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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A magical practice year of study goes delightfully wrong… We're delighted to share the cover for Advanced Alchemy, a cozy sapphic fantasy debut from Livvy Jane Baker!! Perfect for fans of Legends and Lattes and A Dark and Drowning Tide, Advanced Alchemy arrives April 13, 2027!

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Revealing Advanced Alchemy by Livvy Jane Baker - Reactor

A cozy fantasy arriving April 2027

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Ki Agency @kiagency.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Feast your eyes on the gorgeous cover of Livvy Jane Baker's debut, ADVANCED ALCHEMY. These chaotic sapphics will smash their way into your hearts in April 2027 thanks to the good folks over at @alcovepress.bsky.social. See the official cover reveal: reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Interesting thread. I'm always looking for ways to write faster but it's got to be sustainable.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Watching Taskmaster has just brought home to me just how right Armando Iannucci would be to play Karla in a remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Cunt

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Watching Last One Laughing and got some questions Why is Daisy May Cooper always pulling a face like she's an 80s guitarist mid solo? When is someone going to tell Harriet that she's Daisy's little sister? Why wouldn't you just stay twenty feet away from Richard Ayoade at all times in this game?

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Nine was Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters, a joy as ever

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I'd been cautiously excited for the new Scrubs but the stuff I read about it in the past five days sent that the way of the dodo. But on the bright side, now I'll spend that time on something else.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Eight was Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana. Which I now think is probably the single best book in the fantasy genre.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Seven was Andre Norton's Witch World. Really good but never wowed me. Maybe a slight disconnect with the writing, maybe seen a few too many other books doing the same thing (cos they're copying Norton), maybe didn't love the characters... dunno. Still impressive tho.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Six was Jim Butcher's Changes. And you know, the first time I read this book, all those big heavy moments and plot twists wowed me. But on a reread, knowing what was coming? Not sure it held up.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

My favourite piece of Olympics commentary so far is "a little bit more paprika into the pasta sauce"

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Five was Ursula Le Guin's Rocannon's World, which I fell in love with as it's a beautiful fantasy novel barely even masquerading as a sci-fi. Honestly, it might be more fantasy than the actual Earthsea books.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Four was EM Forster's The Eternal Moment. Wow, I'm really up to date with this. Anyway, lovely collection of shorts with some wonderfully vivid images. And all sci-fi/fantasy of some sort (save the title story), which I hadn't expected. V much recommended.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Three was revisiting CS Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for the first time in a very long time. Surprisingly pleasurable - really hits some fun mythic and family notes.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Somehow I'm only reading the full text of On Fairy Stories for the first time. If there's any other essays by great figures of fantasy people think are fantastic reading, throw them at me. I feel that Le Guin in particularly has a bunch of great ones but I don't know which ones are which.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Sorry to hear it's going that way. What's the book at least?

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I was the opposite way and surprised at how much I did enjoy it the last I read it and I genuinely have no idea why. I even paid full attention to Frodo in Ithilien which I never normally do. Now, The Farthest Shore, that was a big old "wait why do I now find this really tedious"

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If there is a better live intro to a metal song than "The good that men do is oft interred with their bones, but the evil that men do lives on" Then I am unaware of it. Granted, stealing from Shakespeare makes it easy, but hyped I get anyway

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Two was a reread of Saad Z Hossain's The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, one of my favourite novellas - wickedly funny, wickedly imaginative, and very thoughtful

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Since I've some updates from other people doing this, here be the Peat reading thread with everything I devour this year. Cos I don't want to miss out. Numero Uno this year was Jim Butcher's Turn Coat, which was where I felt the Dresden Files creaking a bit around all the stuff it had accumulated.

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Jonathan Nevair @jnevair.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🦜🏴‍☠️⚓WEIGH ANCHOR: PUBLICATION DAY!⚓🏴‍☠️🦜 Excited to announce my latest book: THE CURSE OF DRAGON TAIL ISLAND. My first fantasy (and romance 🌶️🌶️)! A revenge-fueled tale of clashing cutlasses, monsters & magic, second-chance romance, and salty sea adventure. LINK: www.jonathannevair.com/curse-dragon...

