Reposted by Timmi DuchampK.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026REMINDER to come and join me on this Thursday's #WeekWithoutDriving Transit Hike. You should RSVP! Why a weekday? This lovely, enormous recreation complex isn't served by transit on weekends! And we want to change that. 055
Reposted by Timmi DuchampNisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is so exciting! A whole new book line for Writing the Other! Here's a link to the post on the Aqueduct Press blog: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/aque... And @ktempestbradford.com really and truly did say those very words, right @timmi.bsky.social?aqueductpress.blogspot.comAqueduct's Creating Inclusive Narrative series will launch in 2027For immediate release Aqueduct Press, in association with Writing the Other, is excited to announce a new book series launching in 2027... 11914
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm pleased to announce the launch of Aqueduct's Creating Inclusive Narratives series in 2027, with books by Nisi Shawl, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and others. Details can be found here: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/aque...aqueductpress.blogspot.comAqueduct's Creating Inclusive Narrative series will launch in 2027For immediate release Aqueduct Press, in association with Writing the Other, is excited to announce a new book series launching in 2027... 084
Reposted by Timmi DuchampDavid Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Tin House is sending me on a mini-regional tour for the gorgeous reissue of Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing. Portland-Seattle-Bay Area friends I hope to see you. Come say hi and celebrate Ursula's legacy with me! @tinhouse.bsky.social @ursulakleguin.com @ebbooksellers.bsky.social 54911
Reposted by Timmi DuchampNisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I'm up here with the heavy hitters! The 2025 Endeavour Award finalists are: The Antidote by Karen Russell Blind Date with a Werewolf by Patricia Briggs Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson Making Amends by Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press) When We Were Rea, by Daryl Gregory 75011
Reposted by Timmi DuchampEddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The McDermott - Wind of Earth, Wind of Tau Ceti - Not entirely unexpected - is a lovely, naturalistic mosaic novel including two existing shorts that's basically "my life as a space colonist in increasingly incoherent vignettes as I die of radiation poisoning at 85“. 224
Reposted by Timmi DuchampEddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026One thing I've not seen on many review folks' radar is some quite exciting things out from Aqueduct press in the next few months: a new J M McDermott later this year and a new Sarah Tolmie early 2027. I have an ARC of the McDermott and it's *very good*. Review folks, do consider requesting ARCs!aqueductpress.comAqueduct Press 145
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Vonda’s Big Idea: How would a deeply egalitarian society interact with other sorts of societies? Vonda’s alt-Minoans parlay with bloody-handed Mesoamericans. They trade peacefully with sword-wielding tribes of Amazon warriors. "whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/15/the-…whatever.scalzi.comThe Big Idea: Vonda N. McIntyreThough the author of The Curve of the World has passed, her story lives on. Her editor, Nisi Shawl, is here to take us through what she believes Vonda N. McIntyre’s Big Idea was. Let’s … 020
Reposted by Timmi DuchampGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 14/07/2026💥💥Last 72 HOURS of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive!! 💥💥 - $445 away from raising author pay to 9c/word for 2027 - $5445 away from raising author pay to 10c/word for 2027 Lots of rewards still on offer. To support: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...backerkit.comStrange Horizons 2027 FundraiserThe annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations! 01723
Reposted by Timmi Duchampcandlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Only a few days left in this year's Pride @storybundle.bsky.social - a total of 16 fabulous books if you go for the bonus, plus the option to donate to Rainbow Railroad. storybundle.com/pride 015
Reposted by Timmi DuchampHolly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Hal C F Astill wrote a *lovely* review of The Circus, the Garden (and Mario Lanza) for The Nameless Zine. He celebrates the Conversation Pieces series, and name checks @timmi.bsky.social, @cynthiaward.bsky.social, and Sofia Rhei.thenamelesszine.orgThe Nameless ZineWesternSFA web page 353
Reposted by Timmi DuchampHolly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Did someone say "book birthday?" The Circus, the Garden (and Mario Lanza) is out from Aqueduct Press! Aaaaand it's the hundredth volume in the splendid Conversation Pieces series! www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-... www.amazon.com/Circus-Garde... 3137
Reposted by Timmi DuchampGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵backerkit.com Strange Horizons - BackerKit Back projects you want to see in the world. 1110113
