There's a lot more easily-accessible weird fiction available now than there used to be, but this 1,100 page monster from 2011, edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social and @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social should be on everyone's shelf.

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Instead of licking the hands of AI companies, the SoA should be bringing about an anthropic-style claim for UK authors. All that stolen work and only US are getting settlements? Not on, and sends a terrible message to local writers.

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Also I'm French. I have high expectations of my union, and it belatedly occurs to me that I should have checked that all of these were provided by the SoA before joining, because I can now see that they're falling far short of what I would consider a "syndicat" (our word for "trade union")

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Oh hey turns out I was annoyed enough to write an email to @societyofauthors.bsky.social

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The Charter needs to be scrapped. Not 'discussed' at an AGM meeting at the end of November but withdrawn now- just as swiftly as it was adopted.

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