Review: Rabbit Test and Other Stories (April 2026) by @samtasticbooks.com 🐇 "A diverse array of stories, each engaging and lively, brimming with heart and an urgent sense of purpose." 🪄 speculativeshelf.com/2026/01/21/r... via @tachyonpub.bsky.social

A huge thank you to @tachyonpub.bsky.social for sending THE UNIVERSE BOX my way for review. All hits, no skips! tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...

Ignore this pre-order campaign ad! Or maybe don't, because actually I AM SO EXCITED my book is one of Indigo's most anticipated sci-fi books!!! For those of you not in Canada, this is basically Canadian Barnes & Noble, and it's giving you 25% off if you pre-order next week. #IgnoreThisBook

I’m Artist Guest of Honor at this weekend’s #AggieCon in #CollegeStation along with Author GoH @marthawells.com. Here’s where to find me. There will be Lotería. ✊🏽 And there will be a limited supply of signed copies of THE INVISIBLE PARADE at the @austinbooks.bsky.social booth!

Finishing an LOTR comfort reread today, and then it's book club time (The Vortex by José Eustasio Rivera) and the next ARC in my stack (Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison!!)

For the geeks, the gallery-lates folk, and the quantum-curious. I'm talking physics and pop culture at Science Gallery this Friday eve, in this very timeline, with King's Philosophy of Science senior lecturer Alex Franklin and SCI-FI London's Louis Savy london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/f...

THE UNIVERSE BOX, the new collection from five-time Hugo Award winner @michaelswanwick.bsky.social pubs in 1 week! 2 #giveaways: @thestorygraph.com buff.ly/yyF6ybM #goodreads buff.ly/jpjmZLs Read an #excerpt @civilianreader.com buff.ly/G9OqWXt #giveaway

It's Universe Box Monday! Today, Two Fan Cartoons--one by Joe Mayhew and the other by Alexis Gilliland. file770.com/two-fan-cart...

My night at Brooklyn Books and Booze. Everyone had a great time, especially me. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...

Tachyon Publications is giving away a free copy of The Universe Box. Details on my blog. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/01/win-...

So excited for THE ADVENTURES OF MARY DARLING by @pat-murphy.bsky.social who has been longlisted for the #BSFAAwards2026 !!!! @tachyonpub.bsky.social

TODAY! Join @sentencebender.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @jasonbayani.bsky.social for this fantastic event #sanfrancisco

Award winning Samantha Mills' subversive debut short_fiction collection RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES is available for #preorder buff.ly/F1sISzq “[Her] stories have a palpable beauty and tenderness to them while also being sharp and sure as shivs…. A bold and burnished talent." @mariahaskins.com

#Preorder for America! buff.ly/AbpMFho “Relentlessly, brutally, scathingly, funny. I’d expect nothing less from the one and only Meg Elison.” @srhgly @megelison.bsky.social @arleysorg.bsky.social

#Preorder for America! buff.ly/AbpMFho “Relentlessly, brutally, scathingly, funny. I’d expect nothing less from the one and only Meg Elison.” @srhgly @megelison.bsky.social @arleysorg.bsky.social

Win a copy of THE UNIVERSE BOX, the new collection from five-time Hugo Award winner @michaelswanwick.bsky.social tinyurl.com/av49asjw "SF short fiction lovers and beyond will relish this new collection.” @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @thestorygraph.com #giveaway

Currently Reading: #YourBehaviourWillBeMonitored by @justinfeinstein.bsky.social. Will be published 7th April by @tachyonpub.bsky.social, thank you to them & @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC. #BookSky 📚💙 #books 🪐📚

One of the four books I pre-ordered for 2026! Releasing next month (Feb.) from @tachyonpub.bsky.social I love short stories & collections are a favorite!! If you're also a fan it's important to support the new releases & let publishers know there is an audience for them. #BookSky 💙📚🪐 #SciFisky

Meg Elison is a brilliant author and you should buy and read everything she writes. As just one example, The Pill is prescient and hard-hitting.

Gary Wolfe gave my new collection, THE UNIVERSE BOX, a very positive review in Locus. My nuanced reaction and a link to the review itself can be found on my blog. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-pa...

