#Sabrina Calvo

[dukeofriven]

Life Is Strange: 2013 culture viewed from 2024. One of these authors is now dead, one came out as trans, and two (probably three) are sex criminals. Its distaste for an unnamed Nazi-TERF? Years ahead of its time.

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[amamaterial]

Melmoth Furieux par Sabrina Calvo : au delà de toutes attentes, trop et parfait à la fois. Forcément fan maintenant.

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[amamaterial]

20 ans de La Volte à la Villa Gillet

Tables rondes Urbanisme : la ville, demain. Alain Damasio, Li-Cam et Elise Roche, puis : Eutopies : laboratoires des futurs désirables. Sabrina Calvo, Corven et Florence Gault .

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Hey, I'm going to Québec soon and wondered if there were Canadian authors you would recommend ? Or eventually books taking place in Canada ?

If it helps, Canadian authors I've enjoyed reading before include Emily St. John Mandel (mystery / dystopian SF) and Guy Gavriel Kay (fantasy)

Oh and I loved Sabrina Calvo's Toxoplasma (cyberpunk dystopia)

[unfavorableinstigation]

I do love your tags, however, I wanted to inform you that there are indeed Canadian fantasy authors to be discover & love out there! A very partial list includes

• Guy Gavriel Kay. Lucked into the dream job of every fantasy fan, going through Tolkien's unpublished papers right outta college. Has been writing historical-inspired fantasy ever since. One of G.R.R.M's favorite authors

• Elisabeth Vonarburg. Québec's answer to Margaret Atwood, weird and wonderful. Where Atwood is a cynic, she has a utopian bent and some love for anarchism, but she also avoids the mysticism of Le Guin.

• Charles de Lint. Pioneer of Urban Fantasy! Pals with John Crowley (perhaps the best American fantasy writer) and a sort of mysterious polymath. Wonderful prose writer.

• Amal El-Mohtar. Of bigolas dickolas fame. Not the most prolific of the writers on this list but the one I'm following most closely. She's fun and delightful and endlessly creative in a way that looks easy but really isn't.

• Charles Saunders. The lonely giant of Afrofantasy. I feel it would be insulting to say that he was decades ahead of his time, as he did shape a lot of afrofuturist & afrofantasy writer's tastes (along with Chip Delany ofc).

• Jo Walton. She's the queen of uchronia. Harry Turtledove be damned. The meanest thing anyone can say about her is that she probably only deserves 9/10ths of all the awards she has. 17/20ths if you're feeling especially uncharitable.

• Nalo Hopkinson. Serious and playful, a polymorph, a humanist, a lover of Victoriana's fascination with the magical and a deeply funny writer of big ambitious novels.

• And technically okay yeah she's french and only moved recently to Montreal and doesn't count as a real Canadian or whatever. But also Sabrina Calvo will knock your socks off. Melmoth Furieux is about Joan of Arc vs Disneyland. Toxoplasma is her most québécois novel though.

• Also Jeff Lemire is a pretty big deal I guess even though he can annoy me

Oooo, I hadn't heard of half these names, and had no clue Jo Walton was Canadian! I do feel like we're getting way more Canadian fantasy these days than we ever did, I'm hopeful this will keep going. I'm particularly interested in Calvo, actually - I always kind of despaired of finding novels in French that both met my interests and weren't translated from English. A thousand thanks!!!

[frenchlitclub]

i really want to read toxoplasma by sabrina calvo!

Oooh, I just read what it's about and this sounds awesome to me 👀

This makes me wonder if we should have 2 books a month for the club, 1 in the public domain, and 1 not, so more recent. So that everyone could have access to at least one book but still give room for more recent stories...

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Rémy PONGE, Se tenir debout, La Dispute

Ernst SCHMITTER, L'Économie comme catastrophe, Crise & Critique

Mark FISHER, K-Punk, Audimat

COLLECTIF OTHON, À Brest, Divergences

Sabrina CALVO, Mais cette vie demande. toujours. plus. de. lumière., Éditions du commun

Nelly SLIM, Entre ici et avant il y a la mer, Hystériques & AssociéEs

David SNUG, À bas l'humanité, Nada

Dire que les souffrances au travail ne sont pas un problème individuel mais collectif, trouvant leur cause dans l’organisation du travail, c’est poser cette question : l’employeur peut-il seul décider des conditions et de l’organisation de travail ? Rémy Ponge, Se tenir debout. Un siècle de luttes contre les souffrances au travail, La Dispute.

