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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 19/07/2026

When *Tower of Mud and Straw* first came out, I got a lot of flak for using “modern” dialogue in a fantasy novel. “Glad” to see people haven’t changed their minds. #Odyssey

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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Repost to make it die faster

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L. Marie Wood @lmariewood.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

OMG Just LOOK AT HER!!!!!!!! a.co/d/0eLogAx0 #slipstream #mmf #PsychologicalHorror #romanceelements #scifi #youneedthis #mustread

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 14/03/2026

That’s the way. We need to raise the quality bar—though for that to happen, publishers need to stop being money whor … sorry, stop focusing solely on profit for a moment and return to their original mission. To shape the public’s taste, rather than pander to people’s worst reading tendencies.

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you want to read my flash "Jimmy. Fucking. Bang" you can go to South Florida Poetry Review & scroll down!

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Flash #39 Nov '25

SoFloPoJo Contents: Essays * Interviews * Reviews * Special * Video * Visual Arts * Archives * Calendar ...

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thank you, Yare! If you’d like to read “Through the Machine” you can find it here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thank you so much! And @balticon.bsky.social got the Compton Crook Award nomination exactly right for this one... bsky.app/profile/raji...

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/02/2026

I loved in 2025 (for your awards consideration): POETRY “The World To Come” @jenniferhudak.bsky.social MIDDLE GRADE AJ Torres and the Treasure of Captain Grayshark @labyrinthrat.bsky.social

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/02/2026

I loved in 2025 (for your awards consideration) STORIES “When You Think No One Can See You” @lettie-prell.bsky.social “The Basilisk Painting” @anthonyeichenlaub.com “Artful Felicitations” @darusha.ca “So Deep, So Wide” by Michelle Muenzler “Last Dam Standing” @historyneverwas.bsky.social

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/02/2026

Loved in 2025 (for awards) STORIES “Jimmy. Fucking. Bang.” @mynachang.bsky.social “Terraforming: An Unearthly Earth” @aliciahilton.bsky.social “Five Things You Can See” @nadiaradovich.bsky.social “The Dance of Narcissus and Echo” @rajivmote.bsky.social “The Walled Garden” @drfionamoore.bsky.social

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/02/2026

I loved in 2025 (for awards) STORIES “Through the Machine” @cornellwriter.bsky.social “Different Flames” @bethcato.bsky.social “The Mermaid Who Declined…” @aphowell.com “The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King” @jelenawrites.bsky.social “The Cold Burning Light of Her” @swpisciotta.bsky.social

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/02/2026

I loved in 2025 (for your awards consideration): NOVELLAS The Deaths of Mountains @jordankurella.com We Who Hunt Alexanders @jasonsanford.bsky.social Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle @renanbernardo.com

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/02/2026

I loved in 2025 (for your awards consideration): NOVELETTES “The Librarian and the Pirate” @schoen.bsky.social “Finding Tiggly” @schoen.bsky.social “The Soundtrack of My Afterlife” @cornellwriter.bsky.social “Uncertain Sons” @thomasha.bsky.social

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/02/2026

I loved in 2025 (for your awards consideration): NOVELS The War Beyond @andreagstewart.bsky.social The Tower of the Tyrant @jeremyteg.bsky.social Unworthy @lmariewood.bsky.social Sea Swept @leahcypess.bsky.social The Shadow Minister @lrb.bsky.social

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L.A. Young (a.k.a. Misty; a.k.a. Aquavenatus) @aquavenatus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

You have to hand it to @balticon.bsky.social for compiling a list of intriguing titles for their award finalists!

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M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

HI HELLO I HAVE A MINOR BOOKISH UPDATE!!!!

A copy of A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST against an orange-red background. Somehow, the words above read, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Reading new novelists for the Compton Crook Award is some of the fun in being a member of @balticon.bsky.social Best wishes to all of this year's finalists. @eirencaffall.bsky.social, Haley Gefulso, Antonia Hodgson, @barsukov.com, @mhayinde.bsky.social & Andrew Luddington

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 25/02/2026

Shea Ashcroft & Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory have been shortlisted for the Compton Crook Award for best first novel! Compton Crook can only happen once in life, so I'm incredibly honored and happy. Thank you so much to @balticon.bsky.social & everyone who keeps supporting the book. I love y'all.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 15/12/2025

So ... Sleeping Worlds was selected by Kirkus as one of their Best Books of 2025! I’m incredibly honored, to say the least. Great thanks to everybody who supported me & the novel!

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Praise from @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social: "Jason Sanford ain't playing with y'all anymore. We Who Hunt Alexanders lives at the intersection of cyberpunk and horror. Edginess and timeliness; blood and desperation; love and terror all woven like a rogue literary DNA strand." 1/2

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We Who Hunt Alexanders - Apex Book Company

WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS by Jason Sanford is a dark, cosmic novella following a neurodivergent main character in a gothic, dangerous world.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 23/08/2025

I wish more people understood Gen“AI” is not AI.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 08/07/2025

Now and then, we remember Wordle exists ... 1 480 2/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Becca Gomez Farrell @becca.gomezfarrell.com · 04/07/2025

Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov is worth the read! A 2x Nebula Award finalist, the true pleasure of reading this tale is the main character's contemplations of betraying orders, warfaring countries, and shifting memories and reflection, symbolized in the mimic tower legend.

