iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A short article with some pretty pictures of whales. donaldasansom.substack.com/p/the-waters...

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Rob Bignell, Science Fiction Author @sfauthorrobbignell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Meet these great SF indie authors at the Science Fiction Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #sff #sffchat #scifisky #amwritingscifi #writingcommunity #amwriting #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #authorsky

062

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sculptor Transforms Scrap into Moving Metal Figures

15245211036

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My copy of Annie Dillard's Teaching the Stone to Talk. I bought it, I think, second hand in London at Skoob's in the 1980s. Her prose and style was as sharp then as it is now.

150

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Alex Harford @alexharford.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I created this Starter Pack for all those reasons: bsky.app/starter-pack...

1115

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today is the opening of the Pelee Island Bird Observatory’s Atwood Gibson Bird Centre! The Mennill Lab is excited to be part of this new chapter of PIBO. Congratulations PIBO! 🦆🦅🦉🦩🐦‍⬛🦚🪿🦃

0142

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Clayton Graham @claytongrahamscifi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Love to explore? Find yourself a new world. www.amazon.com/stores/autho... Take Your Pick of highly-awarded Science Fiction novels: Check out Clayton Graham’s #scifi and take your reading adventures out of this world. #scifi #SpaceOpera #mustread #readers #bookworms #kindle #Booksky #SFF

15332197

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

1553153717

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For all those who have been asking, What makes him tick? Good question - I'll have to read it myself because I have no bloody idea. starfarerscafe.com/2026/09/03/i...

starfarerscafe.com

191

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I was asked to share the speech given after I won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Here it is. The speech covers being on the autistic spectrum, how SF/F saved my life, and the disgusting attacks against autistic people by the president and secretary of health. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

patreon.com

I won a Hugo Award! Plus my Best Fan Writer speech | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine

I fought a bad cold all weekend and, despite my best efforts, I fell asleep before the beginning of LACon V’s Hugo Awards ceremony. So imagi

918558

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Rob Bignell, Science Fiction Author @sfauthorrobbignell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Help me select the short stories and blurbs for my upcoming short story anthology! Which of the two stories would you prefer to read? A) Aliens race to see who can plunge first into a black hole B) A man marooned on a distant planet isn't sure that he wants to be rescued #sff #scifi #sciencefiction

273

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Good essay and how a select few have taken the brilliant ideas of fine hard-working SciFi authors and made a hash of it. They are also stealing their works too. aeon.co/essays/silic...

aeon.co

Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem | Aeon Essays

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future

073

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Many thanks to my sisters, who encouraged me to take the plunge and write a story. (A story about sisters and a very special spatula). And so much gratitude to John Palisano. This story would not exist without you.

Green spatula with a black cat face and a wooden handle against a black granite counter.

1181

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Viewed the total eclipse of 12 August 2026 in Scoresby Sund, East Greenland. An astonishing and truly magnificent event. This picture was taken during totality. Mercury and Jupiter can be seen to the right, and icebergs in the fiord. 🔭, #astro #astronomy #solar #eclipse.

2111

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Then he'll have the works of a 1000 more Mozarts to rip off.

031

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

SIX days left, and we need your help to fund another year!

076

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...

45729

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/07/2026

I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

722709579

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/Gab1zWu

Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Covers by Paul Lewin, Katy Shuttleworth, and Galen Dara

3155127

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

On Point Publishing© @onpoint.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dramas of Anthropic's Copyright case continue to unfold. Reportedly millions of books scanned, then unnecessarily destroyed!! Do you have a Published Book in a Library? Chances are that was used as well, depending on region and timings!! #Books #Authors #Writers #AI arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

arstechnica.com

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

054

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Alex Harford @alexharford.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Short stories are my favourite medium, and speculative fiction my favourite genre, so I made a Starter Pack for short story writers. Please let me know who to add! bsky.app/starter-pack... #ShortStory #SpecFic #SFF #WeirdFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #WritingCommunity #StarterPack

456326

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Curious how a novel that seemed to be so much about its time turns out to be so prophetic.

021

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I found a visitor in the garden today after moving some old tiles. After a short photo shoot, he went back under.

161

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

The Martian Diaries 👽 The War Of The Worlds Sequel @martiandiaries.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Fascinating > the seed of an idea that became Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey 👇🚀 #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SciFiBooks #Film

0126

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

21779522

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

And would the average mortal avoid it and not use it when every time your fingers approach a screen or keyboard an annoying AI prompt automatically pops up.

011

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

...and trampled by terrified horses.

031

Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Finally and answer to that annoying question. It's been bothering me.

060

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

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)

242009539

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Archaeologists are mystified by finds of a pile of birdseed, remains of a wooden prop and, nearby, the crushed bones of a coyote or similar animal.

826025

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 19/06/2026

The annoying thing about doing a subscription drive is having to keep yelling about it. Doesn't work if I say nothing. Strange, eh?

311377

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Check it out! You will be glad you did. 😁📚

0104

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

David Hockney (1937-2026), “My Parents” (1977), oil on canvas, 182.9 x 182.9 cm.

21461125

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Ok, this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long, long time...

0121

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Male peacock spiders sport colorful, hinged abdominal flaps covered in microscopic, light-refracting scales (displaying vibrant blues, reds, and greens) If the female is unimpressed by the dance, she may eat the male. IG: flynn_prall Macro Photographer, Australia

3194558830

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Book 28: Dinotopia by James Gurney The first of at least four dinosaur themed books in my list, Gurney’s gorgeous creation is filled with stunning paintings to accompany his uplifting lost land utopia story Just a fantastic book for all ages Also, DINOSAURS!! 🪐📚💙 #booksky #dinosaurs

Hardback cover showing a scene of Victorian people riding dinosaurs in a pageant

2101

Reposted by Donald A. Sansom

K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Earlier this week I got a rejection on a query I sent in October 2021. 4 years and 7 months has to be SOME kind of record, right? It beats my personal best (worst) of a 536 day short fiction rejection. Fellow writers, please share your longest waits to get a rejection! I am curious.

3141