Vonda’s Big Idea: How would a deeply egalitarian society interact with other sorts of societies? Vonda’s alt-Minoans parlay with bloody-handed Mesoamericans. They trade peacefully with sword-wielding tribes of Amazon warriors. "https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/15/the-big-idea-vonda-n-mcintyre/

💥💥Last 72 HOURS of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive!! 💥💥 - $445 away from raising author pay to 9c/word for 2027 - $5445 away from raising author pay to 10c/word for 2027 Lots of rewards still on offer. To support: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Only a few days left in this year's Pride @storybundle.bsky.social - a total of 16 fabulous books if you go for the bonus, plus the option to donate to Rainbow Railroad. storybundle.com/pride

Hal C F Astill wrote a *lovely* review of The Circus, the Garden (and Mario Lanza) for The Nameless Zine. He celebrates the Conversation Pieces series, and name checks @timmi.bsky.social, @cynthiaward.bsky.social, and Sofia Rhei.

Did someone say "book birthday?" The Circus, the Garden (and Mario Lanza) is out from Aqueduct Press! Aaaaand it's the hundredth volume in the splendid Conversation Pieces series! www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-... www.amazon.com/Circus-Garde...

The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

‘Young children in monasteries, nunneries and cathedral schools were taught literacy through memorising the psalms, trained to utter complex thoughts and feelings through song.’ Ardis Butterfield on medieval psalters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ditto re: enjoying everything I've read from Aqueduct Press: @timmi.bsky.social, @cynthiaward.bsky.social, @nisishawl.bsky.social, @nancyjane.bsky.social, and Susan Dirende have all written top-notch fiction.

Celebrate the publication of Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel this July in Seattle! On July 16, we'll host a live reading and conversation with @nisishawl.bsky.social and Theo Downes-Le Guin. More info here: www.clarionwest.org/event/vonda-...

Thank you, @salliemander.bsky.social ! compulsivereader.com/2026/04/29/a...

Happy 153rd birthday to our Lady of Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson! readingpilgrimage.com

Article on @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social's last novel The Curve of the World at @geekwire.com with link embed to associated podcast www.geekwire.com/2026/after-d...

THE CURVE OF THE WORLD is magnificent, a glorious vision of a wider reality: a world in which global commerce and fairness are not a contradiction in terms. It is the sum and summit of all Vonda McIntyre was as a writer and human being, her last, best gift to a world in sore need of hope. Out today.

At last! It's my great pleasure to announce the release of Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel, The Curve of the World, from Aqueduct Press. This world is round. Loving sailors court its waves, bathe in sea currents sharing secrets with them... aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/05/vond...

Soon Curve of the World launches: @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social's final novel of Minoan adventures with mummies and kraken. I'll be singing excerpt-appropriate Joni Mitchell. That's Saturday May 16, free and online: www.clarionwest.org/event/the-cu... Also starring @timmi.bsky.social + Debbie Notkin!

Over at SH, @kateem.bsky.social on Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel, published on May 15 by @timmi.bsky.social. What emerges, bitter-sweetly, is "an epic fantasy voyage" which adopts a fascinating approach to historical fantasy ... and, in more ways than one, leaves us asking what might have been.

The final novel of phenomenal author and Clarion West Founder, Vonda N. McIntyre, will be released on May 15. Join us for the virtual release party with @nisishawl.bsky.social @timmi.bsky.social and Debbie Notkin by RSVPing here: bit.ly/3R20fO9

A hand-picked selection of Shirley Jackson Awards winners, nominees and authors in a spectacular medley of novellas and novelettes about ghosts, mortality, magic, Dracula, hauntings, grief, strange landings in small country that warp and alter townsfolk, and more! storybundle.com/award

The tone of her "The Mount" is *so weird* (adulatory); like, it's a highly kinky setup (what if aliens came and treated us, quite literally, like horses) with deep symbolic resonance, treated with all the apparent innocence of a John Christopher Tripod book. Great writer.

Mentioned in this week's FIRST MONDAY—EVENT HORIZON post at Rhymes With Camera: @aabbwashington.bsky.social @aaronkcrocker.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rhymeswi... (1/5)

The 2026 World SF Bundle is now LIVE! buff.ly/l4ukzGV 15 books from the likes of @lavietidhar.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social For @storybundle.bsky.social, you decide what price you want to pay. In support of @locusmag.bsky.social

A starred review from Publishers Weekly for Vonda McIntyre's Curve of the World! "McIntyre’s scene-setting is lush and immersive, and her finely drawn, women-led cast leaps off the page as they confront obstacles with wit and wisdom." www.publishersweekly.com/9781619762800

Cheryl Morgan reviews Vonda N. McIntyre's Curve of the World, which Aqueduct Press will be releasing on May 15. "It would have been great if Vonda had been able to live to see praise being heaped upon the book, but praise it we shall anyway." www.salonfutura.net/2026/03/the-...

