#aliya whiteley

[phaedraismyusername]

Hi hello I have been knee deep in a genre binge so here are some literary sci-fi books that deal with loneliness as a core theme

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Translated from French this book follows the youngest girl in a group of 40 women who are being kept in a cage underground in an unknown place, for unknown reasons, until one day they get the chance to escape triggering a search for answers and survival on a desolate surface.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

This is a very subtle dystopian story about a group of people who spend their childhoods at an extremely secretive english boarding school, the course of their relationships, and where they are at the end of their lives. There's a subtle feeling of wrongness from the first chapter and the author spends the rest of the novel very slowly revealing the reasons why.

Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma

The super short form pitch for this book is 'Fleabag if there was an option to yeet herself to another planet'. Iris is in a long term relationship with depression, kind of hates her pointless job, sometimes hates her family, and is generally overwhelmed by the weight of existence, when she hears about Nyx - earth's first space colony - and thinks that just maybe it could be the answer to all her problems.

Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

When the population of a company sponsored colony finds out they have been designated a failure and the people are to be packed up and shipped off to another planet to try again, one little old lady decides that for the first time in her long life she's going to break the rules - she's going to stay and live her best life alone on the planet, and finally get some peace and quiet. What could go wrong?

Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley

Skyward Inn is an odd little book set in a future where Earth has come into contact with an alien world that quickly surrendered to humanity. The story follows a small group of kind of unlikeable people who live behind the walls of the 'western protectorate' - a place in the moors that's decided to isolate itself and live like the old days with rudimentary technology for a simple life. Until strangers appear and things start to get... weird. Slower, stranger and with more body horror than you might expect.

#unsolicited recommendations #im traditionally a hard sci fi girly #whod of thunk id grow into a lit fic girl #well kinda #sci fi #literary #i who have never known men #jacqueline harpman #never let me go #kazuo ishiguro #everything you ever wantes #luiza sauma #remnant population #elizabeth moon #skyward inn #aliya whiteley #book recs #booklr #oh and i didnt mention just how many nods skyward inn has to #jamaica inn #by #daphne du maurier #which was pretty interesting tbf

[valencitaflaherty]

all of these i'm looking forward to reading, which is exactly why i have trouble picking one to start with. i'll be going in order of most to least votes.

#text posts #poll #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #cursed bunny #bora chung #my heart is a chainsaw #the only good indians #stephen graham jones #house of leaves #mark z danielewski #we have always lived in the castle #shirley jackson #piranesi #susanna clarke #the beauty #aliya whiteley

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#skyward inn #aliya whiteley #science fiction #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[horsescarsanddykesohmy]

I don’t remember the last time I finished a book in less than a day and a half… but man does it feel good. If you like fungi at all, this is a super fun, super educational read! I truly loved it!!!

#secret life of fungi #Aliya whiteley #fungi #fungus #mushrooms #book review

[thehatofthehatter]

'We wear ourselves, then we peel ourselves away. We change and we change. How strange it is, the things we become, and the things we throw away.'

The Loosening Skin, Aliyah Whiteley

#the loosening skin #aliya whiteley #unbound books #books #book quotes #charlotte's quotes

[anec-reads]

#reading #book review #review #storygraph #novella #short story #the beauty #aliya whiteley #body horror

[booksopandah]

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

What the fuck?

#books #sff books #the beauty #aliya whiteley

[whatskraken]

“I listen to it talk, making little sense of it, but through the patterns of the flowing words I glean— what? Relief of its own? Pleasure at being back in my company? I must be putting my emotions upon it, but I can’t help myself.

Eventually, Pipe stops gurgling, and says, here.

Here, I repeat.

Wowol.

Wowol. Like an echo in deep water. What does Pipe think here means? I’m guessing, this place. Or, being together in this moment.

We are together in this moment; I don’t care if it’s an illusion on my part.”

—Me @ my bong.

#Peace Pipe by Aliya Whiteley #booktok

[rherlotshadow]

'From 1348 to 1350 the Black Death killed roughly a third of England's population, and chronicles recorded that, after months of heavy rain, the fields of rotting crops were taken over by enormous, vivid fungi in red, purple and black. What a sight that must have been at a terrifying time.'

From 'The Secret Life of Fungi' by Aliya Whiteley

#fungi #black death #england #history

[phaedraismyusername]

2022 was a soil, rot, and fungus kind of reading year for me and I regret nothing

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

A post-apocalyptic novella following a group of isolated men years after a plague killed off all of the women. Its told from the perspective of a young man who's place in the group is to tell stories of what was, and when they stumble upon a secret in the woods, what could be. Its weird, mildly distressing, kinda gross, but super super interesting. Highly recommend.

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

Translated from Norwegian by Marjam Idriss, it follows an international student studying in Australia who finds herself in a bizarre living situation with an older woman in a converted space with no internal walls and no privacy. It focuses on sexuality, exploration, and obsession, with some of the most viscerally tactile descriptions I've ever read. It's uncomfortable and frequently gross in that way only female authors can be, but I don't regret reading it.

