Most people live like the pandemic never happened, but some of us never fully got our lives back. For 5 years, I’ve lived with Long Covid in the form of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). There are millions around the world like me. Today is #LongCovidAwareness Day. Help spread the word!

ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the short story "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! It placed 4th in the Uncanny Poll! You can read it here! buff.ly/FXBFfX8

Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the short story "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! It placed 4th in the Uncanny Poll! You can read it here! buff.ly/FXBFfX8

The worst day of the year... 🥱

The US never ever gets to describe itself as the hero that it imagines itself to be: you are exactly the evil empire your films imagine others to be

who made this

#Danmei Novel Reads and Reviews ratiwrites.com/2026/03/01/d...

Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home! "Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell! Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!

🛸🛸 big news 🛸🛸 just updated the guidelines. for a lot of reasons i can get into later, NS is switching to 2 stories a month (instead of 4) but that means 🛸🛸 rates are going up 🛸🛸 NS now pays $75 flat for a max of 500 words. that’s min. $0.15/w NS IS 🛸OPEN🛸 www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Although not as bad as January, we all know that February is still quite a tough month, so here's a Scale-Crested Pygmy Tyrant, showing off a bit but then, if I looked like that, I'd show off quite a bit too.

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

The Locus Recommended Reading List is out! So many great reads here. Congratulations to all with work on the list, including Story Hour guests @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @franwilde.bsky.social, @tanaudel.bsky.social, @pat-murphy.bsky.social, and... (1/4) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

‪So delighted that my story "Magnificent Maurice, or the Flowers of Immortality" about a universe protecting cat has been narrated by @wilwheaton.net for It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton. 😸 Available wherever you get your podcasts!

This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body

How do we accept the inexplicable? How do we make peace with death, cruelty and our own fragility? @rati.bsky.social’s not-so-whimsical character study in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social foists us out of every comfort zone, displacing us again and again, until love is all we have left. #sff #fiction

This is coming up in just over one week! I hope to see you there.

Very late, but here are my short fiction recs from Nov-Dec 2025! A mix of old and new, with stories by @acwise.bsky.social @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @teajaysee.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social 1/2

Oh that's a gorgeous cover! 😻 I am so looking forward to reading this!

Reading for the Uncanny Magazine Poll? Try the short story "Men with Tails" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/k9XTbN2

The line between satire and reality is vanishingly thin these days...

Space Unicorns, do you love Uncanny Magazine stories and ticky boxes?!? The Uncanny Magazine 2025 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll is OPEN! Choose your favorite 3 Uncanny stories from last year! It's FREE!!! buff.ly/UMRHq44

"Once was a mistake, twice was cosmic coincidence, three times made it a rule. Teleporting Disaster Fairy Strikes Again, screamed the headlines the next day, which Kittu thought misleading. She hadn’t struck anyone; she’d saved them." ✍🏻 @rati.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

Book 88 of 2025 Clarkesworld Issue 224, May 2025 by Neil Clarke Fav from this issue (& one of the best of the year) "The Library of the Apocalypse" by Rati Mehrotra Other favs by Angela Liu, Alex T. Singer & Wole Talabi #BookSky 💙📚🪐 #booksreadin2025 #SciFisky www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry. Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)

Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/

I've seen some people saying that the new SFWA rule on "AI" in the Nebulas will prevent people from being transparent about their LLM use. Newsflash: They wouldn't have been anyway. It would cost them readers. It would cost them votes. It would potentially cost them opportunities with publishers.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/Vx4qdNX

Uncanny Magazine Podcast 67B features "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy” by Rati Mehrotra, as read by Matt Peters; “My Duende: in the Wall and in the Mirror” by Angel Leal, as read by Erika Ensign; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Rati Mehrotra! buff.ly/hqW9OMC

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Men with Tails" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/kEsvCSO

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Men with Tails" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/kEsvCSO

It's an actual game plan on the right. They use it for book bans as well. They start with something easy: no porn in libraries. That hooks in the low information folks. Then you slowly broaden the scope until you're yanking any YA that violates Christian nationalism.

Just listened to/read "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy" by @rati.bsky.social from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 67. Just an amazing almost "perfect" short story. Disasters, unexplained phenomena, perseverance, hope. It could be a beautiful Twilight Zone ep. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Story Day! The Teleporting Disaster Fairy is now live @uncannymagazine.bsky.social - one hapless but hopeful human against the absurdity of the universe. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

ANNOUNCING...THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2025 POLL!! Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Video games! MORE!!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year!

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

His movies were a staple part of my childhood, including the iconic SHOLAY. RIP Dharmendra. 🖤

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December! buff.ly/CmvWUOr

It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics. And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

Beautiful picture of Flower and Thorn from a dear old friend. I am terrible at taking pictures, and love to see my work photographed by more talented people. Thank you, Soumitri. ❤️

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Men with Tails" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/xrh90Pa

New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out. vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Here's the opening of "Flower and Thorn".)