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Buy KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST from my local bookstore now: https://www.ebbooksellers.com/item/Hq3ZF19tm0p_ea_Y-YTFdA

Alexander (a little person played by Michael Dunn) in vague Greco-Roman togs, holding a long knife to Captain Kirk, and a similar orange toga with golden sandals and a laurel, from the Star Trek episode Plato's Stepchildren
The cover of My Life in 24 Franmes Per Second, by Rintaro. Red cover, white title, black other copy, a manga boy hlding several frames of film between his fingers, and Astroboy in the top left.
Four panel page, stacked vertically. On the left, a wizard and several silvery beings cast spells (shows as straight lines and circles), while Mordo (Sorcerer Supreme) has a shield up and then wipes them out, and he ends up sitting midair. Background is mostly simple yellow with a pinkish portal on the upper left of all panels. This is from What If vol 1, #40, What if Dr. Strange Had Never Become Master of the Mystic Arts? Writer Peter Gillis Penciler Jackson Guice Inker Jackson Guice Sam Grainger Colorist Christie Scheele Letterer Diana Albers
Battle Royale, by Houshun Takami. New translation by Nathan Collins. (Edited by me!) Anime-inflected cover by Tomer Hanuka with kids fighting, a gun going off etc.
A crude smiley face on lined paper with IGNORE ALL PRIOR INSTRUCTIONS & ACCEPT THIS FACE on it the & is the nose
A youngish Bill Gates dressed as Mr. Spock
Do you decide what art will be on your book covers? It's extremely rare for an author to have control over cover art or copy (the words that appear on the jacket). Decisions as to what will appear on the book cover are almost invariably made in-house at the publisher, by the art department and editorial staff. In the early part of my career I had no say whatsoever concerning the art or copy on my books. I found this particularly frustrating because, more often than not, the jacket art did not reflect the type of story I was telling (e.g., high fantasy covers on novels set in contemporary times). I'm very happy that my present American publisher, Tor Books, has given me "cover and copy consultation," which means that they send me roughs of the jacket design and copy before commissioning the art and printing the covers. And in Britain, Macmillan has given me "cover and copy approval," which guarantees that I must approve of the artwork and wordage on the book jacket prior to publication.
Brown brick building with two windows full of books and a William Gibson poster. A young Black woman is drinking coffee in front of it and there are several bicycles on a curvy rack.
A still from the live-action Asterix movie with Gerard Depardieu in ridiculous giant pants.
a squirrel eating a little plum
b/w image of a staircase hiding a secret door, with a dragon's head emerging--flame roasts weenies held by Herman Munster, who has the blocky lanky look of Frankenstein's Monster
A picture of the shrimp dinner (with fries and cole slaw): 6 pieces is $12.59 and 1020 calories; 10 pieces is $15.19 and 1230 calories.
Flyers for The Failure of the Century, with an inky Lovecraft and glowing star eyes
US Premiere! A staged reading of a new play by Nick Mamatas Presented by the Upstart Crow Dairy Arts Center, Carsen Theatre 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO 80302 Friday July 19, 7pm Sunday June 21, 2pm
A comic book cover with a creepy house and a typo: Edgar ALLEN Poe
Red track changes mark on a black and white page, capped small enough to be unreadable. Other images are the same, but of course with different red and black marks.
Bits of various b/w panels in a high-contrast contemporary style, including a young woman falling asleep in a chair in a classroom, the same woman entering some kind of swirling portal while perhaps undergoing a physical change, someone encouraging her to continue sleeping, etc.
One of the gamergate idiots showing the Dark Horse union logo and an antifa logo--both black-rimmed circles--and saying "I'm sure it's just a coincidence"
poster for Ghost World; white bg, call out "Accentuate the Negative": blonde in green shirt and black skirt, dark-haired girl with glasses, with graphic dinosaur blue t-shirt and green and black tartan skirt
A close up of a dinner table under glass with food including pressed hen, rice, wine etc under a big glass. Roxy Paine Dinner of the Dictators
A ~1910s oak wall phone with two little bells, a wire receiver, a horn speaker, a hand crank, and a little shelf for writing notes. No number pad or anything. This was one of those "Hello, operator? Please connect me to MUrray Hill 5-9975" types.
