Can Sheep Instant is the less popular Philip K Dick novel

Let’s drink coffee and talk books/writing/art/whatever! My favorite things!

So grateful to Johnnie Jae and Red Pop! News for this thoughtful interview 💚🌿 redpopnews.com/the-scariest...

What books are you excited about this year?

Loot that drops after defeating me: - A vial of Heretic Parfum’s Nosferatu - Three to five red lipsticks - A gold pen, almost out of ink - 1 can of cherry Bubly

Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.

I wanna goooooooo

Organically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/

Finished my original L word rewatch and it’s just this with Jenny

If YOU want to read this Locus-recommended novelette about a very tired skeleton having a very bad day, it's available right here!

Let’s drink coffee and talk books/writing/art/whatever! My favorite things!

So grateful to Johnnie Jae and Red Pop! News for this thoughtful interview 💚🌿 redpopnews.com/the-scariest...

"I think this is a very, very strange initiative. And it's particularly strange in the fact that the province appears to be outsourcing its reputational and even commercial risk to Dalhousie University. And for some reason Dal has accepted that outsourcing” -David Wheeler, former Dal management dean

If you’re reading for the Nebulas, Hugos, Auroras, Locus, Ignytes, or most SFF awards, I’d love it if you’d consider this short story. It’s now also on the BSFA long-list. This one means a lot to me so I hope you’ll give it a read.

Frivolous girl indeed

5 ways to give your fave authors free-to-you gifts over the holidays! 💙📚 1. post about their book on socials 2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads 3. suggest their book to a book club! 4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in! 5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

This is a time of year that includes two trauma / death anniversaries and my birthday, so it’s a little bit dissociative fugue, a little bit rock n roll. If you need me or need something from me, I may take extra nudging.

ONLY 24 DAYS LEFT! Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume 4 (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025--details in the link below. Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY. (And why 24 day? Well, because I forgot to post this on a day that is a multiple of 5!)

kind of incredible that I wrote a book where a castle falls on JK Rowling during a fictional apocalypse and if anything I was way too kind and generous about her motivations

Every complaint I had against Chomsky concerned the same problem: the way he excused or dismissed atrocities committed by his team: ie regimes and forces opposed to Western hegemonic power. As his friend, Epstein was given the same pass. In other words, it's not an anomaly. It's the same story.

Robyn Maynard Research Talk: "Abolition & Fascism" Feb 6, 2026, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm This talk takes up Black radical critiques that link fascism to carcerality in order to reflect on the rise of authoritarian, right wing governance across Canada, the US & the “West” www2.acadiau.ca/event-calend...

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.

I left my writing laptop on the bed and now this silly little goose is using it as a pillow

Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.

Native American Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade on Ships Along Lake Superior #MMIW #MMIP Plz listen to Native Voices www.vice.com/en/article/f...

even though we all hate him and everything he does, this is not something to mock or judge. Like being fat. It doesn’t become okay to diss on just because we don’t like him.

Friends! Our 2026 titles are up for pre-order. And our 2025 print titles are on sale. Pre-orders help us immensely. Take a look at our site for all the details. I hope you'll consider grabbing something, if you're able. Thank you all so much. undertowpublications.com/shop

Cold Snap is now available on @netgalley.bsky.social 🪱❄️🍹 I am also still accepting direct requests for ARCs (both links are available in my bio)🖤 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

GUESS WHAT we are OPEN for 2025 AFTERLIVES: The Year's Best Death Stories subs!! BUT (and this is SUPER IMPORTANT) we are asking EDITORS to send us work this time so WRITERS, be in touch with your editors and READ ON for more info: psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...

Sinners... but make it Leyendecker #SinnersMovie

Black in Deep Red https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4882

It just occurred to me this afternoon that my first two long fiction works are about suicide and cannibalism, respectively. Go big or go home I guess!

Hey #writers, who'd be up for doing a workshop to raise some funds for Minnesota charities? @alexpenname.bsky.social and I are putting something together. Repost and spread the word, please!

Friendly reminder: I'm now making little point-and-click style horror movies and fake video games with pictures that I take in my weird old apartment building 😌🫶

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

Woo! Flight booked for @tricon-hfx.bsky.social. See you there in May?

For the @strangehorizons.bsky.social 2026 Criticism Special, I wrote about weird fiction being constituted by weird reading, vis a vis Sederholm and Woofter’s The Weird and @undertow.bsky.social’s The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1., in tribute to Maureen Kincaid Speller. It’s a long one.

February in the Village A.J. Casson n.d.

📣 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.

spending the first day of february in the swamp

One day left to submit your work to Nightmare Magazine! We close at 11 pm tomorrow night. As ever, we're looking for short stories under 7500 words, flash stories 0-1500 words long, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline not already being a major series is a crime!!! A HBO Max style miniseries of The Marigold by @afsulli.bsky.social would fucking kill. Hell, I think a few of Michelle Berry’s novels would make incredible thriller series!!!

3 Indigenous men have been murdered by Canadian police this year, and we aren't even a month in.

I also have three (like @tiffmorris.bsky.social): VENCO - Cherie Dimaline THE LOST ONES - Sheena Kamal BAD CREE - Jessica Johns

My husband and I were making a big stir-fry for supper (and some subsequent meals) and discovered we had been ripped off. Below is the letter I’m thinking of sending President’s Choice.

Quote tweet with a Canadian book that would absolutely kill as a TV series. I'll start: RED X by David Demchuk

Off the top of my head: - GREY DOG by Elliott Gish -MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW by Waubgeshig Rice - THE FIVE SEASONS OF CHARLIE FRANCIS by Danica Roache

The thing that bothers me so much about Carney's joke about greenlighting the Heated Rivalry show is that it furthers the narrative that it's a needle in a haystack. Anyone who reads Canadian books and watches Canadian film knows that we could have dozens more HRs with enough funding.