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Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum (2026) is a queer romantasy set at the edge of an enchanted wood somewhere near Cleveland. David Carew, a Welsh accountant has been sharing a house with a roommate with absurd name: Meredith Schwarzwelder. Meredith is a handful to live with, as is the the nearby Midnight Woods, and those two forces have kept the roommates from maintaining a third housemate for any amount of time.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_03/into_the_midnight_wood.html


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Do you remember your first favorite book?

My first real favorite: the fairy-tale The Golden Ball.
Today I looked up the author and discovered he’s still alive: a scholar, professor, and author of academic works on totalitarianism, information policy, and hybrid wars. I may never read those. But I will absolutely reread the first book I ever loved.

There’s something very moving about smart, busy, serious people who still choose to write for children.

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The Golden Ball

To say I’m excited about the impending publication of the new novel, The End of Everything, by M. John Harrison would be something of an understatement.

“Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.

Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can't keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows.”

I love that cover design, the sickly way the “Everything” in the title collapses towards the bottom of the page, a metaphor for decay, runoff, entropy or perhaps something much worse.

As another (connected) Mike once asked “What is …

The front cover of the forthcoming novel by M. John Harrison, The End of Everything, published by Serpent’s Tail in June 2026. The book’s title is overlaid on a cold scene of a shoreline, with a solitary figure at its edge, looking out towards the water. The word “Everything” in the title collapses towards the bottom of the page, a metaphor for decay, runoff, entropy or perhaps something worse.

This week's at the library: Three more books I bought during my employer's January sale of overstock:
- Saurian: A Field Guide to Hell Creek (@Tomozaurus, @mojoceratops),
- Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
- and Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences from @themitpress

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A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor. On the left, Saurian: A Field Guide to Hell Creek, showing dark grey / blue hardcover book with a colour illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex, here reconstructed as a beefy dinosaur with a bulging skull, rather than a skinny reconstruction that shows the contours of bones. In the middle, Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error, showing a white hardback with a colour photo of a polar bear across the bottom and a trilobite fossil across the top. On the right, Rock, Bone, and Ruin, showing a yellow hardback with. Each word of the title is cut out of a black-and-white photo of a rock, the bones of a tail, and a ruin (what looks to be the Colosseum) .

Tumblr post by enjolstaire My favourite thing to do is to tell my friends about the wild things victor hugo did and see the look of shock and horror in their faces bc they only know him as the great author who wrote les mis and hunchback and not as the man who gave his fiancee a live bat in an envelope. Reply by skywalker-anakin He what now?

QSFer S.L. Kassidy has a new FF magical realism romance out: Once Within a Dream.

Samar Habeen is a warrior waging two wars—one against the Nightmares that prowl the forsaken streets of Oganja, and another within the silent chambers of her own heart. Grief clings to her like a second skin as she fights to stay ...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-once-within-a-dream-s-l-kassidy/

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