Nnedi Okorafor wrote about it like two decades ago. Hang on… strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I’m seeing a lot of commmets about Mamdani looking older than his age. Why is everyone so fixated on “looking young”, “being young”? That’s the question we need to ask & address. I see it coming from everywhere. Youth is great but it’s NOT synonymous with good or forward-thinking or revolutionary.

Nnedi Books of 2025: 🤖🐬DEATH OF THE AUTHOR - January 🐉🧙🏾‍♀️ONE WAY WITCH - April 🌌🐱THE SPACE CAT - August 🚀🦄THE BEST AMERICAN SF & F 2025 - October A novel, a novella, a graphic novel, an anthology

I happened to be on my walk near my local mountain when I found myself watching the Supermoon rise, 🌕😃.

🎶"Every single candidate Trump endorsed lost last night."🎶

If one really liked a book, I'll never understand why they give it 3.5 stars. That's a C-.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

I’m smiling. But I need it to be official official.

🤭

third, emergency, moment of calm

The people coming forth to endorse Cuomo are really…clarifying things.

One of the best things about living here is that when I’m down, I can just go outside my door. I always see something “normal spectacular” that pulls me out of my funk. Sometimes it’s a lizard, hummingbird, cactus, quail, etc. Today, it was this sunset. 🌅 Gorgeous.

Went in on my Trump supporting relative concerning healthcare premiums and got accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome. Man, I don’t know if I can do this any more. Comments are off because I just want to vent. Sigh.

Was watching a movie last night while these two were dramatically sleeping beside me. Space heaters have such a hilarious effect of cats, 😆.

The way some Nigerians are out here siding with Trump, man, I don’t even have the energy to take them seriously. 😒 Rushing to shelter in the shadow of something that only plans to step on you is quite a choice.

I think the issue is that I don’t want to option. I want the artist to choose what sounds best and present only that to me.

There’s this new musical artist I follow. She’s brilliant. Plays all the instruments AND sings. But she puts out two versions of her songs. One that’s original, and one that is sped up. I like the ones that are sped up ones WAY more. This really bugs me because…it’s not her natural voice. 😳…

JJ interviews @nnedi.bsky.social on her books Death of the Author, Space Cat, and LaGuardia. They talk about the challenges of explaining disability, the lack of age diversity in books, the magic of the creative process, and cats. [Audio recording and transcript available]

People who reply to me with snark at a tone-deaf time get blocked. I just don’t have the patience for them. If it just happens to you, know that it’s your fault. 😃

When did people start coding EVERYTHING by age??? It’s so bizarre and limiting.

Two of my students who met in my creative writing class (back when I was a professor at the University at Buffalo) and spent a lot of time in my office hours (a group of students would come and just be there the whole time) are now getting married. 🥹

Started reading Nnedi Okorafor's "Ikenga." amzn.to/47nXlYw 📖🖊️ Really interesting so far. Interesting and a little heartbreaking. #books #reading #fantasy @nnedi.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social #BookSky

Happy Halloween, 🎃

Must they do their wrasslin’ under my desk, right beside me, 😆. I guess they need an audience, 🙄.

Spotted this bird earlier today. A Say’s Phoebe?? It was sunset, hence the bright color, I think. I’ve only heard a Say’s Phoebe call at 4AM. This will be my first daylight sighting, if that’s who this is, 😊.

When did people stop knowing how to properly conjugate run/running/ran? Sheesh, it’s not complicated like lay/lie.

Next to mangos, pomegranates and lychees, this is the best fruit ever, 😋.

“Why Has Trump Been Flirting With a Third Term?: Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can.” Great article. Read it in full here: www.thenation.com/article/poli... But here is the heart of it:

Is Anyone else into the various Falling into Planets videos on YouTube? I discovered them while I was editing Death of the Author and got quickly obsessed. This is one of my favorites: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbn-...

I can’t look at these and not be reminded of the Sandcrawler in Star Wars, 😆.

Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator. n.pr/3J8XXJN

Trump and his sniveling minions continue to fling their feces. They fear strong voices. Mediocrity at its most cliche. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV

A tiny grasshopper, 😊.

To whom it concerns: Referring to me writing as myself (a Nigerian American woman, amongst MANY other things) as me writing through a type of "lens" is pretty fucked up. I know you mean well, but what you mean and what you are actually doing are not the same here. 😃

The Binti trilogy now has a Folio Society edition, 👽🪼🪐🌍! It’s illustrated (painted by hand) by David Palumbo. This special edition is available here: www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-bint...

How are accounts on here following 10K people? Heh, 🤖, that's how.

Has anyone watched that first episode of Welcome to Derry? I need to know how scary it is. P****wise scares the HECK out of me (I’m a scaredy cat), but I have this need to consume every Derry story out there, 😬. You don’t need to spoil it for me but just…spoil it a bit for me, 😆.

I spent all of yesterday on my couch with these two beside me. 😊 #Joy

Nnedi Okorafor's heartfelt post about winning the World Fantasy Award in 2011 was a major inflection point in public awareness and shifting acceptability. nnedi.blogspot.com/2011/12/love...

I needed a movie to watch last night. I tried Weapons the day before and it was too scary so I turned it off. I wanted something that...I dunno. So I was on Netflix and I saw Taxi Driver. I'd NEVER watched it and knew nothing about it. So I watched it. Um...WTF was THAT? And why was it so racist?

Publishers Weekly has named my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR a Best Book of the Year, 😃🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🦿🐬. Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

Publishers Weekly has named my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR a Best Book of the Year, 😃🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🦿🐬. Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

This was published in 2019. Feels like it was yesterday.

This was published in 2019. Feels like it was yesterday.

This song popped into my head and now I’ll proably be singing it for the next week. Fun fact: When we were little, my sisters and I recorded this video and watched it over and over. We thought it was HILARIOUS! Also, some say this song was actually about cocaine, 🤭. youtu.be/4YFnaCHMStk?...

I can officially say I’ve had 4 books released in the same year. 😮‍💨 No, this was NOT on purpose, but here I am, might as well embrace it, 😅. Nnedi Books of 2025: Death of the Author (novel) One Way Witch (novella) The Space Cat (graphic novel) The Best American SF and F (anthology)

Happy Book Birthday to THE BEST AMERICAN Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by me and the amazing @johnjosephadams.com. These stories are profound, hilarious, thoughtful, unsettling... stories that stay with you. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and congrats to all the contributors ! 👻👀👣🤖👽🧙🏾‍♀️🐈‍⬛🫂 

Is it just me or is the term “breaking news” now wildly overused?? Especially in the last year. I don’t even react to the phrase any more. There have been, like, six “breaking news” emails from CNN and I have not cared to read past the headline of any of them. Trump this, Trump that, usually bad.

Spotted a Harris’s hawk near ASU, 😃🦅.