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A three-dimensional image of a book cover against a green wall and on a wooden table. The book is a scene of a ship stick with the title the curse of Dragon tail Island. There is a captain in a white cotton shirt and try corn hat, holding a couple next to him is a large half or with green skin holding rum barrels. There is also a dwarf and a major who holds a magic staff. The backdrop is a blue sky and clouds with ropes and pulleys.

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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A biography of an intriguing military engineer at the crossroads of medieval/early modern warfare AND a look at the interaction between European powers with the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman... randomalex.net/2026/01/21/t...

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The Man Who Stopped the Sultan

Read courtesy of the publisher and NetGalley. It’s out at the end of January, 2026. This book is pretty great. For a reader even vaguely interested in the Europe and Ottoman Empires of the 14…

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I need this because I'm I'm gearing up to retry the book after lowkey hating it the first time I read it.

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Today is the first anniversary of my launching the Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which started off with this essay on Peter Beagle's THE LAST UNICORN. I'm really proud of this one, in which I highlight how we might read this wonderful novel in the contexts of late 1960s America.

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Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle

The first essay in Ballantine Adult Fantasy: A Reading Series, which looks at Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn (1968): a supremely beautiful, memorable, and critically energizing masterwork of fa…

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My new hobby is writing lengthy posts on sports forums then deleting them when I realise it'll get me sucked into an argument that will change absolutely nothing about anything.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Dang that really sucks.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 11/01/2026

How do YOU discover books to read? Have your reading habits changed in past year? Pls take a few minutes to answer this anon, multiple-choice informal survey: reading-2026.paperform.co I'll post results on my blog. One goal: to help book creators. Thank you! 🩷📚 #BookSky #EduSky #KidLit

A mug of tea casting a curved shadow on paper, with a drawing of a seated child reading a book positioned on the paper to make it look like the child is sitting on the shadow, leaning against the handle of the mug. Art by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

wildsymposiums.tumblr.com/post/8053590... Relevant to all my fellow Discord users. Although honestly if all my Discord communities want to leave there, that'd be cool too at this point.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

One of the sweetest things anyone has ever said about me.

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This is why mine are in a spreadsheet.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Yeah, fair. Jimenez reminds me of some of the weirdo authors playing around with myth and alt history in that period more than the 80s/90s commercial stuff. I need to give West a second try. I liked the bit of the book I tried, just got distracted.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I'd put She Who Became The Sun and The Spear Cuts Through Water in a similar category for length and well writteness. Latter even has some of the atmosphere. But yeah, sadly rare.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I'm guessing your cat went with the Rorschach answer?

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Today, the best parenting help books that should exist in SFF You Only Need One Hand: What Your Kid Does And Doesn't Need by Darth Vader A Hero And A Zero: Raising Children of Differing Capabilities by Denethor of Gondor Staying Close: Tight Families Make The Right Children by Cersei Lannister

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Die Hard and Muppets Christmas Carol reign supreme here

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Super excited to finally share this with everyone. Even more excited to hopefully share the book me and Fab are working on down the line, but one step at a time.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Ooh. Did you get it?

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/10/2025

RIP Barbara Gips (1936-2025) "The Alien slogan has been named to countless lists of the best movie taglines ever written. New York Times critic Janet Maslin opened her review of Alien writing, “The thing that most made me want to see Alien was that irresistible line they’ve been using in the ads.”

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Funny how the book gods go. Cherryh's Paladin and Roberson's Sword-Dancer are very like; both late 80s, lean on the idea of a red-blooded, chauvinistic badass who's sure no woman is strong enough to be badass, then learn otherwise and fall in love. Never really read it before finding both this year.

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Not many characters out there that vary between utter idiot and genius with so little in between as Sokka

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Peat @peat.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Not a million miles away from my thoughts on it, although I was a lot more frustrated with the showing seams and missed potential. Does read wonderfully though. Prose was great.

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