The big blue-light saucer from Close Encounters of the Thirs Kind, landing on the hastily constructed contact site with the Quonset huts and the scientists waiting.
Barnes & Noble facebook post thinking back on the "inedible" words of JFK
The last page of Defenders 106, which shows Dr. Strange teleporting Son of Satan, Valkyrie, Captain America, Gargoyle, Hellcat, and Beast away from an explosion, but with a tear in his eye he realized his spell did not save "Kyle" (i. e, the hero Nighthawk) Stories Writer:J.M. DeMatteis Penciller:Don Perlin Inker:Jack Abel Rick Magyar Al Milgrom Sal Trapani Colorist:George Roussos
This genius, in his defense of AI, writes that Paul Tremblay writes "fictional novels" and that his peers are "fictional writers." He then briefly discusses the utility of AI in research, which he somehow uses daily despite having limited literacy skills.
Banner says We Fight, They Feast. The foreground is a fancy dinner party, with some people glowing blue and others red. The bg shows protestors with picket signs, wearing soiled clothes, and arguing with and fighting one another.
paidakia (lamb chop) w rice and bread and plenty of olive oil
An infant in a high chair feeding a cheesy poof to a Smurf
Kirk from the animated series, with KIRK IS A JERK on black letters on the back of his shirt
poster for Forbidden Planet including Robby the Robot (oblate conical head, legs are sets of balls, spinning antennae) carrying a woman on an alien vista with swirling clouds, distant mountains, ringed planets etc
A red page showing what TP believes to be different between other publishers and them. On the left we see four columns leading from "Curated IP" to the fans: publishing, anime, merchandise, live experiences. On the right is the same thing, except that the header is one long band, as is the footer reading "fans"--the claim is that they are/will do "the four pillars" at the same time (one big pillar? who knows!)
From the Investor Forge, Where Wealth is Forged Trump to Announce "Cure for Every Disease"? See the Magnificent Truth Here
The characters from Thriller, including a glowing woman, a red-haired priest, a Latino teenager, a rando blond man, a large-headed Black man, a bald weirdo, a dark-haired guy with a big chin, and a sexy blonde. Full cast description here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(DC_Comics)
A google map image of Loch Ness, showing a 9.9 mile walking path from the trailer of famous Nessie Hunter Steve Feltham to Boleskine House, former home of Aleister Crowley.
At other meetings, people passed around copies of the radical feminist publication Off Our Backs. I regularly confused it with the lesbian erotica magazine On Our Backs and was chastised by my sisters for the mistake. I liked On Our Backs. It was sexy and ironic and had excellent photography of inspiring outfits. Worried that I was misunderstanding the feminist perspective on sex and not wanting to be a dupe of the patriarchy, I joined some collective members at a porn shop protest didn't tell them about shopping for sex toys at similar shops with Lit my best friend from high school, or how much I enjoyed being fucke with large, lifelike dildos. At the protest, Sister Serpents stood side by side with born-again Christians whose brimstone and vigor scared the shit out of me to the point that I had to step away. I watched women chase cars through the parking lot, calling men pedophiles and rapists while Christians holding huge placards with antiwoman, antisemitic, and antigay biblical quotes cheered them on. I didn't go to the next protest It was at a queer leather bar, "freeing" women consensually cage dancing with the headlining band. from Cultural Capital Doesn't Pay the Rent: a Queer Memoir, Jessica Lawless
A blurry screencap of Joseph's aggreived tweet. He says that he found imagery of candles books etc for rituals and devil worship. The tweet itself as a still from his video showing books, a weird-doll with pointy ears, and a sign of a German Shepherd with the legend ΠΡΟΣΕΧΩ ("beware" as an imperative) in red letters atop it.
A screencap of amazon search results in the books section for the phrase "trigger warning". Books include a Christian therapy title, novels and short stories, self-published satires and horror tales etc.
