I'm at the part of the book tour where I have no idea what day of the week it is, I just know what city I'm supposed to be in. Today is Boiseday, and tomorrow is Denverday

just absolutely furious with @alixeharrow.bsky.social for being such a goddamn genius "the contradictory heart of what prose does, which is to waste the reader’s time as efficiently and sexily as possible...a reader gives you their time, and you tell them, word by word, how to spend it." y E s

Marvel Team-Up 22 🕷️ 🏹

Considering how right he was about us going all in on his version of Second Life, imagine how right he'll be about this

Makes sense, Hollywood is Mordor and he's been there and back again www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The September issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by Claire Jia-Wen, Sheri Singerling, Louis Inglis Hall, Alexander Jablokov, David McGillveray, Koji A. Dae, and Robert Falco. Online now at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_228 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

African Climate Fiction. To Rescue a Self Eketi tries to find her voice. #Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica #Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction grist.org/climate-fict...

In actual fact, nature wants to kill you and take your energy back into the ecosystem. But don't worry. It's not just you. Nature wants to kill everything almost as soon as it births them. Nature just wants to keep energy moving, so there's no pint getting misty-eyed about the dewy moors.

#RightsCon26 extended deadline for panel submissions- September 19 11:59pm PST. Also a chance to talk with other RightsCon panelists and program directors during a special officer hours session Sept. 16 7am PST (dm me for zoom link) #humanrights #digitalrights www.rightscon.org/your-guide-t...

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

Cross posting two bits of advice for a newbie writer: 1. Read like a writer (sometimes). Find out why you like the writing you like, and see if there's anything you can adopt from that writer. This needs a level of intentionality that's not there when you're just reading for pleasure. 1/

did a breakdown

I'm very happy to be one of this year's Guests of Honour, alongside Sheree Renée Thomas, Anna Martino, and Trick Weeks! Flights of Foundry is free, online, and a good time. You should totally come

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September 🙂

She is so beautiful to me

new newsletter up—this one covers book preorder stuff and my worldcon postmortem :3 ijknewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/iz-a-newsl...

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

Congrats Nommo nominees!!!

Wrap battle: Amateur Dambe fighters, hands roped up for striking, face off in Abuja, Nigeria. Once a highlight of harvest festivals in the Sahel, Dambe is now a league sport with big prizes and bigger crowds. Photo: Olympia Maismont/AFP

🎉 We are thrilled to share that Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by @wtalabi.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Aldiss Award 🎉 buff.ly/X6MvXau

a sign of unhealthy change in fandom culture imo that this evidently deep sense of dissatisfaction with ASOIAF manifests as these middle management ass threats rather than, say, a thriving fanfic landscape of competing fix-its

Cheap Chinese solar panels are fueling a bottom-up energy revolution in Africa.

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

SUBLIMATION is a novel set in a universe where crossing the border means splitting yourself in two. Literally. If you've ever imagined what could have been if you never left, this is a novel for you. Preorder link below. Available everywhere books are sold. torpublishinggroup.com/sublimation/...

Last night, I won the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form. Thanks again to everyone that voted for me!

Thanks a lot.

Thank you, @awwlitmag.bsky.social

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The #HugoAward for Best Novella goes to The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)

Honored to have been shortlisted this year in the short story category for my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story, "From Across Time." Thanks to all who nominated my work. I'm immensely grateful 🙏

Night Sky on Mars #nasadailyupdates

SHORT STORY FINALISTS ~ Bodies of Sand and Blood by @plangdineplebsky.social (Cast of Wonders) ~ From Across Time by @izom-chisom.bsky.social (Clarkesworld) ~ The Future Ancients by @prisoner187.bsky.social (WTBAP?) ~ Warning Notes from an Annihilator Machine by Damilola Oyedotun (Lightspeed)

More African panels to catch at #worldcon 🕓 4-5 PM EAT The Role of African Spiritualities, History & Mythology in Speculative Fiction @oluwasigma.bsky.social (M) @ephraimorji.bsky.social, @mdmoustaf.bsky.social, @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social & @africansffhype.bsky.social

THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF, by Evelyn Clarke: Clearly in the running for the best mystery novel of 2026 (it bows in April). A trove of tropes that mystery-lovers will love, right down to the dark and stormy night in its climax. Funny and scary. It will remind you of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.

I'm 20% into the first draft of the new novel. Cow. Project Cow. Every time I do this I think I've forgotten how to write novels. I reach 15% and something kicks in. It becomes real. So, Cow's real; I'm enjoying it. I enjoy first drafts. It's the subsequent drafts that drive me crazy.

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive? For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases to exist. When he overhears a rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion. #PosterPit #Q #T #A

Single frames from "The Simpsons" are as quietly stunning as any made by our greatest American artists of alienation and loneliness.

Reading: Wole Talabi builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/s...

A: Let's verify this guy's feed. B: Analysing...Oh, shit! A: What? B: This guy was around before the Flood. A: Which flood? B: THE flood. Noah's flood! A: Get the fuck out. B: He was on first name basis with at least 3 Nephilim. A: What's a - B: Giant. Or angel. Depends. A: Purge account.

The veil has been lifted and now it can be told! My story "Unquiet On The Eastern Front" will be reprinted in Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories. Check out the full ToC below.

Diving into Nature's masterpiece.

Beautiful full moon auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska… Aurora season starts next month!

reading a memoir is so crazy to me. you remember stuff you did?

That's my story, the first on the lineup 😊

Excited to see that one of my best short stories yet, "How to Get Away with Living," published by Flame Tree Press, will find more readers. Incredibly honored to be among such brilliant writers. Thanks to the amazing @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for selecting my story for this anthology.

Fancy a Sunday comic for your #SoilpunkSunday? Check out "The Greenmen" by Conor Nolan, live now on Tractor Beam! 👽💜🌿✨ www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-gr... #comic #illustration #scifi #art #graphicnovel

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

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