The Other Perspective: @mishagw.bsky.social reviews Theodora Goss's collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY (@tachyonpub.bsky.social)

TOMORROW 3PM! Hugo Award winner @michaelswanwick.bsky.social reads & signs at Sparkle Bookstore buff.ly/stkdV1D #Sparkill #NY #signing #event

Love #signed books? Preordered your signed copy, via Village Well Books & Coffee, of @justinfeinstein.bsky.social's electric, terrifying, and witty debut novel YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED buff.ly/asepDXY #preorder

(1/4) @theodoragoss.bsky.social and @tachyonpub.bsky.social brilliant Letters from an Imaginary Country does what is says on the tin. These remarkable short stories take you places you didn’t know existed. The book’s blurb is a three parter:

THIS SATURDAY 3PM! Hugo Award [email protected] reads & signs at Sparkle Bookstore buff.ly/stkdV1D #Sparkill #NY #signing #event

Congrats to @joerlansdale.bsky.social (for THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R LANSDALE) and the other nominees @joe-hill.bsky.social

1/9 Cleaning up my files and deleting #book covers I’ve already posted in my daily(ish) #SmallPress #BookSky #DSPBposts. Enjoy these beauties again! A thread. (Alt-text for book details.) 🧵 #books 💙📚 #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

I've heard very good things.

I want to reassure the reading public that @nisishawl.bsky.social and I will use our powers only for good.

It lives!!

Great 1st #review of @megelison.bsky.social's forthcoming Klaw-edited novella FOUNDLING FATHERS! powderandpage.com/2026/01/05/f... "It’s funny, flawed, and I think the time of the release, shortly before the USA’s 250th anniversary, was a great choice." @tachyonpub.bsky.social

Surrey on down the link to join our online Story Hour tonight (Wednesday 1/7):

I'll be moderating a virtual @bookcritics.bsky.social panel on newsletters and arts writing this Thursday evening! Very excited about this one. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

[most enticing vizier voice] my lord... this one was a World Fantasy finalist and Compton Crook winner... it's about hero worship and deprogramming from your fascist upbringing... and accepting that sometimes your gods don't love you back... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Not everyday a book I edited gets included on @lithub.com.web.brid.gy's annual Books to Look Forward To list. Honored to play a part, no matter how small, In the production of FOUNDLING FATHERS

On the bottom row, @datlow.bsky.social's seminal anthology DARKNESS can be seen tachyonpublications.com/product/dark...

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Among the great fiction, poems, and articles, there's also an interview with me (courtesy of @betsyaoki.bsky.social) about poetry, writing craft, and the role of art in hard times!

Includes @megelison.bsky.social's forthcoming novella FOUNDLING FATHERS tachyonpublications.com/product/foun... @arleysorg.bsky.social

I originally wanted to go with the blurb "Michael Swanwick is disgustingly good," but I was afraid it would be misinterpreted.

Kitteh approved. #IgnoreThisBook

It's Universe Box Monday again! Today, I celebrate it with a Dala Horse. file770.com/a-dala-horse/

My newsletter all this year will be monthly odes to things that I love. January is an ode to ice water. It's free!

I probably shouldn’t admit this... buuuuut you get 50 free short stories with your first pledge. Really. www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

COMING NEXT MONTH: THE UNIVERSE BOX by the 5x Hugo Award winner @michaelswanwick.bsky.social buff.ly/WWRMAax “Virtuoso Swanwick delivers a microcosm in every story of this immaculate collection.” @catrambo.bsky.social

New excerpt up on the site, from YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED by Justin Feinstein… civilianreader.com/2026/01/03/e... Due out in April, via @tachyonpub.bsky.social

That's what I'm reading right now! @samtasticbooks.com is so good.

What was the last book you read/were reading in 2025 & what is the 1st of 2026? Finished 2025 with @samtasticbooks.com’s “Rabbit Test and Other Stories” (preorders are love btw tachyonpublications.com/product/rabb...) and starting the year with Euripedes’ “Medea”!