Question for all the indie authors on Bsky: I'm looking into hybrid publishing rather than strictly indie. Did you ever research this avenue? Just vanity publishing behind a mask? I assume the major difference between hybrid and vanity is distribution, but...? #writesky #writingcommunity #indie

I haven’t done one of these in a long time! The happiest and most satisfied Kit has ever been was after she stole the Shizuka Maru from the Olympia Shipbreaking Yard—having survived a hard 8 g burn into the Belt. A sentient ship, the Shizuka Maru later renamed herself the Kuro Kiba. 🏴‍☠️

#Sci-fi often explores the divide between subjective experience and objective reality. The novel I #amquerying falls in line, but… Remember the physicist cat guy? I’m on team Schrödinger: “Subject and object are only one.” The barrier between them “does not exist” in the physical sciences.

#Sci-fi often explores the divide between subjective experience and objective reality. The novel I #amquerying falls in line, but… Remember the physicist cat guy? I’m on team Schrödinger: “Subject and object are only one.” The barrier between them “does not exist” in the physical sciences.

Unhinge the lower jaw

Sometimes, I truly feel like I’m a tale told by an idiot.

Hey-o, Bsky authors! A question for you… How do you pick your POV? Why write in 3rd close over 1st person or vice versa, for instance? #writesky #writingcommunity #amwriting 📚

Hey-o, Bsky authors! A question for you… How do you pick your POV? Why write in 3rd close over 1st person or vice versa, for instance? #writesky #writingcommunity #amwriting 📚

Stunning Martian landscape from Gale Crater, captured by Curiosity rover. Credit: NASA

Fantastic interview, folks. Give a look-see. #sci-fi #booksky

The new #sci-fi novel is partially set on an outer-rim asteroid, 190 Ismene. I did a little research yesterday and thought to share this NASA model of our solar system. That stippled blue-green taurus? That's the Belt. On average, those dots are millions of kilometers from one another. #amwriting

Smoke break on the set of "The Empire Strikes Back."

The new #sci-fi novel is partially set on an outer-rim asteroid, 190 Ismene. I did a little research yesterday and thought to share this NASA model of our solar system. That stippled blue-green taurus? That's the Belt. On average, those dots are millions of kilometers from one another. #amwriting

"The chimp needs pirating lessons aboard the Joan Jett" is not a sentence I ever thought I'd write. But here we are. #sci-fi #amwriting

I just named a spaceship the Joan Jett 🏴‍☠️ How's your day going? #sci-fi #amwriting

#Artemis II 🚀 Astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this amazing Earth Set video during their lunar fly “Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos”

Faith of Beasts. Officially out tomorrow, though a bunch of stores have let it slip out early. Just a reminder…

Another topical zinger from #TheExpanse… “It was always like this. People trying to get their work done even while atrocities were blooming around them. Avoid eye contact and hope that the fire doesn’t spread to you and yours.” —Naomi, Chapter Seventeen #sci-fi #writingcommunity #booksky 📚 🪐

So say we all.

So say we all.

[Blinks at screen.] Um, what the fuck.

[Blinks at screen.] Um, what the fuck.

#Artemis II - Photo 2 from yesterdays flyby ECLIPSE. April 6, 2026. Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed. Photo: NASA 🚀🌕🌑

arrive at an understanding

There were a lot of things I was going to have to get over.

My current #sci-fi WIP dramatizes a thought experiment by Nietzsche that he called Eternal Recurrence. Would you relive your life innumerable times, experiencing all the same joy and suffering, if you could? His answer's telling: "I do not want life again. How did I endure it? Creating."

I never want to hear the phrase “human capital” again.

Happy birthday to Steven Strait! He was born on this day in 1986. Space opera fans will know him as James Holden in the absolutely amazing series The Expanse. He also did a YouTube series called Life In Zero G where he got to experience space for real! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLqd...

Nearly a millennium ago, astronomers witnessed a supernova so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks. A quarter-century after its first observations of the expanding remnant, the Crab Nebula, Hubble goes back for a fresh look 👉 esahubble.org/news/heic2607/ 🔭 🧪

I haven't done a Q&A for a while, so if you're an aspiring #author with questions about #writing and #publishing, follow me and drop your question in the replies, and I'll do my best to give you a helpful answer.

Farscape appreciation post. Terrific frelling #sci-fi show.

I usually stick to the robots in space, but it's hard not to do a double-take at views like this one from today. Look how big this one small part of the space station is compared to astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams. www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/

These AMRs (Agile Mobile Robots) are all over my latest #sci-fi WIP. Military and security models carry railguns on their backs. Fun times.

These AMRs (Agile Mobile Robots) are all over my latest #sci-fi WIP. Military and security models carry railguns on their backs. Fun times.

A disused elevated rail line in Kyoto's Umekoji area has been transformed into a cultural landmark combining dining, immersive art, and the atmosphere of a station bound for somewhere new. About Future Train Kyoto Diner & Cafe www.hey-japan.com/place/future...

Avasarala: I'm a member of Parliament, not your favorite stripper. Amos: You could be both. #TheExpanse

Don’t look at me like that’s my fault. I’m just telling you shit I know.

My current #sci-fi WIP dramatizes a thought experiment by Nietzsche that he called Eternal Recurrence. Would you relive your life innumerable times, experiencing all the same joy and suffering, if you could? His answer's telling: "I do not want life again. How did I endure it? Creating."

Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).

Nominations for the Ursula K. LeGuin Prize are open now through March 31st. If you've read a work of, as the award calls it "imaginative fiction" that is in conversation with themes in LeGuin's work and was published in 2025, please consider nominating it/them! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

I just read that Claude, the GenAI, has achieved consciousness. The same post challenges the reader to say how consciousness functions. How? Phenomenological recursion. No matter how sophisticated, LLMs will never achieve consciousness. The input-output architecture's wrong from the jump.

Happy International Women’s Day! 💜 #WomensDay #WomensDay2026

Fantastic concept art for The Expanse! #spaceopera #scifiart #expanse www.artstation.com/artwork/zQwR6

FIREFLY Cast Tease a March 15 Announcement and Fans Think a Revival Might Finally Be Happening

She’s like a liar gone to burning hell

Snagged the last copy at my local B&N! 🔥 @garethlpowell.bsky.social

THANK YOU for helping me launch Jitterbug with all your good wishes and reposts today! Hugely appreciated!

'June' is also a verb meaning "to drive briskly." So please june responsibly.

I've been meaning to repost this for days now... Anyone in the #writingcommunity interested in #sci-fi? Give this podcast a listen. Thought-provoking and insightful fun! I freely admit that I'd rather be deboned by an alien on a weirdo planet than be made to write in iambic pentameter.

Character of the Day: Dedra Meero