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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Homemade ice cream is done. I have a book, a breeze, and space to breathe. It bears repeating here that you’re not crazy just probably overworked, over stimulated, and over caffeinated. (That last one may only apply to me🤣) Today is a good day to unplug and reset.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 02/10/2026

Anyway HAPPY FRIDAY today is a good day to buy WICKHILLS so you can enjoy it over the wick-end! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hate how much of life has switched to typing on tiny screens. I am a big guy and I have huge fingers. Add a dash of ADHD and you get a near constant stream of garbled text every time I try to type anything from my phone. My most commonly used key is backspace and yet the typos persist.

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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are celebrating BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION all month long!!! What’s on your TBR for October? 🪐🧞🧛🏿‍♂️

A piles of speculative fiction books by Black authors, including “Rabbit, Fox, Tar,” “Forged in FIYAH,” and “A Necessary Chaos.”

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thought I’d tag @renay.bsky.social. I know we’re a little lye to hot the October deadline but they still have the tally on the sight and it would be cool to hit the goal if possible since Clarkesworld does a lot if good work.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are definitely a few that I'm excited about but I think the one I am going to have to make time for is The Republic of Memory.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ok we always get excited when people mention our darlings and this weeks #IGMT is chocked full. Ode to the Half Broken gets a quick call out and I also recommend checking out the Arcana Imperii series. Renay is a font of knowledge and correct opinions. Go check it out.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Long day. Can't talk. Gotta read more book then sleep. (sleep may be bumped to optional if book goes good)

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been doing a lot of reading and trying to build a better workflow. Maybe one of these days I'll actually be able to get my reviews written up as quickly as I'd like. I'm gonna go back to my book now.

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LaTia is somethin’ scary @latiajacquise.com · 28/09/2026

well. two months before my four-year anniversary, my role at wizards has been made redundant, and I have been laid off. i have a lot of feelings i'll probably never put words to, except to say that i don't regret a single day and have so much love for anyone else affected and those who remain.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What is the recipe for your perfect read? @mollytempleton.com discusses climbing out of a reading slump with H.G. Parry’s The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood–and how finding a new favorite book may just be a matter of ingredients:

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Finding Your Recipe for Literary Comfort Food - Reactor

What are the ingredients for your perfect read?

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I used to be so active on the internet. Somehow sadly I’ve become hardly capable of lurking in most communities. I work six days a week and manage children the rest of the time. I want you all to know I’m with you in spirit but my body just wants a nap.

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well, we've just been to the vet (sob) on top of Everything Else. 😅 If you're looking for Extremely Niche patreons to support, I have one. www.patreon.com/c/heyheyrenay

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm reading this one right now. I am loving the world building and for some reason it's giving me a vibe a lot like Perdido Street Station. Wickhills is a city of secrets and moves at its own pace. I'll be back to comment on how I feel when I'm done with it.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My first book, The Wildcraft Drones, is out today from @stelliform.press ! “climate fiction with heart” — Publishers Weekly “This is the future that cyborg oak trees and pirate drones want. I do too.” — Annalee Newitz “A much-needed vision" — Kim Stanley Robinson bookshop.org/a/122239/978...

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The Wildcraft Drones

Check out The Wildcraft Drones - <p>Can machines rewild us?</p><p>An AI breakthrough connects a team of scientists with a wild dolphin, but progress is neck-and-neck with climate breakdown. Class diff...

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How is it that we are living in 2026 and if I want my kids to continue having teeth that work I have to pay the equivalent cost of a 10 year old Sedan?

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 31/08/2026

Last night was extraordinary & I’m still dazed from it. THE RIVER HAS ROOTS won a Hugo award! Huge congratulations to all the finalists & winners—it was such an honour & a joy to get to celebrate with you!

Backstage selfie of me in a black dress with blue and gold sequin-embroidered flowers, holding a Hugo Award for Best Novella, beaming and overwhelmed.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Speculative Insight has been publishing 2 essays/month about SFF since January 2024. That means there's 31 free essays available to read right now! Pratchett's Men, the politics of translation, ethnicity is SEAsian SFF, Tolkien and myth-making... and so much more... www.speculativeinsight.com

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Speculative Insight

A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is a pretty nice start to the morning. Coffee and a book with the sun coming up out my window.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I stopped reading and came to the internet for some reason. I know its partly panic about things that don’t even happen for six months but I need to go back to the book I was enjoying before this intrusive thought took over. #booksky

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Am so tired. I would love to have an economy where I don’t have to work 6 days a week to get by. Not to mention the 0 benefits and 0 paid time off. I’m now looking for any conventions who need help. I’d like to go to gaming and Sci-fi cons but I can’t justify the time unless I’m getting paid.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I need to get my Sci-fi book club book done. Please hold all my calls for the next three days. Thanks

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 21/08/2026

Now with alt text! :D

Mohamed, Premee. Wickhills. Tor. Sept. 2026. ISBN 9781250378415. 320p.

