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Now is the time to speak of books! Books and also authors and the myriad way things happen.
@MikeRUnderwood is one of those authors whose work has been so consistently excellent, artful, and above all, kind, that I've never been able to understand why he's not already a global superstar.
@MikeRUnderwood He legitimately deserves the approbation afforded to the Neil Gaimans and Jim Butcher's of the world, for all that his work is very different from theirs.
@MikeRUnderwood Frequently, he seems to be running juuuuuust ahead of a big trend, missing the "strike it big" moment by milliseconds. His Geekomancy books, for example, are still available, and VERY worth your time.
@MikeRUnderwood His latest, and upcoming, work, ANNIHILATION ARIA, is possibly the best thing he's ever written. This is the book he's been building toward, and it shows.
@MikeRUnderwood The author's note at the back says he wanted to write a book that felt the way GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY made him feel, and he accomplished it. This is pure space opera, wild and wacky and silly and strange, high-stakes and deeply personal all at once.
@MikeRUnderwood I could not be happier to have read this book. Recommended for fans of...

@timpratt's AXIOM
TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE (the RPG)
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
KILLJOYS
@MikeRUnderwood @timpratt And really, that's the feeling I most took away from this book. Like I was reading the novelization of someone's kick-ass TFOS campaign.
@MikeRUnderwood @timpratt I love that game so much, there was no way I wouldn't love the book with equal fervor, even though they're completely unconnected.

ANNIHILATION ARIA! Pre-order yours today!
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Seanan McGuire
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I've been thinking a lot for the last few days about what happens when a beloved media property breaks your heart. Because I've said, and I stand by, that your relationship with the property is not for sale. It belongs to you. You choose what happens to it.
Sometimes your love has shallow roots--the property is new, you don't have a formative relationship, you can break up and purge it from your life without damaging yourself.
But if it's something that's been important to you for a long period of time--for example, a franchise that welcomed you in and home when you were a young adult, that seemed flexible and inclusive enough to build your heart around--you may not be able to do that.
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Seanan McGuire
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There is nothing wrong with you if you love and are invested in something that was created by someone who questions your humanity. Knowing that about them may change how you view that work in the future, but the error was never yours.
There is nothing wrong with you if you choose to divorce that something from its original creator and continue to love it on your own terms. The idea that anyone could own a world is a recent construction, demanded by capitalism. It's not innate.
I uncritically love several books by a man who thinks that Roma parents, like my father, break their children's knees to make us better beggars. I won't read any more of his work, but I didn't know at the time. He doesn't get to break my heart AND take my universes away.
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I'm pretty new to Instagram, and still in the process of locking down who can send me messages. Which a charming person has taken advantage of, to send me a message outright stating that I have had sexual congress with every editor I have ever spoken to at Marvel.
(They didn't use a term as polite and bloodless as "sexual congress," but as several of those same editors follow me here, I don't want to share the actual language used.)
Even setting aside the logistical impossibility of it all--we only see each other at big cons like SDCC and NYCC, where trust me, no one has TIME for a career-advancing orgy--this sort of offensive bullshit is part and parcel of being a woman in a creative field.
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