Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer. Here are a few simple links. Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

congrats to the BSFA longlist! one of my favorite awards!! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

A Golden-crowned Kinglet getting ready to launch to another branch. These little cuties snuggle together at night to help keep warm.

A photo from today's walk: Hummingbird. #photography #BirdPhotography #nature #wildlife #PNW #hummingbird #BirdSky #birds

I SAID WHAT I SAID which is preorder this book, request it from your library, give your April self a gift from your January self, thank me later

ok, new pinned thingie pinned... oh whoops I forgot the title in the post, did I mention I'm bad at this 😅 I guess people can click the link and such

us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 💥 "devastating" - Rebecca Roanhorse 💥 "destroyed me" - Yoon Ha Lee 💥 "f*king fantastic" - Samantha Mills 💥 "i AM NOT OKAY" - Mia Tsai 💥 "I felt shattered" - Sue Burke 💥 "heartbreaking" - Yume Kitasei 💥 "brilliant" - Wole Talabi 💥 "SF at its best" - Kate Elliott

ok new pinned thingie incoming with a cover this time upcoming book! preorders live! all the things! :) oh and there's a goodreads giveaway happening right now, omg I am bad at this www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

In the mood for a space opera adventure reviewers have affectionately called “tear-apart-the-empire-with-your-bare-hands wish fulfillment”? THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*! ✨ bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

My @strangehorizons.bsky.social poem "The blanket, the secret, the dark" was nominated for the Rhysling award!! Here is the poem. I'm glad it has been resonating. It's also eligible for the Nebula and Hugo this year <3 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-blanket-the-secret-the-dark/

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Shachi, Mark, Scott, and I discuss anticipated books of 2026. Includes titles by: Maggie O’Farrell @marthwells.com Moniquill Blackgoose @shaykauwe.bsky.social @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social Xochitl Gonzalez James S.A. Corey @slhuang.com @aptshadow.bsky.social narratedpodcast.com/episodes/340

in addition to making jokes and posting politics, i write stuff eligible for awards. as nominations are underway, i repost this once more. it will pass your skyline again.

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

The Wave

My final publication of this year is now free-to-read. If you missed it on Christmas Day, here you Go!

holy shit, thanks @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social !!

We asked @lavanya.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of '26. Read the full article: https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @slhuang.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social & more! https://geni.us/killingspell

I was *shaking* when I finished reading @slhuang.com 's prequel to THE WATER OUTLAWS, even more than the novel itself, which is saying something! Some stories you can taste even if it's nothing culinary, and this is bitter, fortifying, exhilarant, bony. reactormag.com/the-river-ju...

oops I realized people may not have context for this. big game studios are OBSESSED with security. like, obsessed obsessed. I *guarantee* there are game writers who literally cannot answer these questions.

oh my GOSH

someone help I tried to see if I could expand on sfwa's nonsense rule #2 about "process" in a way that would give adequate guidance across prose, poetry, games, comics, film, tv, and plays without stressing writers or administrators into an early grave I'm 7 pages in and it's not even good

In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.

Can someone from @sfwa.org please explain what this means? Genuine question, as the other rule already covers text, so it's clearly not about text... This would seem to bar any use of say a search engine in writing research (all modern search engines use LLMs, including the non-gen results list)

If hypothetically one has never seen a Godzilla movie and knows nothing about it, which Godzilla movie should one start with (this appears to be a hotly debated question) also subs or dubs

ok I know it's annoying when someone is like "this book is so good" and then it turns out the book isn't out for like five months but this book is SO GOOD. playful and utterly devastating. if there's justice in the world it will join Story of Your Life in the pantheon of linguistic SF. go! preorder!

My Most Anticipated books list for 2026 - do you share any anticipation for these titles? 💜 Featuring authors @cothillion.bsky.social , @cachaplin.bsky.social , @slhuang.com , @megbontra.bsky.social, & more!

カグラバチ

My novel, The Subtle Art of Folding Space, has a cover! Read about repairing physics, unreasonable parental expectations, and great Taiwanese food! Out on April 7, 2026. Pre-order now: t.co/0nz8JuNhwf Art credits: Jacket art by Weston Wei, Jacket Design by Katie Klimowicz.