$29.99. FANTASY

Vycol Ferec believes he's working for the city of Wickhills, doing good and smooth-ing down the rough edges. However, he's really the secret police, and this mission is going to get a whole lot of people killed, including his own team—unless they betray him first. He's protecting a scientist who has discovered a way to destroy all the city walls, and everyone is out to capture that secret so they can do unto others first. Vycol Ferec is never certain whether he should keep run-ning or stop fighting because he's burning through his friends and his enemies, and it looks like no one is going to come out of this alive, possibly not even the city he loves. This gas-lamp urban fantasy com-bines an exciting adventure, a walk through dangerous, secret places, and one man's cri-sis. The pace is relentless, the characters are unreliable at every turn, and the stakes are high with every step. VERDICT Recommend Mohamed's (The First Thousand Trees) lat-est to lovers of gas-lamp fantasy, epic po-litical machinations, or hidden motives and anyone who has wondered what a fantasy version of Green City Wars by Adrian Tchai-kovsky would look like. Marlene Harris

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That’s why I’m a fan of “Novellavember” and “Finish the dang series December”

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Stayed up too late cleaning my garage. Gonna get a coffee and see if my body is going to let me function today. I am real proud of my hobby desk though. It’s one of the last things I still hadn’t unpacked after 2 years in this house.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I guess there’s no rule against making it a marathon read. Try to finish at least one whole series in the month.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I try to use December as a time to finish all the series. I pick a series or two that I can finish during the month and also try to pick up a couple middle books to make progress on series that I haven’t kept up with. I do not start new series at the end of the year though. Very important.

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here!

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Quick bump for the evening folks. I want to start a roundup of Indie press new releases Any suggestions of your favorite Indie presses would be appreciated.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Renay has put out a call and I’d love to see if I can get some help here. We need a roundup of Indie and Small press Sci-fi and Fantasy (and for my own tastes I’d love some horror too). Can we get a thread going to tag presses that are doing the work? I’ll start with @shortwavebooks.bsky.social

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Issue #65 of Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Buttondown was once again, "Gmail is going to truncate this." That means it's perfectly filled with delicious links and essays!

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Intergalactic Mixtape #65

Hey! This week there’s a great interview with Martha Wells, a special review section, more award commentary, and an unofficial space opera rec list as I...

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Want to read my book, forced to leave for work. Happy Friday friends.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That’s still on my TBR but I will get to it.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It’s alway a good day when I have a new article from @mollytempleton.com in my inbox. As a bookseller I’ve learned a lot about appreciating other types of readers. I still love nerding out with other fans just sometimes we’re nerding over different things. reactormag.com/the-specific...

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The Specific Bliss of Just Not Having an Opinion (Sometimes) - Reactor

In a world of hot takes, it's nice to take a break...

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Both Protectorate and Devoured Worlds trilogies were really good. Criminally underrated in my opinion.

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Please tell me your favorite space opera novel (or series, if it's too hard to choose, I'm not a MONSTER) ever. 🥹

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I really enjoyed The Protectorate series by Megan E Okeefe. It is a really tough choice, but usually anything with sentient space ships and dangerous Alien artifacts will draw me right in. Oh and food. I don't know why, but finding out what counts as comfort food in 300 years is great too.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm lost as to what I should be doing right now. The Dopamine says I should dive down a rabbit hole of new RPGs and games that I learned about at GenCon, but I also have books I need to read preview and the one I need to read for my book club. Can't say it's a bad problem to have though.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Stomach is mad at today. guess that means it’s time for Blankets and Buffy. #BTVS

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am definitely going to be doing a longer visit next year. With any luck I’ll find some work so I can take the full Convention.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am now home from #GenCon2026. I had a good time. I really miss playing games and hanging out with other nerds. I spent some money and gave out some long overdue hugs. Also so many awesome authors and artists that I couldn’t possibly keep up with it all. Thanks to all the staff for a great day.

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Lukthomas likes books @lukthomas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m almost ready for GenCon tomorrow. I haven’t done a full Con in a while. I enjoy Sunday but it’s a pretty short visit. Maybe next year I’ll be in a place to go for the full four days.

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