Reposted by Timmi DuchampLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/06/2026‘Young children in monasteries, nunneries and cathedral schools were taught literacy through memorising the psalms, trained to utter complex thoughts and feelings through song.’ Ardis Butterfield on medieval psalters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukArdis Butterfield · When Horses Snigger: Illuminated PsalmsThe psalms seem deeply familiar, but the not particularly Christian anglophone might struggle actually to provide much... 0184
Reposted by Timmi DuchampHolly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Ditto re: enjoying everything I've read from Aqueduct Press: @timmi.bsky.social, @cynthiaward.bsky.social, @nisishawl.bsky.social, @nancyjane.bsky.social, and Susan Dirende have all written top-notch fiction. 162
Reposted by Timmi DuchampClarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Celebrate the publication of Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel this July in Seattle! On July 16, we'll host a live reading and conversation with @nisishawl.bsky.social and Theo Downes-Le Guin. More info here: www.clarionwest.org/event/vonda-... 02212
Reposted by Timmi DuchampLesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Thank you, @salliemander.bsky.social ! compulsivereader.com/2026/04/29/a...compulsivereader.comAn interview with Lesley Wheeler – Compulsive Reader 077
Reposted by Timmi DuchampNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 17/05/2026Happy 153rd birthday to our Lady of Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson! readingpilgrimage.comreadingpilgrimage.comHome - Reading PilgrimageReadingPilgrimage.com is intended to help readers discover and appreciate Dorothy Richardson’s masterpiece Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, published in 13 “chapter-volumes” (her preferred ... 0153
Reposted by Timmi DuchampNisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Article on @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social's last novel The Curve of the World at @geekwire.com with link embed to associated podcast www.geekwire.com/2026/after-d...geekwire.comSeven years after her death, sci-fi pioneer’s last novel bridges Minoan and Pacific Northwest historyClarion West celebrates posthumous publication of 'The Curve of the World,' a different kind of Odyssey by Seattle author Vonda N. McIntyre. 2207
Reposted by Timmi DuchampNicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026THE CURVE OF THE WORLD is magnificent, a glorious vision of a wider reality: a world in which global commerce and fairness are not a contradiction in terms. It is the sum and summit of all Vonda McIntyre was as a writer and human being, her last, best gift to a world in sore need of hope. Out today.nicolagriffith.comThe Curve of the World: Out Today!The Curve of the World is magnificent, a glorious vision of a wider reality: a world in which global commerce and fairness are not a contradiction in terms. It is the sum and summit of all Vonda McIntyre was as a writer and human being, her last, best gift to a world in sore need of hope. Buy it today. 13023
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026At last! It's my great pleasure to announce the release of Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel, The Curve of the World, from Aqueduct Press. This world is round. Loving sailors court its waves, bathe in sea currents sharing secrets with them... aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/05/vond...aqueductpress.blogspot.comVonda N. McIntyre's The Curve of the WorldIt's my great pleasure to announce the release of Vonda N. McIntyre'e final novel, The Curve of the World, from Aqueduct Press. It's a... 11911
Reposted by Timmi DuchampNisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Soon Curve of the World launches: @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social's final novel of Minoan adventures with mummies and kraken. I'll be singing excerpt-appropriate Joni Mitchell. That's Saturday May 16, free and online: www.clarionwest.org/event/the-cu... Also starring @timmi.bsky.social + Debbie Notkin!clarionwest.orgThe Curve of the World Virtual Launch EventThe Curve of the World, Vonda N. McIntyre’s Last Book, Reading & Discussion with Nisi Shawl, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Debbie Notkin The Curve of the World is Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel. 01911
Reposted by Timmi DuchampDan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Over at SH, @kateem.bsky.social on Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel, published on May 15 by @timmi.bsky.social. What emerges, bitter-sweetly, is "an epic fantasy voyage" which adopts a fascinating approach to historical fantasy ... and, in more ways than one, leaves us asking what might have been.strangehorizons.comThe Curve of the World by Vonda N. McIntyreThis is alternate history with a very light sprinkling of supernatural stardust. 01615
Reposted by Timmi DuchampClarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The final novel of phenomenal author and Clarion West Founder, Vonda N. McIntyre, will be released on May 15. Join us for the virtual release party with @nisishawl.bsky.social @timmi.bsky.social and Debbie Notkin by RSVPing here: bit.ly/3R20fO9 0157
