I reviewed this month’s issue of Clarkesworld! Check it out, and/or stick around for a brief thread of favorites

I reviewed this month’s issue of Clarkesworld! Check it out, and/or stick around for a brief thread of favorites

The theme of this month’s Clarkesworld review is that long titles are great? idk there is good sci-fi, come read what I think about it: www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/21/t...

Finished it a couple of days ago and still thinking Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is fantastic! and you should get it. It's out now from @undertow.bsky.social .

One of the best short story collections of the year awaits in Uncommon Stories and other stories by Thomas Ha www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy." Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?

Hey y’all, this short story collection came out today, and it is great! www.tarvolon.com/2025/07/14/s...

Hey y’all, this short story collection came out today, and it is great! www.tarvolon.com/2025/07/14/s...

The Summer War by Naomi Novik is a very short novella that captures the fairy tale voice and is generally a lot of fun www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/14/f...

The Summer War by Naomi Novik is a very short novella that captures the fairy tale voice and is generally a lot of fun www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/14/f...

I hate football

This is exactly the sort of mad about college football I expected to be 😕

Hey! Look who showed up! @thomasha.bsky.social’s debut collection is so insanely good. If you love dark weird heartfelt speculative fiction, don’t miss Uncertain Sons!!!

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Had to hurry up and get this review out because I’m afraid I’ll be mad at college football in about 36 hours

Had to hurry up and get this review out because I’m afraid I’ll be mad at college football in about 36 hours

OH ALSO HEY do you guys want to see the SPANISH COVER of THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST? :D www.duermevelaediciones.es/product/el-c...

I don’t think I can quite call this a book review, but if you like weird humor and also Themes and honestly any fandom at all, check out 17776 by Jon Bois www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/10/w...

I don’t think I can quite call this a book review, but if you like weird humor and also Themes and honestly any fandom at all, check out 17776 by Jon Bois www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/10/w...

Cypress Teeth by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social has a bit of revenge and a bit of body horror—both things I usually don’t like—but won me over with beautiful, immersive storytelling that pulled me in from the word go www.khoreomag.com/fiction/cypr...

Got September’s Magazine Minis review up earlier than usual this month. Check it out, or stick around for a brief thread of favorites

A decade or two late for the Discourse, but I finally read the first Malazan book www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/08/f...

Justice at last for Saint Video!

Got September’s Magazine Minis review up earlier than usual this month. Check it out, or stick around for a brief thread of favorites

Magazine reviews in a different order this month. Today, we’re taking quick dips into Asimov’s, khoreo, and Translunar Travelers Lounge! www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/07/t...

Magazine reviews in a different order this month. Today, we’re taking quick dips into Asimov’s, khoreo, and Translunar Travelers Lounge! www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/07/t...

Unreal - the Orioles walk-off the Dodgers after they were within 1 out of a no-hitter

I’ve seen this too many times to be at all confident about Tennessee’s trip to Gainesville but yes please give me 1-11 Florida

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

In the Detroit airport living and dying on USF. GBO

oh no

ahhhh fuck i told jerry i’d coach the cowboys this year. i completely spaced on it. i’ve got a baby at home, work’s been busy, and i guess i just lost track. alright well, either someone else is gonna coach tonight or they’re just not gonna have a coach. hopefully he found somebody

In case you missed this morning's announcement. I'm very excited to fund 2026 and reopen submissions.

Dunno who this joker is but as a veteran Short Fiction Reviewer he is really underrating the novelettes in this collection

Yes, I’ve had Uncertain Sons, but what about *second* Uncertain Sons?

THINGS WITH BEARDS IS THE MOMENT FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER probably my most recommended story. i will tell anyone who will listen about things with beards

“Itsy Bitsy Spider” by James Patrick Kelly leads with the sense of foreboding before opening up into a touching story about the ways families can break even when no one is an obvious villain www.baen.com/Chapters/978...

And now to old sci-fi! “Jeffty is Five” is my first Harlan Ellison and my goodness is it fantastic. Both a love letter to and interrogation of childhood nostalgia via a speculative element that just builds the sense of foreboding up to an unforgettable conclusion

As always, starting with a reminder that I do have another favorites thread from another review post this week bsky.app/profile/tarv...

Brief thread of favorites from a recap mostly featuring authors you definitely know if you were reading sci-fi 25+ years ago

Brief thread of favorites from a recap mostly featuring authors you definitely know if you were reading sci-fi 25+ years ago

August isn’t over yet, but it ends on a holiday weekend and I’m traveling, so the round-up is early! It’s a bit trim overall, but heavy on pre-2000 sci-fi www.tarvolon.com/2025/08/28/a...

“That Game We Played During the War” by @carrievaughnco.bsky.social does a wonderful job digging into individuals in the midst of large-scale conflict, with a clever and compelling mode of connecting across cultures. Had I voted in 2017, it would’ve been this reactormag.com/that-game-we...

Things With Beards by @sentencebender.bsky.social is a fascinatingly chewy exploration of various sorts of monstrosity in the world of The Thing (which I have not seen or read. This is still good) clarkesworldmagazine.com/miller_06_16/

“The Story of Kao Yu” by Peter S. Beagle takes a trope that feels played out but breathes life into it with the quality of storytelling, while maintaining some uncertainty about where the story will ultimately finish reactormag.com/the-story-of...

My usual magazine mini post is replaced this month by a dive into the 2017 Hugo longlist. But I still have the usual thread of favorites 🧵

My usual magazine mini post is replaced this month by a dive into the 2017 Hugo longlist. But I still have the usual thread of favorites 🧵

I stand by every word of this. Thomas is a hell of a writer. Support small presses and short fiction, and in exchange, you get one heck of a book.

It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

We're eight years out at this point, but Hugo longlists are a ton of fun, and I can be pretty extra about @shortficbookclub.bsky.social sessions. Put them together, and we have a necro-review of the entire longlist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story: www.tarvolon.com/2025/08/27/a...