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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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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

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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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 6h

Coming in October — five Fridays means it will be a three-episode Eating the Fantastic month! Join @wiswell.bsky.social, @marthawells.com, and @thomasha.bsky.social as we chat and chew. Subscribe for your seat at their tables wherever you prefer to pick up your podcasts. pod.link/1083737796

My three guests across the table from me during our meals: John holding up a chicken sandwich, Martha a soup dumpling, and Thomas a crunchy pork bao.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, contract's signed, so I can say that UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES is being translated into Chinese by Science Fiction World in their book publishing division. That'll be neat. Hope it finds some new weird SF readers.

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Luke Baker @spacemacchiato.bsky.social · 21h

Mysterious monoliths make for poor carving material

A large glossy rectangular monolith with an unfinished face carved into it. The monolith is split in half and a mass of pink alien tendrils spill out from within it

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 28/09/2026

Um, holy crap. Y'all. Thanks to everyone who's donated so far, we've passed enough to cover the costs for the initial assessment and undoing the damage the original repair guy did! You're amazing. If you've ever enjoyed my CRT pics, and have the bandwidth, toss a coin to your Witcher.

A photograph of Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete on a CRT.

A photograph of Saga Frontier 2 on a CRT.

A photograph of Chrono Trigger on a CRT.

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Alex T Singer, Arbiter of Bagels @moonsheen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredibly honored that "We, the Fleet" (Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/singer_05_25/) is the 2026 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner. It's amazing to be chosen, especially among such an fantastic set of fellow nominees. Thrilled to be attending the symposium in October!

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We, the Fleet by Alex T. Singer

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join me for a 3-week class on weirding up your fiction at The Writing Salon in Berkeley! How can sensory details make a familiar setting stranger or more charged? What can they unlock about a character’s curious private history? And more! writingsalons.com/event/weird-fiction-sensory-detail

Event graphic features the text: "Weird Up Your Fiction with Sensory Detail, with Kristina Ten. 3 Tuesdays: Oct. 13–27, 6:39 to 9 p.m. in Berkeley. 220 Milvia St, Suite 460." The Writing Salon's icon is in the lower righthand corner, beneath a photo of the class instructor. The background is a dark, muted teal and the text is bright neon yellow and white.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would like to wish all transphobic Dem candidates a very "failure in all of your pursuits forever, go live in a cave"

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you an editor or publisher with an original short fiction project of weird fiction out this year? Anthology? Magazine? Collection? Get it in for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Late, but I wanted to shout this one out. I inhaled @wnwagner.bsky.social 's Girl in the Creek over a single weekend. VanderMeer’s Annihilation meets Twin Peaks in this Pacific Northwest-set missing persons/murder mystery/sci-fi horror. Fungal horror and beauty. Mesmerizing

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

when i get to 30 members i will eat 30 corn nuts

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026

hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

my story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

end the week with a quick little story about games and check out the lightspeed kickstarter

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

unboxing video where a giant book pulls the author out of the box instead

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ihate00 @ihate00.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This kept me on my toes, always trying to guess where the story was heading. Just reviewed the anazing 'Middle Song' by @thomasha.bsky.social from @bourbonpenn.bsky.social on my blog - ihate00critics.blogspot.com/2026/09/week...

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

reserve all rights to change this every 30 seconds

my 9 games, secret of mana, ocarina of time, metal gear solid, ff6-8, shadow of the colossus, sekiro, super mario 64

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𝕲𝖆𝖝 @gaxix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

𝔅𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔩𝔢

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Hey Folks! Want a piece of Goblin Hill for your walls? I've updated my inprnt page with pieces from my ongoing project An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits! www.inprnt.com/gallery/upon...

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

waiting for the smart touch pervert gloves to complete the look actually

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

crying, this is such a perfect LA joke

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

saturday night grocery shopping is super chill, but don't share that too far and wide or it will ruin it

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

others have said this, but if you are a real person using AI to draft your messages to me, you not only sound like a scammer, you are someone i do not want to work with, scam or no scam

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THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TERRA HYPNAGOGICA 2023

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John 🍂 @jrgdrawing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The hills are alive!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

icymi earlier this week. two girls in competition with bodybots(?). corpsémon(?).

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

inviting people to my podcast to talk about their recent work but it's never recording and episodes never release

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

one must imagine sisyphus opting out of Gemini

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some great reading recommendations for your weekend ahead! And it contains some recent pieces by FFers @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs and @megelison.bsky.social!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

jjk sendai colony ep blew my butt off. butt gone.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

pizza hut personal pan pizza with stuffed crust, ok for job interview

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

do not, my friends, become addicted to ice coffee

two guys giving a job interview, one of them shirtless bald with doll head necklace, the other with a grinning skull mask

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

guys, i am starting to have a funny feeling about these personal emails from reese witherspoon.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026

New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...

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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware

One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/09/2026

ALSO is it that time of year again?? Is the air getting crisp?? Are ghosts beginning to whisper from the dark corner behind the bookshelf?? ("Actually we're roasting" OK I can't help where you live, ignore the above) Time to read THE APPLE-TREE THRONE! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

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The Apple-Tree Throne ebook by Premee Mohamed - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Apple-Tree Throne" by Premee Mohamed available from Rakuten Kobo. It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the st...

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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was mostly just doing self-promo when I said that this remains worth reading. The Thélyson Orélien story makes at least four high-profile cases in a year of Black storytelling being distrusted and AI being the excuse. There are many other cases, and other excuses too. They're just excuses.

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An Essay: 'beyond the margin-frame' | Brandon O'Brien

As I've been working on the other essay about LLMs in fiction, I've found myself considering the last few months of AI-related literary scan

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Steve Rasnic Tem @stevetem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The new Macabre Ink edition of my oop novel Deadfall Hotel is now live in ebook & pb. “If ever there were a book for a cold winter’s night by the fireplace, Deadfall Hotel is it.” – Jeff Vandermeer. www.amazon.com/Deadfall-Hot...

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Deadfall Hotel

Amazon.com: Deadfall Hotel: 9781637894514: Tem, Steve Rasnic: Books

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... >>

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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 24/09/2026

Twin Peaks: The Palmer family home.

The Palmer family home. Twin Peaks S02E08 - Drive with a Dead Girl.

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