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

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Comics Team: Jes and Cin Wibowo for LUNAR BOY

Tran Nguyen wins the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Artist www.mynameistran.com

The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Fiction Podcast goes to @podcastle.org podcastle.org

The #2025IgnyteAwards for Critic is @mayagittelman.bsky.social

@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE psychopomp.com/we-who-will-... [re-posted for alt-text]

Congratulations to Fasasi Ridwan who wins the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry for RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult is HEIR by Sabaa Tahir

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Middle Grade is THE LAST RHEE WITCH by Jenna Lee-Yun

YESSS AMAZING CONGRATULATIONS @gautambhatia88.bsky.social !

Would anyone else like to talk about Silksong because I would like to talk about Silksong

I think saying "if you see a trans woman in a women's bathroom you should punch her in the balls" is an obvious incitement to violence. What are we doing here? These are not complex, unanswerable questions. This shit is obvious.

So after three weeks, the "apology" from the Seattle Hugo hosts involves explanations contradict the literal video evidence. Two highly experienced and respected professionals claiming they "didn't know" they'd need a rehearsal before going on stage to deliver a high profile award ceremony. Please.

Playing Tony Bookshop amd it's exactly the reset my poor sad brain needed, but some of the rec requirements are a bit of a mess 😅 just had someone get upset because Othello wasn't "antiquated" enough for the brief of "a classic play"

Herdling! Sword of the Sea! Strange Antiquities! Windstorm! This year is absolutely CRAMMED with great indie games and Ghosts of Yōtei is around the corner!

I’m hoping Split Fiction will get a nod.

I'm trying to predict what will be in the Game/Interactive Experience Hugo next year and it has the potential to be SO STACKED again. Blue Prince and Citizen Sleeper 2 are definitely on my ballot, I fully expect Clair Obscur will be once I catch up with it, but then there's so much still to come out

This is an excellent piece about what happened last weekend:

OK so is @ktempestbradford.com ever going to personally apologise for her part in that disrespectful shitshow of a Hugo ceremony or You butchered names and laughed about it. You skipped finalists and made people cry on what should have been a career highlight. And you have nothing to say?

I've got a ticket for R.F Kuang at Cambridge Guildhall on Thursday but I can no longer go. Do I know anyone in that area who is interested in going instead? It's £35 including book, and totally sold out otherwise.

I've got a ticket for R.F Kuang at Cambridge Guildhall on Thursday but I can no longer go. Do I know anyone in that area who is interested in going instead? It's £35 including book, and totally sold out otherwise.

Best Fanzine Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon #HugoAwards

Being a host or announcer at an awards is an honor If you’re up there not trying with folks names You don’t deserve the honor

Hey, I have had a largely great experience at Worldcon, but the #Hugos owe @wordsiren.bsky.social an apology for forgetting to include her in the announced Lodestar nominees during the award ceremony. Kamilah deserved celebration, not this blatant disrespect.

Experiencing the Hugos over aeroplane wifi. Good luck to the Good Shit!

This talk around recommendations reminds me of the excellent question by the excellent @ldlewiswrites.com -- 'Are you a fan, or were you a fan?' If you can't recommend a favorite book written in the last five years, maybe bow out of the making recommendations to young people conversation.