Owen Blacker

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Most of the posts before 2022 are syndicated from Medium; I've started blogging here directly more recently. Some of them might even be more than weeknotes sometime soon!

  1. My 2026 Hugo nominations

    I pay for membership of the World Science Fiction Society, so that I can nominate and vote in the Hugo Awards each year. I keep meaning to blog my noms and votes, so here we go…

  2. Complaining to the BBC about anti-trans reporting

    In reporting about Graham Linehan’s conviction for criminal damage, the BBC used offensive language to describe the 17-year-old victim of this crime

  3. Adjective Identity Cryptid №2

    Book review: “Shy Trans Banshee” by Tony Santorella

  4. Book cover for “Seven Recipes for Revolution”, showing a very big kaijū with a man stood atop in a butcher’s apron and some serious looking butchery saws
    Eating kaijū… and the rich

    Book review: “Seven Recipes for Revolution” by Ryan Rose

  5. Twenty years on…

    My memories of 7 July 2005

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