Last day to sign up for my art blog before the next issue's out! This one's about 70s-era prehistoric animal illustrations. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io Here's the sneak peek: Some sea creatures by Axel Ebel.

What movie do you consider perfect?

Whooooaaaaaaa! A B2 stealth bomber just flew overhead. I’ve never seen one before. That’s a wild-looking plane.

Book 38 of 2025: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social. This was probably my favorite of all of his books so far: a gripping story of a Blackfoot man named Good Stab and a Lutheran pastor named Arthur Beaucarne with the creepiest twist on vampires that I think I’ve ever read.

This is something that I’m helping to run this fall: the Green Mountain Book Festival! This year’s headliner is @scalzi.com, and it will take place in Burlington VT on October 18th.

This is something that I’m helping to run this fall: the Green Mountain Book Festival! This year’s headliner is @scalzi.com, and it will take place in Burlington VT on October 18th.

I’ve gotten a bunch of these on LinkedIn and via email. Even just to comments on Facebook, which just regurgitate my captions. It’s annoying, but easy to tune out and block.

Thanks to @andrewliptak.com for including WHO WILL YOU SAVE? on this list of 14 more SF/F books to check out this September.

Awake. Really brilliant.

For the afternoon crowd:

Ghost Fleet, Ten Years Later: An Interview with P.W. Singer and August Cole warontherocks.com/2025/09/ghos...

We're halfway through September, and there are a TON of new science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other books hitting stores this month. Here's a selection that you should check out: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/september-20...

KALIVAS! is one of fourteen (?!) books you should check out this month, so sez @andrewliptak.com! transfer-orbit.ghost.io/september-20...

This is why I always side-eye anyone who wants to see a future with flying cars. People already can’t drive in two dimensions, and you want to add another one into the mix?

Something that I want to point out about this list series I write: we're living through a period of online clutter, with tons of mindless listicles and even AI-generated book lists that spit out fake books.

We're halfway through September, and there are a TON of new science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other books hitting stores this month. Here's a selection that you should check out: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/september-20...

I really dig this film. Felt like a good depiction of the first moments of an alien invasion, and I liked the approach to showing off the aliens and how they weren’t some mindless drones.

John Scalzi’s latest novel The Shattering Peace hits stores today! It’s the latest installment of his Old Man’s War series, the first installment of which he published 20 years ago this year. I wrote a longer piece about series and his career earlier this year to mark the occasion:

Oppenheimer Dr. Strangelove Godzilla

This was such a beautiful and awe-inspiring pair of performances from the Flynn: Les Girafes by Compagnie Off and Cubo / eVenti Verticali.

Kathryn Bigelow's upcoming film A House of Dynamite looks like a timely warning about the dangers that the world's nuclear weapons pose to the world. I jotted down some thoughts about it here: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/kathryn-bige...

Book 37 of 2025: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. This was an astonishing read: a fantastic quest as a graduate student follows her mentor to hell to save him. It’s a wonderful meditation on self, academia, and logic.

Here's a periodic reminder: I write a newsletter called Transfer Orbit, which is all about genre, fandom, reading, science fiction, writing, and quite a bit more. This newsletter is my way of keeping up with, commentating, and reporting on the genre world in a couple of ways.

Book 36 of 2025: Winters' Time: A Secret Pledge, a Severed Head, and the Murder That Brought America's Most Famous Lawyer to Vermont by Jeffrey L. Amestoy. I found this to be an engrossing read: Amestoy packed a lot into this, and played the story out neatly in a way that gripped me the whole time.

Here's a periodic reminder: I write a newsletter called Transfer Orbit, which is all about genre, fandom, reading, science fiction, writing, and quite a bit more. This newsletter is my way of keeping up with, commentating, and reporting on the genre world in a couple of ways.

Aidan Moher's Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West is an outstanding exploration of the rise of the genre and how it's shaped popular culture. Here's my review: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/aidan-moher-...

This was the most random thing: I Heart Cookies, a deep dish cookie food truck (ok), that comes with a random bunch of trailers with dinosaurs (???) You buy cookies for admission to the dinosaurs. I have so many questions.

Aidan Moher's Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West is an outstanding exploration of the rise of the genre and how it's shaped popular culture. Here's my review: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/aidan-moher-...

transfer-orbit.ghost.io/science-fict... The mighty @andrewliptak.com has a nice little curated list of current releases up here and I am thrilled to be on it!

she's up it is past my bedtime so I hope there are no major glitches but if there are please tell me and I will fix em in the morning www.patreon.com/posts/x-men-...

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Lovely to see @voidcricket.bsky.social's AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD on here, thanks Andrew!

Honored to see RUIN among these amazing books!

It's a little late, but here's the first (of three!) book lists for the month of September. There are a ton of books hitting stores this month: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/science-fict...

So many great-sounding books here. I am very curious about The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson.

It's a little late, but here's the first (of three!) book lists for the month of September. There are a ton of books hitting stores this month: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/science-fict...

We’re releasing a new book at my day job, and I designed the cover! Here’s the process that it went through from early drafts to final version. transfer-orbit.ghost.io/book-cover-d...

We’re releasing a new book at my day job, and I designed the cover! Here’s the process that it went through from early drafts to final version. transfer-orbit.ghost.io/book-cover-d...

I maintain that Car Talk’s “Andy Letter” should be required reading for anyone who’s versed in one subject trying to extrapolate in another: www.cartalk.com/radio/letter...

I maintain that Car Talk’s “Andy Letter” should be required reading for anyone who’s versed in one subject trying to extrapolate in another: www.cartalk.com/radio/letter...

Tiny kaiju, ambient Peckinpah, lost CDs, and a stewardship walk through the unevenly distributed future, in these Field Notes from the week preceding the full moon: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/an-anthem-...

Just gonna tap the sign: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/challenger-a...

Book 35 of 2025: The Desert Talon by @karinlow.bsky.social. I’m really enjoying this series, and this installment is a really great dissection of two cultures violently clashing. Plus dragons. I’m really excited to get the third installment.

I wrote about this in one of the later chapters of Cosplay: A History. I predicted that we’d see things like masking stick around, not just because of covid, but also as a way to avoid con crud. I’m sad to see that prediction didn’t hold up.

I *often* think about how tragic it is that he died at the age of 43. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQ...

Book 34 of 2025: Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West by @aidanmoher.com. I knew nothing about JRPGs, aside from the occasional contact growing up. Aidan’s book is an in-depth, enthusiastic explainer that caught me up nicely.

A new month is upon us, which means a new crop of short stories headed out to subscribers. Here's the rundown of the stories coming out this month: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/table-of-con...

Book 33 of 2025: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and illustrated by Bilquis Evely. I really loved this story: a beautiful meditation on heroism, right and wrong, and justice.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Bewitching is a gripping, multi-generational tale of curses, power, and witches. I couldn't put it down. Here's my review: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/betwitching-...

Book 32 of 2025: How To Love A Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World by @howtoloveaforest.bsky.social. It’s a tender, beautifully written look at our changing world and the complications and heartbreaking choices needed to heal a forest. I’m bowled over: it’s an astonishing book.