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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 04/10/2026

I'd like to once again remind you for #BannedBooksWeek that Huckleberry Finn and Animal Farm don't need you to go out of your way to read them. Instead, support a book, and author, who a ban can actually hurt.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my hot take is that you can find a lot more interesting stuff in regional Indian cinema than out of Bollywood blockbusters

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WE WILL RISE AGAIN won the Ignyte!! I'm so grateful for the little community that made this anthology real: the authors, our agents, & our amazing editor Sareena Kamath. And of course my magnificent co-editors @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social 💕🚀🥹

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

out of all the sff/h awards that exist, the ignytes and the ursula k le guin prize consistently have the most interesting and unpredictable winners and i love them very much for it

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Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Map 1/3 for An Anthem of Suns. It took over 300 hours to draw various versions of it until I settled on this one. #booksky

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Deb Merriam @debmerriam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If someone dropped DeNiro's team in Ronin (1998) into a place where buildings grow and your neighbours are other species, and made them fight over a delightfully grouchy old man instead of a shiny suitcase, it might read like WICKHILLS. (Apologies for the Ronin spoilers)

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

💚💚💚 So delighted, and a warm congratulations to all other winners and nominees. Thank you also to Alter Mag for commissioning a long-form essay on the history of Indian SF as the debut piece in their magazine. It’s available to read for free here: altermag.com/articles/the...

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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.

Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.

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Nishka (she/her) @ek-nishka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congratulations to all winners and nominees!

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, remember that time I did chapter-opening illustrations for a book? It didn't go exactly like this, but: You want me to draw a dead horse floating in a pond staring lifelessly at the reader, but like, in a tasteful way? No problem mate! 😄

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is part of a big thread with books to buy. And yes, please feel free to buy my short story collection. Short stories are my love!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

OH ALSO I forgot to yell about this: cats and video instead of just voices! On @gryftkin.bsky.social 's YouTube! :D Chatting about WICKHILLS and cities and physics and monsters and spies! youtu.be/I6Rb2oJW-Rw?

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Interview with author Premee Mohamed: Wickhills - this city does not obey the laws of physics

YouTube video by Gryftkin

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That cover is incredible and IT HAS A VETAL* * my WIP has one too,just the coolest monster that people in this part of the world don't really know about. I'm gonna be Day 1ing this

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 01/10/2026

As promised, the cover reveal for my ridiculous vampire novel, FANGS NOT INCLUDED, coming 25 May 2027!!! 🧛🏾‍♀️🧛🏾‍♀️🧛🏾‍♀️ (Illustration by Kushiaania; cover design by Julia Tyler and Alison Klapthor.) www.harpercollins.com/products/fan...

A blue background with the text "Fangs Out 05/25/2027" and a cover with four vampiric girls on it. The main one, a rakshasi, is holding a camera and filming. The title says, "Fangs Not Included."

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Chris Palmer @fugueish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The star was descending into the ocean — an incredible illusion caused by the planet’s rotation — and pale clouds made of ice arched across the brutal blue sky. ... It was freakishly beautiful, like everything on this alien world." — @annaleen.bsky.social www.coyotemedia.org/excerpt-anna...

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Excerpt: ‘A Wall Is Also a Road’

The new novel from San Francisco sci-fi writer Annalee Newitz is a thought-provoking meditation on human nature, told from the perspective of an adventurous alien amoeba.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/10/2026

full beard representation in speculative fiction

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

"Far from being an amoral free-for-all, liberalism is, in fact, extremely difficult and constraining, far too much so for those who cannot endure contradiction, complexity, diversity, and the risks of freedom.” ― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6

The 13 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are photographed stood on a wooden shelf with their spines facing the camera. The 13 titles are:

• Batool Abu Akleen, 48Kg., trans. from Arabic (Palestine) by Batool Abu Akleen, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti, Yasmin Zaher (Tenement Press)

• Hanna Johansson, Body Double, trans. from Swedish (Sweden) by Kira Josefsson (Scribe)

• Krisztina Tóth, Eye of the Monkey, trans. from Hungarian (Hungary) by Ottilie Mulzet (Seven Stories Press UK)

• Linn Ullmann, Girl, 1983, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Martin Aitken (Hamish Hamilton)

• Lalla Romano, In Farthest Seas, trans. from Italian (Italy) by Brian Robert Moore (Pushkin)

• Hélène Bessette, Lili Is Crying, trans. from French (France) by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo)

• Eva Luka, The Minotaur’s Daughter: Selected Poems, trans. from Slovak (Slovakia) by James Sutherland-Smith (Seagull)

• Geetanjali Shree, Our City That Year, trans. from Hindi (India) by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis)

• Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier, trans. from Dutch (Netherlands) by David McKay (Scribe)

• Ichiyo Higuchi, Troubled Waters, trans. from Japanese (Japan) by Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin)

• Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling, trans. from Spanish (Argentina) by Robin Myers (Harvill)

• Anna Nerkagi, White Moss, trans. from Russian (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) by Irina Sadovina (Pushkin)

• Ingvild Rishøi, Winter Stories, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Diane Oatley (Grove Press UK)

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW. PENGUIN.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading Jeremy Scahill’s new investigation of the US massacre of 160 schoolkids at Minab and thinking about the “veterans at Worldcon.” www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...