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! @bookshop.org is an easy way to order books in the U.S. through your local indie. For example... Kitemaster: bookshop.org/p/books/kite... Slayers of Old: bookshop.org/p/books/slay... #booksky

It's CLICKY DUCKIES! This little rainbow duck sits on top of the best kind of clicky keyboard switch. You can tap him and pretend you're just typing away in your office! thebrokencircle.etsy...

it'll be nice if the world still exists by the time the book comes out

oh my next book is up for preorder us.macmillan.com/books/978125... ✨ "this book destroyed me" - Yoon Ha Lee ✨ "I felt shattered" - Sue Burke ✨ "truly ambitious science fiction" - Marie Brennan ✨ "beautiful, brilliant, heartbreaking" - Yume Kitasei ✨ "I inhaled it all in one sitting" - Wole Talabi

Genuinely, I am so excited to work with Erewhon on this, and can't wait to share the finished story with you all! 😁😈

This week I am thoroughly enjoying "The Water Outlaws" by @slhuang.com #booksky #nebulafinalist #books #reading #slhuang #thewateroutlaws

¡Buenos días con un nuevo relato! Hoy publicamos «El gato espacial de la Suzaku Maru», de S. L. Huang (@slhuang.com), una historia muy divertida sobre los quehaceres de un gato en una nave espacial. Disponible para todos los niveles de suscripción: www.patreon.com/posts/123152... #litesky

Super cool to see that from Light From Uncommon Stars auf Deutsch is a finalist for the 2025 Kurd Laßwitz Preis! Thank you @scalzi.com letting me know, and congratulations to you, @marthawells.com, Becky Chambers, Ray Nayler, and all the finalists! , www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/2025/KLP_202...

Several awards are open for noms. I’d be honored if readers consider my work. My most popular stories are my AI cautionary tale, “Bright Horizons,” & my machine apocalypse story, “The Life You’ve Given Me, Rusty.” Both on the Nebula list and BSFA longlist. & here: www.pacornell.com/2024-awards-...

My favorite of 2024's #Nebula nominees was @slhuang.com's THE WATER OUTLAWS. It was so good it made me want to read the original - which in this case is a Chinese epic from the Ming dynasty. A fantastic gender-bent retelling about love, community, and giving tyrants what they deserve. (7/13)

I hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income. If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This is adorable, and you should go read it!

Morning! Finally reading The Water Outlaws @slhuang.com Almost finished and it is incredible!

Mistyped the attribution on the second level. It was Rich Larson, not Rich Horton. Sorry about that. Still excited I have episodes by @slhuang.com and @rachaelkjones.bsky.social in my future

Coming in January, the re-release of @kateelliottsff.bsky.social 's BLACK WOLVES, set in her Hundred Kingdoms (Crossroads) verse

Just relaxin’. An illustration of Hadrosaurus, created for the Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction exhibition at Newcastle Museum, Australia.

Just watched this and as soon as I'm done typing I'm going to rewatch it. The animation is stunning, with fluidity like a more organic Inception meets Dr. Strange, but with an art style all its own. The story is propulsive and mindbending with a stunning character driven emotional core. Go watch!

thanks for all the art recs!! I'm getting so many it'll take me some time to go through them all, embarrassment of riches 😊

does anyone have recs of artist accounts to follow (where they post pictures of their art)? photography included! no repost accounts or starter packs, please -- seeking people's personal recs 😊

So many new followers! Thanks for being here. Time for an intro post: Hi, I'm Suyi. I write SFF & sundry + teach creative writing & literature. I've published 7 books (soon 8 🤞🏿), the latest being LOST ARK DREAMING (science fiction, 192pp, "vertical Snowpiercer in the Atlantic ocean"). Welcome!

Definitely don't miss out on SECRET LEVEL! It is: a) gorgeously animated b) an anthology series - jump around and watch episodes in any order! c) short runtimes - episodes are between 5-20 minutes, like in Love, Death, + Robots - nice for lunch breaks! d) written by SFF legends (plus me somehow)