The Telegraph published a list of their "20 Greatest SF Novels" yesterday. Some very interesting inclusions, but also some bonkers head scratchers. (Selecting Zamyatin's "We" ahead of Orwell's "1984" is a real hipster choice, and one that I think is deeply questionable) archive.is/ybnPd#select...

Episode 678-With Jakub Szamalek

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (with Mark Hussey) | My Last Book with Graham Watson pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

Episode 176: Namwali Serpell pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

Tanja Petrovic, "Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army" (Duke UP, 2024) pocketcasts.com/podcast/new-...

Next stop Mauritius with Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner Reena Usha Rungoo pocketcasts.com/podcast/comm...

I am always jittery about going on podcasts (I think I'm a much better editor than speaker!) but @anjalialappat.bsky.social is wonderful and R.T. Samuel is very eloquent and maybe you'll enjoy listening

Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related? - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Jamaica Kincaid is just wonderful.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

“Gujaratis are these really stereotyped, fun-loving people, so how can their literature be so rigid and uptight?” A conversation with Vishwambhari Parmar on #Gujarati pulp fiction:

Bruce Sterling just giving the whole game away: “The Slipstream Story Non-SF story which is so ontologically distorted or related in such a bizarrely non-realist fashion that it cannot pass muster as commercial mainstream fiction and therefore seeks shelter in the SF or fantasy genre...”

useful stuff but also give me this novel: “Kudzu plot Plot which weaves and curls and writhes in weedy organic profusion, smothering everything in its path”

How do you weigh a black hole? We're talking ten octillion tons for a *small* one. Plus it just eats the scale. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🔭🧪

#Cfp: Call for Book Chapters - #videogames, #gamedesign, game communities, & playthings that trouble what we mean by #nostalgia “ #Games and its Nostalgia for the Future” is edited by yours truly and likely published with Play Story Press. Abstracts due Nov 3, 2025 Full CfP: shorturl.at/NCkzU

New Book Spotlight up on the blog today - a mini-interview with @genni.bsky.social about Novic, out now from Meerkat Press spacecowboybooks.com/new-book-spo...

Been waiting for this one to go online: @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social does what so many anthology reviewers don't quite do, and tackles the overall project as well as digging into individual stories: locusmag.com/review/the-e...

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This is excellent and thoughtful and you should get it

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology made its way to the Baltimore Book Festival! Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by and showed love at the event. More copies are now available at Charmed City Books in Baltimore. Swing by and grab yours!

We're one month away from FUTILITY by @nuzo.bsky.social hitting shelves! 👁️ This is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the ‘Queen of African Horror’. 🥣 Have you pre-ordered? https://tinyurl.com/2re64uh6

ICYMI: Canongate has acquired Nikesh Shukla’s “generation-defining” The Good Immigrant following the closure of Unbound. It will be re-released in a new 10th anniversary edition, complete with a new introduction, in September 2026 👇 #BookSky

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Morning Womble! I'm reading and enjoying Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman - a trans, queer, timelessly futuristic revolutionary character study and art piece.

This week! My fourth book is out this Thursday, the 25th. It's Hard to Tell You This is one man's mission to finally acknowledge the sins of his past. deixis.press/books/p/its-...

In a dystopian 22nd-century Britain, the quest for an elusive literary masterpiece raises questions of how we relate to both the past and the future: on.ft.com/3JRysg3

Morning! Just starting The Bees made Honey in the Rich Man’s Skull by @weyodi.bsky.social It’s an Indigenous Futurist dystopian adventure with deaf rep! This one is an expansion on the world created in The Glicksberg Chronicles (The Root and The Seed) which was awesome

Imagine trying to take the minutes at these meetings, not being able to hear what anybody was saying.

My dad eventually got one of those six CD changer stereos in his car, and then burned six full CDs of different covers of hallelujah. He’d wait until someone complained about disc one and offer to switch to the next CD, only for them to discover it was more of the same.

THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE (and His Mother) by RABIH ALAMEDDINE is out now. As usual for Author ALAMEDDINE, this is a solid, fun, enjoyable read via @groveatlantic.bsky.social's Grove Press imprint. #Booksky 🌈📚 expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Monday is the official start of Autumn and I have never needed it more in my whole life. I read Classic and Gothic Horror for the Fall/Winter season. This year's classic is THE OTHER by Thomas Tryon--but here are some that I have read & loved previously-try @valancourtbooks.bsky.social for books!

On the blog this week a delight talk to MJ Ayinde about their fantastic book A Song of Legends Lost www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2...

A great mix of ideas awaits in the science fiction novel If The Stars Are Lit by Sara K Ellis www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

There are more fictional Australian Country Towns With A Secret than there are actual living Australians.

We went to the library! It's been way too long since I last browsed the stacks and checked out a physical book. What fun! (I have to finish the other @sueburke.bsky.social book I'm reading before I start this one)

Some 140 books by women - including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" - were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies". www.bbc.com/news/article...

BOOK RELEASE THREAD! This soup was new. Spicy and sweet. Full of dried beef. Not one of Leena’s usual. “What’d Amnandi do to get Leena to try this recipe?” “She asked.” “Ha!” Skye raised her mug of wine. “To our young, who change worlds with a simple *please*.”

136. BURUNDI (+Rwanda + France) One of my favourite discoveries on this #ReadTheWorld adventure #AfricanLit bsky.app/profile/geor...

148. BANGLADESH The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam Asha Ray quits her PHD to roll the dice and build a new social media platform with her husband and his best friend. The platform provides people with meaningful rituals and a sense of connection in a disconnected world. #ReadTheWorld

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I'm speaking about my new book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide on Thursday afternoon at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center on Thursday afternoon. Details here. whc.yale.edu/second-emanc...

We made it! On the 108th backer! Thanks to all! Extradimensional goat chimeras off to print next week!

I hope you've been suitably spooked by my #ghostmonth content, here's a recap, before the finale, a cover reveal. So, lurk around! #horror #books #sff #culture

So it's wonderful to be able to share my profile on @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social 's August Seer's Table. Thank you @geneveflynn.bsky.social for the excellent recommendation. I have much horror-related content for you to enjoy this month, so stayed tuned! horror.org/the-seers-ta...

The National Gas Company's recent defunding of projects in the arts “underlines a much bigger issue with regard to Trinidad and Tobago’s culture and the value we place on it.”