[mods2nv]

Sunkissed Sabrina Calvo

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Everybody Loves Sabrina Calvo

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These had me screaming !!!!

99% of my Spotify in two pictures

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this compounds (in probably a kind of 'you and your bars in the stratosphere smh' kinda way tbh but whatever) when youre reading a book from 150 years ago

i read melmoth the wanderer. irish gothic novel from 1820. i read the french translation from 1821. it's about a guy who sold his soul to the devil to...be immortal? not entirely sure if that was the point of the deal tbh he didnt seem happy with it and i never quite figured out what he actually wanted to get out of the deal, the immortality was more of a punishment it seemed

anyway, the guy is immortal. theres a portrait of him from 1646 and he (indirectly)(so, so indirectly)(god why are 19th century novels like this the suspension of disbelief necessary to keep believing in the framing of 'guy telling a story' (guy telling the story of another guy whose story he heard) (guy telling about a guy who heard a story that he heard from another guy he met) (etcetera) was really just a bit too much for me) (anyway) relates his wanderings. so theres these stories a little bit from between mid 17th century to early 19th and we're speaking to an 1820 audience right? the difference between 1640s and 1820s is close enough to the difference between 1820s and 2020s that it was a really interesting stacking of cultural impressions

like at one point the narrator was talking about the 17th century and he was like "people back then couldnt travel as fast as we do now" !!!! that was so exciting to me. looking at the depiction of the 17th century by a 19th century guy with 21st century eyes

it was complicated even more bc the author of this book was irish right (he was like oscar wilde's great uncle or something like that) (this book was super popular) (lots of like references in other stuff) (like the portrait) but most of the story is told by a spanish monk who wrecked his ship on the irish coast so a lot of the story takes place in spain. so hes not just writing about a different time but a different country too. and sometimes you can hear that when it's clunky, same as nowadays, like when they say things like "the way spanish summer nights are" or stuff like that. but most of it will be way more subtle and obviously has completely gone over my head, seeing as i, stewart lee voice, dont know anything about early 19th century irish gothic literature or 17th century spain, OR the kind of perspective that an early 19th century french translator would bring to that story and the influences that would bring PLUS the fact that im not fluent in french and cant tell the difference between 19th century french and modern french (im learning words that the dictionary calls vieilli and vx side by side with modern slang, and honestly side by side with 19th century slang, which is, again, super fun, but not very good for my cultural-temporal intuitions probably) (like when i read 19th century french i keep being struck with how not-old-fashioned it sounds compared to 19th century english or dutch. but i think thats just me. i have no sense for what words we dont use anymore. and the imparfait of the subjunctive doesnt have any oldfashioned ring to me (honestly i like it)) what was i talking about. oh yeah) so i dont really have the ability to differentiate the perspectives here entirely, theres too much all mixed together, but i still get glimpses and it's, master voice: very very interesting :)

the thing im enjoying most about learning a new language is learning new cultural context. i never noticed learning this with english probably bc youre already one foot in american pov before you even speak the language what with all the popular media coming from there, but with french i have to dig this knowledge out with my bare hands and it's really fun

like, when i read in a book that the english people at the english train station our english protagonist who just came home after 15 years exile in france is arriving at "were going about their business with their english sense of timing and rhythm", what am i supposed to understand by that? is that like a swiss clock sort of thing (another cultural reference you now realise you have learnt to understand the right way at some point even without knowing anything necessarily about swiss clocks) or more of a doctor who kind of sense of timing? what is the french cultural idea of the british and their sense of punctuality? i dont know yet! i feel like a child!

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[thetransfemininereview]

Hm Jan Morris’s novel Last Letters from Hav (1985) is like low sci-fi, but it’s very grounded so maybe not what you’re looking for.

Caitlin Kiernan’s first book Silk came out in 1998, though I know she’s a little 🫠 these days.

Gael Baudino’s Dragonsword series started in the 80s

She didn’t transition until the 2010s and also only writes in French, but Sabrina Calvo published a novel called Délius: une chanson d’été also in 1998.

Nearly Roadkill by Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan (1996) is like, low cyberpunk, I’m gonna talk about it in my article tomorrow.

That’s what I’ve got off the top of my head, hope you find something new 🩷

anybody know of trans women authors who wrote science fiction/fantasy prior to the 2000s? only ones i know of are Rachel Pollack, Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Cameron Reed, but i'd like to find more :)