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Micaiah Johnson

@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social
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Author. Scholar. Enthusiast of ancient robots and overweight rodents. The Space Between Worlds and Those Beyond the Wall available now. The Unhaunting out this Fall. Yes, a Dr. No, not that kind.

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy Publication Day to The Unhaunting and to me! It’s actually a dual publication day because in the dead of night I put out this month’s My Favorite Thing. It is depressing, has nothing to do with the book, and probably too personal but it was in my brain: www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...
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My Favorite Thing: A Quote from The Little Prince, and also Absence. | Micaiah Johnson
(Alternatively titled: "Please stop asking if my parents are proud of me" or "Something waits for me in the divine for resisting the urge to
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did I wait until nearly the end of September to write this month's "My Favorite Thing" because the subject made me cry? Yes. Am I posting it at midnight when everyone is asleep because I am a coward? Also yes. Bon Appétit! www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...
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September’s Favorite Thing: A Print of a Little Prince Quote, and also Absence. | Micaiah Johnson
(Alternatively titled: "Please stop asking if my parents are proud of me" or "Something waits for me in the divine for resisting the urge to
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t know how I have managed to do so little touring in the South with previous books (even when I lived there) but we are making it up this time. Starting off strong with HOUSTON!!! The place that has been home to so many of my favorite people!! Thursday, October 1st!
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AUTHOR TALKS 
IN-PERSON
Charné Graham
Micaiah Johnson
2310 ELGIN STREET, HTX, 77004
KINDREDSTORIESHTX.COM
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Becky’s Books @beckysbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My second haunted house horror review for the week! ‘The Unhaunting’ by Micaiah Johnson had a slow start, but once it gets going I was hooked and it had one of most unique haunted houses I’ve ever read. crooksbooks.blog/2026/09/24/t...
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The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson – ARC Review!
A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death. At the end of the Civ…
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Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The BBB Author Book Fair's in our rearview mirror... so a reminder: Tues. 9/22 is our monthly READING series! Join us at 7pm at Barrow's Intense for tales from @meganf.bsky.social @carolgyzander.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social & @magicrobotcarnival.com! 👀📚🎙️ + brooklynbooksbooze.com
The 
Mmm mmm mmm mmm drink at Brooklyn Books & Booze for 9/22 at 7pm 
Tequila
Barrow’s Intense 
Pear liqueur 
Lime
Hibiscus
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Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BBB's September reading is delicious! Mmmeet our one-night-only drink -- Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm! It's in honor of ALL of our reader/authors: @meganf.bsky.social @carolgyzander.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social & @magicrobotcarnival.com! Join us starting at 7pm @ Barrow's Intense & drink up! 👀📚🎙️
Picture of a pink drink on a red table Mmm mmm mmm mmm
Drink contains:
Tequila
Barrow’s Intense 
Pear liqueur 
Lime
Hibiscus
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Where to find me for The Unhaunting:
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10/1 - HOUSTON, TX • 7 PM
Kindred Stories with Charné Graham
10/2 - DALLAS, TX - 6 PM
Interabang Books with Ali Kominsky
10/6 - BROOKLYN, NY - 7 PM
The Center for Fiction with P. Djelí Clark
10/9 - NEW YORK NY
New York Comic Con
10/17 - NASHVILLE, TN - 4 PM
Southern Festival of Books with Yah Yah Scholfield
10/29 - OXFORD, MS - 6 PM
Thacker Mountain Radio Hour & Square Books at The Powerhouse with Jim Dees
For more information, please visit micaiahjohnson.com.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
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Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What's the mmmystery behind all of our "M" authors at September's Brooklyn Books & Booze reading? Join us on 9/22 @ 7pm at Barrow's Intense in Industry City to find out -- and hear tales from @carolgyzander.bsky.social @magicrobotcarnival.com @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social & @meganf.bsky.social !📚🎙️🍸👀
Authors Megan Frampton, Carol Gyzander, Micaiah Johnson and Mia J. Moss in an ad for Brooklyn Books & booze on Sept. 22 at 7pm
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Witness as two weeks ago’s stack of Queer Liberation Library flyers (received at @flamecon.bsky.social) become the very first thing in my suitcase as I pack for Texas 🪄
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This book almost undid me in so many ways, and I’m thrilled to be launching it from the other side. Really happy this will be a convo with @pdjeliclark.bsky.social rather than a reading, because this book is about places you shouldn’t stay, and bait only a strong community can keep you from taking.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 at 7PM ET
Micaiah Johnson on The Unhaunting with P. Djelí Clark
In Person at The Center for Fiction & Livestreamed Register at CENTERFORFICTION. ORG
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Less than a month until The Unhaunting’s Release (Sept 29th) which means it’s time to be a little bit annoying about pre-orders. Behold! Authors said nice things! You too can order the thing that made authors say nice things
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“PUTNAM
"The Unhaunting charts the liminal middleground between
SHIRLEY JACKSON
AND TONI MORRISON."
- Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
Novel”Grey background with black moths and image of The Unhaunting’s red cover. 
Red and black text over beige text box reads: 
"A brilliant, spellbinding tale of terror that deftly interrogates privilege and generational trauma
WHILE SCARING YOUR SOCKS OFF."
-Kylie Lee Baker,
USA Today bestselling author of Japanese Gothic
Novel”Grey background with black moths and image of The Unhaunting’s red cover. 
Red and black text over beige text box reads: 
"Micaiah Johnson has written a novel of
UNFATHOMABLE CRIMES, PRIVILEGE, AND THE BURIED TRAUMAS OF OUR PAST— that exposes both the horrors of the supernatural, and the ones that lurk in our mundane world."
-P. Dieli Clark,
award-winning author of Ring Shout
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Red and black text over beige text box reads: 
"Anxiety-inducing from start to twisty end, The Unhaunting kept me up all night.
COME INSIDE, IF YOU DARE."
—Victor Manibo,
author of The Villa, Once Beloved
Novel
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
tell Christina about your book or else
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
good advice for any field, any creative community really. People doing hustle-culture shit & treating me/my time rudely, like a vending machine... I've been in the game long enough to see most of those folks flame out. it doesn't work! Just be a human being! You are already one! Allegedly!
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
SEE GUYS WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME WAVELENGTH (this is not about the same person - I don’t think - who inspired the blog post today but it is the same *type* of person).
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh yeah we should say this first: this year’s WorldCon was amazing in its utter lack of shitshow lol so many were projecting doom and it was chill as hell at the organizational level. (I had one UNHINGED panel but that’s just…people being people).
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am once again tormented by *thoughts* www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...
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Is There a Wrong Way To Chase Your Dreams? Some Thoughts Post WorldCon. | Micaiah Johnson
Follow me to a scene from a few years back: A writer whose name rhymes with Mariah is sitting in the lobby during an SFF con whose name rhy
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
Got baby's first royalty report yesterday and I'm like wildly close to earning out???? Thank you, friends, for buying/borrowing Year of the Mer and telling your friends about it.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 22/08/2026
"There’s only one thing worse than a house that’s haunted: a house that desperately wants to be." Our next Letter in the Mail comes from @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social, author of The Unhaunting. Subscribe to Letters in the Mail now to receive a handwritten letter from Micaiah: buff.ly/iVp2K70
The name Micaiah Johnson written in white at the bottom of Johnson's author photo. In the lower lefthand corner is the book cover for The Unhaunting with a Rumpus Letters in the Mail stamp overtop.
