We are ECSTATIC to have reached our initial kickstarter goal! TAFCON WILL BE HAPPENING NEXT YEAR! Right now our kickstarter is the only place to get tickets. Virtual tickets unlock when we hit our $15k stretch goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/taf...

Or seen PENNY DREADFUL, which also features a great adaptation of Frankenstein (alongside Dracula and Dorian Gray), or the Cumberbatch/Lee Miller play, or, idk, GOOGLED IT A LIL BIT

Something special today at BF! Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read @tomhumberstone.com Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF. www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-again... #NoToAIArt

Almost 180,000 people have already stood up for the rights of nature & our collective right to a healthy environment in Europe. Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌

Help @3lobedmag.com raise funds for next year's issues on @kickstarter.com - another great SFFH magazine with a 25 year history that deserves to stick around! I nabbed myself a subscription for £20ish, but there are all sorts of perks to choose from. They have 3 days to raise 35%! Let's goοο ⬇️

Yes, I decided to start a youtube channel where I talk about horror and dark fantasy in publishing. It should be a lot of fun! I plan on doing a ton of things with it, so hop on down and follow it… Read More

Hello Reykjavík! 😍 It's my fourth time here in three years and I don't think I've ever chanced upon nicer weather while visiting... Love this city so much! #travel #iceland #reykjavik

Absolutely. Do not undervalue your art even if you think you dont have clout. They selected YOUR work from many because it was good. It is worth pushing for fair terms.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

Oh, hey, the B&N preorder sale is back now through the 5th. Get HIGHER MAGIC at 25% off and help me keep Max rolling in treats. #BNPreorder @barnesandnoble.com @htpbooks.bsky.social

As ever with my sieve brain, I cannot remember what we talked about, but I know I had a fabulous time with these two splendid lads. And didn't even have to defend my *bold* but *correct* SFF hot take! Please do go give us a listen. 🎧

How to apologize: a short thread. So. You've fucked up. You did or said or wrote something that angered and/or offended and/or hurt someone or many someones. You need to apologize--either because you were wrong, or because people are telling you to apologize. Which one is the case doesn't matter.

the @3lobedmag.com Kickstarter is at $4059 out of a $10,000 base goal! They have EIGHT DAYS LEFT they've been going for 25 years, let's keep them going! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Look, I appreciate the sentiment of RF Kuang saying people disagree on the pronunciation of "Katabasis" so you should feel free to say it however you want, but also: Greek people do actually exist, and you can ask a Greek speaker how to pronounce a Greek word correctly.

Just in case I wasn't clear, me pointing out the below is not an "attack" on Tempest & Nisi; it's holding them up to their own standards as set 5 years ago. Their (absolutely correct) indignation at the 2020 Hugo Awards ceremony gave us FIYAHcon and the Ignyte Awards, and we thanked them for it. 1/

Excellent analysis, as always:

So after three weeks, the "apology" from the Seattle Hugo hosts involves explanations contradict the literal video evidence. Two highly experienced and respected professionals claiming they "didn't know" they'd need a rehearsal before going on stage to deliver a high profile award ceremony. Please.

Hey American friends - unionise! Here's how! Signed, Your friendly theatre union rep from across the pond

I'm very happy to be one of this year's Guests of Honour, alongside Sheree Renée Thomas, Anna Martino, and Trick Weeks! Flights of Foundry is free, online, and a good time. You should totally come

Jetlagged af, but the work goes on! Rehearsal today for the Odyssey play I'm in on two dates next October at the Lambeth Fringe. Truly a SFF collab for the ages: I narrated Chris's story 'The Trauma Tourist' on @khoreo.bsky.social, and then he was like "do you wanna be in my show?" so.. here we are!

