It's my birthday, go out on a little walk if you need one

2) when deciding if a clear rule is a GOOD rule, the absolute last thing you should be doing is crafting a rule and then looking to see if it excludes people you like and respect and frantically redrafting it if it does so that those people are eligible for your contest

If you enjoyed this essay of mine back in August, and if you're filling out your Hugo Awards ballot... I believe this is eligible for "Best Related Work." 😌

For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell. (Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)

Labour are just completely committed to this, they are simply all in on becoming repulsive racists on the grounds of some admixture of sincere belief and that Reform would be worse (the latter of which I guess is true, but is true in part because they are shifting the permissibility window outward).

this sounds like a joke but it's really not. 'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.

It's all very well talking about Farage being a racist at school. But he is racist today and that matters more. Reform is, day by day, calling for non-white people to be barred from public life, 'sent back home', accusing us all of being scum and criminals and more. Focus on today's bullshit.

A little ahead of schedule, she's gone. Fly well, beloved space dog ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Made the hardest appointment for lovely Zag in a couple of weeks. Might need some tips on how to stop crying.

God I'm so sick of how "Activist" is used to un-person trans people.

I, Rhiannon Grist, am not your boss. I am incapable of making you fill out your timesheet, answer your emails, or preorder my cottagegore horror HOME SICK coming out with @solarisbooks.bsky.social in 2026. So only do it if you want to. Preorder, I mean. You should probably do your timesheets.

Pro-tip: It's okay to unfollow the person who doesn't do anything wrong or problematic but whose entire vibe stresses you out.

Realm of the Elderlings Project: The Rain Wild Chronicles, Book 2: Dragon Haven To build a new society, you must understand what worked (and didn’t) about the old @ergative-abs.bsky.social continues the project at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/real...

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! I read some fab essays this week. Bring on ~reflection season~

The Nerds of a Feather team is growing!

As is always the case, @renay.bsky.social 's Intergalactic Mixtape drops 2 or 3 bits of knowledge or perspective that had never occurred to me. Essential inbox material.

You know which British Fantasy Awards-shortlisted, Publishers Weekly starred-reviewed fantasy novel is on Kindle for just £2.99? THE BLACK COAST, by me! Dragon knights*! A mysterious warlord who may or may not be a demon! Culture clash, but also culture learning! www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Coast-...

💀Celebrate the announcement of SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY, the third book in @csecooney.bsky.social 's World Fantasy Award-winning SAINT DEATH series, by grabbing SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER & SAINT DEATH'S HERALD for just 0.99 alongside a wide variety of other Solaris titles! geni.us/Solarissale

Just ten books I feel bad for not having read yet? Only ten?

THIIS is so relevant to all conversations about "where genre is going" or "are romantasies taking over" or "why don't I recognise any of the goodreads choice nominees". SFF has always contained multitudes and honestly if you're friends with me, you've probably always been on the niche side as well.

Palate cleansing after yesterday's reading with IN THE HEART OF HIDDEN THINGS by Kit Whitfield. I read the second book in this series first so I know what I'm in for: brilliant small scale fantasy with meaningful stakes and excellent, (mostly) lovely characters (mostly) doing their best.

Sorry for the delay. We had to wait on timezones. Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine. @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Wow I have not even clicked through to see who this is, but "we invented the idea of a romance series" is the boldest claim I've seen since that time someone claimed a book had invented oral sex in romance. 😂

Subtweeting the obvious book: it's a real capital-C Choice to write a hell/afterlife book full of academic digressions but with no apparent interest in theological implications? Maybe it comes up more seriously in the last 150 pages but the library book is due today and I'm losing the will to live

As we approach the end of the year, it's a great time to record things you love! Not just for the Hugo Awards, but in general. The rec sheet is a handy resource for nomination, but also at its heart a rec resource in a loud, busy media environment.

New Review -today I am on the blog tour for #ProjectHanuman an excellent space opera by @stewarthotston.com with wonder, spectacle and an emotional punch that really worked for me - out now very strongly recommended! Thanks to @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

Wishing Project Hanuman and Stewart Hotston a very happy book birthday! And check out Stewart's online tour - starting today!

Project Hanuman is here. I hope you'll take a look as I think it's a pretty good space opera - no hero's journey here - this is about community, how we build back better and, of course, mind bending space battles in sentient ships. #spaceopera #scifi #projecthanuman #writing #SFF #sciencefiction

Cast of Wonders 663: The Pequod II by @liamhogan.bsky.social narrated by Jonathan Danz hosted by Alicia Caporaso produced by Andrew Jack www.castofwonders.org/2025/11/cast...

Amazing list from Renay! Some of mine: The Spear Cuts Through Water Saint of Bright Doors Planetfall Ancillary Justice The Steerswoman The Fifth Season The Bone Orchard

✨It's Double Publication Day!✨ If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go? geni.us/weallghostsPB geni.us/saltorac @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Where this is reported to us we can/will investigate - there will be no tolerance for this kind of bullshit. Trans rights are human rights.

I was much more restrained than Womble, he wasn't doing a good booktempting job clearly

The BFS Award for best novella went to the excellent The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson and you will not forget this story in a hurry www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/2/...

YOKE OF STARS by @rblemberg.bsky.social is a World Fantasy Award winner! 💞💞💞💖💖❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

So happy to see this! Congrats @rainewilson.bsky.social !!!

And in the spirit of the day, I've put up a little flash story on Medium, free for everyone to read: "So you want to reach the witch at the edge of the void." medium.com/@marikness/s...

Happy Halloween! If you're at World Fantasy Con, I, a beautiful pastel unicorn, am also at World Fantasy Con. What spookier thing could there be at a goth heavy event after all?

Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:

Not in the best of headspaces right now, so tried to distract myself by finishing up a poem. And now it's up on my Patreon - free for all readers: www.patreon.com/posts/it-wil...

Ah, I see we're following up Pokemon Legends: The Colonisation of Hokkaido with Pokemon Legends: The Parisian Urban Policy of Ghettoising Immigrants

Resurrect Blaseball

Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured. suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards

There’s a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope, if you’re into that sort of thing. www.kaleidotrope.net

Okay but please stop reposting this, delete your posts with it It says in two places it’s AI and then also has the nightmare that is the faces And I’m seeing folks who are anti ai posting this

Extremely pleased to see this, not least because Gautam is of course an SH comrade. But also, and as I wrote for @sffoundation.bsky.social, The Sentence is a real achievement that deserves a much wider audience - and heralds further goodies to come. Hooray and congrats all round.

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social #2025IgnyteAwards

The Ember Award for Unsung Contributions to Genre goes to @soniasulaiman.bsky.social #2025IgnyteAwards

Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION