So ... Sleeping Worlds was selected by Kirkus as one of their Best Books of 2025! I’m incredibly honored, to say the least. Great thanks to everybody who supported me & the novel!

Praise from @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social: "Jason Sanford ain't playing with y'all anymore. We Who Hunt Alexanders lives at the intersection of cyberpunk and horror. Edginess and timeliness; blood and desperation; love and terror all woven like a rogue literary DNA strand." 1/2

Working with @metaphorosis.com and @bmorrisallen.com was one of the happiest times of my life.

I wish more people understood Gen“AI” is not AI.

Can't wait!

Now and then, we remember Wordle exists ... 1 480 2/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov is worth the read! A 2x Nebula Award finalist, the true pleasure of reading this tale is the main character's contemplations of betraying orders, warfaring countries, and shifting memories and reflection, symbolized in the mimic tower legend.

Thanks so much for reading! For those who haven’t yet, that story is “Through the Machine.” Find it via this link or the Nebula Reading List: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

A fact that feels like something straight out of an alternate reality: turns out that before Star Wars, Hayden “Anakin Skywalker” Christensen starred in a TV show called … Higher Ground.

If you like political intrigue, science fantasy that veers into the weird, mind-bending metaphysics, and especially if you like dogs, pick up and devour @barsukov.com's Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory. (Arachnophobes may wish to skip a scene.)

It will take some time for CEOs to finally read the room. After that, it’s a straight path to the bubble bursting. Too much investment and too much talk about something that can mimic human speech patterns and is, at best, a consulting tool and at worst, a hallucinogenic shroom.

Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by @barsukov.com "Yaro deserves enormous praise for his smooth writing style and I think this was one of the most illustrating moments of his skill." Read @justairythings.bsky.social's full review grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/s...

Good Morning. @barsukov.com I just finished your book, and I must say I really liked it. I can see why it is a Nebula nominee this year, the way it plays with memory, with reality and illusion, with dreams and nightmares. I will be definitely reading your next book.

Two people have written to me this week saying "I've been looking all over for Armed in Her Fashion but can't find it, pls help" and (a) so glad for word of mouth! (b) less glad to have confirmation that title changes are confusing 😭 The Chatelaine = edited reissue of the same book, for the record!

I started yesterday "Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory" by @barsukov.com. I only managed 28 pages as I was really tired, but I am intrigued and like it so far. I want to know what everyone is hiding about/within the tower and what is this all about...

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

Memoirs are written by people terrified of their mortality, for people contemplating their mortality.

One of the best podcasts I’ve ever been on!

This year’s Nebula Awards will be presented June 7th. This is the list of nominees for Best Novel. My project for May is to read them all and let you know what’s a hit, what’s a miss, and who I think might win. Follow along! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social @captainbluehen.bsky.social

#RealHarryPotter: Your own wand from Ollivanders (™) will cost you 20k & 3 years to make; rich parents buy in advance, kids from poor families rent basic models. Black market is rampant; plastic wands that “look like real wood” tend to explode. Hogwarts allows them b/c otherwise, nobody would study.

A French review of #SleepingWorldsHaveNoMemory, by none other than Emmanuel Chastellière. I can die a happy man now! www.elbakin.net/fantasy/roma...

At the Web Journal today, I take a look at the novel Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory in a post entitled Reality and Perception davidleesummers.wordpress.com/2025/04/19/r...

Erich von Däniken and _Chariots of the Gods_ come from a different, less cynical time. The book’s original title is _Remembrances of the Future_, which describes its appeal in a nutshell: that we were on the cusp of discovering something wonderful. Turns out, we were to discover the idiotic “AI.”

“The Art of Living in a Noir” How does it feel to write fantasy-noir? It feels like being genre homeless on Amazon! I had an absolute blast chatting with Michelle & Matt. #HowTheArtsWereWon open.spotify.com/episode/66m3...

Out Today: I sat down with Yaroslav Barsukov to talk about his book Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory. We chatted about his deployment of personal and national memory, metaphorical resurrection, and how Barsukov complicates his themes. Get it anywhere you listen to podcasts!

