I picked up this collection after reading Thomas Ha’s wonderful “window boy” last year. I’m only partway through reading the collection but can confirm that the first three stories are bangers. Ha has a knack for weird, surreal, and psychologically complex storytelling.

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Does anyone have any recommendations for Neo-Victorian *short stories* I could assign in a class? #NeoVictorian #ShortFiction

sorry to be this asshole but I am once again asking all of you to read a second Yeats poem

I love these anthologies. Looking forward to reading "Lullaby," Marie!

My post #WorldCon plane book was Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over- a literary zombie novel using undead bodies as a metaphor for grief. It's short, spare, & poetic, with allusions to Judith Butler & Djuna Barnes. Liked it. Not sure I got everything it was doing on this read.

Quick plug: if you're at Seattle #WorldCon and haven't yet walked over to the fabulous Elliot Bay Bookstore, I highly recommend it. It's a wonderfully curated store with great staff picks & it's pretty close to the convention center. www.elliottbaybook.com

But look at all that colour! 😃

Seattle is one of my favorite cities and #WorldCon one of my favorite events. Having them both together? *chef's kiss*

Keep on space truckin'!

*cries* just take a hyphen and make two of them--like that--and your computer often autocorrects.

Just finished Kay Chronister's THE BOG WIFE. Melancholy, lovely ecogothic/folk-horror novel about a dysfunctional family navigating their collective griefs & figuring out a new way to relate to each other and the land. #posthumanism #Gothic #ecocriticism

Awesome! Go Aliette!!!

Congratulations! And thank you. It’s an important award.

Thanks to #horrorreads I've added @pseudopod.org to my podcast rotation. Listened to episode 980 featuring Nesters by @siobhancarroll.bsky.social and loved it! @leannareneehieber.bsky.social killed it as the voice talent as well ;)

Thank you SO much! @pseudopod.org is one of my very favorite hosts, and I was so honored to bring @siobhancarroll.bsky.social's devastatingly beautiful "Nesters" to life! So appreciate your kind words!

Research travels mean I'm late to share this wonderful news, but I'm so excited that Pseudopod's podcast version of "Nesters" is out! I've been looking forward to this one. Thanks Leanna for your wonderful voice work!

SO4 of LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS is live today on #Netflix! I'm delighted to see that Emily Dean's adaptation of "FOR HE CAN CREEP" has been getting some love from reviewers. Enjoy!

An amazing horror novel. I describe it as a magic realist Narcos.

issues may in fact be doing you a disservice by trapping you in a situation in which your books are not properly looked after and therefore don't have a chance in hell of succeeding.

I see that Cemetery Dance is trending for being late with royalties and shitty to authors. I was around when Chizine went down in flames for similar reasons and let me remind authors that 1) a legit press does not do you a favor by publishing you 2) a press that is having severe money and systemic

This is everything to me

The cat is out of the bag! On May 15, "For He Can Creep" will be getting a short-film adaptation in SO4 of #Netflix's LOVE DEATH & ROBOTS. I'm psyched, y'all.

The cat is out of the bag! On May 15, "For He Can Creep" will be getting a short-film adaptation in SO4 of #Netflix's LOVE DEATH & ROBOTS. I'm psyched, y'all.

Bird art I captured.

I'm looking forward to this!!!

Really feeling this one today.

Incoming eBook! The latest issue (#131) of @OnSpecMagazine, the Canadian magazine of the fantastic... More info: onspecmag.wpcomstagi...#131) #IncomingBooks

Currently enjoying Martha Wells' MURDERBOT books and the feeling of rediscovering how weird humans are. #GoodBooks

People say attention spans are short now, but theatrical playbills from the olden days are like: ᴍʀ ᴡᴀʀʙᴏʏs ᴡɪʟʟ ᴘᴇʀғᴏʀᴍ ONELY THE GOOD BITS FROM - 𝕁 𝕌 𝕃 𝕀 𝕌 𝕊 ℂ 𝔼 𝔸 𝕊 𝔸 ℝ - ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ʟɪɴᴇs ғʀᴏᴍ - 𝕆 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕃 𝕃 𝕆 - ᴡʜᴇʀᴇᴜᴘᴏɴ ᴍʀs sᴀᴍsᴏɴ ᴡɪʟʟ 𝙱 𝚁 𝙴 𝙰 𝙺 𝙳 𝙰 𝙽 𝙲 𝙴

Interior Chinatown TV show is so good! I wasn’t sure how the novel could possibly be adapted, but thanks to Charles Yu’s direct involvement, it’s fantastic. Just recommend the show to a friend last night

Congratulations to all the Clarion West friends and alumni on the @bsfa.bsky.social awards long list! Thrilled to see the 2024 release of Vonda N. McIntyre's short story collection, Little Sisters and Other Stories, edited by @unamccormack.bsky.social there too! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

If you’re a writer @tananarivedue.bsky.social and @kundalinisteve.bsky.social always bring it with this podcast—been listening for almost 3 years and today’s episode is a must!

I make $20 every six monthsish on the combined streams of all four of my albums on all streaming sites. At Bandcamp I make about $10 every time I sell an album, physical or download. Use Spotify if you want, but if you like living artists making a living, buy something from them where they get paid.

The little girl’s name is Butedmaa. She was 5 when this picture was taken in 2003. Photographer Han Chengli

This @susieesse.bsky.social comic is really speaking to me today.

Dear Bluesky Friends, Joy is necessary in dark times. Thank you in advance for all of the silly things you share on here. Laughter keeps us going.

I thoroughly enjoyed Hild by @nicolaz.bsky.social ! The historical detail about daily life was so vivid--I don't think I've ever felt so clearly what it might have been like 1,000+ years ago. But my favorite was just Hild existing in nature. I couldn't get enough of those bits. #booksky 📚💙

go.bsky.app/ALbjGXE I have created a starter pack of Indigenous Authors and Book Reviewers. This list is growing. If I missed you, dm me. Please share! #diversebooks #booksky

So true.

Mood

You know this is going to be cool.

" more interested in the psychology of “bad” and morally ambiguous characters, and more interested in depicting characters whose ability to change oppressive systems is limited or nonexistent."

"Writing this review in the aftermath of the American election, I cannot help but perceive these stories as anticipatory responses to a changed technological and social culture. They are less overt in their depiction of “good” politics than previous entries...

"The high-water mark of the new millennium’s Age of Earnestness (the supposed successor to the 1990s Age of Irony) was directly tied to the rise of Twitter, as well as to a reading culture where attempts at nuanced expression could swiftly fall victim to dogpiles and hot takes."

@siobhancarroll.bsky.social al wrote this intersting piece on the collection edited by @hughhowey.com (Silo -- the book -- captivated me.)

The stories coud represent "a defiance of discourse on writer’s social media: in recent years, YA Twitter spawned viral assertions calling into question the morality of writers who wrote morally dubious characters." What!? That was a thing? lareviewofbooks.org/article/scie...

It’s just occurred to me to mention this: My novel coming out from Tor in 2026 now has a title! The Subtle Art of Folding Space

UNC Charlotte is hiring an oral historian. Please share if you know someone who’s interested. 🗃️ jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/61064

C'mon public broadcasters. Plenty of Americans want to see WOLF HALL and other "pay attention to the screen" TV shows, even on streaming.