Congrats on the Novella Award @seananmcguire! Start EVERY HEART A DOORWAY for free here: http://www.tor.com/2016/02/08/excerpts-every-heart-a-doorway-seanan-mcguire/… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/896081545211006976
It's sci-fi (but without any sciencey stuff), in a style that reminds me of Ursula le Guin. Very subtle - you almost have to do close reading just to understand the ending and the significance of each story.
It was one of the book series we covered in that surreal conversation where the two of us were going through a whole load of relatively obscure YA fiction we'd read and going "wow, you read that too?!"
@Hamlet Eh, I dunno about that. Some books have had so many different editions and covers that it seems a bit pointless to include images of just a few of them.
Hey, how about we make Tumblr post to our Twitter account as well? @Hamlet would need to make @Shokhet a mod on Tumblr, and then Shokhet would need to go here and authorise Tumblr to post to Lit's Twitter.
That's an awfully interesting coincidence. I turned of the ads on our Tumblr blog (I hope you don't mind, @Hamlet), but then I go to the help page about ads, it turns out they've disabled the partnership program ~40 minutes ago.
Weird.
(I also added the link to Lit to our blog description)
The poem "No Ordinary Sun" by the Maori poet Hone Tuwhare is about a tree's reaction to some kind of deadly threat, the titular "no ordinary sun". Addressing the tree in the second person, the poem warns that it will no longer live happily as before and that there's no point in resisting its fate...
It does look like "No Ordinary Sun" was not written in Te Reo, which is pretty typical of most indigenous literature at that period in their decolonization.
Hmm, a tree and a mushroom cloud even have vaguely similar shapes: they both go straight up and then poof out at the top. (Depending on the kind of tree, of course.)
"The Bat: An Atrocious Joke" "Hamster and Co: Cannibal Morailty" "Aromas of Planets" Page headings from Passional Z… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/896379465344921600