@renay.bsky.social hello a review for you! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2023/12...

Everyone else is writing their think pieces about why superhero movies are doing so badly at the box office — with Supergirl as the latest example. I'm much more interested in asking why they stayed so popular for so long. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

A reminder: The @theignyteawards.bsky.social award voting is open to all, and open until August 16th. the Finalists and the voting button (including us, if you find favor with us as a finalist) are all here ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

IF you are a member of @laworldcon.bsky.social , you can vote for the Hugo Award Finalists. We would be honoured if you considered us for Best Fanzine. www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/ Voting ends August 8, 2026 at 12:00pm (noon) PDT.

I've a new book out 7th July. The Next Enemy Shall Be The Last features an absent father and his failson split by 40 years, cold war spies, love that transcends death, weird physics and nuclear war. I'm really proud of it and would love you to give it a go #SFF #scifi Get from B&N/Amazon in the US

This book is legit great. Cathartic. Necessary. Beautiful and terrible. Character driven and believable near-future eco-fiction masterpiece.

I won’t link to it but I see a Netflix show is using the AI voice of Gene Wilder for a Willy Wonka reality show. It’s as lifeless and empty as most AI - this is a technology that has no soul

Eventually I shall have reviewing time back but sadly may not be for a few weeks yet 😭

Delighted to see (& be part of) this scheme being spearheaded by @justmarvewrites.bsky.social 🖤

New Arctic research setting just dropped and oooooooooo

I Don't Think "They" Are Hiding the Classics from You pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/i...

For this week’s #podcast episode, we caught up with Andrew Cartmel to chat about the differences between writing for the screen, the stage, and the page! Listen here: linktr.ee/fictionfanspod #booksky 💙📚

My review decided to post at 4am instead of pm 🤷‍♀️ But here’s my thoughts on Voyagers by Meg Charlton. A last minute addition to my tbr that I ended up loving! crooksbooks.blog/2026/07/02/v...

Blood and History: @thelitcritguy.bsky.social reviews Sara Hinkley’s THE RED SACRAMENT (@titanbooks.bsky.social)

THE RED SACRAMENT by Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social a vampire theatre troupe feeds on 1869 Paris while the city starves. Anne Rice by way of Karl Marx. @titanbooks.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/the-red-sacr...

www.thebookseller.com/rights/the-b... Here it is, if you can read Bookseller articles! I have a two book deal with @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social starting with Oh Fortuna! Which is a romp though an alternate history where everyone’s pantheons of gods are real!

What's that you say? It's publication day for #TheViolentHour *and* you get a newsletter? Surely I am spoiling you all! mailchi.mp/f2e0f3733751...

Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social and The Stone Soup for giving me the space to write about the unique experiences of editing an anarchist SFF magazine -- and why we need your support! stone-soup.ghost.io/guest-featur...

New review - a fantastical autobiography that is a way to take a look at the creative process.

On the commute and for #TrainReads it’s my last Clarke read Luminous by Silvia Park and I am enjoying this!

Marion by Leah Rowan: A Feminist Horror Remix of Psycho https://gnofhorror.com/marion-by-leah-rowan-feminist-horror-review/

I do have the motherfucking time (not really, but I'm making time for it), and I'm doing it myself on my own platform (since Reactor ignored my pitch 🙃). I would have loved to be paid for the work, but at this point it's public service so I'm doing it for free 👇

This was just a really great read that flipped back in forth between two children leading similar lives centuries apart. Highly recommend it! #booksky 📚💙

Russell Letson reviews THE FAITH OF BEASTS by @JamesSACorey: “I recommend treating this series as a single, hugely engaging, and sometimes disturbingly ironic story, to be read in order.”

oh shit YAY! coming out from @akashicbooks.bsky.social in the US!

Half-way through the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive, we've just passed our next milestone of $17.5K. We can now release the next piece from our special issue, which is Paul March-Russell's Nonesuch: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... To get us to our goal: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Our latest is live! 🏴‍☠️ Our own @lincodega.com on the history of pirate tropes and how they lend to both subtextual and explicitly queer narratives—and how Lin embraced and subverted these tropes in their brand-new queer pirate novel, PASHA THE STORM, out now! Read or listen to an audio version:

It's a new month, which means a new expert is sitting in the hot seat! For July we have celebrated children's author (& former Disney dude) Eric Huang answering your questions about creating for an audience of children. Get your questions in via our members-only Discord by the middle of the month!

