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Craig Lincoln

@echoesofthemurk.bsky.social
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Working parent | SFF Writer | Codex | SFWA | 20% of @darklylem | Nightcrawler & Donatello stan craiglincoln.net Newsletter: blog.echoesofthemurk.com/

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 19h
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 06/10/2026
My text adventure style prose piece with an unrealiable parser and liminal hell setting has been published at Videodame! "A Little Less Text Adventure, A Little More Existential Crisis" is here! Please reskeet. I'd like the maximum number of readers possible.
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A Little Less Text Adventure, A Little More Existential Crisis
By Steve Horton
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So cool!
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Elis Montgomery @elismontgomery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
[ᵛᶦᵈᵉᵒ ᵍᵃᵐᵉ ʷᵃˡᵏᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ ʷᶦᵏᶦ ʰᵒʳʳᵒʳ] Press X to enter the Unmarked Castle Press [ʳᵉᵈᵃᶜᵗᵉᵈ, ⁿᵒᵗ ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ] to make it out alive
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Daniel Ausema @danielausema.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've been quiet about this one until I had some definite news, but this book is available now!! It's a book that's both taken a long time to come to fruition and a whirlwind of a rush at the same time. Published by Island of Wak-Wak, the same as my poetry chapbook from two years ago.
cover art, text reads "Daniel Ausema, The Fall of the City of Bells"; images from the public domain shows monks pulling the ropes on a line of bells in an old building
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's awesome to see Nightcrawler get so much respect in recent comic issues. @gailsimone.bsky.social has been absolutely slaying it on Uncanny X-Men!
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L. D. Colter - Author @ldcolter.com · 03/09/2026
Tomorrow! 8 min readings. Book giveaways! Find a new favorite SFF author at the FREE Zoom event. Register in advance at www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid... #SWSWQR #sff #fantasy @emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social @nillunasser.bsky.social @karenlucia.bsky.social Alex Grehy
Poster for free Quick Read event Fri at noon EDT with thumbnail photos of the 6 authors who will be reading for 8 min each and a signup link.
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The cover for our third and final book in The Formation Saga dropped in the wild!
Cover for Transmentation | Transformation, by Darkly Lem
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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy pub day to @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social 's terrific collection!
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 22/08/2026
Because we don't talk enough about progress (and only on how far we have to go, and of course, we have far to go!), we've made enough progress on climate change now that scientists have ruled out the worst-case scenario. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...
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Scientists Rule Out a Worst-Case Climate Scenario, But We're Not Off The Hook
When it comes to modeling near-future climate change, scientists have taken their absolute worst-case greenhouse gas emissions scenario off the table, deciding it is "implausible".
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Very excited for this book to come out!
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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 07/08/2026
The free to read reprint of my love letter to tokusatsu is up now at Metastellar. I’d love it if you all took a gander.
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The Boy Who Leaped Off the Planet
A young boy learns about his inner power after an encounter with his favorite superhero.
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Some exciting news! Transmentation | Transience was selected as this year's winner of the Manly Wade Wellman award! Thanks again to @montsamu.bsky.social for presenting it. ncsff.org/2026/07/20/a...
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Announcing the winner of the 2026 Manly Wade Wellman Award
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Sandy Parsons @zazzeaux.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Final Chronicle of Yeneh is out today! A genre-bender full of sentient alien plants & portal fantasy adventure. A duke’s granddaughter rushes to discover the truth about her planet’s native life before her family's terraforming wipes it out. www.jomiles.com/yeneh #booksky #newrelease
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The Final Chronicle of Yeneh - Jo Miles
Buy it on:
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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 is Querying 🙏🕯️📿 @sashakielman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am delighted to share that my flash story "Legacy" was published today by The Fairtales! It is free to read at the link below! (Art commissioned from BalsanA). www.thefairtales.com/legacy #WriteSky
A commissioned art piece for "Legacy" by Sasha Kielman by BalsanA. A young man with wavy dark hair opens the lid of a trunk with sparkly light shining on them. A table with a quill and paper is to the left.
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Elis Montgomery @elismontgomery.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Follow Nightraiser into the bone place, where a single floating candle flickers in the shadows. What fills the dark spaces left by devotion? New dark fantasy flash, free in Adventitious! 💀🐴🕯️✨ www.adventitious.net/stories/holl...
Image of “The Piebald Horse," an oil painting by Paulus Potter, with a brown-speckled white horse standing in a field against a cloudy sky, looking back just slightly to the viewer. Above the horse is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Nightraiser paws a hoof into the harrowed earth. Every grave here is laid bare like the land’s been peeled back in great layers.”Image of a watercolour illustration by Raffaele Mainella for Nos Invisibles (1907). A dark figure stands over an open, flower-strewn casket with their hands raised to a lighter sky of dancing, white-clad figures. A dead man lies inside the casket beside a tall candle, its smoke trailing into the distance. Over the sky is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Neither he nor the rider had prepared for death; it had come for them suddenly, as certain as wildfire.”Image of “The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)” (c. 1896–1908), an oil painting by Albert Pinkham Ryder. Depicts a skeletal, scythe-wielding figure riding a galloping horse through the dark countryside. Over the sky is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Horses did not have to pay their way through, but perhaps that was the way of humans.”Image of “La calavera de Don Quijote (The Skeleton of Don Quixote)” (c. 1910-1913), a print of a relief etching with engraving by José Guadalupe Posada. A hat-wearing and lance-wielding skeleton rides a skeletal horse through a crowd of smaller, fleeing skeletons. Added text reads, “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery,” and “Free to Read | Adventitious.”
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Deborah L. Davitt, Author @deborahldavitt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A gentle, sweet, and dark flash fiction by @elismontgomery.bsky.social ! Check it out today!
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Transmenation | Transience is a finalist for the Manly Wade Wellman award! ncsff.org/2026/06/29/a...
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Announcing the finalists for the 2026 Manly Wade Wellman Award
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy X-Men '97 Day to all who celebrate!
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I finally bit the bullet and started a newsletter, hoping to go at least monthly! blog.echoesofthemurk.com/summer-is-a-...
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Summer is a flat circle
Hi there! It's summer time and that means we go from school schedules for my kids to no schedules, where bed times extend later and pool visits become a daily occurrence. As a kid, I saw it as an endl...
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Darkly Lem @darklylem.com · 25/06/2026
We are thrilled to see Transmentation | Transience on the shortlist for the Manly Wade Wellman Award among such excellent company!
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Announcing the shortlist for the 2026 Manly Wade Wellman Award
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My son just came up with a universal rule of anime: you never rush at the chill guy
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If I had a nickel for every time I accidentally shot Kharaz off a ledge to his death with Cedwin, mistaking my own guy for one of the baddies, I'd have like $0.65 #terrinoth #heroesofdescent
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🍬 Abigail Kemske 🍬 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It's live! My latest #scifi story "By the Wings of an Albatross" is in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social issue #3 and is now free to read online. 🦅 Marvel at the future of teleportation where nothing ever goes wrong on your commute ever again, right? Read on to find out. Quick read! 🛰️
Text graphic in teal and navy blue: "By the Wings of an Albatross" by Abigail Kemske. "Marco steps onto the AlbaPort platform in his home pod that orbits the Earth, tensing in anticipation for the awful sensation of being pulled apart atom-by-atom." Now free to read on adventitious.net. Hand drawn graphic of a cut albatross and cover of issue three of adventitious.
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Daniel Ausema @danielausema.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Moth Plateau comes to its dramatic close with Of Moths and Breaking, narrated by Melle, whose story was so much fun to write. When the 15-year-old discovers her family home destroyed, nothing will stop her from confronting the corporate stooges in charge!
historical engraving of a large blue moth and various other insects and plants; text reads "Of Moths and Breaking, Daniel Ausema, Moth Plateau novella 5"
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L. D. Colter - Author @ldcolter.com · 09/06/2026
It's out now and free to read! One of the most personal things I've written and already kindly reviewed at Tar Vol on...
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is what making a country great actually looks like
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I read the first one and it was a lot of fun! Worth checking out. I plan on picking up Book 2 to see where it goes!
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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 26/05/2026
@horrificscribs.bsky.social Indiegogo campaign page now has the TOC, and it has my name! www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/... Help the campaign get crowdfunded! Share it so your followers can find out about it too! #BookSky #ReadSky #WritingCommunity #WritersLift #NewBook #Anthology
Text reads 

