I got to talk to John Wiswell about WEARING THE LION, radical forgiveness, disability, found family, and how to win battles by flipping conflict into friendship. You can read what we said here:
https://splitlipthemag.com/interviews/1225/interview-with-john-wiswell
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Fantastyka:
»Antologia „Na krawędzi pojmowania”«
Pojawiła się nowa charytatywna antologia opowiadań z serii "Zapomniane Sny", tym razem pod hasłem "na krawędzi pojmowania". A w niej 25 opowiadań, w większości krótkich, bo liczących do 2000 słów (choć są wyjątki). Gatunkowo jest tu cały przekrój, od SF, przez weird i horror, mitologię zmieszaną z cyberpunkiem i fantasy.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/ksiazki/o-ksiazkach/fantastyka/antologia-na-krawedzi-pojmowania/
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In SOMEONE TO BUILD A NEST IN, by John Wiswell, Shesheshen is an amorphous shape-shifting creature who lives in a swamp, and is able to absorb bones, metal, and other objects inside her to provide a skeleton, and is able to imitate people (especially if she's eaten the person to get the matching bone structure).
She's rudely awakened from her hibernation by a trio of monster hunters, led by the arrogant Catharsis Wulfyre. They're dispatched with some slight difficulty, but all of the Wulfyres are coming: the mini-Catharsis Epigram, the creepy Ode, the domineering and all-powerful Baroness, and the lovable but downtrodden Homily.
This was like a darker and fairly gory Terry Pratchett novel, and managing that tone in a tension-filled storyline is a remarkable feat. Shesheshen is a fun narrator & monster, able to reshape her body & control the organs inside it, and matter-of-fact about doing so. Her befuddlement at human society is one note that struck me as Pratchettian; a more minor one is the nobleman who gets weirdly turned on when he's threatened by Shesheshen. The Wulfyres are utterly hateful, except for Homily, and it's balm when they get their several comeuppances.
(2/5)
Nogen at bygge rede i
Anmeldelse af Someone You Can Build a Nest In, af #JohnWiswell. Roman. 2024. Hugo-finalist. Skitse: Shesheshen er et monster. Lokalt kalder man hende en wyrm, fordi der ikke rigtig bliver skelnet mellem forskellige slags. Egentlig er hun i vinterhi, men så kommer nogle fjollede fyre for at slå hende ihjel. Suk. Er det science fiction?. […]
Book Review: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell a humorous and occasionally dark retelling of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, with a Found Family chaser. #books #bookreview #johnwiswell
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#WhatWereReading : Joe loved
John Wiswell's delightful fantasy with dark humour, and a lovely monster in love with a human romance (queer, cross-species romance!), Someone You Can Build a Nest In, from Arcadia / Quercus. Smile-inducing reading.
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Cached UK/IE Kindle giveaway: 5 copies of @Wiswell's Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night, which I have but have not read, but have heard only good things about. Remember, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim these!
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#WhatWereReading : Joe adored @Wiswell 's Someone You Can Build a Nest In, a queer, interspecies romantic fantasy with a delightful sense of wicked humour. Out now from Jo Fletcher Books
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Sheshenshen is rudely awakened from her hibernation by monster hunters trying to kill her. She eats one of them, but is still hungry and in need of more sustenance. She dons the most human appearance she can muster and goes hunting herself. But then she falls off a cliff and is rescued by Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for human.
Romance was awful. She […]
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