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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 28/09/2026

Christopher Caldwell (@seraph76.bsky.social) introduces his collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

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Christopher Caldwell introduces Call and Response

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/09/2026

🌟Shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 With its haunted shoes and sheep and cats, Bora Chung's novel in ghost stories (translated by @antonhur.com) gently suggests the degree to which humanity’s efforts to control the world are themselves figments and fantasies.

A photo of the book Midnight Timetable, standing on a black shelf next to a glass vase with two pink-orange flowers and some greenery.

"What we can see and hear and touch in this world is very limited. And so perhaps it’s true we don’t know much about the world at all. We like to say there’s nothing new under the sun, but we don’t have the slightest inkling of how many things there are, indeed, under the sun."

from Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 21/09/2026

Premee Mohamed (@premeemohamed.com) reads from her story collection One Message Remains, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

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Premee Mohamed reads from One Message Remains

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/09/2026

We'd like your help with something. The one hundredth anniversary of Ursula's birth will take place in 2029. This may seem a long time away, but we’re already starting to think about how to celebrate Ursula’s life and art. We’d love to add your ideas to the mix—there's a brief survey here:

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Centenary event planning

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 17/09/2026

🌟Shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 In Sunward, @willalex.bsky.social weaves world-expanding comedy with a vision of parental care that encompasses beings built as well as born. In his future, another way of living is possible—though getting to it is never easy.

A copy of Sunward, by William Alexander, stands on a black shelf next to a small glass vase with two orangey-pink flowers.

"Mercury was a messenger god, and you also carry messages across the heavens. That makes this a pilgrimage site for you, too."

'Except I don't worship him. I don't burn offerings of ox entrails in his name. I don't really believe in him.'

You don't need to, Sparkles said. Mercury is still your patron god. Every letter you deliver is an offering."

from Sunward, by William Alexander

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La Garde de Nuit @lagardedenuit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Chaque jour, nous présentons les livres qui ont été sélectionnés pour le prix @fandival.fr 2027. Aujourd'hui, les romans internationaux : - Destination Soleil - For Whom the Belle Tolls - The River has roots - Les Sœurs démentes d’Esi

Destination Soleil, de William Alexander, traduit par Florence Bury, éd. L’Atalante
For Whom the Belle Tolls, de Jaysea Lynn, traduit par Elodie Coello, éd. Calix
The River has roots, d’Amal El-Mohtar, traduit par Patrick Marcel, éd. J’ai Lu
Les Sœurs démentes d’Esi, de Tashan Mehta, traduit par Mathilde Montier, éd. L’Atalante

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 14/09/2026

Tashan Mehta (@tashanmehta.bsky.social) reads from her novel Mad Sisters of Esi, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

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Tashan Mehta reads from Mad Sisters of Esi

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 08/09/2026

Isaac Fellman (@isaac-fellman.bsky.social) introduces and briefly reads from his novel Notes from a Regicide, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

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Isaac Fellman introduces Notes from a Regicide

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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Haaaaaaaaaaaaappy WIIIIIIIIIICKDAAAAAAAAAAY dear @premeemohamed.com haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiickdaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1 day left of preorder party for WICKHILLS by @premeemohamed.com—the pointiest of cities, full of snow and slush, of streetlights that are creatures and creatures that should not be seen. Singing stones, old Gods, a morally gray (anti)hero, a Very Important Pen—WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? out TOMORROW

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In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of war.Looking after a defecting scientist sh...

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey friends! I am seeing that a certain Awful Lady and her unbroken record of sociopathic harm is back in the discourse. And boy. She really sucks. But maybe we can take this opportunity to highlight and celebrate children's authors who AREN'T transphobic pieces of shit. Great. I'll start...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is my birthday! So I have an audiobook giveaway for the good children of the land.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 11/08/2026

Pip Adam's novel Audition is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Here, Pip (@pipadam.bsky.social) introduces the book, then reads from the novel's opening pages. More about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26

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Pip Adam reads from "Audition"

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/08/2026

Bora Chung's novel-in-stories Midnight Timetable, translated by @antonhur.com, is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Very few characters in this book are named, and here, Bora speaks about those names and what they mean. youtu.be/HE1YM5jBm0U?...

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Bora Chung introduces "Midnight Timetable"

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 31/08/2026

Hiron Ennes (@hironennes.bsky.social) reads from their second novel, The Works of Vermin, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. youtu.be/zUu572SLO24

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Hiron Ennes reads from "The Works of Vermin"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/09/2026

Over at Whatever, a longer-than-a-Bluesky post about winning the Best Series Hugo this year, what it means to me, and whether this means the series is necessarily coming to an end (Spoiler: maybe probably not) whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/01/a...

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As Promised, the 2026 Hugo Award Follow-up Post

I’m now back at home after a red-eye, and rather than go to bed in the early afternoon, I’m going to write a post about winning the Hugo Award for Best Series. To help me with this, all…

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ICYMI! Uncanny Magazine (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki, and Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky) won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine! THANK YOU! www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-maga...

