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Norin 🦈 🔜 Nycc 3679? @mahoukarp.com · 8h

Its spooky season 👻🎃🦈 #art #sharks

Illustration of a shark on September 30th and October 1st. Spooky season is in session~

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

happy pumpkin season! (art from 2014)

a black and white scratchboard drawing. Alternative poster for "It's the great pumpkin, Charlie brown"
It depicts a vast pumpkin patch in which Linus is standing holding a sign. He is looking up at the full moon. In front of the full moon we can see Snoopy in his aviator costume on his doghouse.
All the way in the distance, there is a house and we can see three children in halloween costumes coming out the door.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 13h

I like the defintion of fascism a character gives us in The Watch That Ends the Night: "the organization of every murderous impulse in a human being"

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Katy Grierson @kovah.bsky.social · 14h

Been noodling away at this for a few months now, finally finished it! "Failed persuasion check." No Ai used #dragon #dnd #greendragon #illustration

An adventurer fails his persuasion check against an ancient green dragon.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

These were three individual pieces I did in 2021. Unplanned, they became something of an accidental sequence. They then prompted me to make the piece in the quoted post, of the pumpkin dance, by way of a conclusion. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, each 95 × 64 mm.

Three small silhouette drawings in black ink. The first is of a sitting fox, looking back over its shoulder at a bird on the branch of a little bare shrub. The second has a playful-looking fox, half-crouched, tail in the air, looking at a bird which has just taken off from a branch. The third shows a fox, surprised, its head drawn slightly back, as it seems to have come upon a pumpkin on the ground, surrounded by its vines. It has a face like a carved jack-o'-lantern.

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 12h

Study of a Raven Ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

Study of a Raven made with a black ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper.

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 11h

You guys, I'm all in on these moody autumn days. Tisha Mark ©2026, For Love of Stormy Days, oil on linen, 14"x11" This one-of-a-kind original stormy seascape painting is available: tishamark.com/product/for-... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "For Love of Stormy Days" oil on linen, 14"x11" (2026). A textured and atmospheric seascape painting where the dark blue sea on the right meets a coastline on the left that is reddish brown with bits of green. There are textured waves meeting the shore and textured storm clouds in the sky.

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 14h

On sale through October! Check out your favorite vendor at awfulagent.com/ebooks/where...

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11h

Pre-sign ups for the kickstarter for the Murderbot graphic novel!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11h

J.R. is an incredible writer. A literal Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. You would be lucky to work with them.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/09/2026

Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book

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The Animals We Became

You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 10h

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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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 14h

A demon appeared in the summoning circle. It was wearing pyjamas. "I summoned thee to give me knowled-" "Really?" the demon said. "You have the internet these days, the world's knowledge a click away. Nobody's summoned me in years." "You have all knowledge. Why did I summon thee?" "... oh shit."

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 17h

࿔*⸙༄˖° 𓇢

A drawing of a kitten sitting among candles. The caption reads, "let's prioritize comfort for now"

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Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · 23h

Murderbot: ALL SYSTEMS RED graphic novel. Funding on Kickstarter in two weeks. Sign up for notifications here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos... @marthawells.com @ericaschultz42.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social @paulcornell.bsky.social @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk

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The Ghost Egg @theghostegg.bsky.social · 17h

Join my mail club any time in October for this print 🥹

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The Ghost Egg @theghostegg.bsky.social · 17h

Autumn feels like home. I worked so hard on this illustration 🤍

Digital illustration by The Ghost Egg of two ghosts decorating a tree and a log with string lights. There is a small wooden sign labeled “home”.

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 18h

Today is October 1 and through October 31, Where Oblivion Lives is on sale! If you're into m/m relationships, found family, haunted mansions and magic worked with music, this might just be for you. Gothic and spooky, it's the perfect read for fall evenings: awfulagent.com/ebooks/where...

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Where Oblivion Lives (#1) – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 18h

buy Burn Up in Victory! it's the novel-length sequel to my Romeo and Juliet short story, about what happens in that same magical city after! Lots of duels, lots of kissing, some magic, nothing explained books2read.com/burnupinvict...

the first hardcover in the world of Burn Up in Victory. It's sitting on a dark wooden table, with dark shelves of multi colored books in the background, and the upper right of the cover is briefly reflecting light

Book cover for Burn Up in Victory: a woman with loose red hair, waring a blousy white shirt and black gloves, holding a fencing sword vertically in front of her, her head bowed. The background is dark, but embers surround her.