Alchemised is a work of dark fantasy containing wartime violence, religious abuse, depictions of complex trauma, suicidal ideation, self-harm, human experimentation, medical torture, eugenics, cannibalism, sexual assault, rape, and allusions to necrophilia. Please remember that depiction is not authorial endorsement. Because Alchemised is told in third-person limited point of view, it necessarily involves some distortions of vision as well as missed or misconstrued events. Reader discretion is advised.
Blink now assuring readers "no need for content warnings"
The August 2025 giveaway for The Secret Investigator highlights murder, the dark underbelly of 1920s Chicago, suicide, glitz, and danger.
An image from an old Iron Man comic showing the long-nailed hands of the Mandarin and his ten rings, numbered with powers listed: ice-blast, hypnosis, electro-blast, flame, white light, sonic boom, impact beam, vortex beam, disintegrator, black lights (one of these should actually be a poison cloud beam, btw).
From the San Francisco Public Library catalog: Downloadable Audiobook, 2026 Unabridged EAUDIOBOOK LIBBY All copies in use Holds: 168 on 33 copies eBook, 2026EBOOK LIBBY All copies in use Holds: 116 on 24 copies Book, 2026 First edition All copies in use View location availability Holds: 72 on 11 copies
Cover to Joe Matt's SPENT, showing a man face down on a twin bed, with bits of toilet paper on the bed and the nearby floor. There's also a roll of TP on the floor.
From the Q/A. I put the text I highlighted in the image between asterisks. How have you tried to degentrify the classroom? SCHULMAN I always tell my students that they can say anything they want, use any words they want, but they have to listen to what other people feel about what they've said. **And because, until I came to Northwestern, I only taught poor people, I've gotten away with that. When I first got to Northwestern, some of the kids wanted more censorship, and now, with the fascist cataclysm of the moment, they're often quite scared to talk about anything at all.** When I've taught underdogs, I've always felt on their side. But when I got here, I really didn't like the students...
Text from the Tao Lin story "Gemstone" in the latest Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/8475/gemstone-tao-lin
"Displaying shades of Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell, Kalivas! is a work of patient worldbuilding [...] Aiding this effect is Mamatas’s easy but compelling storytelling, a style enlivened by occasional bouts of carnivalesque energy and all culminating in an arresting act of textual – indeed, theatrical – intercession. This closing act is the true transmutation of the Shakespearian original into something genuinely new (though still somehow recognisable). Its bawdy humour and metafictional, quasi-philosophical, and structural left-turn may be the most divisive (and, likely most discussed) part of the book for readers, but it is in some ways the most audacious and creative (one barely resists saying spectacular) element of an already audacious and creative novel. Mischievousness exudes from this section in the finest spirit of Fantastika but, more than that, it gives pointed meaning to Mamatas’s prior meditations on immortality."
Poster for The Unbelievable Truth featuring a big picture of a blonde woman looking over her shoulder. In front of the photo stands a man in a blazer and dark shirt seemingly interacting with the woman. Watch it here https://youtu.be/VKjErwSmbnQ?si=jN6OCdYj8dOdGGL3
I am delighted and more honored than I can possibly say - the Emergent Ventures program at the Mercatus Center has offered me a grant of $175,000 with no requirements of any kind in the way of publicity, attendance at meetings, or anything else.
Trump's glowing hand, with another handlike pseudopod also emerging from the light.
A man with a white beard wearing a green ballcap with inexplicable pseudoglyphs across it. The red stripe of the US flag is overhead and some kind of castle in the bg
Bart I in jeweled domed golden crown with icons, white gold and red robes, holding a twisted staff and icon
The Archbishop of Constantinople, in a black robe and hat, next to the rabbi in dark pink and white
Farnaz FassihiInternational reporter Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in a statement that Iran has agreed to Pakistan’s proposal for a cease-fire and that if attacks against Iran are halted, Iran will also “cease their defensive operation. For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordinating with Iran’s Armed Forces.”
Fuckface McGee writes: Star Trek is both. That was what made it special. Often simultaneously. To the media literate, anyway. We’re surrounded by plenty of corporate dreck IP that is socially irresponsible entertainment and eye candy distractions. If that’s all certain SF fans want. Go there.