We Will Rise Again is a vitally important anthology of speculative fiction about resistance and hope. I'm so pumped to have a story in this book about trans people subverting a repressive government that mandates "traditional gender". Pre-order link: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

If the iOS update annoyed you, you can eliminate a lot of the visual assault of Liquid Glass with this move: 9to5mac.com/2025/09/16/i...

This new iOS glass interface ain’t it. There are UI elements that obscure each other. It uses up more space. I have to tap one step extra to do things than yesterday. Doesn’t really help my desire to ditch the exosystem after seeing Tim Apple bend the knee to fascism so quickly

I canceled my subscriptions and emailed why. The brand is dead to me. Like Target. Which I haven’t stepped into since.

It's all pretext. ABC Disney execs did not believe Kimmel had crossed a line. But they were afraid of retaliation from the government.

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

letterfromjail.com "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice"

If you're a BIPOC writer trying to find the time to finish your book or want personalised advice for tackling your writing projects, be sure to join us for the How To Finish Your Novel workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Nov 29 & 30 or get the video after! events.humanitix.com/how-to-finis...

So I think a bag of cough drops food poisoned me twice. I could be wrong. But I’ve been laid out 24 hours each time I had one. That’s how my last four days have gone. So. Exhausted.

Two days of being horribly sick (food poisoning?) have lost me my weekend... …because I needed that instead of a log off an recuperate weekend. Sigh.

Follow the authors and editors of our anthology to learn more about each amazing story and essay!

Hopkinson Wins 2025 Sunburst Award

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

I have to be a little self-indulgent here. "Apeiron" is one of my favorite stories. It is the clearest expression of an idea I've been obsessing about for decades. I'm so honored @lightspeedmagazine.com accepted it for their September issue. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/apei...

Look at our gal--so freshhh! The majesty, the jewellery, the braids. The authority, the defiance, the gaze. The casual step-on-me energy. Esheme hive, rise--this is our time!

JUST A SINGLE WEEK exists between today and the official release of The Shattering Peace! You can still pre-order from your favorite bookseller, or come see me on my US tour! Dates and ticket information are at the link! us.macmillan.com/tours/john-s...

Flame Tree Publisher, Nick Wells, and Sauúti Collective co-editors, Eugen Bacon, Cheryl S. Ntumy and Stephen Embleton, are thrilled to share with you the cover of Sauúti Terrors. @genni.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social @nickwells451.bsky.social

Getting ready to try The Paper, the new spin off of The Office bc it’s set just up the road from us and the town’s Facebook is going nuts that our local gourmet popcorn store has tins in the background of many shots www.shirleyspopcorn.com

@obeytheauthor.bsky.social "FUCK THEM KIDS" was so much more tender and heart-warming and RELATABLE than I expected it to be. As the childless uncle, there were so many parts where I just had to nod my head in agreement. Such a cute story! fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

nyoom! ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Took a sick day due to stress or lack of sleep causing my heart defect to kick into tachycardia for the day. Nothing like waking up with a resting 130 bpm to start the day a spikes up into the 150s when i stood up or walked around. Exhausting. Doing better now.

Update on the Must Read Magazines contract situation from somebody on the front lines. tl;dr it's bad. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

My story is free to read today!!! "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" is short and... well, bittersweet. This science vessel IS doomed, after all. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

oh hey it's pre-order sale time again at @barnesandnoble.com which makes it a great time to pre-order WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, interviews about activism, protest, and collective action, edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly

Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th. www.32auctions.com/unboundforga... The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.

Got some kick in the face level news yesterday. I'm fine, family is fine, not related to my career or job. But, it dropped me yesterday, and today I woke up and... it was still there. At work, but, it'll be a 'going through the paces from plans created weeks ago' type of thing. This world.

