psychopomp.com/next/ Some news: Issue 99 of Fantasy will be the last issue... (For now) Read our publisher, Sean's statement for more. As heartbreaking as this news is, I'm incredibly proud of the work we've put out this year & I'm grateful for our team, esp. my co-editor @arleysorg.bsky.social!

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it

It is honestly hilarious to watch all these high-dollar professionals wring their hands over something that literally does not matter even a little. It’s James Bond. He’s been nine different middle-aged dudes for 70 years with no explanation. No one is asking for one now and no one cares.

Hard same. Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.

I just read it this afternoon, after the event at Bakka. Loved it! It’s my favourite story in the anthology so far.

This is today!!! C'mon out and support some awesome Canadian SFF

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025. If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/

Come see me at Bakka-Phoenix this weekend! I'll be doing a reading from "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" and we'll be launching an awesome volume of Canadian SFF!

Come see me at Bakka-Phoenix this weekend! I'll be doing a reading from "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" and we'll be launching an awesome volume of Canadian SFF!

Hehe. Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social

They literally ruin everything they touch

!!! It sounds like not only everything I loved about early SPN but also everything I want in broadcast supernatural TV. Give us more MOW!

"It’s just crazy to me to see this engine for intellectual property theft that is totally indefensible taking place with the full cooperation of Amazon.”

There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉 @lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social! Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

RIP English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, died this day 1400, best known for The Canterbury Tales. "The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...

god, i love the sky. every now and then you'll just be going about your day and then WHUMF whole lake gets dropped on you. fantastic stuff

When Guillermo del Toro was a child, he fell in love with "Frankenstein." With his long-awaited adaptation in theaters, the filmmaker explains his lifelong fascination with horror, and why the genre "illuminates our souls":

Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well.

Some good news to start your morning off with

My post-apocalypse story about fatherhood and fighting fascists "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" is in this!! Go check it out, and all the other amazing Canadian stories in this incredible anthology 🇨🇦

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

New #WriterBeware blog post: An army of bots on Discord, flashier websites, impersonations: the Nigerian marketing scams are not just proliferating, but morphing. I've never seen anything like it. writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...

Just finished Danya Kukafka's excellent novel "Notes on an Execution" What an incredible, heart-aching meditation on killers, crimes, and the question of who we might be if our lives were a little different. Highly recommend

We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window!! We will open in November and close in April. See our announcement on the website for details. All our usual Submissions Guidelines still apply. podcastle.org/2025/10/17/a...

ICYMI my story "the love song of house and lake" is out now from OnSpec! It's a sweet lil love story set in a long slow summer (And go send @onspecmag.bsky.social some ❤️ while you're there - this awesome mag is shutting down soon, after decades of publishing fantastic Canadian Spec fic)

Art friends: Here's a tip for getting rid of *a lot* of the AI slop in your Pinterest feed. ⭐Go into your account settings. ⭐Click the "Refine your recommendations" tab. ⭐Click the GenAI Interests subtab. ⭐TURN OFF EVERYTHING. So far, my feed is *significantly* cleaner.

“Doth thine box rolleth on wheels?” “It doth not, good sir!” ( Original screengrab by @stevewriteswords.bsky.social )

Aferah, for a personal project, 2017

I repost this everytime I see it - its such a perfect encapsulation of what tech bros think writers want, vs what writers actually want

bitch what

ICYMI my story "the love song of house and lake" is out now from OnSpec! It's a sweet lil love story set in a long slow summer (And go send @onspecmag.bsky.social some ❤️ while you're there - this awesome mag is shutting down soon, after decades of publishing fantastic Canadian Spec fic)

My latest story, "the love song of house and lake" is out now in @onspecmag.bsky.social !! A love letter to Canadian summers, it asks such brave questions as, "what if your lakeside cottage was.... kind of hot, actually?"

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Prey was an amazing movie. So excited to see it come to theatres!

Canadian friends, go send your work in!! YOU COULD BE CHOSEN FOR GREATNESS

Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???

TORONTO PEEPS! Heartlines Spec is going to be at Word on the Street! We'll be selling ALL THE SWAG: magazines, art prints, stickers, pins, and patches ❤️ Visit us! Say hi! Maybe buy something cute? WOTS is 100% free to attend. Learn more at toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca #TorontoWOTS #WOTS2025

good morning

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI. 🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Look at all this amazing Canadian Spec Fic!! Honoured that my own "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" is included among all these awesome stories