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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 10h

Toronto pals! The New More Than Two is coming out in a beautiful new paperback edition, with a new afterword from the incomparable SF/F author Nalo Hopkinson. On Thurs, Oct 22, 7-9 pm, I'll be in conversation with Eva Dusome at @comeasyouareco.bsky.social ... www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 12h

It's happened; I'm having a hard time telling the real email invitations from the scam ones. Coffee Klatch with J.K. Fowler?

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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

www.qilinpress.org/addison-spec...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Inda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Didn't know that all the climate scientists cheetoh fired launched a new website and put back all the information. www.climate.us

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'll be at World Fantasy in a couple weeks, and I have a reading! Friday, October 23, 2026 11:30AM-1PM Salon 1 & 2 READINGS: Caroline M. Yoachim, Bruce McAllister, Charlie Jane Anders Moderator, Remy Nakamura

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"But while First Contact stories are ostensibly about humans meeting aliens, they aren’t really about that. Not really. They’re about us." Author @wtalabi.com recommends five African First Contact stories:

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Five Stories of First Contact in African SF - Reactor

A look at five African books from the rich history of SFF that work as First Contact narratives.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 08/10/2026

Oh hey, Canadian writers, Access Copyright payments go out today

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 08/10/2026

We've now surpassed 75% of our funding goal! In addition to subscriptions, we've got t-shirts, mugs, signed books, stuff from the magazine archives... We're still about $12,000 away from our $50,000 target with 7 days remaining, so please consider backing if you haven't already. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Judge Dale Drozd ruled on 16 September that the Fish and Wildlife Service broke the Endangered Species Act by inventing its own legal test to refuse critical habitat for the endangered Sierra Nevada red fox. The agency must now redo the assessment. buff.ly/DZ1IoR6 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Court Rejects Government’s Refusal to Protect Sierra Nevada Red Fox Habitat

Center for Biological Diversity: SACRAMENTO, Calif.— A federal judge ruled today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it refused to designate critical…

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Boston and Burlington, VT! See you next week!! I'm at Brookline Booksmith in Boston on Weds 10/14 and at Phoenix Books in Burlington Thurs 10/15! Let's talk about slime molds and ancient Rome!

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
Book Tour - Boston
Brookline Booksmith October 14, 7 PM
in conversation with Cecilia Tan

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
Book Tour - Burlington VT
Phoenix Books
October 15, 7 PM
in conversation with Andrew Liptak

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thailand eliminates rubella as a public health problem. The milestone, verified by the WHO, is the result of a vaccination program that began in schools in 1986 & expanded to all one-year-olds in 1993. Thailand is the 7th country in the region to achieve elimination buff.ly/JW29ZYF #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Thailand verified for eliminating rubella as a public health problem

The World Health Organization today announced that Thailand has been verified for eliminating rubella as a public health problem, marking a major milestone in the country’s efforts to protect…

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's sad to see how the venerable magazines Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF have been made into venues no professional can be associated with. The publisher seems to just be an aspiring hedge fund.

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J. M. "Danger Prone Daphne" Lassen @jlassen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I just finished Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones. I'm not going to rhapsodize about it. I'm just going to thank @stephengrahamjones.com for giving us such an interesting/challenging/amazing book. bookshop.org/p/books/off-...

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Off the Reservation

A ragtag group of activists sets out to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy taken to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones’s return to the Blackfeet reserva...

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter is currently at 38% of our initial funding goal! Do you want more strange, shocking, surreal, and beautiful stories in 2027? Back today to help us get there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you to everyone posting about Brian & Wendy Froud's new book, containing 72 new paintings with literary responses by 37 women writers of diverse backgrounds, landscapes & mythic traditions. Having worked on the project for the last two years, we've all been moved by the enthusiastic response.

Image: The front and back cover for "Brian Froud's Green Women" (Abrams Books, New York). Release date: October 6, 2026.

Image: One of Brian Froud's paintings for the book, called Grandmother Wood. Brian's mythic Green Women come in a wide range of guises, ages, and moods from light to dark. The response to this image was written by American novelist Delia Sherman.