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Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
REMAIN CALM: BBB's September reading series will be on a 4th, not a 3rd, Tues! Join us on 9/22 @ 7pm @ Barrows Intense to hear from authors @carolgyzander.bsky.social @magicrobotcarnival.com @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social & @meganf.bsky.social ! Best of all, it's FREE!📚🎙️🍸👀 More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com
Authors Carol Gyzander, Micaiah Johnson, Megan Frampton, and Mia J. Moss in an ad for Brooklyn Books & Booze's September 22 event at 7pm at Barrow's Intense
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My fave example of empathy/altruism was a paralyzed girl (spina bifida, probably) who died in the ancient Middle East her teens, but unlike other remains from the same period, had a LOT of cavities. Archeologists theorize they gave her lots of dates to eat, more than anyone else got. Out of love.
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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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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
*whispers* I know this one…
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If my headphones die on the subway and you are beside me composing a “I just want closure” message in your notes app, FYI this is *our* text to Dawn now. For the next eight stops we’re *both* going through an intense lesbian break up.
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/08/2026
you perverts like staring at wisconsin, huh? you like looking at maps with all of our stupid little counties? you can't help yourselves but whisper "fond du lac" and "shawano" while reading about ballot drops. you want to taste a cheese curd? huh?
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Posting my Galley/ARC letter publicly to celebrate 100 followers on Patreon (I cannot explain why 100 feels like a massive accomplishment for a blog but it does). www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...
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On Houses: ARC Letter for The Unhaunting (100 followers!!) | Micaiah Johnson
The following is the galley/ARC letter for my upcomming novel, The Unhaunting. Posting it here in celebration of reaching 100 followers here
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Such a good interview and Clay is the most worthy of praise, but everytime I see Riley Sager’s name in print it takes me back to the GREAT HUMILIATION* *the many months I spent believing him to be a woman and referring to him as such ON PANELS AND STAGES
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tbh this would go hard on a tombstone.
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Appropos of nothing: if your first instinct is to publicly rage-shame an individual for doing something that is unethical at the level of the corporation, you might be seeking an outlet for frustration rather than harm reduction - reaching for your neighbor’s neck because you can’t get Sam Altman’s.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
jfc
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Schedule for LAcon later this month! Come see me yell about the High Desert to people who think of Southern California as LA and the OC only 💜
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LAcon V
Micaiah Johnson's WorldCon Schedule
Thursday, August 27, 2026
16:30 (4:30 PM) PDT Reading: Micaiah Johnson
San Simeon B (Hilton),
18:00 (6:00 PM) PDT The Black Gothic in America
Palos Verdes (Hilton),
Friday, August 28, 2026
9:00 AM PDT It's the End of the World: Southern California Dystopia
258 (ACC North),
12:00 PM PDT Science vs. Magic
261B (ACC North),
15:00 (3:00 PM) PDT The Global Gothic
258 (ACC North),
Saturday, August 29, 2026
12:00 PM PDT Table Talk: Micaiah Johnson
Sunset (Hilton),
15:00 (3 PM) PDT Autographing: Micaiah Johnson
Pedestrian Bridge (ACC North),
Sunday, August 30, 2026
13:30 (1:30 PM) PDT
Race & Robotics: A Not-so-brief History & Not-so-happy Ending
Palos Verdes (Hilton)
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I was beaten to it by the amazingly generous @mollytempleton.com but yes! The blog I was nervous about yesterday is a reality today. She’s free. She’s long. She contains multiple cat photos. www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...
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My Favorite Thing: The Cat That Hates Me + That One SFF Author Who Hates Everyone (Thoughts on Exile) | Micaiah Johnson
The first time I fed Sasha she sliced open my hand and bit my leg so hard it bruised. The second time I fed Sasha she hissed and swiped, but
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 03/08/2026
this post is so good and necessary and everyone should read it
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My Favorite Thing: The Cat That Hates Me + That One SFF Author Who Hates Everyone (Thoughts on Exile) | Micaiah Johnson
The first time I fed Sasha she sliced open my hand and bit my leg so hard it bruised. The second time I fed Sasha she hissed and swiped, but
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The way my defiance disorder is set up, my forthcoming book has more em dashes than I have ever used, an essential prologue, and major themes that are easy to miss if surface reading. Discourse of “you shouldn’t…” accidentally became a to-do list 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Very nervous about tomorrow’s blog on Patreon so have some out of context quotes from it as a treat 💜
Indigo background, white text. Text reads: "There are cats you will never want to pet.
