Wizard hookers, werewolf that tells the future, demon nepo babies, OP gay warlock, squid pope, ghost in a jar, octopus walls, dead crab god, strategic poetry ordinance, puka shell armor, and fish that make honey. You know, that old chestnut. By @aptshadow.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Pretenders-T...

Tried to type "Free Bird' on my phone and accidentally typed "Gree Bord." For sale: Name for a bruiser villain in hard sci fi / intelligent orc. All offers considered. No time wasters.

@brockway.bsky.social wrote the scariest book I've read, Termination Shock; the funniest non-fiction books I've read, EISGTKE; and his Vicious Circuit trilogy was a masterpiece in the genre. He's a wiser, kinder, more streamlined lunatic in his latest, I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200.

I've had a series of bad days. This book, the fourth in the Tyrant Philosophers series, dropped today. Thank you, @aptshadow.bsky.social. It's my favorite fantasy series. Needed this.

I know I'm a latecomer. I've only done about 6 of her books, but I say this unreservedly: Ever since Terry Pratchett started pretending to be dead, I've been looking for an author that gives me that warm, fuzzy (but somehow terrified) feeling. Found her. A House with Good Bones, @tkingfisher.com.

My 50 books of the year.

Moral of the book: Eating people is a sign something is wrong with you. Also, bees. It's about time someone said it. Don't know why, but this one gave me inklings of Michael Moorcock in style. Very cool read from @caitlinstarling.com. www.amazon.com/Starving-Sai...

Yes! A new Adrian Tchaikovsky book! I better finish my current Adrian Tchaikovsky book and remember to pre-order that one book from Adrian Tchaikovsky. @aptshadow.bsky.social, take a day off, dude. You're making us all look bad.

I think the hardest type of book to write is one headed to a specific destination. So, if anyone is going to do hell, it needed to be @rfkuang.bsky.social. I'm a peasant and my education was dogshit, so I don't get all the Cambridge particulars, but loved it. www.amazon.com/Katabasis-No...

No one told me that @tkingfisher.com did another Sworn Soldier book, this time in my home state of West Virginia. I goddamn love these books and I'll buy every single one until one of us is dead, and I hope I go first because Pratchett really screwed me on that. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Attention, Pierce Brown has an Ice Cube in 'Friday' joke in the third book of the Red Rising series. That is all.

Sometimes sentences punch you in the gut for no reason. "She sang a song with no words to herself as she dug a hole." Bleak but beautiful sci-fi from Nnedi Okorafor. @nnedi.bsky.social

Some important opinions about LNG's effect on Thailand's solar ambitions here. dialogue.earth/en/energy/th...

New article from Yann Bigant and Vutha Srey on @dialogueearth.bsky.social - great photos. dialogue.earth/en/nature/bi...

None of you told me about Michael Moorcock. Hm? Do you feel good about that? A story about Lucifer sending a damned 16th century soldier to find the Holy Grail who ends up learning humanist morals? Didn't think I needed to know? Hm? Nothing to say for yourself? Just going to sit there? Fine.

Photos and words with @dialogueearth.bsky.social dialogue.earth/en/ocean/tha...

The first was hard sci-fi spiders, the second a zombie space horror with octopuses, and this one's a bleak interplanetary fairy tale with birds. I'm guessing the next one is time traveling noir thriller with capybaras. Way to keep it fresh @aptshadow.bsky.social. www.amazon.com/Children-Mem...

Well, I didn't know my whole outlook on life was a literary genre called grimdark. Now I have to read the rest of them. Way to ruin my reading list, @joeabercrombie.com, you jerk. Now, my back hurts so I'm going to go torture someone. www.amazon.com/Blade-Itself...

Hot damn. I don't think I've ever read a book that understands hate so well - proper hate. Not internet hate. Real hate. Remember kids, pacifism kills. Not sure if that's the moral, but I'm angry these days. Props to @premeemohamed.com for another banger. www.amazon.com/Siege-Burnin...

New up from @dialogueearth.bsky.social

Neil in some pretty bad company here.

Book review: Dead babies glow, dragons float, get pregnant, and if you’re on a boat you're gay. 5 / 5 corpselights. Bone Ships by @rjbarker.bsky.social

Robots up the holler. This new book from @erinkwagner.bsky.social is an important reminder that science and the future happen everwhere. As someone from West Virginia whose kin was killed by a chemical company, I can tell you for certain it matters.

The struggle against plastic choking the Mekong 🥤🌏 dialogue.earth/en/pollution...

