FINAL HOUR!! LAST CHAAANCE for late pledges!! Get a 2026/2027 subscription or sponsor a poem, story, or cover art! You can also add on community subscription copies if you want to gift a subscription to others 💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

What a great idea! Thanks to @firedbutfighting.bsky.social, we can all support furloughed and fired federal employees who are offering a variety of services, including dog-walking, tutoring, graphic design, meal prep, and much more. For more information, visit firedbutfighting.org/talent-marke....

If you, like me, would prefer that airlines not sell your personal data to the government, here's how to fix that.

Kind othersiders donated several community subscriptions during our Kickstarter! If you want a sub but can’t afford it, reach out via our website form and say you want a community sub. No need to elaborate, no questions asked. We'll update when we run out! Enjoy! othersidespec.com/contact/

I just finished and absolutely loved North Continent Ribbon by @yarntheory.bsky.social. The fastest I’ve read a book in yonks. What a joy. Creative and dark and loving and hopeful all at once. Also with a beautiful cover by @treelet.bsky.social.

very proud to see my book recced in response to this moodboard: www.reddit.com/r/BooksThatF...

You have until Sunday SUNDAY Sunday to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt. I don't have room in my house for piles of shirts so our shirts are always time-limited. Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social, looks cool as hell. Get one: SquidFacts.net

Because most social programs in the US are, unfortunately, means tested, sometimes providing direct financial assistance to someone can risk their benefits. This is an excellent guide on how to avoid that if there is anyone that you want to aid directly during this crisis.

IT'S THE FIIIINAL COUNTDOWN! If you're excited about OTHERSIDE and our plans to publish some incredible speculative fiction/nonfiction/poetry/art by 2SLGBTQIA+ creators... help us spread the word one last time?

Hey #a2council folks, how are you thinking through the millage on this November's ballot?

Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social's story "A Random Walk through the Goblin Library" (Beneath Ceaseless Skies): a fantasy + math delight. I had the privilege of reading this in draft and I'm so happy I can shout about it now it's published! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra...

💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀 Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy: COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho

Congratulations to @vajra.me , a shout out to @detroitjusticecen.bsky.social , a review of Iron Garden Sutra, a celebration of @othersidespec.bsky.social , and a cat: buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

"There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination,but it must be made so." Please watch the Ursula K. Le Guin prize acceptance speech from @vajra.me and read his work, and support the Sameer Project.

Every book on the le Guin prize shortlist is special in its own right. Ursula Whitcher's ( @yarntheory.bsky.social) North Continent Ribbon is a collection of stories about the sometimes slow, sometimes immediate nature of revolution. It is a stunning book. Everyone should read it

Congratulations to @vajra.me for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for his ferociously visionary RAKESFALL! & congratulations to all the finalists; I can confirm that this was an enormously challenging decision to make--because each novel in the shortlist was worthy of winning in its own way.

I'm so delighted for @vajra.me and for Rakesfall, which will break apart everything you thought you knew about novels and the universe and put them back in better pieces.

Would an early nineteenth century classics nerd have known about the cult of Mithras?

Today at noon Eastern!

A spot has opened up, and our TTRPG reward (originally sold out in just a few days!) is back on the menu! If you want to virtually play a TTRPG with the co-founders, now is your chance! This reward also includes a 2026 subscription to OTHERSIDE. It's going to be SO MUCH FUN!

Only one book will get the prize, because that's the reality of prizes, but every book in this stack is so very worth reading. Go read them all.

Do you ever think about in 200 years if they write romance novels about this time, what will be the five cultural things that every book will reference?

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

What musical artists do you associate with your coming of age or teen years? Violent Femmes, specifically listening to "Good Feeling" on the tape deck of my parents' Volvo as I drove back country roads home around midnight, along with Nirvana & all the grunge top hits.

Matt drew the interior illustrations for North Continent Ribbon (including my beloved six-legged salamander)!

Want a poetry critique from the lovely @yarntheory.bsky.social? Ursula Whitcher is a writer, poet, and mathematician published by Neon Hemlock, Analog, Asimov’s, The Deadlands, and elsewhere! Grab a subscription + poetry critique! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

How many cards do you need to draw to get one of each suit? Discover the surprising link to differential equations in the Oct Feature: The Hypergeometric Flower Pot by Ursula Whitcher https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2025/10/01/the-hypergeometric-flower-pot/

Look what's in stock at my local Barnes and Noble!

The thread embedded here is fun (and makes me homesick!) but I think it misunderstands the genuine honesty embedded in "shitposting". Portland has Gideon the Ninth style meming.

I've now read the majority of the works shortlisted for the @ursulakleguin.com award and they are all excellent. For me, it's a toss up between @vajra.me's Rakesfall and @yarntheory.bsky.social's North Continent Ribbon (the latter of which I really hope more people would read)

October 20th is the order cut off for DIE: LOADED, sequel to the three-time Hugo-nominated DIE. I've pulled together a short primer it with all the info you need on it - what it is, previews, full cover details (check out our sketch variant!) and more. Go nose! Join our party. It's an experience.

I don't get many of these (I suspect my old-school spam-deterrent method of writing my email as firstname at domain dot suffix helps) but the ones I have seen are super creepy.

We have some lovely rewards for you over on Kickstarter! Snag a subscription + poetry critique from the wonderful @angelaliu.bsky.social! Angela is a Nebula, Hugo, Astounding, Locus, AND Ignyte finalist—as well as a Rhysling Award recipient! And also the best. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

THIS.

SAME BUT I WAS FOURTEEN.

If I am flying within the EU and I have a choice between a 50-minute Lufthansa/Air Dolomiti connection in Frankfurt and a 3-hour Air Italia connection in Rome, who is more likely to lose my luggage?

Come talk to us about Burning Bright, whether my take on the tiny ending mystery makes sense, and why cyberpunk/space opera fusions are best!

Really glad Ursula brought my attention to this book: a particularly fine vintage of 90s SF, with some interesting character work and ideas about artistry. Recommended.

For Episode 34, @yarntheory.bsky.social joins to talk about structure, art & endings, relationships, and much more in Melissa Scott's 1993 cyberpunk space-Venice thriller BURNING BRIGHT: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/06/a...

I'm omitting the musicology (Schenkerian analysis...) readings for school but 1. The Villainess and the Demon Knight vol. 2 2. Christopher Ruocchio's Empire of Silence 3. Ursula Whitcher's North Continent Ribbon (reread) 4. Martin Van Creveld's Command in War 5. Poul Anderson's Tau Zero (reread)

How do you get from a good Balatro score to the physics of mirror symmetry? One path (for people who like infinite sums) leads via the hypergeometric series. mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolum...

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

Want me to critique your poetry? Or stare really really hard at a page of prose? That's an add-on here!

This is interesting—I see a lot of these tells in my work with writing scams, where the use of chatbots in scam solicitations and impersonations has become ubiquitous.

Hey, Mathsky, what's your favorite reference for the negative hypergeometric probability distribution?

On the advent of Black Speculative Fiction Month *and* Black History Month in the UK, I’d like to remind you that my very Bjack, very queer collection of short stories publishes on October 14! You can pre-order here: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social weekend! On Sunday at 3pm Eastern, come listen to @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @yarntheory.bsky.social and yours truly, led by moderator @bugthewriter.bsky.social, as we chat about speculative poetry! FoF is online & free! Register here:

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...