Feed them anyway.
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patreon.com/micaiahjohnsonIndigo background, white text. Text reads: "The space between feeling and reacting is where our morality gets to live.
It is the space where we can prevent our cultural indoctrinations from controlling us, where we can keep our preference for comfort from becoming the means we use to betray ourselves."
patreon.com/micaiahiohnsonIndigo background, white text. Text reads: "Your community is not just people you find funny, young, interesting, successful or attractive enough to post on your social media.
It is also the people you would want to help, the people who would help you, the people who would be part of your resource network as this administration hollows out traditional avenues of aid and security."
patreon.com/micaiahjohnsonIndigo background, white text. Text reads: "As a 90s child, I have a lot of models in media of a Helga Pataki, Oscar the Grouch, Squidward archetype.
But we don't have grouches anymore.
We put unpleasant encounters into a matrix of either injustice or psychology:
That person isn't just an asshole; they must be a narcissist.
That person isn't just rude; they must be a sociopath.
..and by pathologizing those we dislike, we give ourselves license to exile them."
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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
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🦇 Hexavier 🎃 @xavierck.com · 01/08/2026
just saw a post on tumblr that was like "when are people going to address the sexual violence in so much vampire media????" and I just
this has been talked about extensively you're just 21
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Clare @clarebearattack.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Space Between Worlds by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social is on sale for only $2.99 on kindle and if you haven’t read it, you absolutely should. It’s a beautifully written, thought-provoking, fascinating novel. www.amazon.com/Space-Betwee...
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The Space Between Worlds - Kindle edition by Johnson, Micaiah. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
The Space Between Worlds - Kindle edition by Johnson, Micaiah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting whil...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Everyone knows what the problem is: The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence,” said a senior GOP congressional staffer, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel issues. “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s really starting to grind me down
The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”
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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ehi is one of the kindest, most generous people I know, and a dear friend. If you can, please help.
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I will keep self promoting on these stories until they make a tiny difference to how Rufo gets treated in organs like the NYT, so maybe until I die www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
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Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal
Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory
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Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Johnson’s imagination and ridiculously rich storytelling had me completely starry-eyed from page one. Read the full review below.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
And, once again, it turns out that you do not need social stratification and hierarchy to have a complex civilization capable of building monumental, multi-generational feats of architecture. nautil.us/monumental-b...
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Monumental Burial Mounds Rewrite Ancient History - Nautilus
The colossal structures, built by hunter-gatherers, are way older than archaeologists had thought possible
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's Sprawl trilogy back in the day I wouldn't have guessed that the most depressingly prescient bit would turn out to be the sociopathic zillionaires like Josef Virek and the Tessier-Ashpools, but here we are.
A paragraph from a paperback book (William Gibson's COUNT ZERO, 1986): "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
HECK YES! @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social is one of our featured program participants. She's the Compton Crook Award-winning author of The Space Between Worlds, which you should read if right this very second if you have yet to do so.
Featured Guest Micaiah Johnson
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It’s a deal! A book deal!!
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25% OFF®
Books Coming Soon
Pre-order now with code:
SUMMER26
21-24 July | Online Only

Selected lines only. T&Cs available on Waterstones.com.”
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Christopher Hennessy @thealtchris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#queer #sff Lots on the list to take in but gotta say, @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social's the Space Between World was a gut punch in all the right ways. Highly recommend. bookriot.com/best-lgbtq-s...
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The Best Sci-Fi Books of the 21st Century are Very Queer
Far from an obscure subset of science fiction, as it may have been in the previous century, queer sci-fi is now leading the genre.
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