Mostly literary criticism (Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons). Some songwriting (Haywire LP out now). Also see @SavingLivesUK.
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The 2024 @strangehorizons Criticism Special is here!
I'll thread thoughts on the pieces in this jam-packed issue through the week, but why not start with the editorial from @ActuallyAisha and me?
"Is it enough just to say, 'We still believe this'?"
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Saving Lives are thrilled to read this #WorldAIDSDay that opt-out testing in Emergency Departments will continue to be funded for years to come.
Our Medical Director @DocSteveTaylor & CEO @danhartland spoke to @bbcmtd earlier:
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🎧 New @strangehorizons Critical Friends podcast!
Sneha Pathak and @tansyclipboard talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time. What’s a critic to do?
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☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN
In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons Criticism Special.
What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad!
⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail.
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Behold: the new issue of @strangehorizons is filled with #SFinTranslation!! 🚀📚♥️🌏
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This week’s @strangehorizons reviews: Kyle R. Garton on Okorafor’s Death of the Author (@gollancz); @cornrowchuks on Ibrahim’s Salutation Road (@MantleBooks), and David Lewis on Sandeen’s This Cursed House (@MichaelJBooks).
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Delighted to see this in-depth review of THE SENTENCE by Dan Hartland, in the spring issue of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.
“A novel of ideas wearing the skin of a procedural” —
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Twice-yearly injections to reduce risk of #HIV transmission are to be offered to women in areas of England as part of a study
"Injectable PrEP technologies have the potential to transform HIV prevention efforts in the UK and wider world" -@DocSteveTaylor
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Good week at @strangehorizons reviews: @StephenRCase on Jonathan Strahan and space opera; @MattDHilliard on Peter F Hamilton and tie-in novels; and @RachealChtondw on Nero Okorafor and Afrofuturism.
Read the lot here …
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And the week continued with a review of two critical works shortlisted in the BSFA’s Best Long Nonfiction category (by @arrroberts), and a review of a title withdrawn from the Best Novel list, but now up for a Hugo, Alien Clay (by Eric Primm).
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This week at @strangehorizons, the awards theme continues with a focus on the @BSFA. First, Octavia Cade on @GoldSF_Books’s Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities), by Pippa Goldschmidt.
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This week at @strangehorizons, the awards theme continues with a focus on the @BSFA. First, Octavia Cade on @GoldSF_Books’s Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities), by Pippa Goldschmidt.
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Last week at @strangehorizons, a trio of International @TheBookerPrizes longlist reviews: Will McMahon on On The Calculation of Volume, @Geekyliterati on Under The Eye of The Big Bird, and me on The Book of Disappearance.
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All your @strangehorizons reviews for the week…
First, @UnrealCitoyenne on Julia Armfield; then, @Rcordas on Cristina Jurado (in a translation by Sue Burke); and today, @ianjsimpson on James B. Haille III.
Note, too, this week’s podcast on Hugo noms!
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8) Book Review: Ixelles by Johannes Anyuru (@TwoLinesPress), translated from the Swedish by @tallnicky, for @strangehorizons with edits by @danhartland.
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PrEP - what is it, and why aren't more women on it?
Our Clinical Nurse Specialist, Niamh, talks about conversations she's had with friends & family - and the barriers we need to overcome to get more women accessing #PrEP.
Read more: savinglivesuk.com/women-and-…
#HIVTestingWeek
ALT A nurse in navy blue scrubs, with a rainbow lanyard sits in an office. The caption says "Niamh Fleming-Kielb, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Saving Lives Ambassador"
ALT Blue text on a light pink cloudy background says: Women and girls are told repeatedly from a young age "don't get pregnant". Wider sexual health and HIV education including PrEP and PEP should be key components of ongoing conversations and teaching.
Today over at @strangehorizons’ Criticism Special: the enduring appeal of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Tansy Gardam of the peerless Going Rogue podcast looks at the context of the films’ production - and the nature of their reception.
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I wrote about futures, futurisms, map-making and counter-mapping, and resistance (with many many references) for @strangehorizons. Many thanks to @danhartland!
"Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures"
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Today’s review at @strangehorizons is from Prashanth Gopalan, of Takaoka’s Travels from @StoneBridgePub.
“It is timely to encounter a novel set in an era of Asian prominence, and which may help us to explore the rich heritage of Asian literature.”
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Another essay from the @strangehorizons Criticism Special: @whiterxbbit on ectogenesis in the science fictional imagination.
“We can see conservative values, fears, and hopes playing out in many Western science fiction works.”
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Essays in this week’s @strangehorizons Criticism Special!
First, Paul Kincaid on @straczynski’s Last Dangerous Visions, via the history of science fiction.
“Believe me, it was obvious from the get-go who was endangered by 1967’s Dangerous Visions.”
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It's here! The @strangehorizons Criticism Special: one editorial, five critical essays, three poems, one podcast, three special reviews.
We'll be publishing 1 essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle.
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The issue opens with a quick introduction from me and @ActuallyAisha, in which we advocate for the special - and criticism - with our usual boldness.
"What of material effect will all this criticism have achieved? Reader, we can’t say. Maybe none.“
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