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Jason Sanford

@jasonsanford.bsky.social
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Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good news: @sfwa.bsky.social's Recommended Reading List once again lives! The general public and SFWA members can sort the list to see what SF/F novels, stories, poems, comics, scripts and games are receiving the most love and attention from the org's writers. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
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Genre Grapevine: Good News as the SFWA Recommend Reading List Returns | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
When Professor Farnsworth in Futurama says "Good news everyone!" it's rarely good news for his Planet Express crew. But in this case, the ne
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 8h
Excited to be an author with a big 5 publisher so I have an established stake worthy of my yelling at specific guys about their oppressive corporate clownery instead of the broader faceless borg of same
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S&S Staff Balk at AI Performance-Tracking Software Talks
Employees at Simon & Schuster are circulating an open letter objecting to the potential use of AI software to track their work. In a memo, CEO Greg Greeley said there is currently “no company-wide rol...
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Really looking forward to reading this book.
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 05/10/2026
As @jasonsanford.bsky.social put it in his Genre Grapevine article, the SFWA Rec. Reading List is back! It's a great way to discover what's vibing with SFWA members. My novelette The Winter of the Icebergirl is there! If you enjoyed it, feel free to show it some love ❤️ sfwa.org/recommended-...
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Recommended Reading List - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 04/10/2026
This is a great tool! Glad that it's back.
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Rachel Reddick / RZ Nicolet @rr4idic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's a nifty list!
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good news: @sfwa.bsky.social's Recommended Reading List once again lives! The general public and SFWA members can sort the list to see what SF/F novels, stories, poems, comics, scripts and games are receiving the most love and attention from the org's writers. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
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Genre Grapevine: Good News as the SFWA Recommend Reading List Returns | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
When Professor Farnsworth in Futurama says "Good news everyone!" it's rarely good news for his Planet Express crew. But in this case, the ne
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
SPREAD, an underground club located in Tokyo’s Shimokitazawa neighborhood, hosted ‘JUCY BOOK RAVE,’ a daytime event that temporarily transformed its dancefloor into a dimly lit reading lounge on September 26th. I really need this to become a trend! edm.com/events/tokyo...
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Tokyo Underground Club Turns Its Dancefloor Into a "Reading Rave"
DJs soundtracked four hours of communal reading, book exchanges and optional dancing at SPREAD.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...
My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Forgive me for feeling emotional seeing stuff like this. As soon as I'd finished this book my ex-publisher collapsed, took my earnings and I had no idea whether it would even come out. I got the impression everyone who read it before it was published hated it. All I knew was I felt it was my best...
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
SPREAD, an underground club located in Tokyo’s Shimokitazawa neighborhood, hosted ‘JUCY BOOK RAVE,’ a daytime event that temporarily transformed its dancefloor into a dimly lit reading lounge on September 26th. I really need this to become a trend! edm.com/events/tokyo...
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Tokyo Underground Club Turns Its Dancefloor Into a "Reading Rave"
DJs soundtracked four hours of communal reading, book exchanges and optional dancing at SPREAD.
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hello and happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day! We're about ready to get started with this year's winner announcement A very special thanks to our first-ever sponsors: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, @laworldcon.bsky.social , and @revmindi.bsky.social ! #2026IgnyteAwards
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congrats to Strange Horizons! Well deserved!
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Morning, theydies and gentlefolk! Today's the day! We'll see you in a couple of hours.
Ignyte Awards 2026: Winners Announcement Oct 3 @ 12pm ET
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
100% agreement from me!
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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the people reaching out to me? they are all marginalized. mostly disabled writers. people who really cannot fight back. it's fucking sickening. what can i do about it? not sure, but we're gonna find out!
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks to @vriccithode.bsky.social for sharing this thread. I also hate that she keeps having to deal with this BS.
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Jared Schroeder @schroeder1stabskys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A lot to talk about concerning how Americans understand freedom of the press during Pew Research’s #SPJ26 panel at 2:30 this afternoon.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 01/10/2026
Australian publisher Starfish Bay, which took money for publication, is accused of leaving authors high and dry. Writer Beware is collecting info on this disaster; if you've been affected, pls contact me. beware@sfwa.org www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...
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Australian publisher accused of taking thousands and ghosting children’s authors
A grieving mother paid $12,000 to publish a book written in memory of her late son. She was left without a finished book and completely ignored.
