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Olivia

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Swiss lesbian 🌈 somewhere in the UK. Made of 📚 📺 and 🎮 She/Her 💜 Chaotic, genre-confused author, and excellent editor. www.livhofer.com

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Like CATS? Like SPACE? Like MECHS? Like SHOOTING STUFF. Like QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ETHICS OF CONSENT IN UPLIFTING ANIMALS AND ALSO THE HEALING OF TRAUMA THROUGH KINDNESS Then, my friend, put the 6TH OF OCTOBER in your diary. Audio and EBOOK release of BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK. (Tell everyone.)
A cat is looking out of a human space suit at you. That's what we call in the trade, a visual metaphor. Now comes the blurb.

Years ago, Deep Strike cadet Min Law was left behind during what was meant to be a routine operation. Though he survived, the resulting trauma almost ended his career. Now, as captain of the DST Thunberg, he is preparing to take his crew on a similar journey to a seemingly quiet world following a garbled distress signal. The mission is simple on paper: find the source of the call, offer aid, return home.

But nothing is simple in the Wild Black at the edges of the unexplored universe. As the crew of the Thunberg searches for the signal’s source, they find strange ships and corpses that shouldn’t be there. The mysteries begin to pile up. What happened out here? And why does some of the technology look horribly familiar?

Fortunately, Min’s team of animal counterparts is prepared for anything. The bear, Sitka Pete, is eight hundred pounds of loyal muscle. The rooks are quick and coordinated, perfect for reconnaissance. And the cats, Oz and Hinder, well, they’re just cats. But together they’re more than up for whatever the Wild Black can throw at them—even if this region isn’t quite so unexplored after all . . .
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Tim Hardie @timhardieauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you enjoy reading epic fantasy then The Brotherhood of the Eagle saga might be for you! Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited books2read.com/HallofBones
The Brotherhood of the Eagle
A complete Viking-inspired fantasy series
Hall of Bones, Sundered Souls, Lost Gods & Broken Brotherhood by Tim Hardie
Character driven stories
Action & adventure
Magic
My love letter to epic fantasy
Dragons
Politics & intrigue
Plot twists!
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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 01/09/2026
After a few years of hard work, The Chosen One Con is out now on ebook with paperbacks to follow soon! Available on Kindle, Kobo, Itch and more to come. books2read.com/thechosenone... But of course, I couldn't publish this book without help, and I have a lot of people to thank! 👇
A promo image for The Chosen One Con, out now on Kindle, Kobo, and Itch. It shows the book cover to the Chosen One Con (a young white man in a trench coat holding a glowing blue potion bottle as though trying to steal it) and the following text: Magic spoke to me, whispering promises of fortune and fame. It spoke when I switched on the old MV and the screen came alive with the blue glow of magic, the faint spark and pop of aether flowing through the cables.
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Tufty McTavish @tuftymctavish.com · 17/06/2026
📲 I got sent an eARC for “Gear Hunters” by Ash Winter. It’s a LitRPG, a genre I’m pretty unfamiliar with. While transferring it onto my Kindle I noted a line in the Contents pages that made me 😁 “Character Status and Equipped Gear End of Book 1” A new one to me! 🤷‍♂️ 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
