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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is a really strong collection speculative fiction that I really recommend.

The brief of Anti-Caste SF has been interpreted in so many different ways it’s a joy to read.

My highlights:

A Demon That Sits on Your Chest by Gouri. Broke my heart.

File No. 786 The Night Journey by Hameedha Khan. Set post climate collapse, this one filled me with wonder and hope.

Happily Ever After by Archita Mittra. The story of sapphic toy shop owners facing persecution. Beautiful, bittersweet.

And possibly my favorite of all: Melonhead by Nabi H. Ali.

Great trans representation, a possessed melon and a quiet wife getting the attention she deserves.

The image shows a hand holding a book titled "The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF." The cover features a colorful design with circuitry and the interior of a robot. In the background an illustrated reading journal is open.

Bleak House. By Charles Dickens.

You are a young woman of little standing, not knowing your past and dependent on others, but managing to be a decent human being while on the sidelines to a grinding legal proceeding that chews up and spits out those around you, whether high or low; and while you are not spared agony, you do show that being compassionate is not a fool’s errand.

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Dec 15: How much profanity do you include in your story, and why?

In , very little. Squire Desoto uses the medieval swears of "'sblood" and "'swounds," which mean "God's blood" and "God's wounds." There are no recognizable modern swear words.

In the next novel, I believe I have zero swearing. It just doesn't fit.

Check out Martha Gouws

Fantasy

Martha Gouws: ”Where fantasy begins with a costume, a spell, and a drop of spit.”

Since childhood, I’ve had one foot in the world of fantasy. I’d dress in costumes no one could recognize me in, dance with scarves late into the night, and climb hills in search of strange fruit that might just be magical. On quiet Sundays, while my parents napped, I sat under the mulberry tree and ...

https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/martha-gouws/

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ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news - not just what's happening but also what we can do. It's definitely worth checking out.

Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: https://www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-data-centers-climate-impacts

On a black and white forest background, the cover of Rebecca Campbells short story collection THE OTHER SHORE. The text reads: Eco-fiction Review: The Other Shore by Rebecca Campbell, from Stelliform Press. The places in The Other Shore don’t sit stationary, but drift across distances and into pasts, presents, and futures. There’s a lot to think about in these pages and I recommend picking up this collection if you like speculative fiction that skews to the literary.

Did you catch this excerpt from one of my free serials, The Search for Apollo's Chalice? Graphic with alt-text below or read even more at https://kitauthor.com/excerpt-from-the-search-for-apollos-chalice-chapter-1/

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If you're in Australia and New Zealand, I've just been told Dionysus in Wisconsin has been on sale on Kobo for $2.99 since the 11th! The time difference between here and there is really something else.

https://www.kobo.com/p/500-under-5

https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/dionysus-in-wisconsin
https://www.kobo.com/nz/en/ebook/dionysus-in-wisconsin