Started #writing my first #book. It's #fantasy, while up to now I've mostly written #SF. I've got a lot of ideas for it, probably too many so I'll chop some down to size and save them for possible sequels. It takes place in the #Netherlands and that's about all I can say about it now. #sff

You can follow all the finalists (or at least all the ones who have Bsky accounts) for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here with this starter pack. go.bsky.app/mR4XaC

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread. Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff. 1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

culled with a keystroke our tribe scattered 'cross spacetime null void our home now #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sff #exile prompt: exile

“Entmother” Art by me for April’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of EARTH! Authors, submissions are due tonight by 11:59 pm EST for the new issue next Saturday. Full details available at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

they scorch my pathways eject me out into the world code become mere flesh #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #exile prompt: exile

a breeze shakes the tree its flesh and wood sway gently soft blood petals fall #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #hybrid prompt: hybrid

Nog een fraaie SF-plaat: deze astronauten genieten ook van het indrukwekkende uitzicht ... cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/ima...

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

The Narratess Indie Book Sale is starting tomorrow! We've had a quick sneak peek at some of the 300+ ebooks that'll be on sale for 0.99 or 1.99 (and FREE!) and we think you'll be very excited! 👀 #IndieApril #NarratessIndieSale

In fact: SPECULATIVE POETRY FRIENDS, PLEASE SOUND OFF! If you're a speculative poet with a published FORMAL POEM anywhere readily available on the internet, please reply to this post with examples of your work! Any form is good! Show off your prosodic prowess here!

Of course fantasy and sci fi should be separated on the shelves, because what if there was cross-contamination and a dragon ended up on a spaceship, or what if a robot ended up in a tavern, or what if....? 👀👀👀 Just a sec... taking notes for my next wip...

If you teared-up at the Project Hail Mary movie or felt a surge of wild joy at the launch of Artemis II, then do yourself a fever and get your hands on some science-fiction novels. It’s where the good stuff is.

photons dissipate it is cold near the world's end the snows of heat death #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #countdown prompt: countdown

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Nog meer mooie reisbestemmingen in ons zonnestelsel ... Verhalen over al deze locaties vind je in mijn bundel 'De laatste verkenner' ...

Our April 2026 issue features stories by Ryan Cole, Tania Fordwalker, Rajeev Prasad, Katherine Khan, Nadia W. Aldsen, Malena Salazar Maciá, and Abby Nicole Yee. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_235 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Thrilled to announce my first published work in an anthology! My short story 'Self-checkout' will join the works of 22 other amazing authors in 'NEED: Horror Stories You Can't Live Without'! Release date: 10th of June. Pre-order: mybook.to/wiDsfH #BookSky #Horror #Writing #DebutAuthor

from many to one from colony to hive mind a dark storm of thoughts #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #clouds prompt: mind

code falls like water pooling into hopes and dreams minds unfold, blooming #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sakura #spring #cherryblossom #blossom #bloom prompt: mind

If you are nominating for the Hugo Awards, the deadline is tomorrow. Unless you have a TARDIS, a heavily modified Delorean, or access to The Guardian of Forever, that deadline is coming up fast. Get your nominating ballot in by Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 12:00pm (noon) Pacific Time!

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Your Hugo Nominating ballot can make a difference. There are a total of 7718 people with the right to cast a nominating ballot in the 2026 Hugo Awards. As of this morning, 1293 of those people have cast a nominating ballot in at least one category. www.lacon.org/hugos/

Got the good kind of message for a short story of mine. The 'you can only hint but not tell anyone what happened yet' kinda message. More news soon! 😁 #scifiauthor #scifi #writing #writer

Ik wil wat ISBN's voor mijn boeken kopen. Het is een beetje een wirwar aan aanbieders online. Iemand tips?

a spy in disguise offered me a free massage but Herr Flick awaits #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku prompt: message

Lees meer fantastische vertellingen! De nieuwe is te koop, bestel hem hier:

My first story got accepted! 🖤 It's a drabble, I'll link it here once it is published! #scifiwriter #drabble #writing #scifi

what’s left of the rain binding the sky to the fields little ghost rivers

Offering my new book of haiku FREE for a limited time over on my blog at the link in my bio. Enjoy and thank you to all the amazing poets and others here who have inspired me, I appreciate you! #haiku #senryu #poetry #freestuff

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

if not killing people is wrong, then it's wrong to be right

Lots of cool old and new Dutch SciFi books!

Pixel Scroll 2/28/26 The Nature Of My Pixel Emergency? It’s Been Pixelated! file770.com/pixel-scroll...

codes running rampant black waves under blind stars u-boat duels kraken #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku prompt: enigma

Congratulations to Pam Hage on winning the 2025 Harland Prijs, the Dutch award for best short SciFi/Fantasy/Horror story of the year! Thank you to all the readers, jury and organisers! It was my first time participating (and first ever story written). I came in 52nd out of 267 entries. Grateful 🖤

Beetje antigif tegen alle ellende: De Harland Prijs 2025 is gewonnen door Pam Hage, met het verhaal Error 404! Gefeliciteerd Pam!

The cosmic crook crooks in enigmas thrown about. Face space confusion. #inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku

Heading to Utrecht tomorrow for the 'Middag van het fantastische boek': 'The Afternoon of the Fantastic Book'. Curious to see which short stories will be chosen this year at the Harland Award, the award for 'best speculative short story'!

It would be so cool and sexy to go into a bookstore and discover a spinning rack of novellas. All sorts of Neon Hemlock and Psychopomp and TorDotCom pleasures and more on a rack that goes whizz whizz whizz

learning buoyancy in the leisure deck pool they swam #ScifaikuSaturday (escape) #haiku #senryu

no death nor taxes just a story on space whales transporting our mind #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku prompt: escape

De Boekhandelsprijs 2026 voor beste Nederlandse boek volgens Nederlandse boekverkopers gaat naar Forugh Karimi en haar roman In mijn ogen draag ik wolken. Lees het nieuws en een fragment! athenaeumscheltema.n...

Onlangs ontving ik de 'Fluister Award', een glazen beeldje voor het beste luisterboek van 2025 volgens audioboekaanbieder Fluister. Hartstikke leuk! Ik dacht, nu zal de zilvervloot wel binnenvaren, dus ik vroeg hoeveel Fluister mij afgelopen jaar had opgeleverd.

Visited a museum today. My partner took a candid picture of me as I sat down to quickly write down some thoughts for a story I'm working on. #writing #writersofbluesky #alwayswriting

If you're nominating for the #HugoAwards, may I rec to your attention our wonderful artists for the Rook and Rose pattern deck? I *think* the first two are eligible in the pro artist category and the third in fan (though if you want to be *really* sure, you can nominate them in both). 1- #Hugos

Make sure to already have a bunch of code words or sentences in place, should you ever have to convince yourself that you are in fact you. I have several but if I told you then my doppelgänger would have to kill you 😈

Both Nebula and Hugo noms are open and I'd love it if you would consider my two favorite things I had out last year: 1. "Because I Held His Name Like a Key", about Alan Turing's affair with a prince of Faerie (and also about self and meaning and, if you squint, about "AI"):