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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Welcome to Yoon Ha Lee's Hexarchate, home to epic military SciFi, Calendrical Heresy, space marines and immortal madmen! Buy the 10th anniversary edition of Book 1 - NINEFOX GAMBIT - with a new introduction from @annleckie.com ! geni.us/ninefox10th

Against a starfield, white text: "Explore The Hexarchate."

Covers for:

NINEFOX GAMBIT (10th anniversary edition)
RAVEN STRATAGEM
REVENANT GUN
HEXARCHATE STORIES

all by Yoon Ha Lee.

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

what's good about sports is how many of them there are. and on television

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📌 SUBS ARE OPEN this July!! Submit your fiction and poetry to @augursociety.bsky.social Issue 10 📚️ Scroll for more info! 👇️ buff.ly/AKmSaxU 🧵

A purple background with a leaf silhouette border. Within the border, the following text appears: "Augur Magazine, 2026, July 1 - July 15, submissions now open. $100 cad per poem. $0.14 cad per word (Fiction, 800+ words). $112 cad per flash fic (<800 words). augursociety.org/submissions. SCIFI. Fantasy. slipstream." Within a peach-coloured box, there is an icon of a paper plane with the text "Pass it on."

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We are open! Let your strange natures bloom

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

wrote a blog post last night with the working title "justifying to myself why i need to do months of research to even start thinking about beginning my novel" but it turned out to be another treatise on being a writer in the age of AI buttondown.com/frankiehagg/...

I am partially influenced in these agnostic opinions by my field. Machine translation has been a mainstay in my industry for decades, and is now functionally essential in any translation firm that wants to stay afloat. I use it reluctantly at work, mainly for time savings on texts where the goal is plain language.

This usage is also how I know I will never use it for my art: it cannot possibly be useful in this task. LLMs can produce a fine text if your goal is to convey information directly. In art, I am actually trying to find increasingly creative ways to avoid doing this. I am interested in the act of writing, in creation—not post-edition. I am interested in meaning and feeling and intention. I am interested in what reading at least 20 books will bring to my work—what approaching my creativity with a scholar’s instincts can do. This is good work to me. To get maybe a little weird with it, I believe it is the sort of work I am on this earth to do, the sort of work I am for.

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

louise rules, help tales & feathers and your conlang in one fell swoop with this kickstarter reward 🥳

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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 25/05/2026

TRACTOR BEAM: THE WATER ISSUE is open. 🌊 Seeking speculative fiction about water, agriculture, migration, ecosystems, and anti-apocalyptic futures. 💰 $1,000/story 📚 Under 6,000 words preferred 📅 June 30, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social #OpenCall #AmWriting

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Your teenage years are all about learning who you are as a person. Your 20s are for taking risks and making mistakes. Your 30s are for being stuck in a time loop. Your 40s are for being stuck in a time loop. Your 50s are for being stuck in a time loop.

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

myself being in 1-2 careers where AI looms around every corner, @weareravenous.com's initiative gave me hope for the kinds of professional futures we can build for ourselves. subscribed. stoked to see what they turn out

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Hello friends. 👀 It's time for a ✨Tales & Feathers Kickstarter Campaign!!✨ It's all thanks to YOU, wonderful readers, that we've been able to publish our little magazine, and now we need your support to fund Year 5 and beyond. 💚 Sign up below to be notified the moment the campaign goes live!

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Coming soon: Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+

Fund the future of our pro-rate quiet slice of life fantasy market.

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

often when first-drafting a translation my linguistic centre is all confused and i have to unmix my idioms in post. some good ones today. cook while the iron is hot (arguably reasonable). take some perspective (good magic system idea)

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Heads up–we open to submissions on May 1st at midnight (EST). Get your rotten leaves ready 🍂

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

GET READY TO SUBMIT ‼️ Augur Magazine is opening for a priority call! We're accepting submissions from anyone living within Canada who is also... - BIPOC - 2SLGBTQIA - Disabled on MAY 5TH!!! Open call for international + Canadian subs will take place this summer! Check out our subs guidelines👇

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Submit to Augur Magazine

We're looking for surrealism, dream touched realism, and SFF! Now with higher pay.