A Kindle placed on a table showing the cover art for “Gear Hunters” book 1 by Ash Winter.Some pages into Ash Winter’s “Gear Hunters” is the contents page, which includes a final entry named “Character Status & Equipped Gear End of Book 1” which made me chuckle as I simply do not know what to expect.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🎃🚨#HALFWAYTOHALLOWEEN COVER REVEAL!🚨🎃 @locusmag.bsky.social revealed Head Design's stunning cover for NORDIC NIGHTMARES a new anthology of nightmarish Nordic tales of mystery & horror ed. by Margarét Helgadóttir! Learn more: bit.ly/42CHymL October 2026. Preorder geni.us/nordicnigh
Against a background of the aurora borealis, the cover for NORDIC NIGHTMARES edited by Margret Helgadottir.
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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's the first of the month! So why not indulge in some new books? AND REMEMBER! The 'Magic, Maps, and Mischief' audiobook is out June 6th (ebook and paperbook are available now) and 'Charts, Charms, and Conspiracies' is out on EVERYTHING July 7th! Bring a new autistic person into your life :)
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RJ Bayley, Voice Actor & Writer (he/him) @rjbayley.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I'm very excited to be back narrating the epic conclusion of the magnificent Dragon Spirits series!
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I spent the last two weeks sick with a mystery virus (unsure whether covid, influenza, or adeno) and let me just tell you: stay safe out there. This isn’t a fun one. From a blocked ear (that won’t unblock) to pink eye, to loss of smell and taste, I had every symptom under the sun and I’m still sick
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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 12/11/2025
My crowdfund is now LIVE! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
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The Chosen One Con
The Chosen One Con is the first book in the Lost in the Aether duology—a queer gaslamp fantasy of industrial magic in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions from the author of ...
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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 29/10/2025
The Chosen One Con is the first book in the Lost in the Aether duology—a queer gaslamp fantasy of industrial magic in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions. It's part of @the-book-bazaar.com crowdfund launching November 12th! Follow it: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
A promotional image for The Chosen One Con book by Trudie Skies. It shows a background of chimneys with smog and The Chosen One Con book cover along with the text: gaslamp fantasy of bad manners and magical tech. A televised contest of mages to find the "chosen one" in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions. Part of The Book Bazaar.
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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I NEED YOUR HELP! But first, go get your free book: mybook.to/insolitudess... Yes, In Solitude's Shadow is free! And the rest of the series is on sale. It's super cheap 🙌 But the help, you say? Please share this far and wide! Neurodivergent, queer, middle-aged characters. Sweeping scope. Go!!!
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A Jane Austen cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Microdosing Jane Austen at the Office 

