My next reading challenge! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

With a vividly described landscape, a strong female lead, and a beautiful gay love story, @naominovik.bsky.social has produced another amazing story. A gem of a novella! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

A picture truly is worth 1k words in this brilliantly illustrated graphic novel about a world in peril. When the boundary between magic and science is breached, anything can happen—and likely will! This one is a visual ⚡️ strike that packs a punch to the heart, and reminds us what humanity means.

#vssdaily #lace Out between all stars There's a stardust trail Our sun leaves a path At 720,000 km per hour A heat trail on the infrared Like paw prints in a forest bed Like comets in our past And Halley's in our future If we have no light Stand out in the dead of night Look up at the lace of life

Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett on winning the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel! #booksky @thehugoawards.bsky.social

I only discovered Bennett recently, but my love of these characters and their world is fervent. Ana and Din once again find the fate of the empire resting on their shoulders as they try to solve a string of vicious murders. A truly masterful story! Can’t wait for book 3! @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Get your copy now! @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Just came across a personal favorite @captainbluehen.bsky.social. Someone come by and grab it before I end up buying a second copy! #booksky

Sometimes a poem just grabs you, and you don’t even know why. From “Sonnets for a Missing Key” by @percivaleverett.bsky.social #poetry

Picked up this book @captainbluehen.bsky.social. Biography, psychology, & history intricately connect to tell of Dr. Wertham’s crusade to destroy comics. Schechter & @eric-powell-comics.bsky.social have created a powerful story about the evil of good intentions. A must-read for fans of comics.

Take the fascism of “1984” and put it on an “unusual” alien planet, and you have another blockbuster by @aptshadow.bsky.social. Once again, he displays his incredible ability to imagine new and fascinating forms of life, nestled within (IYKYK) a thrilling story. @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Revolutionary-minded and dizzyingly intricate, Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall defies narrative expectations as it considers history, power, perspective, resistance, and the “dread scale” of myth and nightmare.

The moment, the split second, In which the rain begins— That sound— Is where we hear Nature starting a poem. #poetry

“The Tainted Cup” is hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read. While it does, at times, lean more into its murder mystery than into its fantastical elements, it’s absolutely a contender for the Hugo Award (& the 2025 World Fantasy Award)! 💛💛💛 #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

#booksky @kerstinhall.bsky.social @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

This is a great story of normal people caught in abnormal circumstances, written with tremendous style & heart. At the same time, it tries too hard to also be a thriller and a romance, with the sci-fi taking a backseat. A must-read, but not a Hugo winner (IMO). #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

If Asimov had written “Six Characters In Search of an Author,” this is what it would have read like. This, and @aptshadow.bsky.social’s moral themes about how people treat people in a world of automata, makes this novel a major contender for this year’s Hugo! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Our second nominee for this year’s Hugo Award is one I’ve previously reviewed—and loved every page of! Prepare to grit your teeth in rage and then hurt your stomach laughing with this incredible work! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

First on deck for the Hugo Awards is this year’s Nebula Award winner, @wiswell.bsky.social. You can find my earlier (rave) review below! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social @captainbluehen.bsky.social

The Hugo Awards are next on deck with an August 16th announcement! I’ll read and review ‘em all between now and then. Hope you’ll follow along! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social @captainbluehen.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social

Not since Lessing or Garcia Marquez have I found an author who packs such a vast story into a relatively compact size. These works made my heart race as I read their final pages. (& “Clear” made my ❤️ sing!) Davies should be read and celebrated by a wide audience! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to get to be the Q&A moderator for this event! Join us online next Tuesday for your chance to ask a question of this year’s Nebula Award winner @wiswell.bsky.social! @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Now available: a deluxe limited edition of IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI, even more colorful, and signed by me! Limited to 1,000 individually-numbered copies worldwide, it features an exclusive iridescent cover finish & a sewn-in letterpress bookplate. On sale now: ow.ly/x6Gi50WbOvK

#Pridemonth may be coming to an end. But here are a selection of our LGBTQIA+ books for you to read during pride and to help you diversify your reading and #ReadQueerAllYear! From sapphic SciFi to trans Cyberpunk, genderqueer spec fic to gay epic fantasy. There's something for everyone!

