Hola grumetes! ¡Tenéis capítulo nuevo del #podcastnave 🥰! Presentado por Laura Moran, @fonteya y Dik os hablan de los distintos premios de este verano, los Kelvin, #PremiosIgnotus y el Domingo Santos, y de los libros y series de los que hemos disfrutado en estos meses https://www.ivoox.com/03x01-el-ignotus-lecturas-audios-mp3_rf_159309738_1.html #literaverso #bookstodon #podcasts
Out now!!
Buy direct from Evernight Publishing and save $1.25!
https://www.evernightpublishing.com/an-artist-s-kiss-by-suzy-shearer/
Isabella Coburn, 50, used to be the most in-demand nude artist’s model, now she’s a successful sculptor.
Artist, Gabriel ‘Archangel’ Milford, 53, needs Isabella to model for him and sparks fly when they meet. Though she refuses him, Gabriel is determined Issie will pose for him. She’s equally determined she won’t.
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#read #readromance #romance #romanceAuthor #romanceNovel #romanceNovels #bookstadon #writersofMastodon #WritersCoffeeClub #ScribesAndMakers #writingCommunity #wordweaver #creativity @bookstadon #romanceBooks #bookstodon #BDSM #oldercouple #maturecouple #contemporary
Book number 3 on my #StephenKing re-read journey.
This was a lot of fun to revisit. Another one I read decades ago. This has so many of my favorite short SK stories in it. Many many classics.
This book turned out a remarkable ELEVEN movie + tv adaptations. Absolutely insane. Talk about legendary.
Really hard to pick a favorite but Battleground is so much fun.
My personal experience as the sometime operator of a 1980s Xerox photocopier
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/wicked-problems/
Notes about #usability #design from Winograd and Adler's Usability ( #bookstodon ) relevant to my #NicCLIM #commonLisp #gamedev .
Introduces design's wicked problems and the implications for what design even is, conveyed by the book via a series of c. 80s case studies.
wants to watch Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
¡Buenos días grumetes! Como ya empieza el #LeoAutorasOct os vamos a dejar un par de antiguas entradas. Una de las primeritas en la que entrevistamos a quienes iniciaron el proyecto https://lanaveinvisible.com/2016/11/05/que-ha-supuesto-leoautorasoct/
Y otra con recomendaciones de autoras de #Terror, muy apropiadas para leer también en estas fechas: https://lanaveinvisible.com/2019/10/22/terrores-clasicos-para-un-octubre-de-miedo/
¡Seguid la etiqueta y compartid vuestras lecturas con ella! #naveartículos #literaverso #bookstodon
October 5-11, 2025 is Banned Books Week. During that week, a generous donor will match the value of book donations made via any of our 4 independent bookstore wishlists. Here are links to the wish lists:
Politics and Prose: https://politics-prose.com/wishlist/rocliswawresp
Mahogany Books: https://www.mahoganybooks.com/wishlist.php?publicwishlist=e754d358-5fe3-4edb-b808-e5247e500bb1
Solid State Books: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/1f8be267c141a55e8d1196724c2e7ef145bdaa9f
People's Book: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/fcb53997a15127c7c1d79194b14defaea888057b
🚨VOY A CERRAR LA CUENTA DE MASTODON Y VUELVO A TWITTER🚨
Bien, ahora que tengo vuestra atención (😆), os cuento: he reunido varios relatos que he escrito a lo largo de los últimos años en un libro, que he tenido a bien llamar Trece. Y vosotres diréis, «oh, Carlos, ¿por qué has escogido ese título tan curioso?». Me alegra que me hagáis esa pregunta. Pues, además de por las connotaciones que tiene ese número, porque son trece relatos (me he quedado calvo, lo sé). Alguno de ellos es de terror, tanto sobrenatural como psicológico. Otros son sencillamente inquietantes, y otros son apenas microrrelatos que se me ocurrían sobre la marcha. Pero todos llevan un poquito de mí. En el siguiente toot os dejo la portada y la sinopsis para que tengáis más info.
Como siempre, este libro es completamente gratuito, y lo podéis descargar en epub a través del enlace a mi nube de Disroot. Junto a él encontraréis otras historias. Si alguna de ellas os llama la atención, dadle caña sin miedo. O con él.
