Recent midlist SFF books that deserve everything: The Tales of the Plains trilogy by @davewragg.com The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social Seven Recipes for Revolution by @ryanprose.bsky.social A bit older but The Graven trilogy by @essahansen.bsky.social

Reminder!! Tomorrow, I'll be doing an AMA on r/fantasy on reddit, staring at about midmorning Eastern time, pop on in if you have any questions, or if you want to show me pictures of your dog!

Reminder!! Tomorrow, I'll be doing an AMA on r/fantasy on reddit, staring at about midmorning Eastern time, pop on in if you have any questions, or if you want to show me pictures of your dog!

Reddit-heads, Reddistas, Redditory birds, etc, I am doing an r/Fantasy AMA on 3/3/26 starting at around 10 AM Eastern. Mark the date and ask me about the dogs in my life (and also my books if you really want to)

Reddit-heads, Reddistas, Redditory birds, etc, I am doing an r/Fantasy AMA on 3/3/26 starting at around 10 AM Eastern. Mark the date and ask me about the dogs in my life (and also my books if you really want to)

You don't need a marketing department, you just need a bunch of weirdos to make a podcast about your book and recommend it to other weirdos CC @hironennes.bsky.social

Read The Works of Vermin, people

Your boy's on the Locus 2025 Recommended reading list, not once, not twice, but thrice! Aside from The Works of Vermin, I have stories in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year. READ THEM, and congrats everyone! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

@hironennes.bsky.social 's "The Works of Vermin" is a remarkable book and you should read it if you like anything weird or weird adjacent. Or just remarkable books in general. I have many thoughts and I might try to put them in order at some point, but boy, I am stunned.

Me and @jonathanthornton.bsky.social discuss a fantastically bizarre book! @hironennes.bsky.social 🥰

The STP newsletter has returned! In which I elaborate on what I mean when I say we don't publish moralising stories. Expect copious reference to Walter Benjamin.

this list by @naomikritzer.bsky.social is excellent & helpful, & of course i hate that we need it, but we really need it. please read & share. everyone can do at least one thing from this list every day & that's a fact. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

GET WEIRD. BECOME TREE. Reading the Weird dissects @hironennes.bsky.social's "Our Best Selves," first published in Weird Horror 🪴🪴🪴

Hey worms, give this a listen! A fascinating discussion of aesthetic regime change, the conflation of high art and realpolitik, mistranslating Gramsci, and, of course, spoilers for The Works of Vermin. Really cool episode--can't wait to read the essay

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW! "A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book" - Christopher Buehlman "A hallucinatory scorpion sting" - Elizabeth Bear "My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that." - My barber Get your copy from your local bookstore!

The Works of Vermin, @hironennes.bsky.social. What if you got a book about the pest exterminators in Yhanam or Ambergris? An absolutely astounding portrait of a city via the people who help keep it running, some absolutely astounding imagery that I particularly liked rolling around in mentally

This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather

We asked @kerstinhall.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the books she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated reads of '26. Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @hironennes.bsky.social @markzdanielewski.bsky.social @anneleckie.bsky.social & more! https://geni.us/asunder

The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social Finished it, went "how did I not realise???" and then immediately read it again It was even better the second time, getting to really enjoy all the world building and see just how well everything is put together. I am absolutely feral about it

My New Year’s resolution is to be even more of a hater to “A.I.” A soul-murdering scam to create a generation of dead-inside drones - if you use it on the reg you’re a clown at best and if you promote it you’re lower than the shit on Satan’s hoof, sorry I don’t make the rules etc.

The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social - One of the weirdest things I've ever read. I didn't understand it - AT ALL - but I loved every moment. My ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review is here, for what it's worth; I try to talk about it, but I'm not convinced that's possible. Just go read it. bit.ly/4jp14ek

I have been infested by THE WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social and can only sing thanks to the mechanics of my transformation. What an absolutely brilliant work of art, and if it isn’t on lists for Best Novel next year, I shall dive into the Catoptric.

*deep breath* READ THE WORKS OF VERMIN

ARB's Notable Books of 2025!

Having recently read Deep Water, Strangers on a Train, and now making my way through the entirety of the Mr. Ripley canon, I still have to say my favorite Patricia Highsmith character is George Santos.

The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social is the best fantasy book I've read in 2025 and there is strong competition. "Infestation" is often the best phrase to describe a mode of life. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9e69...

It's obligatory consumption season! Please consider poisoning your friends and family with THE WORKS OF VERMIN A great gift for: People who want something weird/different Your favorite genderfreaks Your exterminator Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB That one theater kid

Read my latest interview with @hironennes.bsky.social!

Dec 6th's choice for best new #SFF hardbacks this year: The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social is a sumptuous, monstrous tale of horror, unnatural pests, a rotting fantastical city, court politics, and layers upon layers. Visceral and unnervingly entrancing! 💙📚🪐 #horrorsky

Just letting @hironennes.bsky.social know that they have my brain held captive by Works of Vermin. I haven't felt this enamored with a fictional setting since reading Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris trilogy. Something about seedy cities with a mycological edge to them just hit the spot!

It's obligatory consumption season! Please consider poisoning your friends and family with THE WORKS OF VERMIN A great gift for: People who want something weird/different Your favorite genderfreaks Your exterminator Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB That one theater kid

holy shit what a book

Went through The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social and I have to read through it again- has some incredible twists and turns. After reading Leech I cannot wait to hear what they write next. Also, the narrators on both audiobooks knock it out of the park.

My two favourite novels of 2025: WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social and STARVING SAINTS by @caitlinstarling.com These were the kind of books I wanted to slow down reading so I could enjoy them longer.

I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social

Lovely review in Locus for the vermin work locusmag.com/review/the-w...

Lovely review in Locus for the vermin work locusmag.com/review/the-w...

So I found the man who wrote the Borisch Manual of Catoptric Pest Species

It's the most wonderful time...of the year! #endoftheyearlists Love you @charliejane.bsky.social! I haven't read us.macmillan.com/books/978125... but I know from reading your other work, I'll love it. I'm sure it will end up on one of these lists! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

📚 🐛🔫New review! 🔫🐛📚 The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social from @torbooks.bsky.social "...not just a landmark novel of dystopian satire but one of the great speculative works of the twenty-first century." Have I found my SFF book of the year? We'll see...

Please donate, this store rules.

Daily obligatory verminposting: please enjoy this meme that's old enough to drive

Currently reading The Works Of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social and I'm honestly blown away. It's absolutely amazing. Every sentence is poetry. Just a glorious read.

So stoked to share that there is still genuinely, excellently frightening horror out there

I’m almost done with it now (I’ve been savoring it slowly) and The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social might very well be one of the best books I’ve ever read. Period. I’ve already waxed feverish over its prose so I’ll spare you that this time. But you must read this book.

@hironennes.bsky.social has crushed it again

locusmag.com/2025/11/worl... Congratulations winners and nominees!!

Holy shit I’m a third of the way into @hironennes.bsky.social WORKS OF VERMIN and they are now one of my favorite writers all the Byzantine feral layered prose of Wolfe or Peake and the modern brutal verve and sensibilities of Mariana Enriquez synthesized into a wholly unique voice all of their own