Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 4hThe opening music from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I thought the timpani was a giant coming to stomp on me. My parents used to threaten to put it on when I was bad. 220
Reposted by Sara K EllisLauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My latest chat with a Fantasycon Guest of Honour has just gone live! And @lunapress.bsky.social's Francesca is the absolute bestest. 064
Reposted by Sara K EllisLuna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 19h@robertsmalan.bsky.social joins Luna Novella! Those Who Are Left Behind, novella adaptation of his 2018 BFS Award shortlisted graphic novel The Prisoner, illustrated by John Cockshaw, takes us back into the depths of Morningstar Prison, in this psychological horror. @booksfromscotland.bsky.sociallunapresspublishing.comRobert S Malan Joins Luna Novella 2027!Robert S Malan returns to join the Luna Novella series! Those Who Are Left Behind, the novella adaptation of his 2018 BFS Award shortlisted graphic novel The Prisoner, illustrated by John Cockshaw, ta... 11612
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 12hThat base lies directly behind our campus—on which they crashed a helicopter twenty two years ago. Local authorities were shut out of the investigation. There are demonstrations to remove it every year. 000
Reposted by Sara K EllisBlip@Blackhat_1 @blip-blackhat-1.bsky.social · 13hScumbag Brain Dead Idiot Pete Hegseth's defense department at work. www.npr.org/2026/10/04/n...npr.orgU.S. Marine arrested for alleged murder of a woman in Okinawa, JapanJapanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday. 012
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026East of Eden deserves the accolades, but what the heck ever happened to that Scarlett Johansson adaptation of Custom of the Country? 030
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So this happened. Dear Sara Ellis, “We are thrilled to inform you that your submission "The Memory of Consumption: Foodways and Power in Pluribus" has been invited to participate in the session ‘Reading and Representing Culture Through Foodways’.”static.klipy.comPluribus Obcrack PluribusAlt: Pluribus GIF. Zosia tells Carol that “it only gets better.” 060
Reposted by Sara K EllisMichael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026At The Mossy Skull, I reviewed @chloehsmith.bsky.social's 2023 @lunapress.bsky.social novella VIRGIN LAND. It's about colonizers on an alien planet being confronted with their dangerous misconceptions about its indigenous ecology. I really enjoyed it! mossyskull.com/reading/revi... 1114
Reposted by Sara K EllisLuna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Join us tomorrow night at 7pm UK time on YouTube and meet the amazing contributors of Collective! youtu.be/Lu2RX8mgfTc?... @dancoxon.bsky.socialyoutu.beCollective: The Collaborative Art of the Anthology - LaunchYouTube video by Luna Press Publishing 078
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is starting to sound like The Lathe of Heaven. 010
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Starting my climate fiction seminar off today with Byron’s Darkness and a selection from Tomorrow’s Parties. 040
Reposted by Sara K EllisVera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy book birthday to me! My debut collection of short fiction, APARTMENT WARS AND OTHER STORIES, is out in the world! The special first edition with illustrations & story notes is now available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. If you enjoy character-driven science fiction, please check it out! 491
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“I’ve never seen a picture which smelled of the wind and rain in quite this way nor one which so beautifully exploited the kind of scenery people actually live with, rather than the kind which is commercialized as a show place.” Raymond Chandler #typhoon #rewatch thebabybloomer.blog/a-love-lette...thebabybloomer.blog√A Love Letter to I Know Where I’m Going!: The Best Film You Never SawThe film I Know Where I'm Going! has attained cult status among filmmakerd and adoring fans. Why, for many, does it remain the best film you never saw? 030
Reposted by Sara K Ellisdhunterbell @dhunterbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Things I did today: Made paella, drank nice wine, played guitar, went to the Co-op, spent too much on Bandcamp, killed a god and ate some of him in front of his disciples by accident which led to a major collapse of a religious belief system. One of those things may have been part of a D&D campaign. 022
Reposted by Sara K EllisEsther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026 "At the time, DoorDash’s large spending raised eyebrows. Now, the company has to pay its workers around 100 times the amount it spent attempting to influence the election, owing to a mayoral administration that refused to overlook concerns with the company’s conduct."theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani. 07830
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“It is suspected that many of the well-read hardbacks and paperbacks, often directed to “a logistics center in Okayama Prefecture,” will be scanned and then pulped by one of the foreign AI tech giants.” www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...tomshardware.comJapanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up ...Short-term boom could lead to a longer-term drought and removal of important works from circulation. 110
Reposted by Sara K EllisFoz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026a critical weakness in far too many left-wing spaces is the lack of any real strategy for dealing with people who weaponize social justice language to lambast and tear down others while framing even the mildest - let alone well-deserved - pushback against them as bigoted abuse. 10363129
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: You get more than one life. The transition between lives is sudden or slow. Sometimes it’s a night flight to Paris, sometimes it’s waking to the news that your country is ending,” Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel #booksky #amreading #oof 061
Reposted by Sara K EllisCriterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This one is leaving at the end of September, just a heads up.criterionchannel.comBody SnatchersDirected by Abel Ferrara • 1993 • United States Starring Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar Abel Ferrara brings his subversive vision to the sci-fi/horror genre with this potent adaptation of t... 112
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Meal prepped a yellow curry and a kickass lentil soup and now can’t decide which one I want for dinner. 020
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We’re all just waiting for the Kilara Sen spoof. 000
Reposted by Sara K EllisWilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Crossing Delancey and Chilly Scenes of Winter. Relationship films at the very opposite ends of the spectrum. I clearly need to see everything Joan Micklin Silver ever made. 2101