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Ash Arya | ऐश आर्या @iamasharya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jasad Heir × Raven Scholar Yug must stop his sister from vying for their mom's magical crown. But then their vile stepsister would rule. The only way to stop both? Seduce the stepsis' top mage—aka Yug's ex—into vying for the crown. Problem is, she's wary of both the crown AND Yug! #Dvpit #F #A #POC

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The conference on imaginative literature @readercon.org · 30/09/2026

Have we crowed loud enough that our 2027 guests of honor are Fonda Lee and Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine? How awesome is that? Come and join us in July 2027 as we celebrate their contributions to the literature of speculative fiction!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Ash Arya | ऐश आर्या @iamasharya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This #DVPit I want to talk about elements common to my #A #PoC #F books 👸FMCs who Lead & Rescue ♂️MMCs secure in their cinnamon roll persona 💖Non-toxic love with conflict & yearning ♟️Hopepunk Politics 🌈Queernorm worlds 🧘‍♀️Magic w/ Consequences ⚔️Found fam & f**ed up fam 💚Anxiety rep 💭Moral Dilemmas

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Pooja @forgottensaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was already excited about getting a new book, but this cover has taken to stratospheric heights. Gonna need a physical copy of this one

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was going to write something about humans painting in caves by torchlight but I got too weepy and emotional. I just love art 😭🌈✨

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s always going to be someone better, faster, and more skilled than I. But no one is going to have the same artistic voice as mine. Creating isn’t a competition, it’s a form of communication and connection. It’s a vulnerable thing, but it’s beautiful that way.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
San Francisco Book Launch
Green Apple Books on the Park
October 6, 7 PM
In conversation with M.M. Olivas

Book Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7&8 – Chicago
7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the child: when is this book from? me: the nineties the child, solemnly: almost a hundred years ago. at the beginning of electricity

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 26/09/2026

*panicked yelp*

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Realities of academia #137: looking up the biographies of historical figures who have literally nothing to do with your field of study purely to figure out why the author of the source you're currently reading has beef with them.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 26/09/2026

Happy 43rd Stanislav Petrov day!

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Short fic & comics from 30+ writers, mostly from Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi backgrounds. Meghalayan cyberhorror, Ambedkarite magical realism, tasawwuf solarpunk in the Western Ghats, Gujarati robot caste revolts. Cover art by Priyanka Paul. Pick up a copy!!! www.blaft.com/products/the...

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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora. edited by R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. cover art by...

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Nishka (she/her) @ek-nishka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My favourite thing about Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD series is that it's chock-full of references, some obvious, and some so subtle that you don't realise it's a reference to a particular thing until you're standing in a museum on your vacation, staring at a painting, going "wait a minute..."

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I take a totally hardline political stance which is that anyone who makes a phone call in the quiet coach of the train should be fined £500 on the spot for the first offence. And for the second offence? Death.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/09/2026

ALSO is it that time of year again?? Is the air getting crisp?? Are ghosts beginning to whisper from the dark corner behind the bookshelf?? ("Actually we're roasting" OK I can't help where you live, ignore the above) Time to read THE APPLE-TREE THRONE! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

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The Apple-Tree Throne ebook by Premee Mohamed - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Apple-Tree Throne" by Premee Mohamed available from Rakuten Kobo. It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the st...

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods.’ —Anne Carson (Carson is wonderful, almost endlessly interesting, and quotable.)

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Character whose backstory is like a Shakespearean tragedy, which is to say they were perfectly free to walk away from All That at literally any time with no consequences but didn't because of who they are as a person.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I understand that most people using the word "vizier" as a fantasy trope aren't actually aware of its etymological origin, and I'm not claiming I've never done it myself, but "we say the word 'advisor' in Arabic when we want to denote that the advisor in question is evil" still isn't a great look.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/09/2026

apart from the known standard model of novels, novellas, and novellettes, we are yet to find evidence of the hypothesized novelino, noveletto, noveluccio, noveluzzo, or noveluolo. a great deal of work remains to be done

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