Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Dolly Forever

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A decade ago I did a really silly project. I called it QROCC , or the Contemporary Review of Contemporary Country, and it was basically me (...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Beyond Play Forever

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Right at the top of this year, I got covid for the first time (as far as I'm aware). At some point in that illness, I decided two things...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Buzzing Off #2: Checking In With No Intention of Staying (Never Whistle at Night, Hawk & Van Alst Jr., eds)

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With some books, you can tell that you're not going to finish them fairly early on . Others, I'm sure we'll find, come as a surp...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Buzzing Off #1: Aphantasia and the Beautiful Image (Eclipse, Hirano)

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Introducing Buzzing Off, a new series where I talk about the books I didn't finish. I'm thinking of it as a sort of supplement to No...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Valentine's Compilation #9: End

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  The theme of this year's Valentine's Day Compilation is: End . As always, the theme is unimportant. Use it as inspiration if it w...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

A war, a Myth, and a Genre: On More Perfect

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Two of the best SF novels I read in 2023 happened to revolve around the Orpheus myth. In Temi Oh’s More Perfect (her sophomore, after 20...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Valentine's Day Compilation #8: Cute [Call for Submissions]

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The theme for this year's friends of Fuck the Polis! Valentine's Day Compilation is: Cute . It's not that we aren't already...