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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 28/09/2026

Christopher Caldwell (@seraph76.bsky.social) introduces his collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

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Christopher Caldwell introduces Call and Response

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/09/2026

🌟Shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 With its haunted shoes and sheep and cats, Bora Chung's novel in ghost stories (translated by @antonhur.com) gently suggests the degree to which humanity’s efforts to control the world are themselves figments and fantasies.

A photo of the book Midnight Timetable, standing on a black shelf next to a glass vase with two pink-orange flowers and some greenery.

"What we can see and hear and touch in this world is very limited. And so perhaps it’s true we don’t know much about the world at all. We like to say there’s nothing new under the sun, but we don’t have the slightest inkling of how many things there are, indeed, under the sun."

from Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ada Lovelace Day is coming up soon, on Tuesday 13 October, so if you're celebrating in any way, please add your event to our calendar. If it's a private/internal event, you can set it to 'private'. Add your event: findingada.com/worldwide-ev... What's on: findingada.com/worldwide-ev...

The Ada Lovelace Day Indie Event roundel.

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Dr. Meg MacDonald @megintransition.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Utterly devoured this book - or perhaps it devoured me.

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Dr. Meg MacDonald @megintransition.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A spooktacular book? Enquiring minds must dive deep and dredge up all that awaits lurking in its pages. Warning: contains witty retorts, yearning (all sorts), and spiritual, political, *and* nautical knots.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The two #Equinox are the only days when the Sun rises due East and sets due West, everywhere. At the Dec solstice the sun rises in the S-East. At the June solstice it rises in the N-East. As the days pass between the two, the sunrise position slowly changes passing due East each equinox.🤩 🔭🧪

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 21/09/2026

Premee Mohamed (@premeemohamed.com) reads from her story collection One Message Remains, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

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Premee Mohamed reads from One Message Remains

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Marguerite @marguerites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Readers, writers, crafters, musicians! We want you in our beautiful sparkling tapestry, our stories interwoven and our diversity important.

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Marguerite @marguerites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are also looking for volunteers and ideas, always. Part of our goal is to reflect an authentic modern Dublin (and Ireland more broadly) to the world, making sure all facets of this brilliant spec fic community are represented.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A recording of this talk is now online for those who missed the live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvcO...

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Exploring Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Fantasy Masterpiece

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Dr. Meg MacDonald @megintransition.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am not in #Toronto but if I was I would go to this in a heartbeat. Educational, boozy, and taught by an absolute gem of a human!

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

20% of all mammals are bats and I don't see anyone posting them. Give bats proper representation!

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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's #PortfolioDay!? 👀 Here's some of my work! I'm best known for creating colourful, detailed digital art incorporating patternwork and symbolism, as well as designs to represent and power other neurodivergent and disabled people. Portfolio at www.abistevens.com Email abistevens@btinternet.com

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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's my birthday 🎉 so in Bluesky tradition I'd love for folks to repost my art today! 😊 #artistSupport #illustration #darkArt

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Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne @rflong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Teacup Dragon Sanctuary is out today and Jade and I are off on our adventures (And the ebook is only 99p - mybook.to/TeacupDragon... Or uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...) #StarlingIsland

Hardback of The Teacup Dragon Sanctuary with a small green dragon, on a wall

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We need your help! We still need donations for this year’s bookbag - a free book for every attendee at Fantasycon. If you can help, whether with 1 book or 100, please fill in the form here: shorturl.at/WD0lZ

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The Sword In The Stone: Merlin's Magic

Alt: The Sword In The Stone: Merlin is shrinking books to fit in his travel bag

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bjo Trimble Wins 2026 Forry Award file770.com/bjo-trimble-...

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Box Of Greebles @boxofgreebles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We are Box of Greebles and our first game is about being trapped on the Glasgow Underground while the world ends, and it's called "Tokamak!"

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Shot inside a train on the Glasgow subway in the game "Tokamak"

Shot inside a train on the Glasgow subway in the game "Tokamak" showing the drivers cab.