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 31/08/2026

Congratulations to Fred Fordham for receiving the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic! Available in English from Clarion Books and Walker UK, and available or forthcoming in Catalan, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 31/08/2026

Last night was extraordinary & I’m still dazed from it. THE RIVER HAS ROOTS won a Hugo award! Huge congratulations to all the finalists & winners—it was such an honour & a joy to get to celebrate with you!

Backstage selfie of me in a black dress with blue and gold sequin-embroidered flowers, holding a Hugo Award for Best Novella, beaming and overwhelmed.

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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"As a genre writer and historian, I strive to bridge my two vocations, bringing history’s resources here, but also bringing the tools of SFF to history." BELATED HUGO CONGRATS TO @adapalmer.bsky.social !

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...

production stills of Curry and McShane in costume

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 17/08/2026

prize video number two! I love how succinctly Will makes his point here - and how neatly he draws a line between slop machines and the kind of AI that makes for good stories

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

For anyone struggling with questions of how and whether to make, promote, or talk about art in times like these, I highly recommend a short essay by John Crowley called "Practicing the Arts of Peace."

"I didn't answer for some time, and when I did it was without much thought—or maybe with the distillation of a lot of thought that had been going on below the level of even mental speech. 'Andre,' I wrote at last, 'I was asked by somebody..."

"...back at the time of the invasion of Iraq how we could all just go on writing our little stories, especially we fantasists and poets, and I said that in my opinion what we were doing was practicing the arts of peace. What we want is a world in which funny fantastical stories are possible and are valued, in which there is nothing so dreadful or urgent that it causes the writing of such things to stop or be stopped. Worlds where the arts of peace can't be practiced are wounded worlds, and that's why we have to go on practicing those arts, so that our worlds don't die..."

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Emmett Brown @emmetbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

La Astronomy Picture of the Day de la NASA es hoy, como no podía ser de otra manera, del eclipse. Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain Image Credit & Copyright: Ruiyu Zhang

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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

EVERYBODY'S PERFECT is absolutely gorgeous. @bluejo.eurosky.social always finds our true faces behind fantastical masks.

The front cover of EVERYBODY'S PERFECT by Jo Walton, which features many a Venetian mask.

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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just in case there's any confusion on the subject, I hereby affirm that I will not outsource my humanity to the slop machines currently plundering our words and our water. My books are written by me. Any and all hallucinations are my own.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's FRIDAY, and we are in love! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 91% funded with just 5 days to go!!! WE ARE SO CLOSE, SPACE UNICORNS!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Covers by Paul Lewin, Katy Shuttleworth, and Galen Dara!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists locusmag.com/2026/08...

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Laura Ruby @thatlauraruby.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For fantasy/spec-fic kidlit, @anneursu.bsky.social's CRONUS CHRONICLES trilogy, @sayantani.bsky.social's KINGDOM BEYOND books, @traceybaptiste.bsky.social's JUMBIES series, @willalex.bsky.social's books, Rick Riordan’s books, plus books published under his imprint: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Ri...

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Rick Riordan Presents - Wikipedia

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We are getting closer and closer!!! CAN WE FULLY FUND BY AUGUST 1?!?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/07/2026

"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."

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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Turns out the most punk rock things you can do are support your local library, be brave enough to make bad human art, and love the bees

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey draws inspiration from Emily Wilson's 2017 translation of The Odyssey; today, we're revisiting a conversation between Wilson and @franwilde.bsky.social on mistranslations, movie casting, and interpreting the voices of heroes long past:

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All The Voices of The Odyssey: Emily Wilson On Language, Translation, and Culture - Reactor

I recently finished another great boat-centric book that contained the hallmarks of modern action-adventure fantasy: shipwrecks, monsters, intrigue, heroes, a complicated good guy, evil-smashing, regr...

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We are only ONE Backer away from the arbitrary but awesome number 550! WHO WILL BE THE SPACE UNICORN HERO WHO MAKES THAT HAPPEN?!L

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 21/07/2026

I'm starting a collaborative book blog! If you're an educator, librarian, or bookseller with a @leaflet.pub acct (free acct is fine) who is interested, pls read this post & let me know if you're interested.

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Seeking educators, librarians, booksellers to contribute to this blog

Please help me experiment with a book blog built on AT Protocol?

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

As I work on the revision for Book 3, the final Saint Death book, I feel very emotional, and this reminder that, eventually, a book gets done and someone likes it, lands squarely on my chest.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#Booksky At Will Alexander @willalex.bsky.social’s terrific reading in Minneapolis last night, we had a nice follow-up convo about how great a sequel would be! We hope you’re considering that too, @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#Booksky #Minneapolis The A/C at DreamHaven Books has gone kaput so the store is temporarily closed. However, Will Alexander @willalex.bsky.social’s reading is still ON TONIGHT at 7PM! Sisters Sludge on 38th Street is hosting us - come by early and grab dinner!

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#Booksky Here’s a nice piece of South Minneapolis solidarity! The A/C at DreamHaven Books died and it’s hella hot this week so our lovely neighbors at Sister Sludge across the street are hosting us and the awesome @willalex.bsky.social tomorrow night 7/15 at 7PM! facebook.com/events/s/wil...

Card with a photo of Will, his novel SUNWARD and 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Finalist

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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🎶Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY dear @wiswell.bsky.social haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy boooooooooooooooook daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/Gab1zWu

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