Extremely Weird Self-Splatter
Steve Rasnic Tem, “Dermis” 
Suvajeet Duttagupta, “The Weight of the Dark” 
J. Rohr, “A Parent Sacrifices”Art work announcing Extremely weird splatter, edited with an introduction by L. Andrew Cooper, Guest Introduction by Rebecca A. Brown. 

The art work shows almost mirror image of creature with raw skin with cracks all over, blood dripping from the eyes, there are possibly horns visible and also skin/skull removed to show brain matter. 

The floor has lot of blood splatter visible. 

between the creatures there's a list of authors, it reads. 

Featuring:
nick badot
jb corso
suvajeet duttagupta
jg faherty
angelique fawns
tom johnstone
leonardo j. lamanna
thomas c. mavroudis
christine morgan
j. rohr
c.m. saunders
dan scamell
steve rasnic tem
vox villalobos
maxim volk
etta wynn
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🍬 Abigail Kemske 🍬 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Shelfie selfie time! So proud of my growing set of print publications. Check my website 🔗 in bio to order any of these pictured from @aanpress.bsky.social , @fraidycatpress.bsky.social , @stanchion.bsky.social , @angrygablepress.bsky.social & more!
A woman with long brown wavy hair, in a mustard yellow top with ruffle sleeves smiles at the camera, standing in front of a bookshelf, holding out her hand as if balancing a stack of books on it.Stack of books and cute plant lego with smiley face.
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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you haven't heard, InkFoundry is running a $1,000 contest for speculative magazines, and I'm incredibly honored to be one of the judges! My post: www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio... Contest Page: inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ @inkfoundry.bsky.social
InkMark Contest information

