Does it ever happen to you that you read a piece of fiction, start to cry for some reason, and then the text tries to comfort you?
"If it gets too painful, you can stop."
Does it ever happen to you that you read a piece of fiction, start to cry for some reason, and then the text tries to comfort you?
"If it gets too painful, you can stop."
🎙️ Nouvelle chronique - Un étranger en Olondre de Sofia Samatar - @argylleditions 🎙️
👉 Le lien vers ma chronique : https://jaiunlivrepourtoi.fr/2025/11/21/un-etranger-en-olondre/
👉 Pour écouter l'épisode : https://www.vodio.fr/vodiotheque/i/29204/un-etranger-en-olondre/
🌟 On commence ? 🌟
Un étranger en Olondre de Sofia Samatar
Les infos, c'est par là : https://argyll.fr/produit/un-etranger-en-olondre/
Qui connaît ?
✨ Nouvelle Chronique ✨
Hard Mary de Sofia Samatar paru aux Editions Argyll
👉 Le lien vers ma chronique : https://jaiunlivrepourtoi.fr/2025/09/26/hard-mary/
👉 Pour écouter l'épisode : https://www.vodio.fr/vodiotheque/i/27901/chronique-de-hard-mary/
J'avais très envie de le lire, ce livre, quand j'ai reçu le mail de nouveautés des éditions Argyll. Je pense que leur collection Récifs m'a portée toute l'année. Ce titre, c'est Hard Mary de Sofia Samatar. C'était donc la porte d'entrée qui me fallait.
#mastolivres #blog #argyll #hardmary #sofiasamatar
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Praksis, horisont, kæde
Anmeldelse af The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, af #SofiaSamatar. Kortroman. 2024. Hugo-finalist. Skitse: I midten af rumskibet er lastrummet, hvor man arbejder under brutale forhold og har en kæde på det ene ben. Højere oppe (eller ude ved kanten) er der en anden gruppe, dem med en lille fodlænke. Og så er der […]
https://stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/07/15/praksis-horisont-kaede/
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar: 📚: Sixth book and third Philip K. Dick award nominee of the year; not reviewed. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/01/28/the-practice-the-horizon-and-the-chain-by-sofia-samatar
The judges of the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce the six nominated works published in 2024 that comprise the final ballot for the award:
First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 18, 2025 at Norwescon 47. Plans for the ceremony will be posted at Norwescon’s website.
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States during the previous calendar year. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the Northwest Science Fiction Society. Last year’s winner was THESE BURNING STARS by Bethany Jacobs (Orbit) with a special citation to THE MUSEUM OF HUMAN HISTORY by Rebekah Bergman (Tin House). The judges for this year’s award are Maurice Broaddus, C. S. Friedman, Rajan Khanna, Carol McGuirk, and Carrie Vaughn (Chair).
For more information, contact the award administration:
Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551
John Silbersack [email protected]
Pat LoBrutto [email protected]
For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society: Contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 665-5752.
For more information about Norwescon: Norwescon’s website.
https://www.norwescon.org/2025/01/10/2025-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced/
#AdrianTchaikovsky #BoraChung #BrendaPeynado #PhilipKDickAward #SofiaSamatar #SubodhanaWijeyeratne #TaraCampbell
The setup and the #SundaySentence:
"I don't know if he's right, but I recognize the desire, a longing that animates dystopian fiction as well as doomsday cults, the yearning for a force to bring people together. It's not that we crave disaster, it's that we don't know how to join hands."
Sofia Samatar, The White Mosque
Note: the 'he' in the first sentence is Dipesh Chakrabaty.
#quote #TheWhiteMosque #SofiaSamatar
"His prophecies would have come true, but only the part about the tribulation, which is always true, always coming true somewhere. Taken together, predictions of the end times add up to a vast cry, less like prophecy than recognition: the world is ending every day."
Sofia Samatar, The White Mosque
#SundaySentence #SofiaSamatar #TheWhiteMosque #prophecy