To celebrate the release of MOTHER & SLAUGHTER today by @lizshiptonauthor.bsky.social , we’ve got an interview with her up on our blog! Read it here: www.fictionfanspodcast.com/post/author-... #booksky 💙📚

A moment in this episode made me BURST out laughing

Moon Over Brendle, by @jeffnoon.bsky.social (pub by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social) is an ode to the creative process with the distinctive weirdness of Noon's writing; it's difficult to capture in words how I felt about this book (it's brilliant). Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/moon... 💙📚

@biblionerdrflxn.bsky.social reviews The Republic of Memory.

Foodify a Doctor Who title. Rosé The Brie of Morbius Piefall The Interstellar Spice Contest

There’s something going on with novellas: Despite having almost no presence in mainstream book stores, they’re increasingly popular in SFFH circles. So what’s driven this resurgence, and what is the appeal of the novella? @aknighton.bsky.social digs in... britishfantasysociety.org/the-joy-of-n...

These books could not be more different, but they're both brilliant! 😁

Cover reveal from @fantasybooknerd.bsky.social!

Aaahhhhhhh, I can finally confirm my pun-riddled fantasy heist is coming to life! Expect ridiculous heists, excellent tailoring, terrible jokes, and high stakes. 9 months and counting, baby!

New month usually means new IDFC, but I put July's post up a couple of weeks early, to tie in with Pride Month. Still, if you haven't read that one already, why not give it a try? It's about Una Chin-Reilly, and (from my outside perspective) how her experience parallels that of trans women.

Buy it. Buy it now.

The Broken Binding Publishing has acquired Anna Stephens’ “compelling and twisty fantasy” in a two-book deal. An Honesty of Thieves will be published in March 2027 👇

I am not certain, but I think this might be the greatest thread (and greatest use of alt text) of all time.

Folk horror doesn't need fields. Blood in the Bricks drags the genre onto the underground, the surgery ward and the skate park. Lonely in a crowd, terrified at home. Neil Williamson's anthology is bleak and brilliant. https://gnofhorror.com/blood-in-the-bricks-urban-folk-horror-review/

#bookreview This is Where the Future Bleeds by Mike Brooks @TitanBooks #read #book #review #fiction #fantasy #SpeccyFicChal #2026NewReleaseChallenge #ThisIsWheretheFutureBleeds Learn more at Book’d Out bookdout.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/r...

Back in 2019 was desperate to find real Mood-Boosting Books in the Library - and everyone made some great suggestions! findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2019/07/01/m...

Daggermouth by H.M. Wolfe: she misses the kill shot, ends up married to her target, and the city executes anyone who loves outside their ring. Sold as dark dystopian romance. Reads like social horror with the safety off. My review: https://gnofhorror.com/daggermouth-by-h-m-wolfe-a-review/

The week's first review at SH is a doozy. Do take the time to sit with it. Nader Elhefnawy returns to the reviews dept with a corker of piece on on the utopian, the neoliberal and the radical. "Davidson’s reliance on a popular but untenable reading of history slights much of the field he surveys."

Sneaking in right at the end of the first half of the year, my six from six, looking at the best six books I read in 2026, plus a little bonus of the best six /published/ in 2026, and the somewhat-more-than-six I still want to get to. Lists!

If you’re in the UK and love all thing #SFF i heartily recommend joining the British Science Fiction Association and the British Fantasy Society. Both organisations are inclusive, provide a bunch of support for writers and readers and run great events.

Well would you look at that - it's your boy writing for Aftermath! Super stoked to be contributing to one of the best magazines around and to do it while writing about one of my favorite games of the year AND one of my favorite genres!

The June issue of Salon Futura is now online, featuring reviews of fiction by Cameron Reed, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ann Leckie, Geoff Ryman, R B Lemberg & Rick Riordan, plus an academic conference, a book on British folklore and some Disney animation.