Sidetracks - January 16, 2025
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1. Fantasy Magazine returns!
2. The January 1 issue of THE WYRMHOLE is out, filled with a list of all the work the editors have published. If you, too, would like to jump in THE HOLE OF WYRMS, according to their Newsletter Robot, I have two referrals and if I get ten referrals I get access to the Discord. I don't know what happens in the WYRMHOLE Discord. Probably more HOLE puns. That sounds like heaven.
3. 2025 Philip K. Dick Award list is out:
- City of Dancing Gargoyles by Tara Campbell
- Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
- Time’s Agent by Brenda Peynado
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
- Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Triangulum by Subodhana Wijeyeratne
4. Hugo nominations open very soon! There's lots of crowdsourced recs here, plus hundreds more likely not listed. I don't have a lot of nominations because I did so much rereading last year. But I'm still banging on my "Finder series by Suzanne Palmer for Best Series!" drum.
5. I'm primarily an SFF and nonfiction reader, so lists like The Great Winter 2025 Preview from The Millions are nice to get a glimpse of the wider literary world. Generally though, if I want someone literary I'm gonna ask my Literary Fiction Expert Jenny, who knows my Weird Quirks! It's still a very nice resource.
6. I loved Kind Words, so when I learned Kind Words 2 was out and there were book recs? Added to my wishlist with a quickness.
7. In Gizmodo, Justin Carter talked about Horizon shifting from the game space to the film space. I would beg anyone working on one to please learn from the errors of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (which I still like, but oof).
8. I'm caught up in a deep grief about the TikTok ban. The closest thing I think I've dealt with is delicious, and I didn't know that was coming and the community aspect was mostly as a "let's be rec friends and communicate in nothing but shared love for fanwork". But I had a tiny community there, weird and niche, and now it will be gone. Nathan wrote about this (among other things) in his recent newsletter:
In a materialist approach to thinking about politics and history, it must always be remembered the hegemony of the capitalist class is not logical – put simply, the powerful are not always going to behave in the way that makes them the most money. They are always and will always chase after the essence of power. The purely economic reasons to keep TikTok far outweigh the economic reasons to ban the app. But the political and capitalist classes believe control of the levers of power is more impactful. TikTok is a threat – and that’s not because it radicalizes the youth into communists – but because the power of TikTok is out of their control.
9. One big reason I'll miss TikTok is that it was my primary musical vehicle engine. I've tried All Songs Considered and Song Exploder and reading the Billboard charts and a myriad of other ways to discover new music, but the most success I've had finding new songs and new artists is TikTok. Either by finding their music organically, because someone used it as audio, or simply recommended it outright.
Anyway, here's one of those songs that I've been listening to for weeks. I discovered it right before it blew up on TikTok, and it was a joy watching other people discover it, too.
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