To speak only of military architecture and strategic miscalculation is already to have … accepted the terms by which power prefers to be discussed … as though what is happening were a problem in applied geometry rather than a catastrophe visited upon living people. communispress.com/the-burden-a...

2nd of the classes I'm teaching soon is an intro Writing the Other session on April 9 with Elizabeth Santiago. That's online and it's 3:30 to 5 Pacific Time (6:30 to 8 Eastern Time) and you can register here: www.theuntoldnarratives.com/event-detail... 2/3

"In any social conflict, a 'neutral' position is always and necessarily the position of the ruling class: it seems 'neutral' because it has achieved the status of the dominant ideology, which always strikes us as self-evident."--Alenka Zupancic

This is such a fun story.

Maybe people need to read more feminist science fiction instead of the technocentric "golden age" stuff to understand what's going on in the world. Over at the Treehouse Writers blog I suggest the Holdfast Chronicles by Suzy McKee Charnas. treehousewriters.com/wp53/2026/02...

I'm reading poetry subs at Strange Horizons this month. You can submit up to 6 speculative poems in a single file or separate files. I recommend separate files, because we allow simultaneous submissions and it's easier to withdraw individual poems. Guidelines: strangehorizons.com/submit/poetr...

Switching to something positive. @nisishawl.bsky.social’s MAKING AMENDS story cycle is about a prison ship and planet. If you think you know that story, well, this one is a mind-stretcher. Inventive, moving, infuriating, unpredictable. Beautifully written as always. Do give it a try.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: And Then Again Begin (by H. Nigel Thomas, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social) & Making Amends (by @nisishawl.bsky.social, Aqueduct Press). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity

Important info from @cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country: "The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023." Facts matter.

It’s an ethnic cleansing. The Republican Party is getting their wish to turn the US into a white ethnostate. Terror is just a bonus. They wrote this all out in their Project 2025 manifesto they’ve been working on since Reagan. That is the strategy and they’ve told us for years. This is America.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special! 💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*. 📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.

Tamara Kaye Sellman explores the dark places in "Podcasts from the Shadows." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Kristin King writes about the work that sustained her in 2025. "In my understanding of our world, there is an otherworld, a land of dreams, the wellspring of art and music and story and soul. When art occurs, it opens up a portal..." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Cynthia Ward reviews the dozens of books she's read (or reread) in 2025, ranging from Tanith Lee's Sabella to Geoff Ryman's Him to Patricia Churchland's Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Christopher Brown writes about his reading and viewing in 2025. " The worst new science fiction story I read this year was the widely-covered Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, a neoliberal manifesto of techno-progressive futurism..." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Andrea Hairston celebrates the work that gave her pleasure in 2025. "Storytellers saved my life every day this year! Imagination sustained us all as we cruised on this death-defying rollercoaster ride, hurtling into 2026." aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

For Lesley Wheeler, 2025 was all about her quest for "fictional uncanniness," with an "emphasis on Gothic houses and haunted people." She found it in poetry and fiction. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Holly Wade Matter gives us a taste of her favorite reading, viewing, and listening experiences in 2025, including two "chocolate box" books and two standout novels. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Lesley Hall writes about books she's enjoyed this year. Particular standouts are two lengthy romans fleuve--the famous Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell, and the more obscure Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Gwynne Garfinkle's favorite reads of 2025 ranges from the second-wave feminism classic Bear by Marian Engel to John Wiswell's Wearing the Lion, from Nisi Shawl's The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox to Charlie Jane Anders' Lessons in Magic and Disaster. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Cheryl Morgan shares the highlights of her year in reading and other cultural experiences. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Tansy Rayner Roberts writes about her favorite books, films, television, and theatre performances of 2025. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

I'm super excited to announce that my novella, "The Circus, the Garden, (and Mario Lanza)" has been bought by Aqueduct Press for their wonderful Conversation Pieces series!

In an essay for Aqueduct's 2025 Pleasures series, Nancy Jane Moore recounts her experimentation with a new reading practice as well as her reading for LitHub's 100 Notable Small Press books list. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Just read a vampire story by Carlos Fuentes (novella length). "Vlad" truly creeped me out.

Cat Rambo talks about her most enjoyable reading this year, a cornucopia of books ranging from Kelly Link's Love to KJ Parker's Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead to Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...