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Queer Weird West Tales is 50% off in the Smashwords End of Year sale.

https://www. smashwords.com/books/view/1138 789

Includes my story ‘A Truce with Evil’, set in a fantasy version of the Russian-Siberian frontier of the 16th century.

My blog post about the story and anthology: https://amgalant.com/a-truce-with-evil/

#lgbtq #queersff #SFF #weird #weirdwest

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Queer Weird West Tales is 50% off in the Smashwords End of Year sale.

https://www. smashwords.com/books/view/1138 789

Includes my story ‘A Truce with Evil’, set in a fantasy version of the Russian-Siberian frontier of the 16th century.

My blog post about the story and anthology: https://amgalant.com/a-truce-with-evil/

#lgbtq #queersff #SFF #weird #weirdwest

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@jesbattis
They include:

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate

Arauco by John Caviglia

Faustina and Other Stories
by Renée Vivien and Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt

Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet

Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust (seriously. #4 of In Search of Lost Time. Read as a standalone)

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@jesbattis
They include:

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate

Arauco by John Caviglia

Faustina and Other Stories
by Renée Vivien and Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt

Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet

Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust (seriously. #4 of In Search of Lost Time. Read as a standalone)

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'The frescoes in the cave sanctuary are not only the key to salvation, but also emphasize the quasi-anarchistic tone of the story. After all, the tortures of hell depicted there are entirely modeled on the tortures and punishments with which the state authorities "discipline" their subjects.'

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'The frescoes in the cave sanctuary are not only the key to salvation, but also emphasize the quasi-anarchistic tone of the story. After all, the tortures of hell depicted there are entirely modeled on the tortures and punishments with which the state authorities "discipline" their subjects.'

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On my story:

'The caravan is a community of convenience born of people's work reality. Nevertheless, their members, who come from a wide variety of cultures, religious groups and ethnic groups, share a very natural camaraderie.

It is this "social" setting that particularly appealed to me. The tolerance prevailing between the traveling companions is by no means a "utopian ideal", but reflects the historical reality of the societies that existed along the Silk Road...'

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On my story:

'The caravan is a community of convenience born of people's work reality. Nevertheless, their members, who come from a wide variety of cultures, religious groups and ethnic groups, share a very natural camaraderie.

It is this "social" setting that particularly appealed to me. The tolerance prevailing between the traveling companions is by no means a "utopian ideal", but reflects the historical reality of the societies that existed along the Silk Road...'

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What is New Edge?

I'm chewing on this deep and thoughtful response to our magazine of innovative, inclusive sword & sorcery--the themes of its stories, the idea of a New Edge movement.

By Peter Schmitt of Skalpell und Katzenklaue / Scapel and Cat's Claw

German language
https://katzenklaue.blogspot.com/2022/12/was-ist-new-edge.html

Here it is in English with Google Translate:
https://katzenklaue-blogspot-com.trans late.goog/2022/12/was-ist-new-edge.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

#NewEdge #sword&sorcery #SFF #specfic #newedgeswordandsorcery #fantasy

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What is New Edge?

I'm chewing on this deep and thoughtful response to our magazine of innovative, inclusive sword & sorcery--the themes of its stories, the idea of a New Edge movement.

By Peter Schmitt of Skalpell und Katzenklaue / Scapel and Cat's Claw

German language
https://katzenklaue.blogspot.com/2022/12/was-ist-new-edge.html

Here it is in English with Google Translate:
https://katzenklaue-blogspot-com.trans late.goog/2022/12/was-ist-new-edge.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

#NewEdge #sword&sorcery #SFF #specfic #newedgeswordandsorcery #fantasy

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Invent No Evil: Hopepunk history
https://amgalant.com/invent-no-evil-ho pepunk-history/

'Are you astonished to hear that 13th century Mongols have a critique of present-day execution in Texas on grounds of inhumanity? You shouldn’t be.'

