Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026) pca.st/episode/2044...

Competing Visions for International Order | New Books Network pca.st/episode/8283...

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

Check out his book A People’s History of Idi Amin’s Uganda

L’autrice ghanéenne Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah s’attaque aux clichés sur la sexualité des femmes africaines

Please join me and the amazing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Mia Bay, and Rosemary Ndubuizu for a virtual discussion of our books and the fight to live and move freely. May 7th at as part of the Schomburg's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series. www.eventbrite.com/e/unequal-ho...

Titan's upper-level haze - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/mXf1HZ

Check out "Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors" (2026) by Desiree Cooper. "I set out to collect tales about the innovative and curious ways Detroiters celebrate summer: oil-drum barbeques, the African World Festival, the huge boat culture, Slow Roll biking, and driving south to Canada"

"The Faculty Senate Chair deviated from the remarks he had shared before the ceremony. The Chair’s comments were inappropriate and do not represent our institutional position. Nor do they represent the diversity of views across our entire faculty." -UM president president.umich.edu/news-communi...

Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.

Simon Jimenez is one of the best to do it, no qualifiers needed. Following up The Vanished Birds, a raw space opera with one of the perfect opening chapters, with the masterpiece that is The Spear Cuts Through Water is a one two punch worth of a career, let alone a first two books.

And on to year 3! Presenting the Queersar not an award for excellence in queer SFF 2022. Ten more brilliant titles! Nothing from the Tor mothership! Majority indie pubs! Gay, bi, lesbian, trans, and ace characters galore! ...and the single best novel I've read in the past decade. Dive on in.

That escaped drafts 🙄

"The recent reissue of her long out-of-print autobiography, My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria, provides evidence of her enduring importance...The 2024 award-winning documentary film by Johan Grimonprez... Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, quotes her extensively."

Morning Womble, I'm at a house party with friends in a big old house and picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, which was by the bed. It's both stranger and more fun than I remember it

Morning Womble! Finished Moore's The Great When this week, which I loved - and next up Ray Newman's new collection Thin Places in Hard Concrete. Three stories in, and suitably spooky.

Morning. It's very rainy here. I've been reading H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald which is beautifully captivating.

Hi. Greetings from Edinburgh! I am reading Ana Sun’s short story collection Futures to Live By. Hopeful, beautifully imagined & written speculative fiction set in real places. I am really enjoying the worlds & characters she creates!

I don’t fancy having a man smoking in bed with me. It’s dangerous. Besides, I ain’t insured.

Morning, Womble. I am reading a book I bought purely on the strength of how much I loved the cover. Enjoying it so far!

Morning Womble. I don't know how but I'm re(re)reading Moby Dick. It's just so good. The audacity! The humanity! It's what I read whenever *I* feel like knocking people's hats off

Good morning Womble! Today I am starting the OG fantasy adventure, the epic of Gilgamesh

This. Glad I didn’t know too much about it in advance. It has just thrown a massive curveball and drawn me right into the story.

This October, I'll be hosting an @interintellect.bsky.social salon with the brilliant Lea Ypi. We'll talk about her new book, but I expect the conversation will be wide-ranging. Details below! interintellect.com/salons/the-t...

Excited to receive an advance copy of my book, A New World of Revolutions! The team @princetonupress.bsky.social did a wonderful job with the design. The book is available now for pre-order and will be published in the US on June 2nd (July 28th for UK readers). Link below.

We, by Eugene Zamiatin (or whichever transliteration you prefer), written 1920-21, trans. Gregory Zilboorg, 1924. Orwell got lots of 1984 from it. I'm enjoying it, but it's a bit like hyperbolic space; however far you go, there still seems to be more of it. What are you reading at the moment?

I’m currently a huge cliche sat in a coffee shop with my current dip in book of essays by Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing. He’s an absolute delight to share time with. I keep laughing out loud & looking like an idiot!

Is AI Islamophobic? open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

I’m reading the London-Nigerian poet Gboyega Odubanjo's posthumous collection. “Adam” was a young black child, whose still-unidentified torso was found in the Thames in 2001. About immigration, identity, family, London, loss… A tough read but a necessary one.

Finished 2 near future dystopian novels. One was The Treatment by Sarah Moorhead. One was The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami. It probably isn’t a fair comparison for the Morehead, but the Lalami is spectacular— moody, claustrophobic, and just the right pinch of hope. #booksky 💙📚

As #ArabAmericanHistoryMonth continues, we’re recognizing notable #refugees and immigrants, and the contributions they've made to America's vibrant tapestry. Today, we spotlight writer and educator, Laila Lalami. Learn more about her journey: bit.ly/48iUgui

500 word flash just fell out. Haven't written for myself in a long time. Ghost ink, that's me. Yet I saw a callout and a story started babbling in my head, so I released it onto a page.

good morning! just started Eugen Bacon's @genni.bsky.social Danged Black Thing: an African-Australian author's very interesting, cool and deep spec fic and climate fic collection. 1st story was an amazing Lovecratian horror!

Morning Womble! Just making a start on this collection from @raynewman.bsky.social A strong opening with The Interchange. Also a nice 2nd story of a dictator's once pampered son, facing a ghostly retribution for his past crimes. Looking forward to more stylish creepiness.

Happy Sunday! I'm reading A Guardian and a Thief, set in a near future India, struck hard by climate change. It focuses on a family who had visas to flee the country, and a thief who stole the purse the passports are in, and has you sympathising with both sides 😔 Almost too realistic honestly..

Lovely to see the Jhalak Prize highlighted alongside the Booker! publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/two-...

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo #books #literature #dedication

Hi Womble! I'm just starting The Will of the Many by James Islington based on a recommendation from my son, who loved it.

Book 2 of the Khumalo trilogy "dances--with joy, intelligence, audaciousness, irreverence, and heartfelt fun." Anna Tambour. Third and final book is in your hands later this year. Early notifications: www.kickstarter.com/projects/obs...

Are you a fan of #FrancesHardinge? On July 11th there is a one day symposium on her work. Join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1878683245...

Good afternoon to you, from Brussels. I’m currently reading this YA novel in which the Belgium government has been overthrown by a fascist party and fundamental rights have been scrapped. So far, a real page turner.

Pre-orders are open for Collective: The Collaborative Art of the Anthology! Edited by Dan Coxon and Pete W. Sutton, Collective takes you behind the scenes of anthology making. Out October 6, 2026, launch at #Fantasycon2026! Cover art by Shauna McDonnell 💐 www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...

I started reading The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld (artwork by Francisco Solano López). Argentinian science fiction that is as relevant aa ever. Enjoyed the Netflix show last year and now enjoying the original.

At the FLF 2026 karinamagdalena.com/2026/05/03/a...

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Learn more about the framing of our 125th issue – edited by our Deputy Editor, Vamika Sinha – in its Editorial, titled 'Living in the Melancholony', a term used to describe how we cope and feel in this shared oppressive world order. buff.ly/mFuzsMh

If we take the stones as having become lithic transmitters of the past, we should not be surprised to find our own attempts at signal-catching sited so close to them. We have always been in the business of broadcasting and receiving messages. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Sometimes I'll buy a book for the sole reason that the author mentions on Bluesky or Twitter that their book's on sale. That was the case here, when @vajra.me mentioned it yesterday. I didn't read the promotional blurbs, just bought the book and started reading. I'm entranced!!

Today is the final day for members of the British Fantasy Society to vote in the awards! I would be grateful for your consideration in the non-fiction category 🖖

just learned about beekeeping dogs who sniff out bad larvae 🥹