I've just posted a reflection on how misleading it is when an important form of political speech is called "protest" by the mainstream media. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/publ...

L.A. stood strong and Portland will too! Terrible decisions continue by the so-called U.S. Department of War, pointing the cannons at its own citizens. Enjoy this lovely poem by @gwynnega.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

I love Leo Tolstoy's take on the Great Men theory of History, which he discourses on throughout War and Peace. Near the end of that magnificently acute novel, he responds to 19th-century historians' treatment of Napoleon by declaring, "Napoleon was a tool of History."

There is a really valuable initiative to get a Hugo Award category for Translations, and I am a huge supporter of this idea. Translations deserve their own category and recognition--they are a unique subsection of SFF and have done so much for the global SFF community translatedhugo.org

Words from Audre Lorde I--we--need to keep remembering: when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid

We are now HALF-WAY through the fund-drive, with two and a half weeks remaining. We are 2/3 of the way towards meeting our baseline funding goals for next year. A lot of rewards and special pieces still remain to be unlocked. To find out, and to, donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

"War is the modern human sacrifice ritual." @luisahteish.bsky.social

I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system. The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up. It’s designed to make you quit.

AskHistorians has joined with thirty other research- and academia-focused subreddits to issue this statement condemning recent and ongoing efforts to undermine scholarly research and intellectual freedom in the United States. Please share widely! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Whenever the opportunity arises, I happily channel Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann, as I did on my recent trip to the sublime Neah Bay.

I'm like a broken record on this, but this stuff needs to be stopped right now and it's of paramount importance. we are staring into the abyss of ethnic cleansing and mass murder in not too long at all. this cannot be come the new normal.

How AMAZING that I am a finalist for national awards in 2 different countries: my picture book DAS DORF DER STEIENE for the Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis in Switzerland & my translation of LETTERS IN CHARCOAL for the Carnegie Medal in Illustration in the UK. 😍😍 #kidlit #kidlituk #booksky

Outsiders. Rebels. Who doesn't love an underdog? Deep inside, most of us identify with those who are a little—or a lot—different. Sometime in our lives, we've felt like we didn't quite fit in. Forging your own way builds strength, and makes for a damn good story! storybundle.com/outcasts

Here's a question for science-fiction writers: are any of us addressing fictional science? We're going to be seeing lots more of this, since that is probably the 'research" that will now be getting the best funding in the US. future. (We're in Stalin-Lysenko territory now.)

A paper I've been working on for quite literally 10 years just came out It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper! 1/n www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deep bow to the Wikipedia author for this bold and truthful language. And disturbing that the precedents and terminology for this seem so forgotten.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraor...

In a nutshell. "Centrist" Democrats want to stall History; Republicans want to abolish it. Leftists and a handful of Democrats want to keep making it.

I was on CBC this morning, talking about this list of books I made for Black History Month for Iron Dog Books: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

We're so excited to finally announce that The Curve of The World will be published with Aqueduct Press! Thanks to a wonderful team of folks that helped make this happen, @timmi.bsky.social, @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social, and many more!

So one buyer scoops up Analog, Asimov’s and F&SF… www.patreon.com/posts/123173...

When it's in Publishers Marketplace, it's real! So excited to have Vonda McIntyre's last book out in the world soon! @clarionwest.bsky.social @timmi.bsky.social

I'm pleased to announce that Aqueduct Press will be publishing the late Vonda N. McIntyre's luminous final novel, "The Curve of the World."

Am currently reading Niccolo Machiavelli's Discourse on the First Ten Books of Livy, a brilliant work of analysis that has much more to teach us about the US in 2025 than George Orwell's 1984 does. I do wish members of the US House and Senate would read it.

All it took was a single week of the new regime to provoke me into committing a particular kind of publishing act. Aqueduct will be releasing my new collection, Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air, in June 2025. Two of its stories were on their year's Otherwise Award Honor List.

"Celebrate Black History Month by reading these 16 sci-fi and fantasy authors who've shaped the genre" h/t @romanwriting.bsky.social #AfricanSFF winteriscoming.net/celebrate-bl...

"Helton animates the inventiveness of Black librarians, scrapbookers, collectors, curators, and archivists who salvaged and preserved records of Black life by and for Black communities." via a review of SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS, by @lehelton.bsky.social. shorturl.at/hjkLB @columbiaup.bsky.social

You know a book is good when you find yourself just standing reading in the middle of your bathroom because you couldn't put it down long enough to brush your teeth for bed (in this case @nisishawl.bsky.social 's latest #sci-fi, Making Amends). #booksky #readabook #bookrec

I would say our national bird should be changed to the vulture, but that's not fair to vultures, as they perform a vital service in the landscape.

You do NOT have to speak to ICE without a JUDICIAL warrant. If they attempt to enter your home or your workplace, ask for a warrant. Sometimes they will try to use other, non qualifying paperwork. They need a warrant. (2/3)

Congratulations on the wonderful new book, @nisishawl.bsky.social!

Nisi Shawl's Making Amends, a novel-in-stories, is out! Read all about it here: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/nisi...

Farewell, CSZ! It has been four years now since it went on hiatus, so this formal announcement will probably surprise no one, though it’s taken me a while to face up to the fact that we won’t be resuming publication. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/fare...

Cynthia Ward contributes pt. 24 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. Her lengthy annotated list ranges from the fiction of Tanith Lee, Vonda McIntyre, Zen Cho, and J.J. Charles to the nonfiction of Isabel Wilkerson, Lucy Sante, and Rhaina Cohen. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

Calvin's blog post inspired me to pick up a copy of Crowded, a graphic novel extrapolated from the gig economy, while hoping we will not actually get to this point....

Christopher Brown contributes pt. 23 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. He has love for work by Jane Campion, Camille Dungy,Boyce Upholt, Nathan Ballingrud, WG Sebald, and others. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Ritch Calvin contributes pt. 19 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. He thinks about the graphic novel Crowded in light of the murder of United Health's CEO. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Nancy Jane Moore contributes part 18 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. Her essay, "Past, Present, and Future," reflects on books by Percival Everett, Christopher Brown, and Andrea Hairston. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Christina M. Rau contributes part 17 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. She lists her top recs in books, movies, podcasts, music, and movies, and notes that "You Watch One Film About A Mountain Climber and Your Algorithm Gives You This..." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Gwynne Garfinkle contributes part 15 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. Her pleasures include work by Kelly Link, Elizabeth McCracken, Tananarive Due, Holly Lyn Walrath, and others. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

I read it again. It's a fabulous story, in every sense of the word.

Andrea Hairston contributes part 14 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series, writing about work by Nalo Hopkinson, Sofia Samatar, and Pat Murphy. "All these books conjure truth I can trust. Pleasure indeed."https://aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-pleasures-of-reading-viewing-and_01058071221.html

Tamara Kaye Sellman contributes part 13 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. In this essay, she tells the story of how she worked through the challenges of reading China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Isabel Schechter contributes part 12 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series, in which she muses on the many labels the publishing/bookselling industry puts on the fiction she reads and notes how the book clubs she belongs to has helped her make sense of them. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Rebecca J. Holden contributes part 11 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. She writes about insomniac sleep and audiobooks, and the fiction of Lauren Beukes, Laura Lippman, and others. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Sofía Rhei contributes part 10 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. She gives love to work by Frances Hardinge, Liz Williams, Marian Womack, and others. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Holly Wade Matter contributes part 9 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series. Clearly, the work of William Shakespeare and Nisi Shawl figured large among her pleasures this past year. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Joanne Rixon contributes part 8 in our 2024 Pleasures series, recommending work by Anya Johanna DeNiro, Kerstin Hall, and others. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Erin K. Wagner contributes pt. 7 in Aqueduct's 2024 Pleasures series, recommending work by Samuel R. Delany, Karen Lord, Susanna Clarke, Ann Leckie, and others.https://aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-pleasures-of-reading-viewing-and_0305786191.html