An old blog post, but one I'm thinking about again after the Slate article on mercy around executions in the Middle Ages by Sara McDougall and David Perry
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20 22/12/alabama-executions-kenneth-eugene-smith-history-capital-punishment.html

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Invent No Evil: Hopepunk history
https://amgalant.com/invent-no-evil-ho pepunk-history/

'Are you astonished to hear that 13th century Mongols have a critique of present-day execution in Texas on grounds of inhumanity? You shouldn’t be.'

An old blog post, but one I'm thinking about again after the Slate article on mercy around executions in the Middle Ages by Sara McDougall and David Perry
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20 22/12/alabama-executions-kenneth-eugene-smith-history-capital-punishment.html

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Dancing Boys and Gay Escapades in Fin-de-siècle Tashkent: A Sketch from a Queer History of Central Asia

by Said Gaziev, PhD candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin

#lgbtq #CentralAsia

https://www. oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog/danc ing-boys-and-gay-escapades-in-fin-de-siecle-tashkent-a-sketch-from-a-queer-history-of-central-asia

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Dancing Boys and Gay Escapades in Fin-de-siècle Tashkent: A Sketch from a Queer History of Central Asia

by Said Gaziev, PhD candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin

#lgbtq #CentralAsia

https://www. oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog/danc ing-boys-and-gay-escapades-in-fin-de-siecle-tashkent-a-sketch-from-a-queer-history-of-central-asia

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12 hours to go in our #BookFunnel sale for fiction that engages with history in creative and unconventional ways.

5 authors
Imaginative, yet seriously historical.
Different, as well as diverse.

'It is pure magic when one finds a book that travels that difficult path between fact and fiction... A story that that is so realistic and so true that it literally pulls you into the Mongol world body and soul.' -Patricia Bjaaland Welch

#HistficOutsidetheBox #Mongols #histfic
https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

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12 hours to go in our #BookFunnel sale for fiction that engages with history in creative and unconventional ways.

5 authors
Imaginative, yet seriously historical.
Different, as well as diverse.

'It is pure magic when one finds a book that travels that difficult path between fact and fiction... A story that that is so realistic and so true that it literally pulls you into the Mongol world body and soul.' -Patricia Bjaaland Welch

#HistficOutsidetheBox #Mongols #histfic
https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

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@Drakythe Of course, yes. I don't feel it was 'practice' writing, it was writing-writing--if you treated it that way. I'm still drawing on what I wrote then.

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@Drakythe Of course, yes. I don't feel it was 'practice' writing, it was writing-writing--if you treated it that way. I'm still drawing on what I wrote then.

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@Drakythe Yes and Yes.
I wrote a ton of fanfic in the 80s, which tells you where I fall. Paper zines, now conserved on Ao3. I don't have/allow myself time to write fanfic these days, but I'll always miss it.

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@Drakythe Yes and Yes.
I wrote a ton of fanfic in the 80s, which tells you where I fall. Paper zines, now conserved on Ao3. I don't have/allow myself time to write fanfic these days, but I'll always miss it.

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The Feminine in the Secret History of the Mongols
lecture by Christopher Atwood

'the anonymous Secret History contains a complex vision of women’s lives and roles..., complex enough that one may ask “Was ‘Anonymous’ a woman in this case too?”'

#Mongols

https://www. miasu.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/lecture-christopher-atwood-14-december

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The Feminine in the Secret History of the Mongols
lecture by Christopher Atwood

'the anonymous Secret History contains a complex vision of women’s lives and roles..., complex enough that one may ask “Was ‘Anonymous’ a woman in this case too?”'

#Mongols

https://www. miasu.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/lecture-christopher-atwood-14-december

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#HistFicOutsidetheBox : diverse fiction that engages with history in creative and unconventional ways.

Mine 50% off

'Bryn Hammond has accomplished a feat seldom seen: Retaining the very distinctive character of her historical source material while injecting it with her own narrative voice; and this feat is all the more remarkable when you consider that this is a long book.' -- Libbie Hawker

#HistFic #Mongols #lgbtq #historicalfiction

https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

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#HistFicOutsidetheBox : diverse fiction that engages with history in creative and unconventional ways.