Could definitely use some help this month. We are trying to scrounge up an extra 1100euro for immigration fees and have less than 100 in bank for food for Sept. So if you enjoy fantasy novels with found family and nerdy references, maybe my Patreon is of interest? www.patreon.com/anniebellet

For people supporting the old Patreon, there's a new exclusive reprint of a short story that first appeared in the Mothersound anthology up for you all to read: tobiasbuckell.com/the-groves-l... This story was one of the first two stories I wrote after getting Long Covid. It is close to my heart.

Been napping on the couch a bunch due to how intense last week was on me. I'm beat. But I have spent some time working on updating my dashboard in Obsidian for tracking my writing career as the complexity of it all is getting a bit beyond me. 150+ stories, their reprints, translations, etc

I can’t wait to read this:

I’ve been asked many times if I would ever write a follow up to my novella, “Buffalo Soldier.” Well, I finally did. It’s called “Soul Rebel” and it is coming out in the next issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION (edited by the legendary Sheree Renee Thomas)!

was traveling (for that workshop I mentioned) and got behind in posting @globalvoices.org articles - I hope at this point at least some of you are checking the website directly signing up for the newsletter and so on - anyway here are some of the slightly late gems:

Spent the day running the kids and some of their friends to the Dayton area Ren Faire. Home and exhausted. But it was fun. My first. have some nice beard oils from: www.modernvikingllc.com

Damn, the first episode of Frieren on Netflix is 24 minutes and, like Pixar’s Up, packs more story into a few minutes than some whole movies. Students suggested I try it. And after a grueling week it’s hitting the veg out on the couch vibe I need

Quick Tip: Did you know you can hide posts by keywords? Under Settings → Moderation → Muted Words & Tags, set keywords you never want to see. Perfect for avoiding spoilers! 🙈

I just posted "Some reviews for my short story “In the Halls of the Makeshift King.”" up at the website: https://tobiasbuckell.com/some-reviews-for-my-short-story-in-the-halls-of-the-makeshift-king/

Back in 1946, the KKK was trying to make a major comeback after World War II. Enter Superman — the Man of Steel exposed their secrets and took them down in his radio show. I asked Rick Bowers, author of Superman vs the Ku Klux Klan, what we can learn from this today buttondown.com/charliejane/...

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Calling all Black visual artists! Submissions are OPEN for our 2026 covers! Artists should submit portfolios or work samples which illustrate an understanding of composition, and feature fantastical elements and/or can be categorized as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, & their related subgenres./+

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

I hope they sue them into the smoking ground for this. Horrific. Tweaking everything for maximum engagement, and AI for sycophancy, is destroying us

I used to know someone in Hungary who talked other people into suicide (there was a police case, but it was dropped and the person experienced no consequences). His entire verbiage was very similar to this. Please be cautious about reading even the excerpts, potentially very upsetting.

Spent a half hour sitting on the deck watching clouds. Ohio was serving up a rare blue sky/fluffy white cloud scenario. Have lots to do, but it was a nice moment of calm before I have to crack on with the day.

I regret going with Audible to produce my ebooks. The $$ was better at the time but the royalties are gamed, my books are never in library catalogues, and they f*** my listeners whenever they enshittify. Get out of Audible as much as you can. Use audiobooks.com or Chirp or some other tool.

Really important story about how the digital sphere, which holds such promise for expanding democracy, is co-opted and narrowed by anti-democracy actors.

It's about ethical dilemmas and bad answers to complicated problems. Also climate mitigation and serial killers. (That's @morningtransport.bsky.social if you want to give them a follow.)

My short story "Soft Edges" is reprinted this morning for subscribers at Sunday Morning Transport. www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/soft-edges

Just a little bump to help the wonderful @rsagarcia.bsky.social help cover cancer treatment expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

There's this book called "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" that I've been giving away a lot of late, it helped me with the history of why this is so deeply embedded in this genre. Conflation of space and westward expansion is a big taproot. And it's very 'air we breath' to some.

2 weeks to go! This story bundle is flying high! #africanSF #novels #novellas @storybundle.bsky.social, @meerkatpress.bsky.social, @atthisarts.com, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social , @xanwriter.bsky.social, @transitlounge.bsky.social storybundle.com/scifi