June 15th
Eligible magazines submit

5 stories to represent their magazine

Further guidelines can be found at InkFoundry.net/the-inkmark
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Very sad to see pumpkin beer not stocked yet at the grocery store even though it is almost June
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Locus just posted a new review for Transmentation | Transgression! locusmag.com/review/trans...
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Transmentation | Transgression by Darkly Lem: Review by Jake Casella Brookins - Locus
Transmentation | Transgression, Darkly Lem (Blackstone Publishing 979-8-21218-595-0, $29.99, 404pp, hc) March 2026. Darkly Lem's Transmentation novels are an exuberant reworking of a huge set of gener...
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Sheep Detectives was such a fun film. I watched it with the kids and it was their first intro to a Whodunit type story and now they seem hungry for more. They really loved guessing and seeing how close they were.
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Transmentation | Transgression (book 2 of 3 in the Formation Saga) made Locus's New & Notable for May 2026! The first two books just came out in paperback today as well! locusmag.com/2026/05/new-...
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New & Notable, May 2026 - Locus
Edward Ashton, After the Fall (St. Martin's 2/26) This humorous SF novel is set more than a century after Earth's civilization collapses, some 100 years aliens took over. John is bonded to Martok Bard...
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SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com · 21/05/2026
Phone ate a Bluesky thread I was working on and it was incredibly demoralizing and then I got an email from my agent that THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is entering a second printing!!! Y'all are so wonderful, go little book go us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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The Language of Liars
A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, The Language of Liars is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning author...
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The existence of a Sorcerer Supreme infers the existence of a Sorcerer Meat Lovers and a Sorcerer Five Cheese
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Anyone else have to word instructions to their kid like you're making a bargain with the Unseelie?
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Double yes please to Kurt Wagner, Vampire Hunter. Or Kurt Wagner, Vampire with Sword. Or just Kurt Wagner anything, really.
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Dad-joking spammers is my new kink
Spam texter trying to trick me in a text message. 

Spammer: Hey Craig, David here following up on your request for 133k for J&J Editorial LLC. Confirm your email so we can proceed reply stop to end zoom

Me: Like I told the last guy, don't need that many Ks

Spammer: ok what are you looking for

Me: Ps and Qs
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
AI is like a Turing test for people with fragile egos www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it
Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Who could've predicted that if we re-elected the worst president in history that things could go this poorly?
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Arthur H. Manners @arthurmanners.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Delighted to finally announce: I got a book deal! My science-fiction debut, INWORLD, is pitched as The Three-Body Problem meets Annihilation, and will be published in spring 2027 by @sagapressbooks.bsky.social and HarperVoyager UK. Details below! #bookdeal #scifi #books #booksky
Publishers Marketplace announcement of a book deal for author Arthur H. Manners, with Saga Press and Voyager UK. Inworld, a science fiction novel positioned as The Three-Body Problem meets Annihilation, will debut in spring 2027.1 of 2 screenshots of a book-deal announcement in the Bookseller, of Arthur H. Manners' 'astounding' science-fiction debut.2 of 2 screenshots of a book-deal announcement in the Bookseller, of Arthur H. Manners' 'astounding' science-fiction debut. HarperVoyager has acquired Inworld by Arthur H Manners, a science-fiction debut pitched as The Three-Body Problem meets Annihilation.

Editor Chloe Gough acquired UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada rights for two books from Michael Nardullo at Saga Press. World English-language rights were acquired by Tim O’Connell from Brandi Bowles at United Talent Agency with Alexander Cochran representing in the UK while at C&W Agency.

Set to publish in spring 2027, Inworld tells of an enclave of humans fighting for survival outside an alien megastructure who struggle to decode a cryptic language that will either return them to Earth or help them live within the savage centre of a star-spanning sphere known as Inworld.

Manners is a British sci-fi writer whose short fiction and poetry have been published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Strange Horizons, Pseudopod, and Solarpunk Magazine. He has a PhD in space physics from Imperial College, London, and is studying for a master’s in creative writing at the University of Cambridge.
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If the GOP were my children this is about the time I'd have to field a call to whine-one-one so we could get the Wahmbulance dispatched.
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So good
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
These AI tech dorks saw the humans on the spaceship in Wall-E and went, "Yes exactly, let's do that."
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Me watching The Pitt Season 2 Finale: Oooooh BP is short for blood pressure
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Craig Lincoln @echoesofthemurk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
All the AI stuff and writing made me think of @stephenking.bsky.social's Tommyknockers. Bobbi's writing machine produced writing while asleep using her own thoughts. AI has it backwards, where it eliminates the creator and seeks to create pulling from a hive mind and trending towards average.
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