An absolutely huge piece from @dialogueearth.bsky.social spanning three countries from the inimitable Anton Delgado, who had a hell of a time while this was going on. This one is worth your time, following plastic from the foothills of the Himalayas to the sea. dialogue.earth/en/pollution...

✊ Across Southeast Asia, environmental defenders and journalists are navigating an increasingly hostile landscape. 🗣️ In our recent piece, five environmental defenders & journalists from across the region tell their stories: loom.ly/QFNSTv4 @bangkoktribune.bsky.social

This is how you write a book: big sex frog, demon in a little hat, ghost jail, leg monster, bug tongues, fish tequila. It's not that hard. Days of Shattered Faith by @aptshadow.bsky.social. 5/5 tablethi.

This one took a lot of cooperation from the @dialogueearth.bsky.social team. Many thanks to the contributors - some unnamed for safety reasons - in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Myanmar, and the photos and artwork from folks around Southeast Asia. dialogue.earth/en/justice/s...

I just want to announce an important life goal here on Bluesky. I spelled "Mediterranean" right on the first go. I knew a few years ago when I started spelling "definitely" correctly without event thinking about it, that I was destined for greatness. Thank you to all of my friends and family.

This motorcycle is garbage and handles like a donkey and it's so sluggish and old I should just send it to the damn junk yard already, stupid piece of crap. *puts a small amount of air in the tires* I'M A LEAF ON THE WIND!

It’s that time of year again—all my books from 2024. I read 50 books a year, every year, and I do a little recap at the end of the year. Now, I will announce the highly anticipated (by me) Roney Book Award Winners.

Six words that will forever put to rest the idea that Elon Musk is a brilliant inventor and not a poisonous money goblin: Imagine he started Twitter like that. 2006: “Hey guys, there’s this new social media site where you pay the richest man in the world so your opinion will matter more."

"This air of fear has a greater impact on society than we realise." In Thailand, SLAPP laws are silencing environmental journalists and activists. 🔎 Learn more: loom.ly/W9TF6IA @tylerroney.bsky.social

New up with @dialogueearth.bsky.social dialogue.earth/en/justice/i...

I rarely get to shoot history these days - even if it's very small. But, let me present to you Thailand's first every 3-star Michelin chef with Supaksorn “Ice” Jongsiri. Bangkok's top chef, and his speech put the crowd to tears.

Finishing up my 2024 booklist and realizing women are killing it in sci-fi and fantasy books. Admittedly, I'm way more sci-fi than fantasy, but top five: Becky Chambers, @premeemohamed.com (also funny on Bluesky), @sunyidean.com, @rfkuang.bsky.social, and @tkingfisher.com. Absolute legends.

Not to brag, but I fell asleep reading a book and dreamed the rest and absolutely killed it.

A few of my shots from Rolling Loud Thailand 2024.

Dear @caimhmc.bsky.social, I was just reading The Stranger Times, and I posit that Banecroft is Bernard Black as played by Dylan Moran in the 2000 sitcom Black Books. That is all. Sincerely, Tyler A. Roney

Just a regular call for pitches, my first on Bluesky. Environmental stories in mainland Southeast Asia for @dialogueearth.bsky.social.

New up on @dialogueearth.bsky.social from @rebeccaroot.bsky.social dialogue.earth/en/justice/s...

Thinking a lot about the snap-around lately. I have @nealstephenson.bsky.social to thank for that (you jerk). It might be - screw that - it is the best cli-fi sci-fi book ever. Cynical but not self-indulgent. For scope alone, it should be on every reading list. www.amazon.com/Termination-...

"The decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos." I worked at the paper for seven years and Bezos never interfered with a thing. This is five-alarm fire stuff. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

This is like MASH in a fantasy universe where gods are two-foot tall jerks and demons are contracted from Hell for war and sex and there’s an unstoppable atheist force fueled by torture tear-assing across the world. So...not that much like MASH. From the annoyingly prolific @aptshadow.bsky.social.

Newly up on @dialogueearth.bsky.social

From @dialogueearth.bsky.social.

New piece up with Luke Duggleby and Nicha Wachpanich with @dialogueearth.bsky.social.

Some can write. Some can build worlds. Some can scare the bejesus out of you. @keithrosson.bsky.social does all of that annoyingly well. Must be nice to be one of god's favorites. Devil by name is newly out. Recommended by @jasonkpargin.bsky.social, who also has a book out this month.