Gavin @ Small Beer Press

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Gavin @ Small Beer PressMar 4, 2025
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureMar 4, 2025

When the Bough Breaks (1924) & Travel Light (1952) as SFF Texts

“Mitchison is a key figure for thinking about how a huge swathe of predominantly (but not exclusively) women’s writing of the interwar decades would be thought of as SFF from today’s perspective”

Nick Hubble looks at two novellas by Naomi Mitchison: When the Bough Breaks (1924) & Travel Light (1952)

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https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/road-from-glasgow-2024-to-pictcon-1-naomi-mitchison-when-the-bough-breaks1924-and-travel-light-1952-as-sff-texts/

#Scottish #literature #WomenWriters #20thcentury #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #SFF

Road from Glasgow 2024 to PictCon 1: Naomi Mitchison, When the Bough Breaks(1924) and Travel Light (1952) as SFF Texts

Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF, which began in the run-up to the Glasgow WorldCon and is now continuing on to PictCon 1 in November 2025. This is also part of my series of posts conside…

Prospective Cultures
Gavin @ Small Beer PressMar 4, 2025
Endless BookshelfNov 5, 2024

“the waves in the world are the waves in the words” — Gavin Grant, on the hand bindings for John Crowley’s And Go Like This

/ five years ago
/ cc : @gavinsmallbeerpress

Gavin @ Small Beer PressNov 26, 2024
The paper Henry chose for this is so lively and eye catching, the book sparkles. https://mastodon.social/@EndlessBookshelf/113430383369525150
Gavin @ Small Beer PressJun 9, 2024
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Gavin @ Small Beer PressJun 3, 2024
Jeff JarvisJun 3, 2024
Oh, Lord: The anodyne AP journalism of Buzbee to be replaced--in the design of the Murdochian henchman Willand, as bad if not worse, a Telegraph editor. The crisis in US national journalism worsens!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/06/02/sally-buzbee-steps-down-executive-editor-washington-post-matt-murray-rob-winnett-take-editorial-leadership-roles-new-newsroom-structure/
Sally Buzbee steps down as Executive Editor of The Washington Post. Matt Murray and Robert Winnett take editorial leadership roles in new newsroom structure.

The Washington Post also announced today its intention to launch a new division of the newsroom dedicated to better serving audiences who want to consume and pay for news differently from traditional offerings.

The Washington Post
Gavin @ Small Beer PressMay 29, 2024
Weightless BooksMay 29, 2024
New today from @pmpress : THREE WAY FIGHT: REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS AND ANTIFASCISM, an essay collection edited by by Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons https://weightlessbooks.com/three-way-fight/
Three Way Fight « Weightless Books

Gavin @ Small Beer PressMay 29, 2024
Roseanna Pendlebury reviews Anya Johanna DeNiro’s weird, transtastic short novel OKPsyche:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/05/book-review-okpsyche-by-anya-johanna.html
Book Review: OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro

A strange, surreal, emotional and deeply lyrical window into a woman's life through peculiar events. One of my longrunning soapboxes that I ...

Gavin @ Small Beer PressMay 29, 2024
Helen BranswellMay 28, 2024
#USDA reports #H5N1 #birdflu in alpacas on an Idaho farm that had a poultry outbreak in March. They say it's the first detection of H5 in alpacas. This is the same virus that's been found in cows. Confirmed on May 16; not clear why USDA took so long to report. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/mammals/highly-pathogenic-avian
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 Detections in Alpacas | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Gavin @ Small Beer PressMay 29, 2024
Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀May 29, 2024
Gavin @ Small Beer PressMay 29, 2024
AuscandocMay 28, 2024
Study shows enforced #masking on long #flights prevents #SARSCoV2 transmission https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240528/Study-shows-enforced-masking-on-long-flights-prevents-SARS-CoV-2-transmission.aspx “Overall, the study found that flight duration was a factor in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 within the aircraft in flights with non-enforced masking. In contrast, long-haul flights with enforced masking had no reports of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 within the aircraft despite serving meals. (1/2)
Study shows enforced masking on long flights prevents SARS-CoV-2 transmission

A recent study reveals that longer flights without enforced masking significantly increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, while enforced masking on long-haul flights effectively prevents in-flight transmission. The findings underscore the importance of mask enforcement in reducing COVID-19 spread on aircraft.

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