Guys, today is the last day for voting. If you're an @africansfs.bsky.social member, do consider my time travel love story "From Across Time," published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, in the short story category. You can read it here clarkesworldmagazine.com/umeh_12_24/

Goodreads gets it’s fair share of ire in the book community. There are no guardrails against one star bombing and too often Black authors get ignored when it comes to recognition and awards, but today we’re going to highlight those who ARE being recognized. #booksky open.substack.com/pub/shannami...

ICYMI, I have a new story out! 🎵🎸🚀

EV demand has fallen off a cliff in the U.S. since the $7,500 tax credit ended. With inventory piling up, Tesla is letting customers rent for 3-7 days, offering a $250 credit if they buy. EV dominance was taken as fact a few years ago; it’s wild how politics ended that dream in the U.S.

Lovers of books as objects, have you seen this? THE BOOK: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO REBUILDING CIVILISATION I'm gonna buy it just for the art, but it's a lovingly crafted object. Part encyclopaedia, part Armageddon journal. I suspect I'll kick myself later if I don't get it now.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...

Apple spending billions making amazing TV shows and movies that nobody watches while every other big tech spends billions on AI is a vibe.

We did a Frankenstein once upon a time. Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein (2018) @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @kaaronwarren.bsky.social

Alright y'all. This is finally happening.

Wake up babe, new Tade Thompson story just dropped. [And its an expansion of one of my favorite Tade stories]

There’s a bipartisan bill that would require companies and government agencies to report quarterly on AI driven layoffs. I’d love this to pass just so we can find out which companies are doing layoffs for economic reasons versus spinning it as due to AI to impress investors.

"Dazzlingly fresh and original: relentlessly paced, lavishly crafted and always human" @gautambhatia88.bsky.social "A gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries" @aptshadow.bsky.social "As wildly inventive as it is intriguing...a galaxy spanning story" @rjbarker.bsky.social

Cool news: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN is going to be translated into Finnish and published by Jalava/Art House! They sent over the Finnish cover, which is UNHINGED. I freaking love it. (I'm still waiting to hear the name of the artist. They deserve the loudest praise!)

Boosting this once more. If you're a member of the ASFS, do consider voting my short story in the Best Story category 🙏 🥹

New very vague scam format: "I've been following your work... I am very interested in exploring your book and would love to know if it is available on platforms such as Amazon and Goodreads... I would be delighted to support your work by reading it."

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾 Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social

On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising... THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.

Starship Alexandria episode 7 is here! @aptshadow.bsky.social and I discuss The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and I share one of my favourite pieces of music. Next month's episode is all about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood. starshipalexandria.com/episode-7-th...

Starship Alexandria news! For December, instead of a regular episode, @emmanewman.bsky.social and I will be releasing an Advent Calendar with a short episode every day from 1st to 25th December, talking about our favourite TV series.

Tonight (Nov 3) at @powells.bsky.social at Cedar Hills Crossing. At 7 PM PST, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I will delight and entertain you! www.powells.com/events/mary-... Let me know in the comments if you're planning to come by.

Right? This is the job you put on your resume.

That's amazing! Inspiration is key! "A writer is a world trapped in a person." - Victor Hugo. Who's the author that sparked your passion? 🪐📚 #SciFiWriting #Inspiration

You build worlds for a living. And some dreams, you know, are literally worth more than others. I have a new story out in Clarkesworld, alongside @tadethompson.bsky.social, @izom-chisom.bsky.social, @spires.bsky.social y.social, and others! clarkesworldmagazine.com/ashing-giwa_...

Best Novella: #WorldFantasyAwards2025 Winner: Yoke of Stars, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)

And it's time for the #WorldFantasyAwards2025 presented by Ellen Datlow. Ellen is thanking the jurors. This year’s judges are James Brogden, Jessica Day George, Lee Murray, Jonathan Oliver, and Molly Tanzer. For more information, see the WFC website.

The honour is mine. 👍🏾 I read 'Prerequisites for the Creation of a Possible Predicted World' last night and it's really cool.

My story "Prerequisites for the Creation of a Possible Predicted World" is now free to read on Clarkesworld issue 230. So glad to be sharing an issue with @tadethompson.bsky.social and Kemi Ashing-Giwa You can read it here clarkesworldmagazine.com/umeh_11_25/

What an honor to share an issue with the writer who inspired me to start writing science fiction 😀

I am very happy to say that I will start reading : • #APhilosophyOfThieves ( #TheCanarvierFiles #1 ) by @franwilde.bsky.social In a few minutes at 12:05 am November 1st, 2025.

Death comes for us all, even AIs adrift in space. But death doesn't have to be the end, as we learn in "An Aging AI Tries to Remember Its Life," by @caseyaimer.bsky.social.

Awards Season is upon us! My novella Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle (19,500 words), a dark space opera set in a generation spaceship returning to Earth after a failed expedition, is eligible as Best Novella in the Nebulas, Hugos, Locus and for Best Shorter Fiction in the BSFA.

WE DID IT!!! 🎉🎉🎉 over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽 Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

No, Bezos, millions of us will not be living in space. No numbers back that up, you muppet.

6 days to go so @apexmag.bsky.social can fund their 2026 Kickstarter! Don't want to sound dramatic, but I always feel bad when I see markets go away. But that's what might happen, and just when we need art more than anything. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apparently it needs to be said: The best (and possibly only) living conditions for humanity are on Earth. Space wants to kill you all the fucking time. You can visit, but not for significant portions of your lifespan. Seriously, look it up. Fix, cherish, and live on Earth. Visit space.

I'm sat!

Hi everyone! Voting for the 2025 Nommo Awards is open, and Bodies of Sand and Blood, published in @castofwonders.org, is nominated in the short story category. If you're in the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS), kindly consider my work for your vote 🙏🏾 www.castofwonders.org/2024/04/cast...

Hi guys, voting has officially opened for the Nommo I'm on the ballot 😎 ASFS members voting, do consider my short story, "From Across Time" published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com for the Best Short Story category 🙏🙏 You can read the story here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/umeh_12_24/?fb…

Many congrats, Vajra! A worthy win.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

I assure you that you're most likely among the few that can pull it off

"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)

There's a superb anthology here that's very close to funding. www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Evan Dahm creates some incredible, detailed fantastic worlds, and 3rd Voice is breathtaking in its scope and intricacy. The webcomic at rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/ind... is well into the 2nd sequence, still metering out the secrets of the setting. It's the story of a pair of

Today I learned there is such a thing as National Boss's Day, and that allegedly it is this Thursday and I SWEAR TO GOD that if I find out any of you have participated in such a craven act of subservience to the ownership caste I will find you and give you SUCH a noogie

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social