Deep breath Ok I'm going to try and stay calm But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France) (1/?)

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Nonmembers are welcome to reply to the survey! I very much want the SFWA to be an org that writers, readers, and editors can trust, and a resource where I can continue to point new writers. I cannot do that if their stance on gen AI betrays a lack of respect for our work and our rights as workers.

Can you imagine coming to court to make your case for asylum, and suddenly being told you might be deported to Uganda? That you have to come up with a reason why you can't be deported to Uganda? No one's given you a warning. No one's given you time to prepare.

I was interviewed by PIX11 for this article about how the Trump administration is trying to deport asylum-seekers to random third countries like Uganda, Ecuador, and Honduras. It is one of the most horrifying things I've seen in immigration court, and I do not say that lightly.

Thanks to everyone who supported the fundraiser for Ramzi’s brother’s eye surgery, which is today. Their tent, pictured here, was flooded in the recent winter storm in Gaza and now they are living with their uncle’s family, raising funds for a new tent. chuffed.org/project/1319...

This is a gorgeous collection and I'm so happy to see it recognized 💕

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

you want to check this post out because WE CAN'T WAIT for you to read House, Body, Bird it's weird in the BEST WAY 💀🖤

Also I'm reminded: if you want a wild west wild hunt story (???) with a sacrificial chase held every seven years -- and this year featuring a set of identical twins (HMMMM) -- you can pick up THE RIDER, THE RIDE, THE RICH MAN'S WIFE! pspublishing.co.uk/the-rider-th...

There are Palestinians on Twitter/X that have been there years without deletion, posting news straight out of Gaza. Meta/X are nazi-ass & anti-Palestinian like all tech, but their size means they can't scale their moderation to be as devoted to anti-Palestinian ethnic cleansing as Bsky.

blissfully slept through the entire sfwa post and repost. thanks for sorting that shit out so quickly, western hemisphere.

Important to understand this as part of a multi-pronged attack on birthright citizenship. For this administration, white people are the only "real" citizens. Everyone else is a target.

Finally, can I interest you in this review from @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org ! "Fear, indignation and hope will take turns invading your thoughts as you read One Message Remains, an exploration of horror and empathy by a fantastic writer." ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/03/27/m...

"What world" This one! One of my favourite stories I've ever written and I'm so pleased that @ecatherine.com never asked me to tone it down or de-weird it. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Anyway! This seems like a good time to re-up my book that came out in February -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is a mini-collection with a brand-new novella and two new novelettes, plus one reprint, set in the same world! bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

This is a story I seriously enjoyed this year and I want more people to read it so I can talk about this worldbuilding and pacing and ending and all that stuff.

The title adds a lot to the piece as well, placing the narrator and perhaps reader in this position of being caught in a dream or nightmare, aware of it but still unable to shape the world to change or fix what's going on. Injustice and violence intrude even into dreams, fixed and inflexible.

"I Had a Dream and in the Dream I Knew I Was Dreaming So I Believed I Could Change Things" by Shana Ross is a shattering look at war and mass death, a generation decimated and those who remain forced to wait to bury the dead, to truly survive the devastation slaughter.

It's a complex undertaking, and the poem seems to explore that act of telling the story, maybe not always accurately but always truthfully, showing that changing a story is not always an act of violence but can be an attempt at healing, at revealing, at finding meaning and beauty and holding it dear

R.B. Lemberg's "Bay Nakht Altn Mark: A Rehearsal" is a poem that wraps itself around a play and around a bloody history. Texts bleed together, as the events of each are twined by tragedy, revision, and erasure. Still, the narrator seeks to tell the story, to give it the telling it's been denied

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews The Deadlands Fall 2025 (7 originals plus 4 poems) @thedeadlands.com An issue full of some strange and moving portrayals of death, grief, monsters, and history. Lots to chew on here, with a consistent denseness and layering of meaning.

prancer sounds like something a wealthy british homophobe would call me

Please share & donate to help Ahmed's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, which has left Palestinians starving & homeless as winter storms flood the camps, donations have slowed a lot since the 'ceasefire':

26. Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones! One of his great strengths as an author is his protagonists; imo this is up there with Mongrels as one of his best protags. I hesitated picking it up since I don't gaf about mannequins, but damn, this was killer. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

a highlight of the year was meeting these superior architects

heeee 42. Vendetta by Peter David, a reread of a classic Star Trek: TNG novel! I was in a lull not knowing what I wanted to read next, and Trek novels are often my comfort reads. Also, I think Peter David agrees with me that Guinan and Picard are secretly married. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

38. House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky! I haven't been too into the scifi I've read of his, but this fantasy book FUCKS. The world it's set in, the cosmology and moving pieces, I'm so here for it. This was like...Bas-lag meets MASH. www.bloomsbury.com/us/house-of-...