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Amazing. That's why I’m subscribed to @publisherslunch.bsky.social, to find out how Hunger Games are doing. Honestly now 😂

As we move forward, “GenAI” will settle into its role as a research tool—effectively a glorified search engine. Some folks will make money. A lot more will lose their investments. Many, many more will realize that genuine effort and dedication are required to make dreams a reality.

Yay! I requested my library to buy a book… and it’s on order! Libraries just RULE! The book is ‘Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory’ by @barsukov.com

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Huge congrats to @labyrinthrat.bsky.social, @jasonsanford.bsky.social, and @alexshvartsman.bsky.social for making the BSFA shortlist!! And to @drfionamoore.bsky.social for being shortlisted 4 (!) times! Did I count that right? :)

Having been given this months ago by @barsukov.com, I am utterly embarrassed it has taken me ages to drive in. But if the universe can demand nothing of me for a while, I'm ready to get lost in these pages. So excited!!!

i have a book coming out (next year)! it is about horrors. what a ✨coincidence✨. it's also about faith, and mushrooms, and connection. it would mean the world to me if you added it to your TBRs! 100 adds and i shall do a sneak peek 👀 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

It sucks, but my surgery didn't happen. I've been rescheduled to next month, which means I now have a whole new set of problems and expenses. Details in my update below. TL;DR: I'm in a tough spot. Please consider donating, boosting, &/or buying my work. Thanks! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

Friends, please boost! THIS IS REAL: #SleepingWorldsHaveNoMemory just got an endorsement from the 4-time Hugo-nominated Hugo Book Club Blog!! For your #HugoAwards consideration 🙂 The nominations close in 11 hours ...

Both the e-book and the hardcover versions (did you know there was a hardcover version?) of #SleepingWorldsHaveNoMemory are trending again—many, many thanks to you all!

@barsukov.com gets my congratulations for his 2024 NEBULA FINALIST novel: SLEEPING WORLDS HAVE NO MEMORY, thought-provoking story with a hopeful twist, that got all-but 5* from me here: expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/11/slee...

@barsukov.com gets my congratulations for his 2024 NEBULA FINALIST novel: SLEEPING WORLDS HAVE NO MEMORY, thought-provoking story with a hopeful twist, that got all-but 5* from me here: expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/11/slee...

So this happened. I love y’all, and I can't thank you enough! Huge congratulations to my fellow finalists—and I’ll post more once I get myself together :) Here's the obligatory Sir Mick GIF for you :) #SleepingWorldsHaveNoMemory

To my friends who liked #SleepingWorldsHaveNoMemory: As a lifelong Le Guin fan, it would mean a lot to me to get considered for the award named after her. There’s a big overlap in the themes of equity/freedom/alternatives to conflict. Nom form is open to all 😀 www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

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Now 8 days left. Brief reminder that “Katya Vasilievna” is eligible, but if you’re still catching up on your reading, please read and nominate your favorite speculative poems. It’s a “Special Hugo” this year - let’s show everyone how amazing speculative poetry is!

“The heating. The heating. Don't turn the heating up.”

Nebula Award nominations close in 9 hours! To all who enjoyed #SleepingWorldsHaveNoMemory: I would be honored if you stood together with me and extended the tower-shaped middle finger to all the dictators around the world.

Novel: Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by @barsukov.com. Easily my favorite book of 2024. It's hard to classify - fantasy? gaslamp? political commentary? - so let's say all of the above. And, as the author puts it, it might get him in trouble with the Russian government. Review by Paul Di Filippo

Nebula and BSFA nominations close tomorrow. HAVE YOU NOMINATED? I HAVE! We live in difficult times, but you and your words have made them better. Here’s to the writers!

@jonficke.bsky.social’s beautiful “At the Ravenstone.” “I swept through the priest and reached out to touch my brother. My hand slipped through his shoulder to touch the rough granite of the Ravenstone …” So full of pain & life—even though one character is a ghost. For your Nebula consideration!