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*What would it take for there to be a massive "mirror life" stock boom "It's really-really dangerous, so here's a hundred billion for a mirror-life farm in Texas"

Does it help if we include the link? translunartravelerslounge.com

I can always hear this picture lol

I WAS THIS OLD TODAY WHEN I LEARNED THIS.....

The audio version of "Bunny Ears" is now up for your listening pleasure/terror! @nightmare-magazine.com's podcast team knocked it outta the park, like always. Thanks to Roxanne Hernandez for the tremendous narration.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Thank you again to the BEST STAFF IN THE UNIVERSE (Monte, Betsy, Steven, Erika, plus Caroline, Matt, Tania, and the Submissions Editors), all of our contributors, readers, the Hugo voters, and the Seattle Worldcon staff. And as always, to Caitlin. I miss you every day.

This is my 12th Hugo Award, which means that I now have the most wins among women winners, and tied with Mike Glyer for 5th most wins overall. :boggles:

Yesterday I saw a great interview with Naomi Klein where she talked about how the forces of American fascism (from oligarchs to Xian fundamentalists) are connected by their belief life on our planet is over. I don't believe that.

Write Till You Drop — Anne Dillard.

Did a recording last week, so the podcast should be out soon. Reiterating, that I'd love to hear from female, queer, and other marginalised content creators. Whether you want to discuss scifi, horror, fantasy, wuxia or Chinese cultures, I'd totally be up for it. Your voices are really important!

this is just to say i have eaten the bones that were in the boneyard and which you were probably saving for necromancy forgive me they were delicious so ossified and so crunchy and also i am not sorry and i will do it again 🫶

As a niño in Mexico City, I learnt my science fiction and fantasy EN LAS CALLES. Half a dozen tamales got you an alien invasion by hyper muscular broccoli by a compa that also sold cuetes every Friday by el Super 7.

ICYMI! PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

It's still a bit surreal to be *working* for Uncanny, much less hear my name at the Hugos! I still consider myself just a person pulling the levers behind the curtain, so it took me a day or so at the con to realize I could *meet* our writers. I even unknowingly sat next to an Uncanny writer (1/2)

Uncanny Magazine (Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki, and Podcast Producers Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky) won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine! THANK YOU, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/hKQcT5n

Yaswss! @archistratego.bsky.social !!! This is what I want to read more of in 2025 Old gods become new gods ritual sacrifice and ritual ahem-hem-hem 😈 www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/wait...

I cannot believe I finally get to announce this. An unhinged dream, so many years and monologues in the making. I'm elate to announce my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS, a horromantasy about Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth, will be published with Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.

Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI. Here’s how you do it. 🧵

You could spend weeks reading nothing but the authors in this thread and you’d get an absolutely wild, hydra-headed, top notch look at modern speculative genre fiction across the board. Damn good list of creators here 🖤☠️

Please, let's keep this going. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

Just found this African SFFH Starter Pack by @somtoihezue.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TVLxXew

Now it can be told!

So excited to see my novelette “Desperate Ark Wives” in this @havenspec.bsky.social issue. I had fun writing this rollercoaster that follows Gloria and her chaotic daughters-in-law aboard the Ark, and how they band together in a bid to stop the great biblical flood🌊 Subscribers get to read it today!

"Pink Bird, War Sun" by @archistratego.bsky.social is live! This story was edited by @aleksandrahill.bsky.social. The audio edition was narrated by @michellicopter.bsky.social and produced by @melisfluous.bsky.social. Listen to or read it now on our website: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/pink...

First thing I want to do is congratulate all the IGNYTE Award winners!! Congratulations!!! And thank you for considering my essay too, my brain kinda short circuited when I saw that. Thank you to @apparitionlit.com, and @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social for shaping the essay with her wonderful insights.

Hello world! I have been buried in grad school work for the last year and a half since starting. It has been a wild adventure so far. Thank you to everyone who has reached out, I'm exhausted working and studying full time, but I missed this community dearly, so I'm back! (allegedly)

Ack! Messed up the link to Tania's essay. @archistratego.bsky.social Here it is... apparitionlit.com/symmetry-horror-and-identity

Congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Assistant Editor Tania Chen! @archistratego.bsky.social's essay "Symmetry, Horror, and Identity" is an Ignyte Award finalist for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction!!