This masterful retelling of the Labors of Heracles is the perfect springboard for this allegorical novel of pain, rage, and found family. Fresh from winning the Nebula Award, @wiswell.bsky.social’s second book will break your heart, then heal your entire being. A+ @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Great conversation (and very relevant on NO KINGS DAY) about Lessing's incremental apocalypse novel, Memoir of a Survivor. On the Patreon-only feed of Starship Alexandria w/ @aptshadow.bsky.social & @emmanewman.bsky.social Reminded me a bit of The Designated Mourner. starshipalexandria.com

Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, the new collection of cosmic horror from Bram Stoker Award-winning author John Langan coming in early August, featuring this haunting cover art by Matthew Jaffe! www.wordhorde.com/books/lost-i...

We're celebrating #WorldOcean Day with some of Solaris' Watery Reads! From Simon Jimenez's contemporary classic THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER to new and forthcoming titles Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA, @emmanewman.bsky.social‬ 's THE VENGEANCE & @rainewilson.bsky.social‬ 's THE SALT ORACLE!

Congratulations to @wiswell.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Nebula Award for Best Novel! There were five truly worthy contenders this year, but this novel’s story of queer love and healing from childhood trauma spoke to me on a personal level (& it’s a great read!)! @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Meet @pfinian.bsky.social at @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social tonight! Local first-time author, “Ice’s End” is a brilliant read! #booksky

This is the fifth book I’ve read by @aptshadow.bsky.social, and I can’t get over how brilliant he is at creating new and unique forms of alien life! I’m only 155 pages in, but I feel very comfortable recommending this ENTIRE book! @captainbluehen.bsky.social #booksky

My Nebula challenge concludes with @kerstinhall.bsky.social’s fierce fantasy novel. Magic and faith intertwine in this thriller, but on a deeper level, this book is about women’s power and autonomy in a callous world, and the sacrifices we make for love. A+ @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social #booksky

When in Oxford, celebrate William Faulkner @squarebooks.bsky.social #booksky

With June upon us, Square Books would like to wish everyone a wonderful #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈 Here's a few of our favorite LGBTQ+ romance reads to kick off a steamy Mississippi summer. Be sure to check out our LGBTQ+ sociology section upstairs, too! As always, #AllAreWelcomeHere. #MississippiPride

On this, the first day of Pride month, I want to celebrate this haunting novel. While not my favorite book, it was the first gay coming-of-age story I, as a closeted teen, ever read. It will always be special and vital to me, and I hope you will all give it a read. #booksky

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Well, not every Nebula nominee is going to be my favorite. I’m on Bluesky to celebrate books, not bash them. Suffice it so say, I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed that one of the other nominees I’ve read (any of them, in fact) wins this year’s Nebula. #booksky

As well as winning a Lambda Award for his stories about LGBTQIA characters (Rictor & Shatterstar’s first kiss!), he had the audacious genius necessary to create an entire corner of the Star Trek universe. Rest In Peace 💔 #treksky

Two different (all-too-human) monsters bear down on Holly G. in @stephenking.bsky.social’s latest blend of horror and noir. Subtlety political and narratively thrilling, this one is a nail-biter. (In stores next Tuesday!) @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social #booksky

A gothic mystery, a family in crisis, and the perils of environmental collapse: this novel is an absolute blockbuster. I’m really looking forward to discussing it tonight at @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social’s book club. #booksky

With the magical realism of Garcia Marquez & the linguistic brilliance of Rushdie, @vajra.me has created an entirely new language for storytelling. This story of love, violence, & regeneration across millennia will demand your full attention, but every word is worth it. @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

@nikitagill.bsky.social never fails to impress. There’s a great sense of privilege that comes with living at the same time as she does. (From “Where Hope Comes From.”) #booksky #poetrysky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Check out my review of P. Finian Reilly’s debut novel at www.huxleyandhiro.com/ices-end! If you love it as much as I did, then come meet the author @pfinian.bsky.social the evening of June 6th during Wilmington Art Loop! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Our 3rd Nebula nominee is a surreal mix of “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “The Matrix”—an interesting combination, to say the least 🎆🎇 The most complex nominated novel (thus far), @barsukov.com has produced a fascinating antiwar allegory that will inspire and confound equally. #booksky

Our 2nd Nebula nominee almost defies description. Kingfisher’s novel of magic and horror is electric in its pacing and riveting in its plot. As well as malevolent magic run amok, this is a story of abuse, second chances, & healing, told by a master of her craft. #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

I hope this won’t seem arrogant 🫣 but while reading a collection of the poems of Rumi, I found one (L) that reminded me of a poem I once wrote (R). #poetry #poetrysky