Eartheater by Dolores Reyes

Translated from Argentinian by Julia Sanches, this book is about a young girl with a compulsion to eat earth which gives her visions of missing people and victims of violent crimes, and how this ostrasices her from her family as a child, and how she chooses to use this ability to help the community when she's older. I found this one a little harder to connect with, translated novels often feel drier and more distant to me because of what's lost from the native language, but reading the authors note really really helped contextualise it and increased my appreciation for what the author was doing so I recommend reading it too.

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

It's short, it's weird, it's a five star read, what else can I say. It follows a young healer, living in a small community with her father, as she learns to exist amongst people who are scared of what she is, but need her skills, and how far she'll go to protect that connection when she thinks she's found it. It's full of the healing power of nature, moral ambiguity, ethical greyness and dark themes. I loved it.

What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher

Possibly my favourite author of the year, This is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe (which I have not read) and follows main character Alex as they return to the home of their childhood friends after learning one of them is sick and possibly dying. T Kingfisher is an author who's style either works for you or it doesn't, and for me it really really does. The blend of humour, dread, and body horror was a joy and I read it in one sitting with no effort at all. And it's chock full of fungus, which is apparently my jam now.

#the beauty #aliya whiteley #paradise rot #jenny hval #eartheater #dolores reyes #follow me to ground #sue rainsford #what moves the dead #t kingfisher #book recs #succumbus to my fungus #2022 reads #books #booklr

[treeroutes]

what's up ! non-exhaustive list of stories featuring weird plants :

The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham

The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark

In the Tall Grass, Stephen King and Joe Hill

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', William Hope Hodgson

The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood

The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

The Nature of Balance, Tim Lebbon

'Bloom', John Langan

The Ruins, Scott Smith

The Wise Friend, Ramsey Campbell

'The Green Man of Freetown', The Envious Nothing : A Collection of Literary Ruins, Curtis M. Lawson

The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley

The Ash-Tree, M.R. James

Canavan's Backyard, J.P. Brennan

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher

'Reaching for Ruins', Crow Shine, Alan Baxter

'Vortex of Horror', Gaylord Sabatini

Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss

Vaster than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K. Le Guin

Odd Attachment, Ian M. Banks

Deathworld #1, Harry Harrison

The Bridge, John Skipp and Craig Spector

'The Garden of Paris', Eric Williams

Apartment Building E, Malachi King

The Seed from the Sepulchre, Clark Ashton Smith

Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Nursery, Lewis Mallory

The Other Side of the Mountain, Michel Bernanos

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima

The Root Witch, Debra Castaneda

Semiosis, Sue Burke

The Wolf in Winter, Charlie Parker #12, John Connolly

Perennials, Bryce Gibson

Relic, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Gwen, in Green, Hugh Zachary

The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson

Ordinary Horror, David Searcy

The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper

The Book of Koli, Rampart Trilogy #1, M.R. Carey

Seeders, A.J. Colucci

Concrete Jungle, Brett McBean

The Plant, Stephen King

Anthologies/collections :

The Roots of Evil: Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants, edited by Michel Parry

Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology, edited by A.R. Ward

Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, edited by Carlos Cassaba

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness, Richard Gavin

Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, edited by Daisy Butcher

Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain, edited by John Miller

'But fungi aren't plants' :

The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight

Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay

The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi, Brian Lumley

'The Black Mould', The Age of Decayed Futurity, Mark Samuels

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher

The House Without a Summer, DeAnna Knippling

Mungwort, James Noll

Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham

Notes :

all links lead to the goodreads page of the book, mostly because i like to look at book cover art ;

list features authors/books that i love (T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ursula K. Le Guin, the collections from the British Library Tales of the Weird, etc.), but also a few that i don't like and some that i have not yet read ;

if upon seeing that list the first novel you check out is by Stephen King's you have not understood the assignment ;

not all of those are strictly horror stories, some are 100% science fiction (Brian W. Aldiss' Hothouse for instance).

#text #ramblings #plant tag #botanical horror #last time i posted a list of non-fiction books on the topic. time for some variety

[rosenfey]

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𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐: garden of bones /galdorcraeft

𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛: rose pink!

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐: rewatching the bg3 dnd oneshot vod because i am very normal about it

𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚎: must have been the barbie movie when it aired in the cinemas probably (i don't watch movies usually lmao)

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐: the secret life of fungi by aliya whiteley. an utterly fascinating read, especially as a mushroom enthusiast myself. whiteley combines flowery prose and biological facts about fungi so it's not exactly a spot-on academic read, it's more of a story and a tribute to these impeccably mysterious lifeforms that inhabit our world. *goes on an autistic 48756 hrs long tangent about mushrooms. there is no escape. she will never stop. the world will be decaying and rotting and there she is. talking about mushrooms.*

𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝/𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚢/𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚢: i love savory! home-made crisps and fries my beloved

𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚜: i am pretty much sure i am dating a real life version of gale baldur's gate 3. the same beard and nerdy tendencies. i say this as i watch him play 3D puzzle games on the tv screen and pondering. i have no idea what any of them mean but he seems to be having fun so good for him ig

