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Because I've been slow to update my web site, here's a list of everything I wrote that got published in 2025.

* January Paperback compilation editions of The Murderbot Diaries novellas from Tordotcom. Vol I: All Systems Red and Artificial Condition, Vol II: Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy, and Vol III: System Collapse and Fugitive Telemetry. Reprint.

* May The Emilie Adventures, compilation of author's preferred editions of Emilie and the Hollow World and Emilie and the Sky World, Tordotcom. Reprint.

* May "Data Ghost"

In print and ebook: Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editor in chief Julie C. Day, coeditors Carina Bissett and Craig Laurance Gidney, and assistant editor Julia DeRidder.

https://essentialdreams.press/books/storyteller-a-tanith-lee-tribute-anthology/

In audio and online: Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg, hostAlasdair Stuart, Audio Producer Chelsea Davis

https://pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/pseudopod-995-data-ghost/

* July 10 "Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy"

Reactor Magazine, Art by Jaime Jones, edited by Lee Harris

https://reactormag.com/rapport-martha-wells/

* October 7 Queen Demon, sequel to Witch King, second book in the Rising World series. Tor Books, edited by Lee Harris, art by Cynthia Sheppard, audiobook narrated by Eric Mok

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/queen-demon-martha-wells/1146167707?ean=9781250826916

* There was also a TV show!

May - July Murderbot on Apple TV, produced, written, and directed by Paul and Chris Weitz, guest directors, Aurora Guerrero, Roseanne Liang, and Toa Fraser, executive producer Andrew Miano. Depth of Field, Phantom Four Films, and Paramount.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30444310/fullcredits/

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Books on pre-order:

Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May 2025)

Books acquired in October:

and read:
1. The Mirror & The Maze (Wrath & the Dawn) by Renée Ahdieh
2. The Crown & The Arrow (Wrath & the Dawn) by Renée Ahdieh
3. The Moth & The Flame (Wrath & the Dawn) by Renée Ahdieh
4. On The Fly (Portland Storm 2) by Catherine Gayle
5. Taking A Shot (Portland Storm 3) by Catherine Gayle
6. Light The Lamp (Portland Storm 4) by Catherine Gayle
7. The O Zone by Kelly Jamieson [7]
8. Hockey Halloween: A Charity Anthology
and unread:
1. Queen Demon (Rising World 2) by Martha Wells [1]

Books acquired previously and read in October:

The Element of Fire by Martha Wells [Sep]
The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells [Sep]

Borrowed books read in October:

The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesha 2) by Vaseem Khan [3]
The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star (Baby Ganesha 3) by Vaseem Khan [3]

Much of the month's reading has been alternating between hockey romance and Mumbai private detective stories, along with a complete failure to read my long-awaited pre-order of the latest Martha Wells. (but I did read different new-to-me Martha Wells, so yay?)

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited

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https://xkcd.com/3163/

The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.

https://xkcd.com/3163/

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https://xkcd.com/3162/

Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."

https://xkcd.com/3162/

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https://xkcd.com/3161/

Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record

https://xkcd.com/3161/

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https://xkcd.com/3160/

It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a...

https://xkcd.com/3160/

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"Legends And Lattes" by Travis Baldree

I really enjoyed this - it was recommended to me by Eldest Offspring and it reminded me of Joanne Harris' "Chocolat" a bit; found community building, bit of magic, lots of lovely descriptions of food. It was an actual paper book, so my eyes and wrists got tired, but it was good and amazingly I was able to read something entirely new by a new-to-me author.

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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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https://dotat.at/@/2025-10-24-tetrapod.html

Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in coastal defences.

There's a bit of a craze for making tetrapod-shaped things: recently I've seen people making a plush tetrapod and a tetrapod lamp. So I thought it might be fun to model one.

I found a nice way to describe tetrapods that relies on very few arbitrary aesthetic choices.

Click here to play with an animated tetrapod which I made using three.js. (You can see its source code too.)

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