6. The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed!!!!! ANOTHER favorite read this year. Premee is another always-read author for me, and this is (for now) my favorite of hers (so far). What can I say, I'm weak for a long, hopeless trudge through the landscape. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-siege-...

33. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett! Another random find in the chaos bookstore, in pristine hardcover. This was my first Pratchett (that wasn't cowritten) and I was surprised how much I liked it, since I'm usually a grump about comedy. www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

30. Spectered Isle by KJ Charles! This was not what I expected it to be, because as far as I knew before this book, "the green man" was like some kind of British version of Swamp Thing. 🤷 But I did like this, lol. Anytime I need my brain to chill: KJ Charles. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spectred-i...

9. Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk! They are an auto-buy author for me, and that policy has never let me down. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

8. The Desert Talon by Karin Lowachee! I yelled so much about this novella trilogy early this year, and I YELL NOW AGAIN. This is the second, they're all out now, and they're an indigenous take on a western (as in cowboys, etc) story with dragons. SUCH dragons. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-desert...

43. Sterling City by Stephen Graham Jones. One day, far from now, I will finally be caught up on reading everything SGJ has ever written. This was good, but/and I felt like I could see how long he studied how to accurately describe how farm equipment works. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sterling-c...

omg well you have great taste in numbers because #37 is Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, which might have been my favorite read of the year. Just thinking about it now makes me want to go back and read it all over again. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

44. A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi! A slim little volume that I was shocked to find in my area's only bookstore, where used books are shelved in no particular order. I'd been looking for it for a while, with no expectation of finding it anytime soon. www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

1. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu! Shockingly not the oldest one this year, since it was only from 1872. Much shorter than I'd thought it'd be, I read this one so that I could feel better about reading/watching things derived from it 😅

OH MY GOD YOU SAID 21. Welp. 21. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole! Which I tried out because I've loved some of her romance books, which this was strictly not, although it included some romance. It was okay! I liked her romances better, though. www.harpercollins.com/products/whe...

2. The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui and I am not usually one to talk about this, on account of my near-nonexistent ability to conjure up imagery in my head, but this book would make a KILLER film. It's also a great read. www.neonhemlock.com/books/dragon...

13. Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee! A reread for me, which might give you a hint what 10, 11, and 12 were. I never tire of Jedao(s). shop.rebellion.com/products/sol...

This year I started keeping the list of books I finished reading in a journal rather than an app, and yesterday I hit fifty! I know that in our circles that's not an extraordinary number, but I'm glad I managed it, since there are endless books I want to read, and only so many years in a life.

This story is brutal, sad, and vivid. It's about a girl and a pair of friends turned lovers and about a land, all swept up in the savagery of war, that leaves nothing behind but bones and tears. by @babblewocky.bsky.social in @psychopomp.com

If you are still that infernal site Goodreads, there's a YEAR OF THE MER giveaway going on right meow www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Sorry, "it" being her song "Optimist"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSzt...

I love hearing Zoe Keating in the wild. Étoile episode 4 uses it in a gorgeous ballet.

just blasted through the second half of The Nightward by @rsagarcia.bsky.social in a day. a story with so many moving parts and characters, every one of them thrilling to follow. all that and a gendered magic system that fully accounts for trans and nb people. 🤩

The Dead Withheld by L.D. Lewis: A Sapphic Paranormal Neo-Noir Review Neon Hemlock has another hit on its hands with The Dead Withheld by L.D. Lewis. Published in 2025, the sapphic paranormal neo-noir novella follows Desdemona “Dizzy” Carter in her quest to find the murderer of her wife, Lonnie,…