Panel 1: A woman sits at a desk which has a computer and a coffee on it. She says
"I read a line or two of her writing every hour to keep a mild Regency buzz throughout the day."

Panel 2: In a conference room with colleagues, she says
"Meetings take on the thrill and romance of a glamorous ball."

Panel 3: Typing at her computer she says
"My emails are elegant, formal and heaving with restrained passions."

Panel 4: "I glance demurely at eligible suitors as I daintily nibble a pret sandwich." she says as she looks across at three men at a different table.

Panel 5: She leaves the office and says "It's not all been positive: on Tuesday I read a whole page, and before I knew it, I'd declined three proposals, danced several quadrilles and scandalously revealed an ankle!"
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L.L. MacRae @llmacrae.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In light of this, I have a third BONUS announcement: You’re invited to the Pre-Order Party TONIGHT! I’ll be joined by my editor, Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social, and Faye @booksandchocaholic.bsky.social—you can chat with us, ask questions, pick our brains etc.
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I decided I’m going to re-read The Wheel of Time. The show is just that good!
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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Knowing some are conducting a boycott today - particularly in the US - of large companies, I'll be taking any royalties made through sales of my book on 'Zon today and donating them to campaigns.allout.org/donate/ 🏳️‍🌈
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Jamaila Brinkley @jamaila.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I don’t buy a lot of books in hard copy these days but I snagged this one because I heart @stephanieburgis.bsky.social and I knew it would be extremely my jam, and lo, I was right! This is so good, y’all. I cannot believe I have to wait til next year for the next one. I’m PINING.
A paperback copy of Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis.
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Currently watching: S3 of The White Lotus. S2 of Severance. And I cannot wait for S3 of The Wheel of Time. Television is on fire this year. Sometimes I’m think my drama list is growing faster than my tbr.
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Peter - @eldrazi56 -Is back to rolling dice again 🎲 @therebelgm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Did you manage to roll dice this week yet? I certainly did as I have started a new Dragonbane #ttrpg campaign with my awesome Wednesday night crew @vinjii.bsky.social @adefletcher.bsky.social + Ed!
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Eliza Chan @elizachanwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Manchester peeps, book launch tickets are now live! I'm launching TIDEBORN on Tuesday 25th March 7-9pm. Waterstones Deansgate have been incredibly supportive throughout my publishing journey and we get to take over their cafe space and fill it with jellyfish!
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Linden A. Lewis 🐈‍⬛ @lindenalewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Absolutely brilliant. @aptshadow.bsky.social
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.
screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Hello! I'm a queer indie author of fantasy, romance, and gothic horror. I write the Flos Magicae series, my new release is a short story collection #TheCarnelianKing and I publish a sword & sorcery serial on Patreon #TheBlackKnightSaga ✨Books: shorturl.at/KHuF3 ✨Patreon: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Cover art for The Carnelian King and Other Stories by Arden Powell: fantasy illustration of a red and gold dragon with a snakelike head, catfish whiskers and koi scales, looking at a knight in golden armour. The knight is riding a dappled grey horse, who is rearing to meet the dragon. They are against a dreamy, romantic background of painted trees and sky.The Bachelor’s Valet illustrated cover art: watercolour silhouettes of two men, one fixing the other’s tie, on a teal background in a field of tall yellow hollyhock flowers.The Faerie Hounds of York illustrated cover art: a woodcut-style wolf rearing up against a dark green background.The Bayou illustrated cover art: a minimalist black church surrounded by bare trees in front of a full moon or a pale sun, with a staring alligator underneath.
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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 03/02/2025
Watch out everyone, I've updated my shop so now all the content warnings are on the book pages AND you can switch between ebook, audiobook, and signed paperback without having to faff around! shop.ravenswordpress.com
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Ravensword Press
The queer books your parents warned you about
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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
On Feb 1st, In Solitude's Shadow is being released with a new cover (as is the rest of the series) but also with extra chapters and a complete rewrite. It's Wheel of Time meets The Witcher with queer and neurodiverse characters. This time, the series is now self-published (!!) so please help 🙌🫠
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Esme Weatherwax 📚🧶🦉🌳🔬📸 🌈 ally @esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Hello all! I haphazardly run a book club for #SPFBO (Self Published Fantasy Blog Off run by Mark Lawrence) where we pick a book from SPFBO and read it together. The first book of 2025 is Gates of Hope by J.E. Hannaford! A current #SPFBO finalist! You can join us here: discord.gg/2ESAvQ2Z
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Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Our best reads of 2024 are in! Prepare your TBR for some serious pain. Full list in the comments!
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✠ 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽 @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Embroidery helps, though
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L.L. MacRae @llmacrae.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This sums up the majority of my characters (especially protagonists) SO WELL. If you love SFF books, want to see other stories than 'farm boy becomes chosen one', want to understand why "inactive" characters matter, PLEASE read this!
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist - Fantasy Magazine www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/non-ficti... via @lightspeedmagazine.com
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We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist - Fantasy Magazine
Let me take you through the anatomy of an active protagonist, one that everyone can relate to. We’ll make our protagonist—we’ll call him John—young and healthy, male, of humble origins (perhaps he’s f...
