What books would you recommend (self promo welcome) that answer the challenges and emotions of our present? Ended 2025 with HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN by @gabino.bsky.social which dredged up old Hurricane trauma and then proceeded to hack the shit out of it with a machete 🇵🇷🌀🔪. #bookrecs

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

BCS prints gorgeous stuff and needs some support!

Coming VERY SOON (tuesday)! WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about activism that @cxorlando.bsky.social called "An incredibly important book" - pre-order now!

My new story is a rare crossover of my research & author lives: starring a cranky Puerto Rican #datacenter technician (👴🏿) in a near-future Philly where 'Generative Reality' (GR 👓) apps run on nuclear power, "Subsidence" is the 🔮A.I. killjoy scifi you've been looking for issues.org/futuretensef...

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

I'm so honored to have my novella shout out by @kjy1066.bsky.social ! Now it's my turn to shout a fellow bori writer for #Puertoricanheritagemonth ✍🏼🇵🇷👇🏼📚 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Maya and Taíno. Colonizer and Colonized. Perpetrator and Victim. These differences are recast to create something new. SORDIDEZ ends on a note of rebirth and possibility, where the long, sordid shadow of unspeakable violence is smothered away by the light of the sun's mythical bearer: Agüeybaná. 5/

Thanks to your support for Taínofuturism, @stelliform.press is publishing TWO standalone sequels to SORDIDEZ in 2026! 📕The first is called CACIQUES. Set in Borikén, our heroes learn how to live without the Empires that have long defined them. Can they vanquish the lingering ghosts of coloniality? 9/

I always love talking to Julisa, and this conversation about data and narratives and how gender inequality intersects with disasters was just amazing!

In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, I wrote a listicle of awesome Latinx Science Fiction to read ASAP! W/ great books by @boriscrito.bsky.social @pazsays.bsky.social @valerievaldes.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social @willalex.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social benfrancisco.net/2025/10/15/1...

This is why we call it #indigneouspeoplesday - we don't celebrate monsters: "the Christians...took infants from their mothers’ breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them head first against the crags...roaring with laughter...as the babies fell into the water" - Bartomolé De Las Casas. 🐚🪶

The first episode is out now, with @boriscrito.bsky.social talking about data centers and Taínofuturism; the next one, with @thinink.bsky.social about food systems and climate, drops a week from Tuesday! issues.org/category/the...

he's not "predicting" it, he's expressing his selfish vision of nobody doing anything he doesn't want (not that we should care what any of these comemierdas predict anyway, but since some people do, sub-heads should be clear). Also who's going to monitor all this surveillance? #Infomocracy

“I have advocated, and I still advocate revolutionary change. I advocate an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism, and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty.” - Assata Shakur

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Fans of Sordidez, rejoice! Next year will see two sequels, set in that universe! (I haven't yet read it, but I have heard many good things.)

I could NOT be more excited for a sequel. FRIENDS you have just enough time to order @boriscrito.bsky.social EG Condé's Sordidez from @stelliform.press. You won't be **ready for this greatness, but you can at least prepare.

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

⭐️BOOK LAUNCH incoming!⭐️ See you this evening, Bristol!! Come see @garethlpowell.bsky.social & me in conversation, hear us reading from our new books & pick up a signed copy at Forbidden Planet, 5:30 pm!👋 🚀WHO WILL YOU SAVE? Gareth L. Powell 🚀AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD Ren Hutchings

Introducing our new podcast miniseries: “Not Now, But Soon”! In the first episode, @boriscrito.bsky.social talks with host @older.bsky.social about his academic life researching data centers, his #speculativefiction life, & how those worlds collide in his book SOLIDEZ. issues.org/hurricane-of...

@older.bsky.social invited me on her podcast mini-series to talk about disaster. It's rare that I get a chance to bring my research on the environmental impact of computing, AI, data centers into conversation with my speculative fiction - especially when it comes to Puerto Rico. #datacenters 🌀🚀✍️

The 1st episode of the new pod-miniseries I'm hosting at @issuesinst.bsky.social is out now! I talk with spec-fic writer & anthropologist of tech @boriscrito.bsky.social about the slow disaster of data centers, the rapid disasters of hurricanes in the Caribbean, & the ways we envision the future:

I’m so grateful to @stelliform.press for taking a chance on my weird swampcore novella and to the Indie Ink Awards! I was so honoured to share the ballot with @boriscrito.bsky.social and his brilliant Taínofuturism novella Sordidez- a must-read book of imagination, vision and knowledge. Wela’lioq! 💖

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

SFF writers! What writer outside your genre was a big influence on your work?

The first episode of the new podcast miniseries I'm hosting at @issuesinst.bsky.social comes out on Tuesday! I'll be talking with @boriscrito.bsky.social about the anthropology of cloud storage, his Caribbean-influenced speculative fiction genre, Taínofuturismo, and more!

