It went well, I think! The presentation was about the book I'm currently writing, as part of the fellowship I'm on, and I shall try and convert some of it to an essay/blog post. Will be working on this book for a while yet. (Pic courtesy of Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk)

This is happening tomorrow btw, at the Graham Center at Florida International University in Miami. I am zooming in and will apparently be inside one of those telepresence robot things, and hopefully they will let me drive it around and do a stage dive www.scienceandfiction.fiu.edu/confab-26

I have to make a presentation on april fools day and I am not including any lies even though I kind of want to

noooo don't replace the massive tensor ghost it's so sexy aha

reading a book about a bad person will in fact turn you into one. authors are lying to you about this because they’re all bad people themselves

Less than two days to go! Nominations for the 2026 Le Guin Prize close at midnight tomorrow, March 31st. If you need an incentive, here's a fun fact: one lucky nominator will be chosen at random to win this gorgeous stack of books—last year's entire shortlist! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

In a folktale from Alak, a dreamy good-for-nothing young woman seeking excitement discovers a life of adventures may not be what she expected. Be careful what you wish for! "Tatterdemalion" by @michaelcisco.bsky.social is out now! Art by Raven Jiang Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

this is a baffling and incredible dive into the psyche of a man for whom chatGPT *is not ass-kissing enough*

Post-Ithaca notes, abbrev. Some recommended reading (essays which you might have missed) and also re-highlighting your small press recs from earlier, which have been super fascinating browsing. More at length later after I finish this talk! vajra.me/2026/03/29/r...

the interesting thing about hellsite 2 is that despite the similarity of result the recipe is so different from the original hellsite's "the users are the product;" this time it's "the protocol is the product, the users squatting on the reference implementation are annoying, hopefully they'll leave"

can't believe you all are pluto-ing the Indian Ocean geoid low before my book about that even comes out

In which I babble at some length about Horror Theory, whatever that is, was, or may yet be... matthewcheney.net/blog/horror-...

I'm not going to lie, but the ADD hit hard with this one: I wanted to talk about genre, but somehow ended up sprawled across political economy and epistemology. Send help.

somnambulist marenghism is the essence of right-wing science fiction but if you wanted to read a good book written by someone who was awake, about a lone astronaut trying to deal with weird space shit while hanging out with a spider alien, I highly recommend Jaroslav Kalfař's SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA

Seems to me that genre-related non fiction is starting off 2026 pretty strong

Happy to share that both When There Are Wolves Again and The Coral Bones are now available in the US 😊🐺🪸 www.amazon.com/stores/E.-J....

This month I read a book called "The Saint of Bright Doors" by Vajra Chandrasekera. I really, really liked it. The entire book was made of sentences and they were all really really good sentences.

Had a great time reading The Saint of Bright Doors by @vajra.me in my worldbuilding class. Multiple students thanked me for assigning the book and several said they already planned to reread it after coming to the twist! A real blast!

I especially love that he has a continuity editor to prevent him from contradicting himself

I'm sorry but the existence of such a person is incredibly funny to me

remember that this shit is not only funding bigotry in the present, it's inducting new generations of kids into a long bigotry pipeline

The bill passed both houses, no surprise, & India is degraded once more. 'Trans men, trans non binary persons and trans women who are not kinner-hijra will NOT be legally recognised as trans anymore! Bill passed without community or NCTP consultation. Calls to differ to select committee ignored.'

“...Summer Farah is a writer whose appetite knows no bounds.” “a desire, a desire”: Appetite & Obsession in @summ.bsky.social's The Hungering Years (Host Publications), a new book review by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/E0p6nvd

NEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...

You want me to "lock" in? The thing that heed martin?

Today (and every day) is a great day to be a fan of @amalelmohtar.com!🤩 The happiest of book birthdays to Seasons of Glass and Iron, her new collection of stories, and the paperback edition of The River Has Roots!

Mass murder.

I am so proud to be working with @mariettarosetta.bsky.social on this. The most exciting part? The contributors! Full list below -

Hugo nominations close soon, so remember to cast your ballots (Seattle Worldcon members, you can nominate this year too!). Sour Cherry is a Nebula finalist, a Crawford Award honoree, and on the Locus Recommended Reading list (all of which still blows my mind) zandoprojects.com/books/sour-c...

I'm so excited that the short story collection I've been working on with @oliverklangmead.bsky.social has been picked up by @lunapress.bsky.social . It comes out of my work with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded Future of Human Reproduction @lancasteruni.bsky.social.

Most common answers include: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones The West Passage by Jared Pechaček The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

In case anyone coming here doesn’t check: not just on sale in the EU. It’s $1.99 in the US right now.

Browse the collection - there are many more titles on offer! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

🚨Dozens of books have been added to our partner, Open Books’ bookshop. Browse the collection, buy a book (all proceeds to Sameer Project) and write a review of any length that we’ll publish to our substack. The famine in Gaza is intensifying and we need your help generating funds for Palestinians!

For the Ithaca-proximate, this is now TOMORROW (and the day after)

Many excellent deals in this thread but you should run not walk to snatch this one on the SOUR CHERRY ebook

My story is here among the free online ones that Andrew has kindly assembled! But as far as the nominated book-shaped things go, here's a short thread of the ones I've found on sale right now in the EU: "Sour Cherry" by @nassos.bsky.social (for less than a euro!! A STEAL TBH)

many thanks to everyone who answered! my list of presses has grown very pleasingly. Highly recommend the replies below to weird book-loving people everywhere: may you all have as good a time as I am having browsing all the catalogues

Also soliciting academic/nonfiction book recs!

Who are the small presses publishing cool weird/experimental/horror/speculative stuff? In the vein of Undertow, Grimscribe, Apocalypse Party, Ghoulish, Weirdpunk, CLASH, Word Horde …

Congrats Nebula nominees!!!!!!!! 🔥🙌🏾

There are many great books in 2025 but especially do not forget SOUR CHERRY, NOTES FROM A REGICIDE, MAD SISTERS OF ESI and WORKS OF VERMIN!

look, even buzzfeed readers have standards for slop

Also includes my story “Death Letters”! The anthology is out in October and is now pre-orderable.

Altman's "intelligence as a metered service" captures the AI moment well—it's an attempt at the formal subsumption of ever-finer microrealms of human labour embedded within capitalist production. You already have an underpaid email job but what if you also had to pay the machine to write your emails

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.