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗: baldur's gate 3. the pretty much only game that exists for me. currently on my 3rd canon playthrough with my main (faerene), but mixing it up a bit to avoid burnout - I have my durge pt (odetta) and ive started my gale run as well (i would die for tara dekarios respectfully)

𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚐𝚕𝚎: ...monotype text generator

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗: gifs and edits for bg3 and my ocs, worldbuilding for my homebrew dnd campaign, and planning out my bg3 longfic that expands upon the game by filling in the blanks, as well as including a backstory section for faerene and events that took place before the game

#ambie got tagged #c'est moi #look at me. im catching up :o)

[essektheylyss]

What’s the name of the mushroom book you mentioned reading awhile back? I’m looking for more nonfiction to read

HMM well, it depends on what you're looking for; I've read a good number of mushroom-related nonfiction books in the past couple of years, so it could've been a few. I've got:

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, which often feels like The Mushroom Book, very fun and readable writing, focused firmly on fungal ecology

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing, more focused on human networks relate to mushrooms and fungus, very interesting if you want to go a step further from a book purely about mushrooms

related to that, I haven't finished What A Mushroom Lives For by Michael Hathaway, but it and the previous are both publications out of the Matsutake Worlds Research Group which is a really interesting project out of UC Santa Cruz led by Anna Tsing

The Secret Life of Fungi by Aliya Whiteley, very quick read and more prose-y than the rest, but a really pleasant little bit of nature writing

For something more, uh, practical, How to Forage for Mushrooms Without Dying by Frank Hyman is a delight.

Also, I must plug, as I often do, Underland by Robert MacFarlane, which has a chapter devoted to fungal networks with Merlin Sheldrake as the subject. It's otherwise a book with a much broader scope (both subject wise and temporally) but it is utterly PHENOMENAL if you are looking for nonfiction, as Robert MacFarlane's writing is absolutely stunning.

#this was a reminder to me to go pick up macfarlane's landmarks again and read another chapter #absolutely INCREDIBLE writing. anyway. #megs is reading #cuz that is my book tag at this point lol

[layaart]

Hello! I love your art, especially your sapphic pieces and the underrated wlw series. I have a question. Since you really like depicting flora, fungi etc and read fantasy, do you know of any fantasy/horror/gothic books along the lines of Wilder Girls where there is plant magic, gothic elements (bones, creepers and flowers etc, maybe body horror) etc? I really like that type of aesthetic but don't know which books to read. Any gothic / flora+fungi heavy books will do!

Thank you so much!! and omg yes my fav thing (well, I'm more of a fantasy reader than gothic/horror, admittedly). Here's a few I can think of, I'm sure there's some I'm missing!

I'm only mentioning the relevant aspects here, so make sure you look up what they're actually about, CWs, etc. adult unless I've marked them YA. *asterix means sapphic since that might also be of interest haha

Sorrowland* (gothic horror/sff - plant/bone/fungi body horror) Mexican Gothic (fungi, gothic horror) House of Hollow* (YA gothic planty horror (bi mc, m/f)) Yellow Jessamine* (gothic, plants & poisons) Annihilation (scifi planty horror - you may have seen the movie)

more sf/fantasy than horror: The Dawnhounds* (dark urban/high fantasy, city made of fungi) The Annual Migration of Clouds (more hopepunk/scifi - has an alien fungus infecting people) The Jasmine Throne* (high fantasy, has a plant disease that infects people) This Poison Heart* (YA contemporary fantasy - MC inherits a poisonous plant garden so it vaguely has the vibes. not really horror tho.) A Dark and Starless Forest (YA, this has plant magic, and horror (paranormal) aspects)

These I remember having a moment or two of fungi horror or magic but it's not necessarily a major theme: Rules For Vanishing* (YA horror) Undead Girl Gang (YA horror) The River Has Teeth* (YA witchy fantasy/horror)

Books I have not read:

The Girl With All The Gifts (YA, fungi zombies) Where Darkness Blooms* (YA, unreleased, i'm making assumptions from the cover) Tripping Arcadia* (gothic, I know the MC is a botanist, not sure on actual plant horror themes) Ambergris (fungi, horror) The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley (fungi, horror) The Bone Houses (YA, plants, maybe fungi? unsure) What Moves the Dead (horror, fungi - I think possibly a few of T. Kingfisher's books have this vibe? haven't read any)

#I might delete this ask from my art blog in a few days but I will reblog it onto my book blog!

[blessedwhiteeyesore]

Issue three is available for pre-order now. A Feast of Houses – R.L. Summerling Origins Unknown – Rym Kechacha The Woodshed at The End of The World – E. Saxey The Conversion – Tim Cooke The Ruins Above Tell Brak – George Jacobs Clean Up – Aliya Whiteley

#zine #horror #fantasy #speculative fiction #magazine #short story #pink

[thehatofthehatter]

'London wasn't so much a place as a mismatched mosaic of a city.'

The Loosening Skin, Aliyah Whiteley

#the loosening skin #aliya whiteley #london #book quotes #quotes about london #reading #charlotte's quotes