Shot insid a train on the Glasgow subway in the game "Tokamak"

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Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Are you coming to #Octocon2026? Can you spare a few hours to help us? (Some jobs involve just watching programme!) There are snacks* and perks and some excellent people to work with! (* Online volunteers will need to provide their own, sorry.)

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Octothorpe @octothorpecast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do you feel that your life has insufficient Octo-ness in it? Want to connect with other people who send a lot of Discord messages? Why not join Octocon, the Irish national SF con, and come to a live recording of Octothorpe! octocon.com

A graphic for Octocon, the Irish National science fiction convention, showing that Octothorpe are online guests! Also there's a dragon and a robot.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you have a membership to @laworldcon.bsky.social, there's still time for you to access the virtual portal and watch me ham it up as Frank Belknap Long — who I once met! — opposite Cody Goodfellow as H. P. Lovecraft in a staged reading of "The Failure of the Century" by @nmamatas.bsky.social.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 09/09/2026

A brief review of @emfaulds.com's latest collection These Broken Little Worlds (spoiler, i loved it) and a chat with Beth about writing neurodivergent characters and finding people who share her world view www.patreon.com/thequietsun/...?

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Enter E.M. Faulds' Broken Little Worlds | CL Hellisen

I have finished reading E.M, Faulds' second collection of short stories These Broken Little Worlds, and like its predecessor Under the Moon,

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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@mkhardywrites.com plus @megintransition.bsky.social is a KILLER match, let's get esoteric and haunteddddd

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Worldbuilding for Masochists @worldbuildcast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We had such a special time at WorldCon this year in LA, even if we didn't win a Hugo. Dear listeners: YOU ARE THE BEST. Totally dorky: but we really adore hanging out together, and that's the real prize. That and looking fabulous. (It's hard to tell but we coordinated to look like the Bi Flag)🏳️‍🌈

The podcasters seated at the Hugo awards, bedecked in blue, pink, and purple. Natania is a white woman with brown and gray hair and red lipstick, Cass is a white woman with a pink dress and blonde hair, and Marshall is a white man with brown hair and a purple suit. They are smiling!

The three cohosts, arrayed in purple, navy, and pink!

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Dr. Meg MacDonald @megintransition.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

*repeatedly starts headbutting the desk* It is *almost* like in a world we regularly know that people ensure the narrative reflects that which serves them best. And that pitchforks and torches seem to be really quick to raise.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 08/09/2026

We have had an eventful day! Five Minutes Ago: KEVIN: Uh…there is a snake in the house. ME: REALLY? I leap up to find a small red, white and black banded snake on the floor. ME: Shit, let me think—red and yellow, kill a fellow, red and blacK, friend of Jack? Was that it? KEVIN: What the fuck?

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/09/2026

So for the last couple months, on a whim, I have been making Weird Sticks. The extremely high ceilings of our living room would eat any painting smaller than a Volkswagen Bug, so I got the idea that a sufficiency of six foot sticks might fill that space nicely.

Three boards, about 3.5 inches wide, painted in turquoise and black with random geometric shapes and found objects all over them. They are leaning against a glass case full of skulls, with a deer skull on one side and some more sticks, backlit, on the other.

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Finally, a religion I could get behind

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 04/09/2026

It feels more like writing a loose poem, where texture, musicality, & rhythm are as important as character, world building, & action. It's the most "vibe-forward" thing I've ever written & I kinda love it! WorldCon really got me fired up to improve as a writer!

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 02/09/2026

Call for reviews and essays! We're looking at December already, which is usually light on fiction releases; but there are some good ones on there, and lots of fascinating non-fiction titles. Take a look:

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Calls for Reviews & Essays: December 2026

ARB publishes reviews and essays on a wide range of speculative topics, including science fiction & fantasy, weird fiction, and their relation to utopian impulses. ARB is also always interested…

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Liz Batty @lizbatty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

great virtual panel about archiving African spec fic and more generally about approaches to libraries and archiving: guide.lacon.org/id/78ac4276-...

