Revisiting my Top 10 Fantasy & SF (Special Mention)


TOP 10 FANTASY (SPECIAL MENTION)

(9) HOOKLAND
(10) NEOLTITUDE

TOP 10 SF (SPECIAL MENTION)

(9) HAYFORD PIERCE
(10) DAVID BRIN

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The White Bone Horse of summer, summoned by ale, bonefire and rude music, will soon give way to the Grey Bone Mare of winter. She will be called by drums, flame and roasted ale. She will have our due dread respect. For this is the way of things. – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1980

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I tell you Nokes, there are things in the Hookland Constabulary's Black Museum that give me the full collywobbles and I am not generally a sufferer of collywobbles. The haunted razor of the Bardbury Brothers, one of Bonehouse Butcher's skulls. Mary Hay's hatpin.–

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Pictures that were too creepy for the goodnight tweets. An occasional display.


Pale Children

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The Bone Horse comes at important times to the community – solstice, Plague Play Sundays, Plough Mondays. Why wouldn't it come at Pride to march with us fully-grown changelings? Dance to our rude music? – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1980

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Electric Ley Pilgrimage – Temple VII Signal by Hookland artist Lou Kemp. "Of course I paint pylons. They've captured the horizon and colonised the imagination. Whether you hear it or not, The Hum is part of the collective psychic static now."

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The bridge is a crossing beyond the practical. Every one of them is an act of threshold magic. Of course weird things live under them! All landscape changing spells have consequences. – Katherine Giddings, Hookland artist, 1966

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The Gerding is form of Hookland nature spirit that needs appeasing. A monstrous head that lives beneath the soil, every few years it sends spores of itself up to the surface. These grow into smaller heads that demand the Gerding below is given its due.

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In May 1969 Pavel Mikoyan was screaming on the moon. I wonder if he's still screaming after 53 years.

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Certain days are ripe for cloud-telling. The auguries come fast, a feast of nephomancy parading across the sky. On such days I've learned the best technique is to focus on a single window or pool and watch only what it is reflecting. – Kathrine Giddings. Hookland artist, 1968

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My take on the Hookland Mare de la Mer which is in turn inspired by the lovely work of both and

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As a child I was shown a copy of a chart of the Hookland coast. The Bad Andrews' rocks, Ten-Tree Island, Sheldrake's Drop all annotated with sigils, apotropaic marks. It was deep magic. It bled into my soul. - Katherine Giddings

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The Memory of Blood in Winter – one of the last paintings by Hookland artist Katherine Gidding, committed to canvas in February 1970.

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Sometimes it’s best just to leave them sleeping…

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Wyrd Daze Lvl.4 ****

Features the enchanting art of Mr Blither, a new entry in the Phoenix Guide to Strange England: Hookland by , the enthralling visions of and fiction: Echoes of Verdanoc by me. https://t.co/JKEueJ8mT2

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From the archive - the battlefields of Hookland

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🌿🦄🌿For I'm giving a mention to the magical stepping stones that get me through the week...






And for a daily dose of re-enchantment💚

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The folklore of Hookland's August Plague Plays.

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"Those things that threaten our sense of relationship to nature, those things I would call horror." - Hookland artist Katherine Giddings talking about her 1951 painting 'Tangle IV'

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There are no Hookland Christmas cards for me to send or you to buy this year (next year may be different), but that doesn't mean I don't wish you all a merry Christmas - when the pagan past laughs loudly while wearing its Christian clothes.

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