Image: The contents page of the book, listing the writers in the volume and the titles of their pieces.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Awesome humble bundle:

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today is International Lesbian Day. Day of Lesbian Visibility. Hello—can you see me? Of course you can because I make fucking sure, as often as possible, that I keep myself visible. It has not always been easy. Let me explain.

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Lesbian Visibility

Today is International Lesbian Day. A day to be visible. Hello—can you see me? Of course you can because I make fucking sure, as often as possible, that I keep myself visible. It has not always been easy. Let me explain.

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I shared your memo with my SFF creative writing class today.

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

yup; bonus metamorphosis! Had me revisiting my school bio lessons to remind myself of the difference between 3 stages and 4.

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm looking for a list of all the magazines under the Must Read Magazines umbrella, but I can't find one. Does anyone else have one?

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love this piece so hard. I see the so-very-Julie you-ness of it, plus the unexpected world, setting, circumstances. The texture of textile...oh, I could go on.

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reading @julieczerneda.bsky.social's short story "Third Life" for the umpteenth time bc we'll discuss it in my course. Writer brain is analyzing the prose, tracing out character arcs, dissecting. My reader soul is just weeping again for the beauty of it, the love in it that reaches past boundaries.

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you, John. This is a good model to emulate.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2) Do not mistake these words as a dunk upon editor Emily Hockaday or art director Franco Alvarado. Or Sheree Renee Thomas. Or most of the staffers who predate Must Read's corporate purchase of their magazines. This is about MRM, and their policy choices. Stay on target.

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Stay On Target Retro Game Display

ALT: Stay On Target Retro Game Display

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1) If you're considering submitting a story -- or are approached to create art for any publications that Must Read Magazines owns, including Asimov's -- walk away. Their current contracts are too predatory and do not suitably value you, your work or your rights. There will be other opportunities. 2/

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/10/2026

lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

excellent dossier curated by @kwazana.bsky.social and Tavia Nyong’o socialtextjournal.org/periscope_to... with terrific contributions by @jennifercnash.bsky.social Grace Kyungwon Hong @blacklikewho.bsky.social

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

hell yes

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today’s a DOUBLE book release day for me! The first is this amazing, star-jammed anthology The Book of the Dead ed by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social! My story is (very humbly) called This Is What Happens When You Die. I am SO proud of it; one of my favorite things I’ve ever written amzn.to/3WbT9ZZ

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Veronica Schanoes @schanoes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I didn’t know we had a Writers Hall of Fame.

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4

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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Never mind my question. This is the answer.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works goes to WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social (Saga Press) See the contributor list in the alt text

2026 Ignyte Award winner in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works:

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope: EDs. Dr. Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, Malka Older

CONTRIBUTORS: Charlie Jane Anders, Samit Basu, Tobias S. Buckell, Reo Eveleth, Jaymee Goh, Nicola Griffith, Alejandro Heredia, Vida James, N.K. Jemisin, R.B. Lemberg, Sam J. Miller, Abdulla Moaswes, Laia Asieo Odo, Kelly Robson, Nisi Shawl, Ursula Vernon, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Izzy Wasserstein. Interviewees: adrienne maree brown, Andrea Dehlendorf, Walidah Imarisha, L.A. Kauffman, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Kendra Pierre-Louis (Saga Press)

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"After picking up" is itself government spin. A witness says it hit his hand, and the prosecutor themselves say they can't say either way which it was bsky.app/profile/rica...

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Same! Years ago I had a character in a story do exactly that to supplement what food he could afford on his pension. Nowadays, city camera surveillance would make that risky.

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners and finalists of this year's Ignyte Awards! This is a really special award, and I'm very honored to have been a finalist again! I'm also super happy for ML Krishnan, with Ichthyosis as a finalist! A lot of friends, seriously cool ppl, and great reads on this list!❤️‍🔥

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bookshop.org is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can get THE DEVOURERS slightly discounted there. A mythic realist, queer dark fantasy about love, sex, violence, & shapeshifting set in contemporary India & the Mughal Empire. It won a Lambda Award.

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The Devourers: A Novel

For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination.LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF...

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

THE FLESH KING, the second Ford and Neuland book (and sequel to THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL), is out in paperback today!

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