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
These books have been out for quite a while now. So, I'm enormously grateful that people keep buying them. Every day I see sales of them, it gives me a warm feeling and encourages me to keep writing. Thank you! (Links to all the books here: books2read.com/patricksamphire)
Graphic shows the covers of Shadow of a Dead God, Nectar for the God, Strange Cargo, and Legacy of a Hated God, the four books of the Mennik Thorn series by Patrick Samphire. It also includes the text, Snarky Fantasy Mystery. Completed series!
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?
A spoof of an infographic showing a map of Europe, colour-coded by which countries will offer food to visitors. The caption is "Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?" The Nordic territories are labelled "sad", Northern Europe is labelled "sad & wet", Eastern Europe, Southern France and Northern Italy are labelled "sad and drunk" and the Mediterranean nations are labelled "sexy". It's less funny when you explain it, to be honest.
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
That second season of Arcane started in a way I had trouble breathing as I sat on the edge of my sofa.
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I’ve been working on a super exciting manuscript, and I’m glad I sent it back before the fifth, because now? Now I’m just sitting here feeling numb.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
i’m not doom scrolling i’m bereft browsing
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Jen Williams | STONEBOUND out next year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
~intro post~ hello new people! I write novels! Some of them have won awards! You'll find me in the fantasy & horror bays mainly, & I sometimes do the odd drawing. Oh, I'm originally from London but I live in Bristol now, I love video games, TTRPGs, being a goblin etc. Romantasy out next year💕🐍⬇️
the cover of The Sleepless: a girl with white hair and blue scars locks eyes with a young man. They are both caught in the clutches of a golden serpent.
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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
I've made a starter pack for @britfantasysoc.bsky.social people! Let me know if I couldn't find you, and I'll add you to it 😁 go.bsky.app/zsLEA3
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Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
If there was one thing I could tell writers, it would be this: Stop looking for someone else to tell you your work is *good*. Stop looking at teachers, grades, other writers, stupid machines. Start looking at what *you* want to write, what *you* want to say, what *you* think is good.
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
I just had my very first slice of banoffee pie, and it was delicious.
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Very excited to share with you all my first Uncanny story & also my first horror short! 😍💀 Island folk horror with a splash of the cosmic, in which the gorgona of Greek folklore is way cooler than Cthulhu ever will be 🧜‍♀️ @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarg...
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Zarghána - Uncanny Magazine
On this island, women wait. It’s what they were made to do. Each morning, the sun warms the white-and-blue houses and, soft-boiled eggs, the doors crack. One by one the women trot out, sit on cattail ...
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Ealing: First baby beavers born in urban London for 400 years
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Ealing: First baby beavers born in urban London for 400 years
Ealing Beaver Project says it shows the beavers are "happy" with the habitat.
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
Youtuber: Here's how Stephen King wrote so much in his early career. Habit. Discipline of writing every day. Following his passion. That's the secret sauce to productivity. Stephen King: It was cocaine. Also alcohol, but mainly cocaine. There's an entire book I don't even remember writing.
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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
The 2024 Hugo winners: a fascinating list of works. glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/...
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2024 Hugo Award Winners | Glasgow 2024
The winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer were announced on Sunday, 11 August,
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Ms Chatelaine @theelaineg.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
I hope everyone's enjoying Worldcon this weekend - I'll be signing books at 11.30 Monday morning, and for folk who can't make it, we'll be having a book launch in Waterstones Argyle street on 22nd August, in conversation with @megintransition.bluesky.social www.waterstones.com/events/elain...
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Elaine Gallagher launches Unexploded Remnants | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Elaine Gallagher launches Unexploded Remnants today.
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
I’m excited for WorldCon.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
In the current "Best of British SFF" Storybundle, alongside some absolutely top works, there's my novella Ironclads (and also a story of mine in the collection) storybundle.com/bestof?fbcli...
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StoryBundle
Pay what you like and get a bundle of awesome ebooks and more!
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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Look, I'm not saying that your writing should be 100% motivated by spite. But a little, like 10%, is really helpful for those days where all the other motivations aren't working.
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Olivia @vinjii.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
My boy 🖤🌈
Aussie lying on blanket in field.The rainbow that appeared an hour after his death.
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 02/07/2024
We're 344 subscribers away from where we were before Amazon pulled the rug out from under their traditional subscription program. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but still much work to do. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine
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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Start your Monday with ineffable melancholy tinged with the torment of hope and today's rec: @bpladek.bsky.social's "The Spindle of Necessity" in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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The Spindle of Necessity
Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That wo…
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