In The Wildcraft Drones, Sydney (the Seabitch of Strip Mall City) fends off an alligator in the dark with a mechanical keyboard #AwesomeCharacters

Sell your book in 5 words: Rewild everything with food forests bookshop.org/a/122239/978...

Shirley Jackson Award-Winning Novella!

Thanks to everyone who has donated for our Autumn 2026 issue and anyone who might be interested in donating. Be a part of the magic. We couldn't do this without you all!

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Hailey is an absolute treasure and one of my all time heroes. She just needs about $225 to cover her rent and her mom's cancer treatments. Please help if you can!!!

have you had the chance to read my nerdiest poem yet? ⚡️

If you think a future where cities are flooded with encampments of climate refugees seems bleak, take a look at what cities currently do to encampments of capitalism refugees

This is murder, plain and simple. If you live in St. Paul, call the mayor's and your CM's offices and tell them you don't want this to happen.

It would be just like the universe to kill us off with a giant butt

Reposting this for the morning crowd!

🧵A thread of SOME things I'd love to see more of - ✨not✨ the ONLY things I'd publish: - Wuxia S&S - South Asian S&S - Middle Eastern S&S - Indigenous S&S - Comradery - Sincerity - Unique, Weird creatures & other supernatural elements you invented for your story. - Leiber-esque humor. 🧵 1/?

happy #fossilfriday! this is yuanyanglong, an oviraptorosaur from early cretaceous china. its pelvis and hindlimbs were similar to those of wading birds, and its name means 'lovebird dragon', a reference to the holotype of two individuals preserved together (art by joschua knuppe)

I am so, so happy to share this link for the Eat the Rich anthology! First of all, this was the project of the late Eirik Gumeny, who was such a kind soul who loved horror. And I get to share with you my dark, twisted tale of a wealthy CEO whose trees have... plans for him. Preorders are open!

Just a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

It is now today 🍕

📩New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine opens for submissions soon!📆 ✍️ Subs open on August 1st, run for the entire month, and we are hoping to buy more stories than ever before! Learn more here 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

Doing a reading tomorrow in San Francisco where there will also be 🍕 and I’m just very excited for that 826 Valencia 7pm July 9 Also Mukethe Kawinzi will be there and she is a MUCH BETTER reader than I (facts not modesty) YOU WILL BE ENTERTAINED and fed 🍕

General submissions for Issue 3 are now OPEN!!! Queer authors, send us your speculative fiction and poetry! We can’t wait to read your work! 🪐 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/ 🗡️ Pay: 8 cents/word, $50 poem 🌈 Deadline: July 21st, 11:59 pm Eastern

Christmas in July! Print proof is back on the collaborative 'zine we did with @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social. Stories by @brynhammond.bsky.social and @Milton Davis. Art by Morinfon and Gary McCluskey.

Muñeca, my queer witchy historical Gothic book dropped 5 weeks ago today -- my birthday! My wish is this: if your library doesn't carry the book, today would be a wonderful day to request it. If you liked the book and want to sing its praises, please sing them, wherever/however you would like.

Join us July 28 at the San Francisco Public Library to probe the mysteries and magnificence of flash fiction with three great proponents of the form. Y'all be there!

THE WETWORKS MIRACLE is out at the end of the month there's still time to get your order in! "The Wetworks Miracle is ... a dazzling, dreadful plunge into ... terrors of the sort that one might find in a China Miéville novel or a film by Guillermo Del Toro." - E.G. Condé, author of Sordidez.

Guys! We are launching a new SFF Best of anthology series on Kickstarter! Check it out!

Only took fourteen years of dreaming & heeeeerrreee it is! Friends, I'm thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel with you all. The most desi haunted haveli ever! Haunted places. Haunted people. And some very haunting stories Preorder link in the thread

To be clear, @tkrex.bsky.social's The Wildcraft Drones (@stelliform.press) is ABSOLUTELY my favorite book to squawk about this year.

Fellow authors: without any kind of context, what’s the first line of your current WIP? “What most people never understand about time is that it doesn’t give any shit whatsoever about fitting into human narratives like “paradox” or “linear causality.””

Been having fun making these little blurb cards for Instagram & thought I’d share some here. I love nature photography & don’t get to do it enough 🐦‍⬛ #wildlife #solarpunk w/ @annaleen.bsky.social @laurencjohnson.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @khanwong.bsky.social @syr.bsky.social & more

We’re about $6700 away, and there’s 9 days left. This is doable folks, so please, help us get over the finish line so we can bring you more khōréō gloriousness!

I'm on my third evacuation from wildfire and the strangest part has been how casually people regard both the downstream impacts of climate collapse, and its (very mitigable, actually) causes We simply have to act, now, instead of letting well-heeled idiots shush us into complacency

Look at the bullet points under "What is at stake?" They are trying to kill science dead in the United States. There will be no scientific conferences, no future careers in science, and no functional scientific community, with those rules in place.

I used some of this weekend's power outage to finish Muñeca by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social. Come for the queer witches, but stay for body hopping and possessed dolls unlike anything we've seen in the genre before. What a sterling debut.

I'm teaching Science in Science Fiction & Fantasy at UCSD on July 21, a free 90-minute masterclass, part of Clarion's Science of Story Experience. I'm really excited about this one, it's going to be all about how to get the science right in your stories! Register at artpower.ucsd.edu/scienceofsto...

For their first short story collection, "The Wildcraft Drones," author T.K. Rex assembled a collection of #SciFi #CliFi #Solarpunk stories all set on the same fictional world. To learn more, check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🪐🤖

Don't miss this amazing lineup of old school cyberpunks and digital weirdos whose subversive ideas still seethe beneath the AI slop and social media propaganda ... and could rise again!!! Get yer tix now for ... DELIRIA 2!! August 12-13 in San Francisco!

Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of the TJPA Salesforce Park! Preeti Vangani and Audrey Ferber will be reading from their work, come by! Words & Stories Reading Series July 8 • 1:00–1:30pm Wetlands Garden of TJPA’s Salesforce Park #literaryevents

My latest newsletter is out! Shoutouts: @crsutton.bsky.social @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @spencerrscott.bsky.social @joewadlington.bsky.social @khanwong.bsky.social @zoeoyoung.bsky.social @clarionucsd.bsky.social buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

You had me at dinosaur 🦖 Funny, tragic, anti-corporate and full of poo beans. A great way to spend a few minutes of your Saturday. “Jurassic Perk” by @tkrex.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...

Californians been like “the what as a whole?” since I can literally remember

Show me a picture that captures your essence

far too unfiltered today for social media

i think my second-favorite thing about @buttondown.com is typing "butt" in my search bar and letting autofill do the rest every time 🍑

THE PUNK IS THERE FOR A REASON

Idyllic "solarpunk" scenery of people doing nice boring things can actually f_ck itself. The future is hard work no matter what. Luckily, hard work that's actually meaningful FEELS GOOD & is easy to portray that way (But they used AI to generate that img anyway so I'm guessing they didn't know that)

This story lives up to it's brilliant title.

It’s finally here!! JURASSIC PERK My story about the baristas on the office park side of an unnamed island that strongly resembles Isla Nublar is finally out in the world today and you can read it right now for free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ☕️ 🦖 ☕️ 🦖 ☕️ 🦖 ☕️ 🦖 kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...

The Summer 2026 issue of Kaleidotrope has now gone live at www.kaleidotrope.net, and if I do say myself, it's out of this world!

We've completed the first two weeks of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive, and - at present - are just over $5K away from meeting our base goal, to continue publishing in 2027. To help us get there, back us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Today is #AsteroidDay! So here's a photo of the surface of an asteroid.

I saw Supergirl today, it was very satisfying and comic-book-ridiculous and featured two young women teaming up to get revenge on a pedophile so who knows why the headlines were trying to convince me so hard that it was bad 🤷🏻‍♀️