluttering majestically from the back wheel. It is, in a word, splendid.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Anytime the worm comes up, I think of this…

A screenshot of a skeet reading ‘the work in RFK’s brain on his way to day one as deputy health secretary’. The image is of a worm in a little apple shaped car from Richard Scarry.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Some good news from home - deep red Lancaster Co had an election and went dem. First time since the 1980s.

A screenshot of a news article about a special election in Lancaster, Co, Pa, which was won narrowly by a democrat candidate.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Also, what it’s like in our office most days.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Some lovely times on the picket for @uea-ucu.bsky.social this morning! Gurning from yours truly and @conorbollins.bsky.social .

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Picket biscuits for Wednesday. There’s another Tupperware of them, too. Bring your own jam/ham/filling, @uea-ucu.bsky.social !

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Number 1*: music. I love it - listening, performing, just noodling around on an instrument. I’m a classically trained flutist with 23+2 years under my belt (took a break for academia and now back). I also sing and pretend piano. Can’t dance, tho. *how the frick do you pick just one?!

A picture of a gold flute headjoint on top of a piece of music (Poulenc’s Sonata for flute).

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Just posted my ballot in the UEA dispute. @uea-ucu.bsky.social vote vote vote!

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Number 1: Moniquill Blackgoose’s To Shape a Dragon’s Breath. This has been #1 since I read it in January. It is what SFF should be; it is what historical fiction should be; it is what alt hist should be: relentless and raw and hypnotic. I immediately put it on my hist fic module. Sequel now, pls.

Cover of Moniquill Blackgoose’s To Shape a Dragon’s Breath.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Number 2: Debra Magpie Earling’s The Lost Journals of Sacajawea. Impressionistic in the best possible way, devastating and necessary. Marches through the sanitised version of the history of Sacajawea’s life with righteous fire. Read it.

Cover of Debra Magpie Earling’s The Lost Journals of Sacajawea.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Number 3: Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year Slip. I make no bones about being a massive romance fan, and I love all sorts (yes, even THOSE sorts). Poston’s novels are consistent and use the form in fresh and fun ways, and SYS is a delightful and thoughtful spin on the time travel romance.

Cover of Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year Slip.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Number 4: Sophie K Rosa’s Radical Intimacy. In a nutshell: capitalism makes us unable to truly love and it undermines every single one of our emotional and psychological needs. I may be the choir it’s preaching to, but I needed to read someone else put all of this into words.

Cover of Sophie K Rosa’s Radical Intimacy. Bright pink words on magenta background.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Number 5: Emily Habeck’s Shark Heart: A Love Story. An utterly sublime meditation on chronic/terminal illness but also what makes us human - and animal, and just how blurred the border is. And it is a love story.

Cover of Emily Habeck’s Shark Heart: A Love Story. The cover is great and flowers make the shape of a shark

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Job one: think about fake pasts based on truefax. Job two: move words around.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Tad cold in the home country today. (This is in Celsius.)

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I appear to have snuck in before the 1M mark!

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

For your anger-making today, from the Bird Site. To put ito perspective, £97k = my salary for 5 years.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Bringing some culture to this very silly place. (Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, for those who don’t recognise it.)

A photograph of a tv showing the opening scene of Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, with skaters, including Big Bird, on a rink, skating around a Christmas tree.

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Late to the party, but this is STUNNINGLY GOOD. I don’t read political SF much but I genuinely have to persuade myself to stop and turn off the light at night - it’s just enthralling.

A hand holds a paperback copy of Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire.

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