Listening to @darthj.uno’s new podcast @thewritesong.co.uk at on airport on the way home from WorldCon. Kat’s awesome and I already have new music to listen to. 🎶

Last 24 hours! I want to see this materialise! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

Worldcon starts tomorrow! I'm in Seattle and ready to party, starting with the @strangehorizons.bsky.social table talk tomorrow morning at 10.30am. Grab a cup of coffee and join us for a natter! Here's my full schedule, hope to see & catch up with a bunch of you this week 💖 @seattlein2025.org

you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗

Episode 15 of the Strange Horizons at 25 Podcast is out now! Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno chats with Debbie Urbanski about her 2018 Strange Horizons publication and the 13 years it took to get accepted, writing in the gray areas between genres, and what it means to be artistically honest. Link ⬇️

A great and terrifying essay by Meghan O'Rourke www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

So happy to see this in paperback! An awesome piece of writing, with more science things-I-shoulda-known than you can shake a space elevator at. This was a super fun work to get to have an early look at, and even contribute to ever so slightly on the Space Law front!

I was honoured to narrate this story by @christinwrites.bsky.social, set in the Greek mountains during WWII and the ensuing Greek civil war, in which a disabled girl keeps Charon fed amid brutal circumstances. I cried while I was reading it, so like Devin says, go gentle, but do give it a listen.

Check out Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy) by @samuelaweeks.com on @kickstarter.com! Help make a beautiful physical edition full of climate fiction stories and art, uncluding a cover designed by Mateusz Urbanowicz (who worked on Your Name and Weathering With You)!

OBEY ME - dashare.zone ADMIN

And so it would transpire that Kneel Before Pod hit 300 regular format episodes (!!!), and we marked the occasion with a double-header Twitch/YouTube livestream. You can now hear the audio edit on the feed, wherever you get your podcasts 🤩

Modern things that the Pride and Prejudice characters would LOVE. 🩷🩵 1/12 A little bit of silliness for Monday morning.

8 hours to go on the @strangehorizons.bsky.social fund drive - can you help us reach our 25k stretch goal and fund a special 25th anniversary issue? Some great new perks have been added too, courtesy of Interzone 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

It's that time again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Now just $2.5k from being baseline funded for next year. Everything the magazine does relies on reaching this goal. C’mon. If you’re able, you want to be one of the donations that makes it happen, right?

i have seen tourists eating sad fish & chips in the centre of London today so i want to give some advice on how to eat good fish & chips if you’re ever visiting the UK a) never ever in the centre of a big city. it will never be good.

If you'd like to run away to the 1660s and have an adventure featuring sapphic romance, sword fights, pirates, werewolves, and vampires, instead of thinking about... [gestures widely], the ebook of THE VENGEANCE is currently on sale for 99p! geni.us/Solarissale Any boosts gratefully received!

It’s a great time to get some of my books. Y’know. Since it’s Pride 24/7 for me personally, and my books reflect that.

11 days to go! Help us fund the next year of Strange Horizons stories, poems, reviews, and art—and if we get to stretch goals, there's one that gives ME more work and gets YOU a quarterly soundscaped poetry podcast episode. Win win? Yes!

There's only two weeks left in the Strange Horizons Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2026! We are at $14k and need to make it to our goal of $20,000. We can only get there with your donations! And if you already donated, you can still share to help us reach as many people as possible!

Ben’s birthday approaches, so it’s time for a sale! Through his bday, July 8th, all my books are half off, including at devan-barlow.itch.io Celebrate my handsome hound, read my books!

Pride Month is over! Six Deadly Sins to go. July is Sloth Month! Why bother getting up? It's hot.

Read my new poem at Strange Horizons, then back their Kickstarter so they can keep publishing!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Okay. I've decided on four articles to ask students to read. These are mostly suggestions from @davidhiggins.bsky.social (thanks!). Also tagging @margotlyautey.bsky.social who wanted the list. 1. This is a shorter piece on the environmental costs of AI: www.teenvogue.com/story/chatgp...

Just click on this: skyviewer.app/explorer #RubinTelescope

Unbound authors’ statement on the collapse of the publisher. Please read it and share. If you want to know what really went on, here are some answers:

I was today years old when I found out that people use the rating system on Goodreads as a personal "buy/not buy" list (instead of, idk, using the shelves system, making separate lists, etc). The mind boggles. When I've used the site it was to archive what I thought of a book, obv AFTER reading it