"Most of the time he spends in this house Victor is on his knees: punished, polishing, praying. The air is thick with sandalwood, smoke curling upwards as the incense stick burns down." Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @archistratego.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social.

We're currently eyeballs busy, up to our elbows in submissions for RECLAMATION issue (open thru 8/31 for subs) & Aug Flash, but thought we'd share random old pieces for your reading pleasure. April '21 flash winner by Anna Madden: https://apparitionlit.com/madame-of-the-vein/

Illustration for @hachepueyo.bsky.social's "Glory Hounds", which is super fun and will appear in the next issue of @interzone.press

Honey bees are livestock. They don't need saving. Focus on native bees which are actually in trouble. Add native plants to whatever patch you have and stop using pesticides.

130+ shelter pets now on their way from Maui to the Pacific Northwest via @SouthwestAir so @mauihumane can care for injured and displaced animals coming in from the fire zones. If you want to help these rescue efforts: bit.ly/mauirelief23. @greatergoodcharities #IAmLuckyDog

hey we need more people to follow here, BLUE. if you're a writer/editor/zine/etc. in the SFFH genre pls reply with an emoji and we'll follow you. BONUS POINTS for using super obscure emojis. (pls repost if you want to help us spread the word OR if you have a skeleton inside you thx)

If you'd like to see short fiction magazines survive, consider subscribing to some of these: https://tinyurl.com/2ra4a6ue

Issue #28 is here! Join our Patreon for full access. This issue is dedicated with love to, and in memory of, R J Theodore, our Rekka, whose spirit imbues these pages still. We miss you. ❤︎

Peek at some of Echo Echo’s interior art for Colin Hinckley’s THE BLACK LORD, out 9/12, & weep. We used to think one day we’d see Echo reach the pinnacle of her sizable talents. But that’s lunacy; she has no ceiling. Preorder THE BLACK LORD at https://tenebrous-press.square.site/

The short fiction mags here (expanded version) would love to have your support - you get more great stories in exchange! Win win https://www.trollbreath.com/sff-magazine-subscriptions/?fbclid=IwAR3VIrpVCbJtt0BN4EF9oKNhOLxcqGY553PhEAbsTFcaUD7PsioMC0rILZY#foogallery-4876/f:Fiction,,Electronic%20Copy

I feel like most authors don't rly want Stephen King levels of stardom, where we can't grab a meal w/o people crying at the table. Most of us just want to support our families, afford health care, have 30 people show up to a book signing, and write books that mean something to those who need them.

I have an essay in this!

My flash "Pure White, Ocean Glass" is upcoming in @shoreinf.bsky.social's special climate change issue! 🦄🤍🌊 really excited for y'all to read this one!

A Pallas cat was born at the Helsinki zoo this week, so the anger I typically hold in my heart has simply melted away.

Just finished the kick off call for RECLAMATION issue (open for subs on 8/15) and super excited to work with our brand new Guest Editor @AiJiang_ !! If you haven't already, read our blog on what readers/editors are looking for https://apparitionlit.com/what-does-reclamation-mean-to-apparition-lit/

Which SFF mags have print subscriptions? @clarkesworld.bsky.social @interzone.bsky.social @asimovssf.bsky.social F&SF Analog And.....? Please add more if you have them

A tremendous essay. “The distinction that now counts for me is not between critical and creative practices, or between aesthetic and other uses of literature. It is between work done to please power, and work done in the face of death.”

Poets! Please RP! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to poetry submissions from August 7 to August 21!!! https://uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

Since BlueSky is still new, another introduction is in order! I’m the managing editor of @masonjarpress.bsky.social & a sometimes writer of poetry/fiction. My favorite book is Startide Rising (space-dolphins, natch) & my favorite movie is Clueless. I <3 Colin Firth & BlackPink. Tell your friends!