Y si compartís esta publicación para ayudar a que mi trabajo llegue a más personas me haréis el hombre más feliz del fediverso 😊
https://cloud.disroot.org/s/YdbStYSNMHAjkWd
#booktodon #bookstodon #LibrosGratis #libros #books #literatura #literaverso
My favorite books published in 2025:
Gliff - Ali Smith
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Audition - Pip Adam
Dusk - Robbie Arnott
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones
Sour Cherry - Natalia Theodoridou
The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley
Eternal Summer - Franziska Gansler (tr. Imogen Taylor)
The Silver Book - Olivia Laing
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh - Colwill Brown
Woodworking - Emily St. James
2025 in #books, a thread, inspired by (but not limited to) https://shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2025/ :
Two books I loved, part 1:
Gliff - Ali Smith
A fable about survival in a totalitarian surveillance state. A reflection on childhood, siblinghood, and the cost and worth of kindness. A dance with language and memory. I was torn between the impulse to read it all in one sitting and the urge to savor every single sentence.
Travelling soon, please give me your #fiction recommendations! I normally read military flavoured hard SciFi, but I'm open to all suggestions. Normally I don't get much of a response to such requests, so PLEASE recommend me something to read, especially if you've written something yourself #bookstodon
#gamedev #devlog #itchio #commonLisp #McCLIM #NicCLIM #programming Map editor programming alpha note part 3/3: Picking up and using host lisp lambdas inside the map editor (also, player-based ephemeral storage).
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-iii-map-edit-macros/
I left this one as *just* picking up and using lambda forms around the map so as not to clutter up the example, a finished game of life game will be separate.
Also includes my thoughts after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl #bookstodon .
1/
Lots of new connections. Hence, a re-introduction to a hopeful story, "A New Faith," available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#bookstodon #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #mystery #thriller #detective #women #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #adaptation #migration #immigration #indie #indieauthor
Before Book One.
Between Harmony and Fire is now available.
A collection of mythic fragments from the world of Akidir.
https://books2read.com/u/bzlOXZ
#fantasy #books #readers #news #bookstodon #indieauthor
a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.
i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour
it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.
and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.
so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.
so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.
we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.
it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.
enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️
paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf
DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems
#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb
#AynRand’s original introduction to The Virtue of Selfishness is now online--and it directly contradicts most of the claims people make about her #ethics.
If your picture of Rand comes from social media threads, YouTube rants, or second-hand “hot takes,” this is the text that breaks the spell.
Let’s clear out the biggest straw men right away:
❌ “Rand said selfishness means hurting people.”
No. She argues that rational self‑interest forbids coercion, exploitation, and parasitism. Predators aren’t “selfish”—they’re short‑range, self‑destructive, and irrational.
❌ “It’s just an excuse to do whatever you want.”
She draws a hard boundary between whim and #reason. Her ethics demands long‑range thinking, integrity, and principled action — the opposite of impulse.
❌ “#Objectivism celebrates cruelty.”
The introduction explicitly rejects cruelty as irrational. Benevolence is not only compatible with #egoism—it’s a natural expression of a rational, confident person.
❌ “Rand denies moral principles.”
She denies sacrifice as a moral ideal. She does not deny #morality. She argues for a code rooted in reality, reason, and the requirements of human life.
If you want to understand the argument instead of the mythology, read the primary source--it’s short, sharp, and surprisingly accessible.
Read more for context on the full book, editions, and themes.
#philosophy #individualism #reading #nonfiction #ideas #bookstodon
A los buenos días grumetes!! Tenemos una buena noticia y es que volvemos a publicar en la web!! 🥰
Una colaboración de Marta Isabel Rodríguez que nos reseña La sombra del laberinto, de Montse Paz, un retelling del mito de Teseo y el Minotauro.
