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»Antologia „Na krawędzi pojmowania”«

Pojawiła się nowa charytatywna antologia opowiadań z serii "Zapomniane Sny", tym razem pod hasłem "na krawędzi pojmowania". A w niej 25 opowiadań, w większości krótkich, bo liczących do 2000 słów (choć są wyjątki). Gatunkowo jest tu cały przekrój, od SF, przez weird i horror, mitologię zmieszaną z cyberpunkiem i fantasy.

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/ksiazki/o-ksiazkach/fantastyka/antologia-na-krawedzi-pojmowania/

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In SOMEONE TO BUILD A NEST IN, by John Wiswell, Shesheshen is an amorphous shape-shifting creature who lives in a swamp, and is able to absorb bones, metal, and other objects inside her to provide a skeleton, and is able to imitate people (especially if she's eaten the person to get the matching bone structure).

She's rudely awakened from her hibernation by a trio of monster hunters, led by the arrogant Catharsis Wulfyre. They're dispatched with some slight difficulty, but all of the Wulfyres are coming: the mini-Catharsis Epigram, the creepy Ode, the domineering and all-powerful Baroness, and the lovable but downtrodden Homily.

This was like a darker and fairly gory Terry Pratchett novel, and managing that tone in a tension-filled storyline is a remarkable feat. Shesheshen is a fun narrator & monster, able to reshape her body & control the organs inside it, and matter-of-fact about doing so. Her befuddlement at human society is one note that struck me as Pratchettian; a more minor one is the nobleman who gets weirdly turned on when he's threatened by Shesheshen. The Wulfyres are utterly hateful, except for Homily, and it's balm when they get their several comeuppances.

(2/5)

#JohnWiswell #SomeoneToBuildANestIn

Cover of SOMEONE TO BUILD A NEST IN, by John Wiswell.

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Anmeldelse af Someone You Can Build a Nest In, af #JohnWiswell. Roman. 2024. Hugo-finalist. Skitse: Shesheshen er et monster. Lokalt kalder man hende en wyrm, fordi der ikke rigtig bliver skelnet mellem forskellige slags. Egentlig er hun i vinterhi, men så kommer nogle fjollede fyre for at slå hende ihjel. Suk. Er det science fiction?. […]

https://stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/07/19/nogen-at-bygge-rede-i/

Book Review: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell a humorous and occasionally dark retelling of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, with a Found Family chaser. #books #bookreview #johnwiswell

https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/book-review-wearing-the-lion-by-john-wiswell/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Cached UK/IE Kindle giveaway on bsky: 5 copies of @Wiswell's Someone You Can Build A Nest In, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lnan5hh2us23

Remember, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one.

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#WhatWereReading : Joe loved
John Wiswell's delightful fantasy with dark humour, and a lovely monster in love with a human romance (queer, cross-species romance!), Someone You Can Build a Nest In, from Arcadia / Quercus. Smile-inducing reading.

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Bookseller Joe holding up a copy of John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest in, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

Cached UK/IE Kindle giveaway: 5 copies of @Wiswell's Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night, which I have but have not read, but have heard only good things about. Remember, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim these!

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#WhatWereReading : Joe adored @Wiswell 's Someone You Can Build a Nest In, a queer, interspecies romantic fantasy with a delightful sense of wicked humour. Out now from Jo Fletcher Books

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Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Sheshenshen is rudely awakened from her hibernation by monster hunters trying to kill her. She eats one of them, but is still hungry and in need of more sustenance. She dons the most human appearance she can muster and goes hunting herself. But then she falls off a cliff and is rescued by Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for human.
Romance was awful. She […]

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https://www.curiositykilledthebookworm.net/2024/04/someone-you-can-build-a-nest-in/

"Someone You Can Build a Nest In" by John Wiswell is a horror fantasy about a monster looking for a host for her young who makes the mistake of falling in love with the host. #fantasy #horror #johnwiswell #someoneyoucanbuildanestin #bookrecommendations #tbrlist

"An absolute delight": my review of John Wiswell's forthcoming Someone You Can Build a Nest In, from Jo Fletcher Books
https://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/reviews-someone-you-can-build-a-nest-in/

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"She'd hit the water with all the elegance of cream pie against a brick wall"

#LunchtimeReading : continuing John Wiswell's delightful Someone You Can Build a Nest In (coming April 2024 from Jo Fletcher Books)

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Close up of a page of text at the start of a chapter in a novel

#LunchtimeReading : starting Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell. People munching and cross-species monster love! Coming April 2024.
Thanks to Anne at Jo Fletcher Books for sending it my way

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Cover for Someone You Can Build a Nest In

We had so much fun this Story Hour! Guan Un showed tremendous range with a pitch-perfect noir followed by a heartbreaking Weird piece and then a sweet fantasy. John Wiswell brought his signature mix of coziness and dry wit to kaiju and dinosaurs, closing the night down with laughs. Unmissable! #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #AuthorReading #GuanUn #JohnWiswell #fantasy #kaiju #dinosaurs #humor https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=340552105191494

This week, we finally get Guan Un to read on Story Hour! Seriously, we've been working on this for a long time. And he's reading with John Wiswell! Everybody wins! Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #AuthorReading #GuanUn #JohnWiswell https://www.storyhour2020.com/

Writer Guan Un, an Asian man with short black hair and glasses. He wears a T-shirt, a purple cardigan, and a dimply smile.

Writer John Wiswell, a white man with short brown hair that makes wavy bangs. He wears a goatee, a maroon buttonup, a leather jacket, and an impish, dimply smile.

Let's read

Small Wonders Magazine (https://wandering.shop/@SmallWondersSFF) [via mefi projects] is a new online speculative fiction and poetry magazine from Metafilter member lriG rorriM (https://wandering.shop/@cislyn) and Stephen Granade (https://wandering.shop/@sargent).

The inaugural issue contains fiction by Saswati Chatterjee, Premee Mohamed, Wendy Nikel, Charles Payseur, Moses Ose Utomi, and John Wiswell, and poetry by Beth Cato, Mary Soon Lee, and Ali Trotta.

https://www.metafilter.com/199177/Small-Wonders-Magazine

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