Mine 50% off

'Bryn Hammond has accomplished a feat seldom seen: Retaining the very distinctive character of her historical source material while injecting it with her own narrative voice; and this feat is all the more remarkable when you consider that this is a long book.' -- Libbie Hawker

#HistFic #Mongols #lgbtq #historicalfiction

https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

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The story of Temujin, Chinggis Khan
Told from the original sources
A Mongol epic

'Extraordinary... a near-flawless marriage of historical poetry and modern storytelling' --Libbie Hawker

'It's like War and Peace set in the early days of Chengiz Khan. Only when you come up for air will you realize the achievement this book represents... the history is a living, palpable, feeling thing.' -- Laury Silvers

https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

#Mongols #GenghisKhan #HistFicOutsideTheBox

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The story of Temujin, Chinggis Khan
Told from the original sources
A Mongol epic

'Extraordinary... a near-flawless marriage of historical poetry and modern storytelling' --Libbie Hawker

'It's like War and Peace set in the early days of Chengiz Khan. Only when you come up for air will you realize the achievement this book represents... the history is a living, palpable, feeling thing.' -- Laury Silvers

https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

#Mongols #GenghisKhan #HistFicOutsideTheBox

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If the Secret History of the Mongols is a communal memoir, who told its secrets? Did Temujin, Chinggis Khan, tell his own intimate story--even to his detriment? Whose voices are heard?

https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

#Mongols #GenghisKhan #HistFicOutsideTheBox

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If the Secret History of the Mongols is a communal memoir, who told its secrets? Did Temujin, Chinggis Khan, tell his own intimate story--even to his detriment? Whose voices are heard?

https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

#Mongols #GenghisKhan #HistFicOutsideTheBox

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Green Splotches is a brand-new webzine for speculative poetry. I am proud to be the very first published, with my #Beowulf poem 'A Monster to Fight Monsters'.
#poetry #SFF #specfic
https://greensplotches.com/index.php/2 022/11/23/a-monster-to-fight-monsters-a-poem-by-brian-hammond/

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Green Splotches is a brand-new webzine for speculative poetry. I am proud to be the very first published, with my #Beowulf poem 'A Monster to Fight Monsters'.
#poetry #SFF #specfic
https://greensplotches.com/index.php/2 022/11/23/a-monster-to-fight-monsters-a-poem-by-brian-hammond/

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23-30 November is for #HistFicOutsideTheBox

Love fiction that really engages with history?

Look no further! These awesome authors combine great storytelling with diverse representations of places, times and peoples.

If you like creative and unconventional, we have some intriguing tales for you!

#histfic #lgbtq

https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

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23-30 November is for #HistFicOutsideTheBox

Love fiction that really engages with history?

Look no further! These awesome authors combine great storytelling with diverse representations of places, times and peoples.

If you like creative and unconventional, we have some intriguing tales for you!

#histfic #lgbtq

https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-o utsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a

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First day #introduction

I'm Bryn (she/her), SFF fan, Mongol researcher, novelist. I like to follow people a lot.

I have a historical fiction series on the Mongols, _Amgalant_. Most recent story in _New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine_, for inclusive sword & sorcery (my story's queer, of course).

I blog about Mongol history on my website amgalant.com.

Other than that I watch old SF tv on loop, potter in the garden, walk by the sea. Am in Australia. Own a two-room library but not much else.

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First day #introduction

I'm Bryn (she/her), SFF fan, Mongol researcher, novelist. I like to follow people a lot.

I have a historical fiction series on the Mongols, _Amgalant_. Most recent story in _New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine_, for inclusive sword & sorcery (my story's queer, of course).

I blog about Mongol history on my website amgalant.com.

Other than that I watch old SF tv on loop, potter in the garden, walk by the sea. Am in Australia. Own a two-room library but not much else.