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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I felt a little bad about not doing my seasonal university press recommendation lists this year, so I decided to go over all the spring and fall catalogs for 2026 to create a list c. 60 books from 32 presses. Hope this is helpful to folks!

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2026 University Press Recommendations

A curated list of recommended books published by university presses and academic publishers in 2026.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this is so important it needed its own clip actually

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here!

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

not a medievalist but this is a cool CFP! apply!

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As an MJH diehard I pre-ordered The End of Everything (the signed Blackwell's edition) from the UK, received it in the post, and finished reading it last week. Rest assured: it's got the juice. So pleased it's getting this sort of recognition.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

M. John Harrison on the Booker longlist! That's what's up!

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

seriously one of the best stories I've read in a minute

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We are asking the WSFS business meeting to extend this story’s eligibility until 2026, because it received extremely limited distribution in 2025. Only 5,000 copies of the print edition were distributed in late 2025, to a primarily non-SFF audience. It became available online on July 9, 2026. 1/2

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 19/07/2026

A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social

nbcnews.com

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

renee gladman, cristina rivera garcia, barbara comyns, nell zink, pip, adams, and many more! incredible work coming out of dorothy press.

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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

HR 822 requires trusted adults (school employees, counselors, coaches as well as doctors & other health workers) to monitor children for signs of gender stereotype non-conformance and report them. Non-compliance results in steep fines and criminal punishment. This goes into effect in Idaho today.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

pulling for Works of Vermin! everybody read Works of Vermin!!

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

if you're working in the sf studies/weird studies space you'd do well to read Jeffrey Ford's "Well-Built City Trilogy"

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The first issue of SMALL PLANET: THE SF IN TRANSLATION MAGAZINE is OUT! www.sfintranslation.com?p=16928 #SFinTranslation

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Issue #1: Small Planet: The SFT Magazine – Speculative Fiction in Translation

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

(it's because they basically want slaves: conscious entities—but software this time!—that they can use and dispose of when convenient. this is the big tech logic of "sentient AI.")

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

the value of the university and education more broadly is the production of self and world

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I went to college because it was my only opportunity to change social classes in life. It worked. I also discovered a whole other universe of knowledge while I was there. I think both of these functions are important and should be preserved.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If we're talking academic field, it's something like Outer Limits, Night Gallery, or Kolchak. If it's based on pure, goofy interest: The Sandbaggers or Spooks/MI-5. I'd also like a crack at LOST.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

good call, here. I love emailing people that I liked what they made!

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

friends, I think we need to bring back the affordable paperback

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I'm lucky enough to own a beat up paperback of Survivor and this is a great overview of its significance. My pet theory is that Butler's feelings on Survivor are part of what get in her way re: further Parable novels (due to the space colonialism element of both). Very glad it's getting republished.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Whether I'm there or not next year, here are the things that have been replaced by a generic skills module including 3 weeks on Using AI: 1. My linguistics colleagues on accent and dialect change, and atittudes towards the local accent. Led by the accents in the room.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I want to jump off this: not disagreeing exactly, because I also want to see a better spread of imprints on the Hugos, but because I've been musing on a few things about the Hugo list and how we frame issues with it. Basically: do we have a Tor problem, or do we have an *everything else* problem?

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Zach is correct and also this is my biannual reminder to read the works of M. John Harrison, who rocks at this approach.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

the replies to this are fantastic and also a testament to how formative the reading years of 12-16 are. for me it's when i first encountered writers like Vonnegut, Le Guin, Baldwin, Ballard, Butler, Moorcock, Murakami... I thank goodness my folks didn't care what I read, just that I was reading

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/12/2025

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

today's academic discourse got me feeling like john goodman in barton fink

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

this sentiment has been on my mind lately

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Ninajirachi in Vancouver, BC Dry Cleaning in Vancouver, BC (Nourished by Time opened) Nick Cave in Tamworth, NSW They Might Be Giants in Boise, ID (I got handed John's guitar pick and hugged them after the show) @tmbg.bsky.social Andrew Bird in Boise, ID

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

time for me to remind everybody that Samuel R. Delany's Nevèrÿon series exists, does not take place in a European milieu, AND contains what is often referred to as the first AIDs novel. it should be much more widely read, imo.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

majorly bummed about the Jays, now back to hoping Mets or Mariners make it all the way next season

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

rip my mariners, go jays for the series

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

for the NYT to give Doug Wilson any kind of platform is honestly shameful

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

there are many things that TransLink could do to improve service in Vancouver, but living near the SkyTrain and two major bus routes means I rarely wait long for service & I'm rarely more than 15-30 minutes ride from anywhere - now I can't imagine living somewhere without that level of service

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

this is a basically undeniable take when reading robots in terms of their origin in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.

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