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Attending the Society of Professional Journalists National Conference in Columbus. Very good sessions so far. Also good to see so many journalists still doing important, needed work while enduring attacks from politicians and people who wrongly see us as the enemy. #spj26 @spj-posts.bsky.social
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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She's in the process of revising the history she has with me, which has been super fun to watch unfold after knowing what she's done to you
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last night I updated the design of my author website to better highlight my books and make it easier to navigate. And yes, "science fiction and fantasy for a strange world" is the site's new catchphrase. Thoughts? www.jasonsanford.com
Screenshot of Jason Sanford's website, showcasing different books and publications.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have a story in this one! Not, alas, about astronaut cats! But it IS about fairies, and bargains!
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last night I updated the design of my author website to better highlight my books and make it easier to navigate. And yes, "science fiction and fantasy for a strange world" is the site's new catchphrase. Thoughts? www.jasonsanford.com
Screenshot of Jason Sanford's website, showcasing different books and publications.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 29/09/2026
hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020
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Story Hour
Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 29/09/2026
Emily has become and embodied what she herself claims to fight against. An abuser.
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?
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🧑🏻‍🦽‍➡️🦄 Eva Roslin (they/them) ⚨ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Folks, this is NOT OKAY. The person who continues to post these nasty things about Jason and others and...diminishes that which those of us with genuine ab-u-sers have faced & continue to face. This person needs to STOP what they are doing.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026
hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...
the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickersmy story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Total agreement!
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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 26/09/2026
Look, I'm the first to tell writers to have small group chats where they can vent and be bitchy. It can save you from posting through it publicly when you just want to be petty and catty. You can't work in this industry without collecting a list of people you dislike for petty reasons.* BUT...
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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thread. I "attacked" her by trying to warn people that this is what she uses her discord for after she was posting invites to it. I'm sure I will end up on her abuser list for *checks notes* leaving the discord amicably bc it was straining my mental health, then trying to keep others from same 🫠
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can verify everything in Jason's below posts. The ongoing harassment of Jason, Erik, etc etc is *years* long now. I will point out that amongst Emily's "abusers" is one of her own damn authors, who was only recently released from contract after speaking up in support of Emily's victims.
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Jennifer Brozek @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just loved being lumped into her "evil league of evil." She's now in the same category as JDA for me. All she wants is attention and she will attack people to do it.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Important thread re the ongoing harassment Emily Bell (of Athis Arts) has been directing towards multiple people in SFFH.
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can't believe I have to keep doing this, but time to tap the sign again. Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing me and others. Read my original report for details. New details in following thread. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing Jason Sanford. Read Jason's original report for more details. https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford/posts/genre-grapevine-161758874
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
so many people on the internet are so damaged and they deal with it by ascribing the worst possible interpretation to everything they see online and raging at it as though it's what caused the damage in their own lives
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 23/09/2026
WORD OF WARNING. hey folks please be careful when using things like Canva. It was brought to my attention that one of the images for the portrait header I use was being flagged as AI on meta. After lots of digging it turns out that the free element that I used for the border around…
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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Story day! A would-be serial killer manages his violent impulses by ‘capsizing’ himself—projecting his consciousness into a nearby object—whenever they arise. All goes well—until he encounters another man with the same ability… @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/not-...
Text excerpts of a short story
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey pals… A good friend and coworker was recently diagnosed with cancer and is out of work for treatment. It really sucks. His brother has started a GoFundMe to help (because American unaffordable healthcare), and I’d appreciate any shares if you could www.gofundme.com/f/support-cj...
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Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already
Alt: Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm fascinated by the process of writing individual, stand-alone stories in a universe you've created because not only do I love reading stories like this, it's what I'm doing with the stories in my Plague Birds universe, released by @apexmag.bsky.social. 2/ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...
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Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition
Finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award!  Return to Jason Sanford's dark sci-fi world in Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition, newly updated and with an additional afterword and short story, "Li...
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 21/09/2026
folks writing about books: please confirm the actual publications of an author before referencing them! just had a trade review reference an AI slop book that’s been attached without permission to my name on some retail sites. so. that’s a great thing to wake up to.
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love how this excellent policy from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social separates the desire to be a "writer" from the desire to "write." 1/
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
you can go and consider a preorder of the new book, here: www.fantasticfiction.com/a/alma-alexa...
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am being hosted by a Hugo winner. You may go read Genre Grapevine now. Thank you, @jasonsanford.bsky.social .
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