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LACon V Program Guide

LACon V Programme Guide

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 01/09/2026

The virtual novella finalists panel I was on with @naominovik.bsky.social @oliviawaite.com @annaleen.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com & Virginia Preston was such a balm & a joy & I learned about cheese theft (a subject of balladry in Norway!) & fish fraud (a delight to say!) among many other wonders

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How little sleep did I get at Worldcon? According to my Fitbit — Thursday: 4:59 Friday: 3:12 Saturday: 3:55 Sunday: 6:01 Monday: 4:55 This morning: 3:45 How I was able to function across 12 program items and six podcast recordings I don't know. Probably powered by the joy of being a Hugo finalist!

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David A. Hirsch (he/him) 🖖🏻 @hirschda.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Last set of Worldcon photos!

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Sara Felix @sillysarasue.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I got a lot of questions about the state of Texas in 2031. While we are really enthusiastic to run a worldcon we understand that the US is not conducive to that right now. We are waiting to see how the midterms go. (Please no politics on this post) However we can have some fun with it right? ;)

A blue background with a blue star field and a black and white star with a crown hanging over it. Under that it read Texas in 2031. tiaras for all!

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Weyodi OldBear- The Root and The Seed is available. @weyodi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I had a very good time at Worldcon, the highlight as always, was the people.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A friend asked at Worldcon what each of us had learned from the con ad or major takeaway and I just figured out mine: I am so goddamed fortunate in my friends and community that I don't even know where to start expressing my gratitude for y'all.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

WorldCon was magical. So many lovely conversations and small kindnesses. Seanan McGuire gave out friendship bracelets at her book signing--mine reads "Fate drew her there." A kind woman took a Polaroid of Ursula Vernon signing my copy of Nettle and Bone.

A tiny Polaroid in a tiny frame of a Ursula Vernon signing a book. On top of the frame is a green friendship bracelet with the words "Fate Drew Her There" spelled out in beads. The photo and bracelet sit on top of a paperback copy of Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire.

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

At one point I was on a panel with five other Indigenous writers!

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Instead, I want to focus on how amazing it felt to be surrounded by Indigenous excellence. I am all about uplifting my community.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 27/08/2026

First panel for #WorldCon is More Than Subtext: Celebrating Queer Characters in SF/F with mod @jomiles.bsky.social, @ebonidunbar.bsky.social @spacevalkyries.bsky.social, @xanwriter.bsky.social and myself at 09:00 PDT, (5pm UK time) guide.lacon.org/id/5a48ba50-...

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LACon V Program Guide

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 27/08/2026

Workshop is done! The tech was working perfectly thanks to the help of our lovely host. Volunteers, ya can't have a convention without their hard work! 👑

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Come join us at LA Worldcon! With stellar programmes online and in-person across timezones, there's plenty to enjoy this year -- especially if you're a fan of our Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds or Neil Williamson! guide.lacon.org Here comes the GSFWC schedule... (1/6)

An image showing Christopher Caldwell's Worldcon schedule.

E.M. Faulds' Worldcon schedule. A timetable graphic with colourful boxes. Text reads: Worldcon 2026. E.M. Faulds - My Online Events. Thursday 27th August 9:30pm BST (UK Time) / 1:30pm PDT (LA time) Workshop: Outlining while ADHD. Monday, 31st August, 9:30pm BST (UK Time) / 1:30pm PDT (LA time) Panel. Polycrisis: Living through many challenges at once.

Neil Williamson's Worldcon schedule:
Thursday, 27 August 2026 10:30 PDT / 18:30 BST
Justice Systems in SFF (Virtual)

Friday, 28 August 2026 16:30 PDT / 00:30 BST
Speculating on a Crime: Murder Mystery in Spec-fic (Virtual)

Sunday, 30 August 2026 09:00 PDT / 17:00 BST
Neon Rites: Exploring Urban Folk Horror

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