Reposted by Timmi DuchampStoryBundle @storybundle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A hand-picked selection of Shirley Jackson Awards winners, nominees and authors in a spectacular medley of novellas and novelettes about ghosts, mortality, magic, Dracula, hauntings, grief, strange landings in small country that warp and alter townsfolk, and more! storybundle.com/award 21815
Reposted by Timmi DuchampSTEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The tone of her "The Mount" is *so weird* (adulatory); like, it's a highly kinky setup (what if aliens came and treated us, quite literally, like horses) with deep symbolic resonance, treated with all the apparent innocence of a John Christopher Tripod book. Great writer. 11810
Reposted by Timmi DuchampTamara (Rhymes With Camera) Sellman @rhymeswithcamera.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Mentioned in this week's FIRST MONDAY—EVENT HORIZON post at Rhymes With Camera: @aabbwashington.bsky.social @aaronkcrocker.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rhymeswi... (1/5)open.substack.comPoetry Month for Us Weirdos (or, what is Spec-Po?)Rhymes With Camera || FIRST MONDAY—EVENT HORIZON || APRIL 6, 2026 133
Reposted by Timmi DuchampTachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The 2026 World SF Bundle is now LIVE! buff.ly/l4ukzGV 15 books from the likes of @lavietidhar.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social For @storybundle.bsky.social, you decide what price you want to pay. In support of @locusmag.bsky.social 01212
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026A starred review from Publishers Weekly for Vonda McIntyre's Curve of the World! "McIntyre’s scene-setting is lush and immersive, and her finely drawn, women-led cast leaps off the page as they confront obstacles with wit and wisdom." www.publishersweekly.com/9781619762800publishersweekly.comThe Curve of the World byA gentle elegiac tone pervades this stunning posthumous historical fantasy from multi–Hugo and Nebula award winner McIntyre (Dre... 074
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Cheryl Morgan reviews Vonda N. McIntyre's Curve of the World, which Aqueduct Press will be releasing on May 15. "It would have been great if Vonda had been able to live to see praise being heaped upon the book, but praise it we shall anyway." www.salonfutura.net/2026/03/the-...salonfutura.netThe Curve of the WorldVonda McIntyre’s final novel befor eher death has been prepared for publication by her friends. It will be releasd by Aqueduct later this year. Cheryl got an advance peek. 076
Reposted by Timmi DuchampGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 21/03/2026To speak only of military architecture and strategic miscalculation is already to have … accepted the terms by which power prefers to be discussed … as though what is happening were a problem in applied geometry rather than a catastrophe visited upon living people. communispress.com/the-burden-a... 0167
Reposted by Timmi DuchampNisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 11/03/20262nd of the classes I'm teaching soon is an intro Writing the Other session on April 9 with Elizabeth Santiago. That's online and it's 3:30 to 5 Pacific Time (6:30 to 8 Eastern Time) and you can register here: www.theuntoldnarratives.com/event-detail... 2/3theuntoldnarratives.comWriting the Other: A Practical Approach | Untold NarrativesAuthors Nisi Shawl and Elizabeth Santiago teach you to write sensitively and convincingly about characters of diverse backgrounds. 02711
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026"In any social conflict, a 'neutral' position is always and necessarily the position of the ruling class: it seems 'neutral' because it has achieved the status of the dominant ideology, which always strikes us as self-evident."--Alenka Zupancic 030
Reposted by Timmi DuchampHolly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 20/02/2026This is such a fun story. 023
Reposted by Timmi DuchampNancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Maybe people need to read more feminist science fiction instead of the technocentric "golden age" stuff to understand what's going on in the world. Over at the Treehouse Writers blog I suggest the Holdfast Chronicles by Suzy McKee Charnas. treehousewriters.com/wp53/2026/02...treehousewriters.comMisogyny on Steroids – Treehouse Writers 032
Reposted by Timmi DuchampLisa M. Bradley @cafenowhere.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I'm reading poetry subs at Strange Horizons this month. You can submit up to 6 speculative poems in a single file or separate files. I recommend separate files, because we allow simultaneous submissions and it's easier to withdraw individual poems. Guidelines: strangehorizons.com/submit/poetr...strangehorizons.comPoetry Submission GuidelinesHow to submit poetry. 04229
Reposted by Timmi DuchampTom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Switching to something positive. @nisishawl.bsky.social’s MAKING AMENDS story cycle is about a prison ship and planet. If you think you know that story, well, this one is a mind-stretcher. Inventive, moving, infuriating, unpredictable. Beautifully written as always. Do give it a try. 155
Reposted by Timmi DuchampJoanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: And Then Again Begin (by H. Nigel Thomas, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social) & Making Amends (by @nisishawl.bsky.social, Aqueduct Press). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity 083