(I bought this image from a photoset on Shutterstock and added the words to it in Canva. To my knowledge and the best of my ability, no AI is involved)

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18h

Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral. Another dozen subterranean rooms visited, but no new clues. It remains firmly occulted. Remains legendary, an engine of the imagination. – #MattAdams

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 18h

Daily birds 76 - Northern saw-whet owl

A small rounded brown and white owl with speckled patterns and yellow eyes

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 18h

for the entire october!! 👀‼️🌬️🎐🍃

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 21h

Rejoice UK ebook-ites! For 'A Tide of Black Steel' - book one in the Age of Wrath trilogy - is a Kindle deal at £0.99 for the month of October. #BookSky

Banner advertising the UK ebook £0.99 sale for the novel 'A Tide of Black Steel' by Anthony Ryan.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 21h

Good morning! 🪶

Three disappointed burrowing owls looking out of their bunker.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We should treat genAI in publishing the way you’d treat a vampire trying to enter your home. You never give it permission to enter. It doesn’t matter if it‘s polite or makes generous offers or it’s *only* going to take the ones *you* don’t care about. It’s here for your blood. Don’t let it in.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 20h

#Booksky Upcoming events! Look for us at Haunts & Horrors at @badweatherbrew.bsky.social in St. Paul this Sunday 10/4 1-5PM and at @creamandamber.bsky.social‘s Fall Mini Market on 10/10 10-2PM in Hopkins MN (Michael Merriam will be there with his books and ours)!

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 20h

🐾🐾🐾🤍..

A cosy illustration of a fluffy black cat stretched out asleep on a wooden wall shelf, beside three books and a trailing potted plant. The background is a softly textured blend of muted green and warm golden tones. White handwritten text above reads: “It’s nice to leave a little room in the day for nothing in particular.”

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Anxiety Fox @ NYCC AA B-22 @anxietyfox.com · 01/10/2026

As a reminder! Anxiety Fox is 100% human made by a very anxious human who tries to spread happiness through doodles. I never use AI to generate content and never will! ❤️ You all deserve my authentic self, even all the messy parts.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 23h

Just went through this list and basically ordered almost everything Please also read @freyamarske.bsky.social's amazing Bodies of Magic (medicine school plus five disaster students plus murder), @everinamaxwell.bsky.social's Call me Traitor (two unreliable narrators/disaster stabby lesbians)

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 23h

Offered at a special price in support of @newcastlefoodbank.org www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without asking the owners. It didnt work & led to a terrible war. Imagine it happening today....

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 30/09/2026

The princess took an earring off and held it out. The raven looked at it. "Whatever for?" "You are wise and clever. Many princesses have dragons, but none has a raven friend." The raven picked up the earring. "Say no more." "Friends?" she asked when it returned the next day. "Forevermore."

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 30/09/2026

The Book Quote word this week is 'treat' #BookQW #BookSky and in a gothic mansion in the Black Forest, Diago is entertained by the Grier brothers over a poisoned meal:

A cream background with dark red Art Deco designs in the four corners and a screen shot of the cover of Where Oblivion Lives a dark red color with a yellow abstract angel on the cover. The text of the excerpt reads: Karl leaned forward. “You must understand that my pursuit of archaeological details about the house has led me to other ancient texts. For example, those symbols”—he pointed to the band of Diago’s ring—“are used by nefilim to work their spells of intent.”

“Spells?” Diago choked on the word. He couldn’t be seen taking this kind of talk seriously. And I have to do it without insulting him. He treated the mortal to an incredulous smile and raised his eyebrows. “By nefilim? I thought they were biblical giants, not witches.”

“That is what they have led the mortals to believe. You see, the nefilim controlled the narrative by writing mortal histories. They inserted falsehoods into the myths of ancient beings to disguise their presence among the mortals. Nefilim are actually hybrids, who are the children of angels and mortals.”

Karl was dangerously close to the truth.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😸😽🎃🤍..

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl angrily peeking out of her burrow.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 29/09/2026

Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby? I've got you. Win a free copy here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026. We're giving away 10 copies of a unique and philosophical sci-fi t...

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/09/2026

It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...

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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....

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K. Rhodes and Jen Xu @kaijubean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

10 years ago today, we posted the first Novae cover. It's been a wild ride ever since! Left: first cover Right: touched up cover

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's Wrensday Wednesday! 😀 Here's a splendid fairywren that was easy to find right at my camping ground at Gluepot on Sunday. These are stunning little birds. #wrensday

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl standing tall in front of his burrow entrance.

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