a drama in two acts: you know when you go to preorder a book and discover you’ve already preordered it? I just went to cancel my SFWA membership and it was already cancelled

goddamn.

ok I know it's annoying when someone is like "this book is so good" and then it turns out the book isn't out for like five months but this book is SO GOOD. playful and utterly devastating. if there's justice in the world it will join Story of Your Life in the pantheon of linguistic SF. go! preorder!

Catching up on charming flash from @filiphdz.bsky.social on @lightspeedmagazine.com : www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Another @filiphdz.bsky.social story! Also it’s the perfect size for if you’re short on time but want to read something beautiful with an ache of truth, as his work always is.

A beautiful reflection on being an immigrant and whether the things we leave behind can be replaced with new ones in our heart. In the end, something will always be missing. by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

“Glass Bottle Dancer” was the very first story I read at Clarion West. I was the youngest student there; Celeste was the oldest, and she’d just written the most goddamn incredible story in like two days, and for a little while I was like, what the fuck am I doing here?

watching too much anime has the side effect of all my media analysis is suddenly anime. watch: @emilytesh.net's the incandescent is like if someone made a power fantasy anime about teachers fighting demons, and then a decade later someone made a deconstruction of that anime, but it's the same book

So delighted to share that THE SENTENCE will now be coming out in a global edition with Saga Press in early 2027, newly-titled THE FIFTH INFLECTION. Deeply grateful to @jjbker.bsky.social for taking it on, and to Sareena Kamath for acquiring it for Saga. Excited to take this novel outside India!

welp. reached the end of hades 2. all I can say is maybe supergiant needed six and a half years too.

all the women want melinoë. even the ones who aren't actually in the game.

haha remember when I said "see you in the DLC", actually I meant "see you in the speedrun"

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism." @readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom): reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

And I'm done! Now it's time to catch my breath before Hades 2 drops next week.

There are only two kinds of serious writers/readers of SFF today: those who ferociously love the work of Kai Ashante Wilson and want to see a great deal more of it in the world, and those who have not yet read him. Good news, everyone! www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

my silksong boss liveblog is nearing the end of the game! come join me for the final stretch. (spoilers for boss names & mechanics + a few thematic/minor plot things throughout)

I think Team Cherry and Supergiant are conspiring to prevent me, specifically, from finishing my novel there's no other explanation

Filip once again delivering top quality short fiction, including: 1 - sexy sexy alliteration 2 - a gut punch of feels about leaving small places and not going back 3 - his usual distressingly hungry-making food descriptions

"It is limiting, to be from somewhere small—you feel it even when you like it." New gorgeous, rhythmic, perfectly bite-size work from @filiphdz.bsky.social: "The Place I Came To" in @lightspeedmagazine.com.

My new story in Lightspeed is free to read today! It’s under 1000 words and it has one of my favourite first paragraphs I’ve written. A fabulous prize to the first person who can guess which video game I was playing while writing this! What’s stopping you? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

I’ve been playing Silksong with a “no giving up on bosses” policy to make it a little harder for myself, which has been really interesting from a game design perspective. Gonna thread some thoughts on each of the bosses I’ve fought so far. Please mute this thread if you’re avoiding spoilers!

if anyone needs me... maybe don't?

this is an excellent essay & one thing it highlights is that pronouncing names correctly simply isn’t that hard. all it requires is a willingness to listen & to not assume ahead of time that it's hopeless to even try

SILK SOOOOOOOOOOONG

thread. every hugo ceremony opens with some nice platitudes about how we’re gathered together to celebrate the finalists and every hugo ceremony pulls some version of this shit. I’m so tired.

As respectfully as possible, if you are a Hugo MC it is your actual job to make sure you have the pronunciations of the people you are celebrating down. If you don’t get given a list from Worldcon you need to make your own or demand one in time to learn. This is egregious.

Look, I’m sorry, but the shambles of title and name mispronunciations in this Hugo award ceremony is not funny. GRRM is sitting by his phone waiting for an apology.

SALVAGIA is out. It's officially pub day! Come join me on the yoreshore. 🐊🚀🌴

Happy #bookbirthday to SALVAGIA by @timchawaga.bsky.social! 🎉🤿 "This deft debut makes the perfect page-turner for anyone seeking a laugh, a thrill, and perhaps, even a cry." —@bookstr.bsky.social awfulagent.com/ebooks/salva...

Cunning, taut, plenty of sharp edges. @filiphdz.bsky.social’s razor-blade of a suspense tale in @lightspeedmagazine.com checks all the boxes for a roguishly good time - tempo, risks, stakes, skulduggery. A critical success for sleight of hand with a conscience. #sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction

I’ve been reading stories for escape pod for three years now and this is one of my favourites in that time. read it! (or listen to it)

teshima art museum, followed closely by the other setouchi museums

since contract fuckery is once again in the air I thought I would remind everyone that I wrote a whole story about that and also there is a heist. in case anyone could use some catharsis. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

I am begging y'all we NEED the mushrooms and the unions

the most successful I have ever been at getting someone to watch a show

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Cover reveal!! 🐇🎀❤️‍🔥 So good to put a name to the heart. So good to put a face to the name. Ty Stillhouse Press for this creepy, frenzied, sour-candy beauty—the book cover of my dreams and best nightmares. TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE will be available for preorder starting this Friday 6.6.25!

when I came out of Fury Road the first time I thought, well, that was obviously the best action film I've ever seen, the important question is whether it's the best FILM I've ever seen. similar feelings about this book. it's obviously the best magical school novel; is it the best fantasy novel?

I don't generally like to do self-promo but we've been chatting about novellas from other presses today and I feel like I should probably just plug my column about... exactly that... at @ancillaryreview.bsky.social. Just in case anyone is interested. Here you go.

Have you even seen an anteater yawn? 🥱 Here's Gloria and her two-foot-long tongue! 📷: Giant anteater Gloria by zookeeper Elsa

sometimes I think about the fact that the last Animorphs book came out in May 2001, and then I think about KA Applegate saying of the ending that "wars very often end ... with a nearly seamless transition to another war" and then I have to go lie down for a bit

Delighted to see this in-depth review of THE SENTENCE by Dan Hartland, in the spring issue of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. “A novel of ideas wearing the skin of a procedural” —

co-signing all of the below and also adding that this is just an incredible show for monologue enjoyers

truly an essay for our time

I have so much respect for people who examined their gender, found they were happy and it fit, and unlocked cis+. Thinking about your own gender and what it means to you, even if you know you're cis, is a genuinely good thing for everyone to do

hugo nominations opened today! totally casual reminder that I had a FUN and UNFORTUNATELY RELEVANT heist novelette out last year! you can read it below. and then add it to your ballots, ideally.

Lots of fantastic recommendations here, including @phoebebarton.bsky.social's story "Climbing the Mountains of Me"(Kaleidotrope, Winter 2024).

it's story day! "Dyson Spheres of the Vaba Cluster" is free to read in Lightspeed. zero points for guessing which game inspired this. but if you like megastructures and ancient civilisations and a little bit of a mystery in only 1800 words, check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dyso...