Esperamos que os guste!
https://lanaveinvisible.com/2025/10/20/resena-la-sombra-del-laberinto-de-montse-de-paz/
A Holiday in July: M. Pax Dimension Event Sale! For a limited time, step into worlds of space opera, steampunk adventure, magical realism, and strange discoveries with exclusive store-only deals. https://www.mpaxauthor.com/a-holiday-in-july-m-pax-dimension-event-sale/
#books #sciencefiction #readingcommunity #mustreads #scifi #fantasy #speculativefictioin #bookstodon
Starting my 2026 book thread with a beautiful cover 😍 And the book behind it is just as beautiful. Just the sort of 'place as character' narrative that I really enjoy, this is a lively and lyrical exploration of a certain landscape and the people, animals and plants that inhabit it. Even the clouds and the geology get a voice.
However heavy our lives may feel, Solà reminds us how fleeting they are to the mountains and the woods, which is perspective I find comforting.
Ello sweet and lovely (reading) Friendos 
The last two months, I've been caught up reading again! At times where my body needed to relax, recharge, but my brain was still looking to be entertained... I got back to reading more again. 😊
Halfway through November, I learned about the new Dan Brown book in his Robert Langdon series. It had been a while since I read his books, so I set off, starting with Angels & Demons.
At the end of December, I finished the 6th book, the Secret of Secrets. I read another Dan Brown book after that, Deception Point.
I finished it yesterday. But now... As I started it at the end of December, is this my last finished book of 2025? Or is it the first one of 2026?
I've never really tracked my reading, but I thought it may be nice to make a thread this year, pinning 📌 it to my profile, and adding the books that I've managed to finish in 2026.
Maybe Deception Point was the last of 2025, maybe it's the first of 2026... But this is the first post of my #BooksIn2026.
I've now started a re-read of the Hunger Game series, which I'll read in the order of their release.
Books 📚 of 2026:
1. Deception Point - Dan Brown
2. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
3. Catching Fire (the Hunger Games series, book 2) - Suzanne Collins
#lispyGopherClimate very haphazard Sunday-morning-in-Europe #peertube #live weekly #technology #podcast
@alexshendi #lisp and possibly @jhlagado we are going to meet up in #lambdaMOO and on the livestream and talk about lisp and retrocomputing and modern computing.
https://toobnix.org/w/g2AftRUaBvEVGfJYMY1MHr
John Hardy's git feat. vintage game tape WAV https://github.com/jhlagado
and @ramin_hal9001 ! And @rat in-MOO!
Computer origins, #xlisp, #z80, #formalMethods ..! #bookstodon #neuromancer #godelEscherBAch
¡Grumetes! Tenemos nuevo capítulo del #podcastnave y uno muy especial ¡el de nuestro aniversario! ¡cumplimos diez años! 🥳 Hacemos un repaso de todo nuestro recorrido con nuestras compañeras, con @dalayn como invitada y audios de Laura Huelin y @elerosadeplata ¡que lo disfrutéis! https://www.ivoox.com/03x07-el-del-10-aniversario-audios-mp3_rf_172888641_1.html #literaverso #bookstodon
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
This week we recorded our first ever book club. It was a bit of an experiment, but we’re super happy with how it turned out!
We discussed Vincenzo Latronico’s smash-hit novel (or is it even a novel?) 'Perfection'.
It worked well thanks to all the listeners who shared their thoughts about 'Perfection' (including many via Mastodon). We were truly astonished by the response. Thank you!
Listen (from 30:00): https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/do-you-also-have-a-monstera-in-your-living-room 🪴
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.
Bittersweet, poignant, & unsettling, EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE contains pensive, unique reflections on the fragile beauty and melancholic joy of being human & the tech that runs alongside our "progress." Chloe N..Clark has crafted a darkly stunning, strange, lovely collection. (JackLeg Press)
#book #review #bookstodon #SpeculativeFIction @bookstodon #mothersuspiriareview #MSReview @bookstodon@toot.community
![The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.
The letter reads:
ACME Detective Agency
Dear Detective #0294,
As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.
Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:
* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line
... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.
Deputy Chief Conover
Brat & Punk Division](/proxy/post_attachment/201680/4c3f9d6273.png "The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.
The letter reads:
ACME Detective Agency
Dear Detective #0294,
As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.
Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:
* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line
... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.
Deputy Chief Conover
Brat & Punk Division")
