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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you follow me online, you've probably seen my daynotes (since I post them... uh, near daily) and my monthly newsletter. I love writing them. Indeed, it's probably my favourite thing to do aside from writing books. So - I've got a bit of news! www.davidgoodman.net/announcing-m...

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Announcing my new membership programme

Yes, we've had first newsletter. But what about second newsletter? (or third?)

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

CONGRATULATIONS @hhpak.bsky.social! YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST-EVER WINNER OF A HUGO AWARD IN A PROSE CATEGORY! YOU BEAT THE RECORD HELD BY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN WHO WAS 26 YEARS AND 10 MONTHS OLD WHEN HE WON FOR "A SONG FOR LYA" IN 1975!

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Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

PSA turns out the fastest way to write a short story is by using it to procrastinate on writing a novel

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm some loose gravel on a turn in Sunshine Canyon. Heh heh heh, these idiot road bikes are going to hit me going 45mph...

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ive heard about a rerelease of a similar story. but we all know I HAVE NO BUTT AND I MUST POUND is the science fiction classic everyone is talkin about

cover of I HAVE NO BUTT AND I MUST POUND featuring i blob buckaroo on the left and a shirtless PM on the right

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Walt Shitman @waltshitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Fantasy author” is a fake job created by Big Hat to sell big black hats.

George R. R. Martin wearing a black fisherman’s cap

Sir Terry Pratchett wearing a big black hat

Robert Jordan wearing a really big black hat.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I love that the image strongly suggests that at some point in their chequered history Bilbo and Gollum solved crimes together, and that Bilbo was the maverick and Gollum did things by the book.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 07/08/2026

I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 07/08/2026

I'll be on some Worldcon panels at the end of this month! Talking about alternative energy, problems with data centers in space, and AI. Here's the schedule if you'd like to attend: guide.lacon.org/people/c7c48... And DM me if you just want to meet up to say hi

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 09/06/2026

CLARKESWORLD DEADASS STARTED MY CAREER AND PUBLISHES SOME OF THE BEST SHORT SFF OUT THERE EVERYONE GO SUBSCRIBE TO IT RIGHT NOW!! or else.

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Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 19/05/2026

We just published a guest blog post from Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com: The Information Theory Behind Why AI Writing Sucks. Check it out! pangram.com/blog/joe-ste...

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 11/05/2026

Checking off my “getting paid for my writing with a silver coin like it is 2000 years ago” box for an anthology payment by @thinkweirder.com i am unironically so thrilled about this

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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 08/04/2026

Big news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!

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Ancillary Review of Books: Year 7!

Questioning power, imagining possibility: ARB provides thoughtful criticism of speculative fiction. Help us pay our writers and staff!

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 03/04/2026

this is a great book, everyone should buy it right now for 99 cents

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 17/03/2026

CHILDREN OF STRIFE BY @aptshadow.bsky.social IS OUT TODAY! I'm only a few pages in but the collection of villains on this spaceship is already worth the cost of admission

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 05/03/2026

I just finished "Slow Gods" by Claire North via a recommendation by @aptshadow.bsky.social, and I loved it. Beyond the cultural richness of the far future setting, I think there's something very appealing about the juxtaposition of real-feeling technology set against an element of the numinous

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Tia Tashiro @tiatashiro.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I did this last year and I'm trying to make it an annual Thing, so here are a few short fiction writers in their first two years of publishing worth considering for Astounding Award nomination! I'm highlighting a work I loved from each of them (it's hard to keep it to just one, but c'est la vie)

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The Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast @bingereadingbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🚨New episode ‼️ Brilliant author David Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social takes us on a paratextual tour of Excession by Iain M Banks! linktr.ee/stetpodcasts Dave helps us understand why paratext is sometimes the best tool for conveying intricate relationships in a novel. 💙📚 #podcasts

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STET Podcasts gathers together some of the leading writing and publishing podcasts in one place for all your writing needs!

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 27/02/2026

My wife and I did the Mallory Cave hike above NCAR today, check out this section of "trail" that turned out to be a class 4 slab! I wouldn't have believed it was part of the trail if that plaque wasn't there. The view from the top was incredible.

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 22/02/2026

Thoughtful conversation on @mealofthorns.bsky.social about Egan's Diaspora, I loved how they differentiated between the sort of superficial engineering projects+big guns pop culture hard SF and the mind-expanding concept-driven hard SF that Egan writes: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/09/a...

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A Meal of Thorns 43- DIASPORA with Eden Kupermintz

Greg Egan’s work exemplifies a certain kind of “hard” science fiction: not that it’s obsessed with big manly space battles, but rather that it’s using science to reall…

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 19/02/2026

the only anthology that might pay you in silver coins

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 19/02/2026

Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f... If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 16/02/2026

I just finished "Death of the Author" by @nnedi.bsky.social, and I LOVED it. This book had an utterly unique combination of technology, family, the confluence of Nigerian and American culture, and writing life. As a rock climber, I really enjoyed the side character "Hugo", who reminded me strongly

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Tia Tashiro @tiatashiro.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Readers' poll closes tomorrow!

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 14/02/2026

sure whatever this novel about the mall is actually about american cultural imperialism and how cultural victory is achieved by the cancerous replication of your tropes across other cultures until everywhere on earth looks like you

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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I have vowed that if I ever win a Hugo, I will get a tattoo. If you like any of the works below, or just want to see me get ink, give me a nod on your ballot.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 11/02/2026

It's time for your periodic reminder that we count on subscriptions to keep the lights on. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ Thank you.

Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Picture of the Clarkesworld robot looking over at the cover of our February issue. That cover features a robot looking out at the sea while standing on the beach with their hands clasped behind their back. The water comes gently towards their feet. Peaceful ocean and sky. A contemplative moment of peace. Cover art by Matt Dixon.

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 13/02/2026

I don't ONLY read science fiction (just mostly). Here are some of my favorite books from 2025! Incredible reads by @aptshadow.bsky.social, Robert Jackson Bennett, Cory Doctorow, @doriskgoodwin.bsky.social, and @brandonsanderson.com compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/favori...

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 04/02/2026

After finishing Echopraxia, this is the first thing I see in the "Notes and References" section: "I am naked as I type this. I was naked writing the whole damn book." Bravo, Peter Watts. Superbly played.

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Louis Inglis Hall @louisinglishall.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

My latest @clarkesworldmagazine.com story ‘Three Fortunes on Alcestis…’ is out today! It’s available to read for free online right here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_02_26/ It’s about a tyrant and a soldier and a baby. With bonus fortune-telling and bonus bad-tempered alien goats.

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Three Fortunes on Alcestis as Told by the Fraud Baeliss Shudal by Louis Inglis Hall

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Oh hey, is there a new Morag and Seamus story out? There is! Check out a cozy post-apocalyptic take on the legend of Tam Lin here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_02_26/

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The Iron Piper by Fiona Moore

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I've noticed a microgenre shift in SF over the last year - or possibly just in the books I've come across. Specifically, a bit of a boom in big concept space opera books working in the Banks/Hamilton ideaspace. Meaning SF that simultaneously delivers a strong action storyline against a backdrop

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Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com · 31/01/2026

I feel that this is an appropriate first bluesky post: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/the-bu... This is the level of seriousness you can expect from me going forward

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