We've published the findings of the first phase of SHAPE research careers, synthesising a range of engagement with SHAPE researchers to better understand what a good, sustainable, and meaningful career does or can look like for SHAPE researchers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
Synthesis report setting out findings and themes emerging from engagement activities undertaken to-date as part of the SHAPE Research Careers project.
Went to see Alien: Romulus in an IMAX in China last night. It was so loud, making the soundless ‘vacuum’ moments very effective. Felt like I was in space. Not sure re the ethics of revivifying Ian Holm, but it was effective, story-wise. Next question: how much gore was cut for the Chinese release?
My new book The Living Stone: Stories of Uncanny Sculpture, 1858-1943 is officially out! You can get it most places, but if you want to support the small press that published it, purchase it directly: www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/fantasy... Halloween may be over, but fear lives forever…..
The Living Stone collects classic supernatural stories of uncanny stones, rocks and carvings, doing what they ought not to do, with terrifying effect.
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My timeline consists almost entirely of Neil Gaiman and the Pope.
“Archeology expands from sorting out the time of antiquity to openly working with the sorting that is itself the antiquity of time” - Witmore. What are people’s thoughts on semantic inversions as rhetorical technique? I often do it in my own writing (perhaps too much) - something compelling about it
I saw an interview with Powers where he said he wanted a story with nonhuman protagonist but told from a human perspective. It achieves this, I feel. But I now want a book with a nonhuman protagonist told explicitly from their perspective, but without simply giving them/it human language…
First book I’ve read purely for pleasure in a long while. Enjoyed it a lot - the prose is astonishing and doesn’t dip in quality as it progresses. I’m not sure about the ending, but I loved the whole conceit of the under/over story. Plus I learned a whole load of facts about trees.
