Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 29/09/2026…Giant Baby… is excellent, and Camp Concentration is a masterpiece. 011
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 27/09/2026Valkyries have been great lately, albeit largely against cellar-dwellers. Hoping they can make some noise. 000
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 21/09/2026picture window #photography #wondervalley #twentyninepalms #california 050
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 11/09/2026New single from Mystery Fix! Download it at Bandcamp, or scream it on your favorite screaming service. mysteryfix.bandcamp.com/album/baby For once the toy piano is thematically appropriate. Special thanks to Mort for remaining torpid while I stuck a camera eighteen inches from his nose.mysteryfix.bandcamp.comBaby, by Mystery Fix2 track album 020
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 07/09/2026Which ones would say are “works of genius”? Of the few I’ve read, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death was my clear favorite, although all were enjoyable. 100
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 07/09/2026Here's an introduction to cryptic crosswords for those interested in learning to solve them: www.thenation.com/wp-content/u... It takes practice, so don't give up too easily!thenation.com 042
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 07/09/2026And now for something completely different: my first-ever cryptic crossword puzzle has just been published by @crypticcrossweird.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/CrypticCross... It's behind a paywall, but a subscription to CC is well worth it for cryptic solvers.patreon.comcryptic crossweird #45 "joyful ecstasy" by tim walters | Cryptic Crossweirdcryptic crossweird #45 "joyful ecstasy" by tim walters by Cryptic Crossweird on Patreon. Join Cryptic Crossweird's community for exclusive content and updates. 252
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 04/09/2026One might or might not like The White Hotel, but “talent” is exactly what it does not lack. 120
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 04/09/2026“The White Hotel is dismissed from discussion with the judgment-in-passing that D M Thomas is ‘patently untalented’” The hell? 100
Reposted by Tim WaltersF2.8 Press @f28press.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Happy to have Tim's publication at our table this weekend! Cincinnati Art Book Fair, at The Carnegie, Covington, KY 012
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 28/08/2026Given her return from heaven, I think Nun of the Above would have been a better title. 010
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 26/08/2026His second example is a hot mess, but I quite liked the first. February might not be "like a house when no one is home" to you or me, but it might be turn out to be a character's opinion. Can't tell just by reading page one. 010
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 26/08/2026Interesting, but I have quibbles. "fiction whose first (and sometimes only) mission is to impress me." Page one is exactly where that's most likely to happen, and most forgivable. "the familiar is rendered totally new and strange" He's being sarcastic, but I think that's a worthy goal. 110
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 26/08/2026The Happy Valley Band take this phenomenon to its logical extreme. happyvalleyband.bandcamp.com/album/organv...happyvalleyband.bandcamp.comORGANVM PERCEPTVS, by Happy Valley Band11 track album 000
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 15/08/2026The DX7 made low-quality forgery easy, but also made a new kind of high-quality distinctive work possible. Not sure any AI can manage that second part. 100
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 11/08/2026Tonsure, said the tensor Tonsure, said the tensor Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun 010
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 10/08/2026Any number of SF/F books are basically adventures in weird places with weird stuff that one can imagine using the props of the other genre (or even of historical fiction) with similar results. But each genre has a core of works for which that's not true, even if the SF "science" is impossible. 010
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 10/08/2026My issue with that is that, for genre purposes, I don't really agree with that definition of fantasy. In theory, "fantasy" can include anything from Gilgamesh to Gravity's Rainbow (and, yes, almost all SF), but fantasy-the-genre is a lot more tightly constrained. 200
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 10/08/2026Certainly there are writers like Jack Vance where it hardly matters. 110
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 10/08/2026I think Engine Summer would lose at least some of its force if the speculative elements were cast as, say, a return of enchantment to the world rather than as consequences of our (then-)current technological development. 100
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 09/08/2026I would go so far as to say Engine Summer is the best SF novel by anybody. 100
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 31/07/2026I remember really liking it when it came out, although that’s about I remember. 110
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 30/07/2026Another banger from Jacob Bacharach, who writes sonnets that begin with something ridiculous said by a public figure jacobbacharach.com/2026/07/30/m...jacobbacharach.comMany, Many Tekel UpharsinBeen thinking things over and wonder if I’vetaken this whole longevity thing too far.I could’ve watched the World Cup in a bar.I could’ve passed on potions, had some FiveGuys. What pleasure’s waste… 000
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 29/07/2026I have not read the original, but IIRC the part where Coth catches the princess’ eye, the reason therefor, and the ensuing events are from an Aztec text. Tomorrow I’ll see if I can track down the reference. 110
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 29/07/2026[Lin] Carter … call[ed] him “the only serious American novelist of genius to devote his full career to writing urbane, witty, subtle, and magnificently entertaining fantasy fiction” Did Carter forget that John Collier wrote novels as well as short stories? Or did he forget him completely? 010
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 29/07/2026I remember really liking The Ninth Configuration when it came out, and I haven't seen much of anything written about it since (although I might have just missed it). Seconds is great for sure. 000
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 29/07/2026Thanks for giving a book I love perceptive treatment despite your personal distaste! A couple of things: --It's "Figures of Earth," not "Figures of the Earth" (the distinction is important, as you will see when you get to it) --The "Mesoamerican-coded" story is a retelling of an Aztec legend. 120
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 27/07/2026“carious directors” is my new favorite typo www.andrewliptak.com/neuromancer-...andrewliptak.comThe future arrives in the teaser for Apple's Neuromancer seriesThe series launches in January 2027 000
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 25/07/2026They don’t consider the effect of gravity and curved space-time? 010
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 21/07/202614/15, the missing one being 8. I only got 13 from the "help" clause--I didn't know the author of The Towers of Trebizond wrote SF, and now I want to read it! 010
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 20/07/2026Regardless of matters of taste, I’m very much looking forward to your essay! 010
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 20/07/2026Well, neither do I! Craig Shaw Gardner, Robert Asprin, and Esther Friesner give me hives, and in the BAF, I feel much the same about Kai Lung and Shagpat as you do about TSS. But Cabell seems completely different to me—more akin to Firbank, Beerbohm or Dunsany than to later genre fantasy. 210
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 20/07/2026“The Way of Ecben” (in The Young Magicians) is at the opposite pole of his work, and (to this Cabell fan) among his best. If you don’t like that either, you can probably write him off. 011
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 20/07/2026It’s true that Jurgen is his best, but I can’t imagine liking it if you dislike TSS that much. I believe that BAF excluded it because it was already in print (from Dover). 110
Tim Walters @timwaltersphoto.com · 20/07/2026You are in for a world of hurt, I’m afraid. I guess it’s remotely possible you might like his more serious work. But finding TSS to be tedious is as incomprehensible to me as thinking ice cream tastes nasty, so my guess isn’t worth much. 210
