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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I like to deploy "mundane" for this question, as in "is this text interested in representing a/the world, or is it interested in doing something else?"

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lots of eco stuff still isn't interested in the scalar problems around theses problems and it's INFURIATING

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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!

seanguynes.com

2026 University Press Recommendations

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

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I got the reissue of this a while a back and it does rule, imo. Good additional material for thinking about Moorcock, mediation, and stuff like Elric/Eternal Champion/Jerry Cornelius.

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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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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is absolutely best as a jumping off point and not as a clear/dogmatic theory! (Also best utilized alongside other writing by Fisher and problematized by the work of other weird theorists!)

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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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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Even attention to specific language goes a long way! If a weird text is doing something interesting with regards to climate change then it has to be doing it through representation, style, etc. Better to unlock that and give a fuller picture of how we might read those formal cues.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is something I'm super mindful of avoiding. Yes, weird fiction provides an interesting vantage to consider climate change, but it is interesting because of how it is able to approach those problems through form as opposed to in spite of/regardless of form.

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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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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

excited to hear your thoughts (I loved it!)

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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 · 29/07/2026

this review is so odd! it seems a bad tactic to me to extrapolate about the weird and its place in the contemporary from this limited set of texts (especially from a critic who apparently studies weird fiction)!

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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 · 27/07/2026

I'd very much be interested in reading this! Lots to dig into there.

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

I'm excited to be able to recommend them and not have to lend my copies!

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

nice! I just tracked down the old paperbacks but I'll gladly pick this up too!

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I've got that same keyboard! thank goodness for mechanical switches

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I started picking at Lane when Influx republished The Earth Wire and I quickly tore through the rest of his work--really remarkable how he reads so much as a writer of both his time and our own. Crucial and consequential pandemic reading for me.

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Demon Copperhead and Flight Behavior are both good (and more recent) places to start, but you also can't go wrong with Poisonwood Bible if you're interested in reading Kingsolver!

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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

sfintranslation.com

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

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Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

nice! I've wanted to play around with Ren'Py—I used to make Twine games and essays for fun and Ren'Py seems like a cool "next level." excited to see your work if you decide to share it!

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

whether or not the agents are truly "sentient" in a meaningful way is beside the point, the structural logic of producing a new slavery still stands.

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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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