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Christopher Caldwell

@seraph76.bsky.social
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Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy. Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland. Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-…

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2h
I *am* on programming at Fantasycon, but I would love to hang out
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 3h
That’s a cheese. It’s perfectly fine
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 3h
I really don’t like the term “world building,” and I realize that it’s a me problem more than anything else. I’m trying to evoke with setting
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 3h
I’d let Kyle Chandler do things to my body
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 3h
On Vernon? They used to give mama a little extra every time she went in because she was a good-looking woman
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4h
Fishmonger had head on prawns. There’s also a wet market right next to my work, but I didn’t feel like wrasslin’ live crabs
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4h
Guess what I’m making tonight…
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4h
But I want a vinaigrette on a piece of lettuce
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4h
At that point why would I just make a curry?
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4h
I don’t like mayo
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4h
British going on 9 months now, and I still hate coronation chicken and Heinz tinned beans
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4h
I’m not on any programming at WFC, so who all wants to hang out?
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4h
It is Black History Month in Britain, and International Creole Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ History Month in the US. If you want a book that celebrates all of the above … uk.bookshop.org/p/books/call...
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Call and Response
In these deftly written stories of the fantastic, Christopher Caldwell unravels the complicities of personhood and gender, slavery and war. Winner of the Crawford Award. Saints and sailors, scoundrels...
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 5h
It can play with all of the other collections keeping me safe from the grackles in Window Boy
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 5h
I don’t need two!
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23h
I’d be a more normal person if I hadn’t imprinted on another Kyle… McLachlan in Lynch’s Dune knife fighting in rubber with a loincloth wearing Sting
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23h
2? He was Jeff Metcalf on Homefront. That was I. Like 1991
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23h
My mama had to sing Ave Maria at bedtime for months after
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23h
They ought to make Covid vaccine that doesn’t give me the sweats/chills or an arm that feels like it was hit by a hammer
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23h
It is costume season…
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More of an opera glass type.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Arlington assists me into my brocade culottes and byssus hose one leg at a time like everyone else
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m pretty sure I mentioned a Lorca poem in an interview recently
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You knew what I was when you picked me up
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Y’all gotta stop asking my opinion on literary sff, people’ll think I’m fancy
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Christopher Caldwell will be at #Fantasycon for the following... Friday 1700 - Reading (Hebrides) 1900 - The Importance of Literary Focussed SFFH (Panel 2) Sunday 1200 - Queer to the Story's Bones (Panel 2) - Christopher Caldwell ..so go hear him! @britfantasysoc.bsky.social
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am very cold
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t see After the Hunt, so maybe that’s my new hated film
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I liked Queer and Challengers, which means it’s time for him to make a film I loathe
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A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 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!
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A Meal of Thorns 60- 2026 UKLG List with Roseanna Pendlebury
Only 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…
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think I was 5 when Disney re-released Fantasia.
Czernobog from the 1940 Disney film Fantasia
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Leviathan is set around 1820, which is the year the Essex sank. I did so much research for that and Lonesome Sea (1813)
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(There is actually historical precedent. Like the sinking of the Essex in 1820)
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A reviewer once commented that they found the idea of Sperm Whales ramming the whaling ship in Canst Thou Draw out the Leviathan unbelievable. I am vindicated.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are over the top pantomime villain performances
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is vulgar, crass, and loud. The satire is heavy handed. It’s also sort of melancholy with a sweet, hopeful emotional core.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sometimes. I hated Birdman and thought Bardo was great.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
^loved
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NB, I despised Birdman. I lived Bardo. It’s not like either.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s crass. Vulgar. Heavy handed. And America deserves worse.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This weekend I took myself out to a Shostakovich symphony, handpulled noodles, and the cinema to see Digger. I’m a fun date, even if I don’t put out.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, *I* liked Digger
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Imagine knowing that woke meant “aware of the realities and crushing strictures of white supremacy” and then using it the way the racists who co-opted it do.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Will Smith should have slapped him harder.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m opposed to doing an infogram for Fantasycon. I did one for Worldcon and learned I hate canva.
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s easily in my top ten films.
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Street Life from Sharky’s Machine started playing in this Tesco and the Venture Bros. triggered a fight or flight response
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am so cold. It’s supposed to be 16c, but it sure doesn’t feel it
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
^Alfred
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