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026John Heard is so creepy on reviewing. It clashes hard with memories of when it was first released as “Head Over Heels.”😬 020
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Have wanted to start this for almost a decade. Don’t know why I didn’t. ❤️ #booksky 071
Reposted by Sara K EllisJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026One moment at the Marlon James Powell's event I wanted to highlight, because it made me happy: We both love The Church's Under the Milky Way w/ fond memories of hearing it the first time. There's a great paragraph about the song in his new novel The Disappearers that captures the essence of the song 7985
Reposted by Sara K EllisRhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Love that someone watched MIDNIGHT MASS and thought, "I could make this hilarious." 153
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This. I’m chasing it by reading Okinawan folklore and going for long walks in my new home. 030
Reposted by Sara K Ellis𝑪. 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒆́ @christinedaae.bsky.social · 19/09/2026great here. Or anywhere else, really. But the times when it’s hardest are the times when we need to chase the magic the most. Not to fool ourselves into thinking things are better than what they are, but to give ourselves a reason to have hope for our own lives 181
Reposted by Sara K Ellis𝑪. 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒆́ @christinedaae.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A lot of people want to leave Japan, even those who have been here for decades. I can see why. I don’t blame them– 2026 has been ROUGH in Japan, to say the least. I’ve covered some of it myself for @unseenjapan.com and so has @tokyovice.bsky.social I’m not going to pretend things are 1114
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Berg and his wife Deb are dear friends of my sister. Met them in Detroit a few Christmases ago. Great people and a wild and happy turn of events. 142
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Talking to my cat. “You see it’s kind of like they found a Denisovan or a Neanderthal, but alive. And a cat person.“ 030
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Oregon book haul. Mostly Powell’s Hawthorne with some main store and the wonderful Robert’s of Lincoln City. Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party and Marlon James’ The Disappearers are there in digital spirit as I was eager (and wildly optimistic) about reading them both on the long haul flight. 280
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Patricia Highsmith, whose baleful influence is felt in this novel, wrote that ‘because of what they have been through, all homosexuals are blood brothers across time.’ James, a long-haul trucker of the human spirit, carves that notion into his novel’s chest.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...nytimes.comThis Masterpiece Is the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century (Gift Article)Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet. 010
Reposted by Sara K EllisThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/09/2026Rhea Seehorn won the Emmy for best actress in a drama for her performance as Carol Sturka in Apple TV’s sci-fi drama “Pluribus.” nyti.ms/4xuBD0f 818120
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I can’t vote, but I’m extremely disheartened by the results of the Okinawan gubernatorial election, and saddened for those who remember the destruction wrought by Japanese militarism, and all those affected by the ongoing presence of the US bases. An LDP victory will further entrench those harms. 020
Reposted by Sara K Ellisimo @gogumas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026they pushed tamaki out of okinawa so like......as if okinawa wasn't already struggling with US occupation 😭😭🫠 021
Reposted by Sara K EllisGlobal Voices @globalvoices.org · 13/09/2026The Ryūkyūan People's quest for self-determination and Indigenous status has been thwarted by over 100 years of harsh assimilation policies and a heavy U.S military presence since WWII.globalvoices.orgIn Japan, Ryūkyūan Indigenous claim hindered by U.S. military bases in OkinawaThe Ryūkyūan People's quest for self-determination and Indigenous status has been thwarted by over 100 years of harsh assimilation policies and a heavy U.S military presence since WWII. 02114
Reposted by Sara K EllisJon Reinsch @jonreinsch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Today, I honor the Okinawans who fought so long and so valiantly to stop the Henoko base—many of whom could not forget the horrors of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. How will Koja's voters react when Takaichi and the LDP accelerate plans to make Okinawa a battlefield again? mainichi.jp/english/arti...mainichi.jpJapan ruling camp-backed Koja set to win Okinawa governor race - The MainichiNAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Genta Koja, the candidate backed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling coalition, is set to win Sunday's Okinawa gubernator 041
Reposted by Sara K EllisAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s the plot of Naoki Urasawa’s “20th Century Boys.” 56416
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“What one gathers from these misreadings is not so much that science fiction itself is nefarious, but that arrested development might be. These particular boys … came to fetishize the books they had read rather than revisiting them with adult eyes.” www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...theatlantic.comWe Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old BoysMany of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. 23210
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Saw Practical Magic 2 w/ the family at a packed and pleasantly raucous Bagdad theater. Highly recommend ignoring the critics on this one. 150
Reposted by Sara K EllisRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is what Trump did on 9/11. 31155952296
Reposted by Sara K EllisStina Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 11/09/2026that this is even a question ppl are asking blows my mind. 193
Reposted by Sara K EllisSteve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 11/09/2026I want to write a weird speculative fiction novel about early 1990s Portland OR where I grew up. BBSes, biking, arcades, SNES, malls, minimum wage, dirt cheap fast food, holographic comic books, early Magic the Gathering, Pioneer Square and Powell’s Books. 3231
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Two weeks before 9/11, I landed at Dulles w/ a six-hour layover. My partner was waiting in NYC, so I found a flight boarding for Newark, and asked to fly standby. They took my boarding pass, no ID check, and I was in NYC hours before my original departure. When I think about the ease of … 1/2 130