The book cover, featuring a terrifying tower, seagulls, and a person and their feed. Colors are shades of purple.

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thanks so much for reading! For those who haven’t yet, that story is “Through the Machine.” Find it via this link or the Nebula Reading List: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

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Through the Machine - Lightspeed Magazine

“Steve, over here! Turn to your right. Can we get a smile?” He falls back on his training easily enough, turns to the cameras, gives them his famous crooked smile, tilts his head just so as the flashe...

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 05/06/2025

A fact that feels like something straight out of an alternate reality: turns out that before Star Wars, Hayden “Anakin Skywalker” Christensen starred in a TV show called … Higher Ground.

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you like political intrigue, science fantasy that veers into the weird, mind-bending metaphysics, and especially if you like dogs, pick up and devour @barsukov.com's Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory. (Arachnophobes may wish to skip a scene.)

The book Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov. The cover has the image of a sinister-looking, purple-illuminated tower

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/05/2025

It will take some time for CEOs to finally read the room. After that, it’s a straight path to the bubble bursting. Too much investment and too much talk about something that can mimic human speech patterns and is, at best, a consulting tool and at worst, a hallucinogenic shroom.

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Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by @barsukov.com "Yaro deserves enormous praise for his smooth writing style and I think this was one of the most illustrating moments of his skill." Read @justairythings.bsky.social's full review grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/s...

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Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov

Reviewed by Ariana Weldon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yaro was super kind enough to give a physical ARC of Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory when we met, and I repaid that by not being home properly for months so I coul…

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Shadora Nyx @ladyjedi.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Good Morning. @barsukov.com I just finished your book, and I must say I really liked it. I can see why it is a Nebula nominee this year, the way it plays with memory, with reality and illusion, with dreams and nightmares. I will be definitely reading your next book.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 13/05/2025

Two people have written to me this week saying "I've been looking all over for Armed in Her Fashion but can't find it, pls help" and (a) so glad for word of mouth! (b) less glad to have confirmation that title changes are confusing 😭 The Chatelaine = edited reissue of the same book, for the record!

The cover of Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield, designed by Erik Mohr, is black with a red effigy of a female knight. This is the same book as The Chatelaine -- it's an earlier version.

The cover of The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield, designed by Andrew Davis, is blue with gold decoration, a sword, a woman, roses. It is an edited version of Armed in Her Fashion and includes an added prologue.

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Shadora Nyx @ladyjedi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I started yesterday "Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory" by @barsukov.com. I only managed 28 pages as I was really tired, but I am intrigued and like it so far. I want to know what everyone is hiding about/within the tower and what is this all about...

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Kenneth Luke Hansen @kennethluke.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Our 3rd Nebula nominee is a surreal mix of “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “The Matrix”—an interesting combination, to say the least 🎆🎇 The most complex nominated novel (thus far), @barsukov.com has produced a fascinating antiwar allegory that will inspire and confound equally. #booksky

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 10/05/2025

Memoirs are written by people terrified of their mortality, for people contemplating their mortality.

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Kenneth Luke Hansen @kennethluke.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This year’s Nebula Awards will be presented June 7th. This is the list of nominees for Best Novel. My project for May is to read them all and let you know what’s a hit, what’s a miss, and who I think might win. Follow along! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social @captainbluehen.bsky.social

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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 14/04/2025

Nikolai Yezhov being removed after he was purged, except he's Musk and Trump's Stalin.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 22/04/2025

#RealHarryPotter: Your own wand from Ollivanders (™) will cost you 20k & 3 years to make; rich parents buy in advance, kids from poor families rent basic models. Black market is rampant; plastic wands that “look like real wood” tend to explode. Hogwarts allows them b/c otherwise, nobody would study.

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David Lee Summers @davidleesummers.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

At the Web Journal today, I take a look at the novel Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory in a post entitled Reality and Perception davidleesummers.wordpress.com/2025/04/19/r...

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Reality and Perception

I have a degree in physics. It was not an easy degree to obtain, but I stuck with it because I’m fascinated by the processes that make our universe work. The nature of physics is such that it…

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 20/04/2025

Erich von Däniken and _Chariots of the Gods_ come from a different, less cynical time. The book’s original title is _Remembrances of the Future_, which describes its appeal in a nutshell: that we were on the cusp of discovering something wonderful. Turns out, we were to discover the idiotic “AI.”

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 05/04/2025

“The Art of Living in a Noir” How does it feel to write fantasy-noir? It feels like being genre homeless on Amazon! I had an absolute blast chatting with Michelle & Matt. #HowTheArtsWereWon open.spotify.com/episode/66m3...

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S4 Ep3 - The Art of Living in a Noir: A Conversation with Yaroslav Barsukov

How the Arts were Won · Episode

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The Slavic Literature Pod @slaviclitpod.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Out Today: I sat down with Yaroslav Barsukov to talk about his book Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory. We chatted about his deployment of personal and national memory, metaphorical resurrection, and how Barsukov complicates his themes. Get it anywhere you listen to podcasts!

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is a good time to remind people I have a newsletter that they can sign up for and also some important news coming! eepurl.com/iJk9XU

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 27/03/2025

Amazing. That's why I’m subscribed to @publisherslunch.bsky.social, to find out how Hunger Games are doing. Honestly now 😂

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