Reposted by Timmi DuchampAmy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Important info from @cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country: "The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023." Facts matter. 10543235
Reposted by Timmi DuchampUnbothered Skeets-n-Gigs. @luvunbothered.bsky.social · 31/01/2026It’s an ethnic cleansing. The Republican Party is getting their wish to turn the US into a white ethnostate. Terror is just a bonus. They wrote this all out in their Project 2025 manifesto they’ve been working on since Reagan. That is the strategy and they’ve told us for years. This is America. 064
Reposted by Timmi DuchampAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason 318248195970
Reposted by Timmi DuchampDan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special! 💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*. 📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.strangehorizons.com26 January 2026Welcome to the annual Strange Horizons criticism special! 18753
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Tamara Kaye Sellman explores the dark places in "Podcasts from the Shadows." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...aqueductpress.blogspot.comThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 26: Tamara K. SellmanPODCASTS FROM THE SHADOWS: for those of us who like to explore the dark places by Tamara Kaye Sellman 2025 was a year of alterna... 230
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Kristin King writes about the work that sustained her in 2025. "In my understanding of our world, there is an otherworld, a land of dreams, the wellspring of art and music and story and soul. When art occurs, it opens up a portal..." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...aqueductpress.blogspot.comThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and LIstening in 2025, pt. 25: Kristin KingPleasures of 2025 by Kristin King When I write a story, where does it come from? Not my conscious mind, certainly. It comes from t... 051
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Cynthia Ward reviews the dozens of books she's read (or reread) in 2025, ranging from Tanith Lee's Sabella to Geoff Ryman's Him to Patricia Churchland's Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...aqueductpress.blogspot.comThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 22: Cynthia Ward2025 in Review: A Year 12 Years Long by Cynthia Ward I write up my pleasures as I experience them; now, as the year ends, I'm r... 050
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Christopher Brown writes about his reading and viewing in 2025. " The worst new science fiction story I read this year was the widely-covered Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, a neoliberal manifesto of techno-progressive futurism..." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...aqueductpress.blogspot.comThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 21: Christopher BrownViewers Like You by Christopher Brown Late one Saturday night in early December as the bustle of the year wound down, I o... 092
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Andrea Hairston celebrates the work that gave her pleasure in 2025. "Storytellers saved my life every day this year! Imagination sustained us all as we cruised on this death-defying rollercoaster ride, hurtling into 2026." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...aqueductpress.blogspot.comThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2025, pt. 20: Andrea HairstonWe have made it to December 2025! Storytellers saved my life every day this year! Writers, musicians, and filmmakers too. Imagination sust... 063
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 29/12/2025For Lesley Wheeler, 2025 was all about her quest for "fictional uncanniness," with an "emphasis on Gothic houses and haunted people." She found it in poetry and fiction. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...aqueductpress.blogspot.comThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 19: Lesley WheelerReading Pleasures by Lesley Wheeler The scariest book I’ve read in ages, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, stole into my to-be-read ... 000
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Holly Wade Matter gives us a taste of her favorite reading, viewing, and listening experiences in 2025, including two "chocolate box" books and two standout novels. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...aqueductpress.blogspot.comThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 18: Holly Wade MatterThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening – 2025 by Holly Wade Matter Viewed Hoopla, courtesy of the Seattle Public... 020
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Lesley Hall writes about books she's enjoyed this year. Particular standouts are two lengthy romans fleuve--the famous Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell, and the more obscure Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...aqueductpress.blogspot.comThe Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 16: Lesley HallThe Pleasures of Reading, 2025 by Lesley Hall During the past year I spent a fair amount of time immersed in two older lengt... 011