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

it's almost two years since I started translating full time! one of my struggles as an early-career translator with an editorial background is that a translator really cannot edit the text in the same way. improving the text is only sort of within my purview, and it's a journey to grasp exactly how

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

last week a work client relayed that i was too comma-happy because i use the oxford comma, and while all language rules are fake and made up, i am completely unable to get over it. COMMA HAPPY? for separating LIST ITEMS CLEARLY? early introduction to chicago manual of style shapes a person

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

picking up a lot of history and environmental nonfiction these days, but it's challenging as an outsider to the field to pinpoint which books will provide the sort of information i'm looking for. this is an invaluable comparison for readers like me, thank you

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Here's an essay-length review of 4 new books on the history of #ClimateChange, with my thoughts on how the scale of our analyses and the depth of our engagement with global warming alters the kinds of stories we can tell about history (and their accuracy). #EnvHst online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here is the other winning portrait. "The Clarity Of Untangling The Threads (portrait of a stitch artist) 5" Hand embroidery artwork. #PortraitArt #embroidery #ThreadPainting

A square linen background with a hand embroidered portrait of a white female face with brown outline of hair which has a big thread tangle on the upper left hand side. The head is turned to the right, only the section from the eyebrows across to the cheekbones and down to the mouth is hand embroidered in detail. In the lower right, next to the mouth is a huge thread tangle.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

To fully understand "Sinners" and the world of the Smokestack twins, we need to explore the Rust Belt Gothik, the tradition of Black speculative survival strategies forged in response to the pressures of the Great Migration

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Beyond Afrofuturism: Sinners, the Great Migration, and Rust Belt Gothik - Reactor

"Sinners" is a particular kind of story about migration, spirituality, and Black speculative survival skills

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨ Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up. This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year. Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!

An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below.

Text reads:

ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA
CREST by A.D. Sui

After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together.

But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home.

CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock).

Coming Fall 2027

Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC
For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The falconer: Things fall apart! The falcon: WHAT? The falconer: Things fall apart! The centre cannot hold! The falcon: WHAAAT? The falconer: fucksake MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD!

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Elizabeth Porter Birdsall @epbirdsall.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm really proud of this little story of a big robot and all the lives around it in and above the soil, and I hope you enjoy it!

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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"Chaffinch" Hand embroidery thread painting artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p115/c... #birds #embroidery #FiberFriday #WildlifeArt

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

this hand-embroidered finch has moved me to tears this morning. there is great beauty in the world (birds, art)

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I barely think about The Obelisk anymore. Couldn't care less about its strangely oily surface or the gentle hum of its presence

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Mechanic rolled out from under my car and across the room and out of the garage and down the road, never to be seen again

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fredesque @fredtaming.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

me: i heard you do a terrible owl impression him: where me: holy shit that is bad

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

i naturally read about a book or two per week on average, though that number has been declining year over year since i started translating. 2025 was my first full year as a full-time translator, and I'm on track to have "only" read 44-45 books by EOY. this is still a good achievement!

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Watched "In the Mouth of Madness" last night, which is a movie all about how Southern Ontario is the most terrifying place on earth.

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I had the great honour to edit Chlorophilia in this issue - a flippy little take on Ovid for the modern era. If you, like me, love an epistolary story (or any story about natural desire), take a little look at Augur 8.3 out now 👀 🌱

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Inside you'll find... 🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest 🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens 🫐 a berry world of grief and awe & so much more! 🔗 Link in bio! More details below 👀⬇️

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

at the end of the day you have to love the dishes. that's what separates the greats--they see the next stack of dishes as an opportunity to run the track one more time. And they take it personally. Dishes? in MY sink? you should've called ahead. you'd know better

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

ELPHABA and GLINDA will return SUMMER 2027 in SINNERS 2

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

this is great advice at a time where i am daily looking at my little notebook of short story ideas followed immediately by hyperventilating into a paper bag

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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Arsenal Pulp Press is proud to be a #CertifiedCanadianPublisher. 🇨🇦 The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.

Certified Canadian Publisher: Publishing with purpose.

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Azure Arther @litgalz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It's my first time leading editing. The process was so eye-opening and amazing. I won't restate the editor's note but yall. Yall...I am so proud of each and every one of these stories and the authors who wrote them. Come meet some new reads.

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

as @ridethekick.bsky.social said of baseball yesterday: anything can happen, until it doesn't, and if not, you do it again

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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

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THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA: Seundruls 2022

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I'm doing a bastardized version of nanowrimo (bastardwrimo, as my friend hyemi put it). here are my november goals: 1. sit down to my writing daily, for any amount of time 2. read at least 10 pages daily, of anything 3. walk daily 4. journal daily (based on julia cameron's morning pages)

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Discover... 🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair 🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction 🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain & so much more! 🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

very exciting month ahead! halloween... jays in the world series... [flipping very quickly past the page in my planner that has a daily wordcount tracker for november] concert coming up with a friend...

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape. redpopnews.com/13-must-read... #redpopnews

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13 Must-Read Indigenous Horror Books That Will Haunt You Long After the Last Page

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frankie hagg @frankiehagg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

i'm friends with several phd students in video games (it's montreal), and when they ask me why i love management sims, i don't know what to tell them. right now it's planet zoo. i can't explain why i finish doing tasks at work just to boot up the device to finish doing tasks at simulated work

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong

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