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic is our Christopher Caldwell's debut collection - and if you want persuading, check out this glowing review from Publishers Weekly in the embed! Then bag yours direct from Neon Hemlock here: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a... @seraph76.bsky.social

This diasporic scifi panel was a dream come true! It should be available for replay on the virtual platform for anyone at WorldCon remotely. Every panelist brought something beautiful to the conversation. I can't stress enough how rewarding transCaribbean conversations can be! #WorldCon2025

#Tomorrow! I'll be a panelist on the @seattlein2025.org Virtual "Diasporic Caribbean Science Fiction" panel with @boriscrito.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social, @spiderlilly.bsky.social, Fabrice Guerrier,Suzan Palumbo & Alex V Cruz: builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/s...

Dearest Worldconers, I won't in Seattle but am thrilled to be on 2 virtual dream-team panels. The first is Diasporic Caribbean Science Fiction w/ @older.bsky.social @spiderlilly.bsky.social @tonyarmoore.com @fabriceguerrier.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo & Alex V Cruz on Friday @ 9AM PST #Worldcon2025

I'm proudly supporting The Sameer Project this month with a FANimation of THE FREE PEOPLE'S VILLAGE by @simkern.bsky.social . Join my fundraiser for a chance to win bookish prizes while supporting direct aid for Palest1nians surviving famine and horrific violence. How to participate?

Check out this wonderful fanimation short from @boriscrito.bsky.social adapted from my SF short story "Do As I Do," which you can find in my latest collection ECHOES AND EMBERS from @starsandsabers.bsky.social youtu.be/x8HOMUMqcPc?...

My latest FANimation is a found family short that involves a robot, puppies, and a survivor brilliantly voiced by Aven Shore. It's based on a touching story by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social , "Do As I Do", one of many great tales in his collection ECHOES and EMBERS @starsandsabers.bsky.social #booksky

I'll be a panelist on a @seattlein2025.org Virtual Panel on 08/15/2025 - 12PM EST with @boriscrito.bsky.social‬, Alex V Cruz, Fabrice Guerrier, Malka Older, Suzan Palumbo. We'll be talking about "Diasporic Caribbean Science Fiction"

To add to David's thread I am QTing, here is a 2nd article on data centers. Is anyone giving a talk on potential hazards and disasters implications at #HazWS2025? Please share your info if so! Data center activity ‘exploded’ in Texas, spiking reliability risks: monitor share.google/ytZ5zVZKt8FP...

We're starting a big campaign tomorrow but since I'm here, please donate to @globalvoices.org, we provide news with no ads and no trackers and we'd like to be able to keep doing that! globalvoices.org/donate/

How's everyone doing in this heat wave? If sky high temps are interfering with pride celebrations, check out our queer Stelliform books by queer Stelliform authors, always $5 on our website: www.stelliform.press...

In praise of Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social, @boriscrito.bsky.social describes these as "tales that are as likely to touch your heart as they are to dazzle or horrify."

I read the first 2 in this series at the behest of my BIL @boriscrito.bsky.social and then accidentally left them at my parents' house - who then proceeded to read them and ask if there were any more. I just pre-ordered a copy for them too!

Wanna join the Informed Ignyte Voter Book Club? I hear the @theignyteawards.bsky.social Nominees have been notified, which is very exciting because the Ignytes celebrate the works of People of the Global Majority within Speculative Fiction! The Ignyte Awards are special, in part, because they

This is SIBILANCE, my art for Interzone, inspired by a wonderful story of the same name by E.G Conde @boriscrito.bsky.social Subscribers to the Interzone Patreon can get this print & others from wonderful artists on certain tiers. Charcoal, chalk & digital colour. Final art & process ⬇️ #art

Fantastic horror awaits in House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/4/...

Wow 🥹 @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social you just made my week! This event was like the Avengers of solarpunks & @stelliform.press writers, I am so honored to have been part of it. #solarpunk

Wish we were there with them, but 5 Stelliform authors gathered in LA for an evening of hopeful stories hosted by Reckoning, Solarpunk Mag, The Fabulist, and ARLA. Dazzling the audience with visions of the future were Syr Beker, E.G. Condé, Sarena Ulibarri, Cynthia Zhang, & Michael J. DeLuca.

today!! it's so important to also support workshops4sudan in this moment. as recent reporting shows, the zionist states are contemplating forcibly removing Palestinians to Sudan, whose people are undergoing the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crisis. apnews.com/article/isra...

Read E.G's beautiful story! I illustrated it for @interzone.press

Last day for #hugo nominations. Please consider "SIBILANCE" @interzonemag for short story. Read it free with code: HODEI299. Set in the nearish future, SIBILANCE follows the arrogant & poetic Dr. Ahim Hodei & his nonbinary-lover turned-drone Amaranth as they puzzle out a mystery on Jupiter. #scifi