"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".)

Space Unicorns! Something to be thankful for! Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! So begins YEAR 12!!! buff.ly/yEqnVQ3

Yay! Paperbacks of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL have started to become available for pre-order. Barnes & Noble for now, but we’ll get there. Here’s all the pre-order links so far but more are coming! www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...

Interview with @vanessafogg.bsky.social whose brilliant collection "The House of Illusionists" has just been released! ratiwrites.com/2025/11/04/i...

Eeee, it’s Nov 3! Happy book birthday to me! 📖🍰

"Your Chinese won't practice itself." "Nobody ignores me...for long." "R, I'm very impatient." "R...I know you didn't forget..." Duolingo sounds like the most manipulative teacher of my youth. Also my mother. This might explain my 400-day streak.

The Spanish translation of my book #NightoftheRavenDawnoftheDove has been released and it is is GORGEOUS. Many thanks to publisher Drakania, to translator Alfonso José Sánchez Jiménez, and to all my Spanish speaking readers. I hope you enjoy the journey to medieval India.

The Spanish translation of my book #NightoftheRavenDawnoftheDove has been released and it is is GORGEOUS. Many thanks to publisher Drakania, to translator Alfonso José Sánchez Jiménez, and to all my Spanish speaking readers. I hope you enjoy the journey to medieval India.

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Look what just arrived in the mail! The House of Illusionists, a short story collection ​by @vanessafogg.bsky.social - lovely human, dear friend, and one of my favorite short fiction writers. Find out more at www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

<totters out onto porch> <settles into rocker> <thumps cane a few times> Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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"Vanessa Fogg is one such bard, using her words to illuminate the emotions, the ambitions, the hopes and desires, and sometimes fears, of humanity." A lovely review for my upcoming book, The House of Illusionists! @interstellarflight.bsky.social templetongate.net/house-of-ill...

I love this poem. It was the last poem from Carver's last book written while he was dying of cancer. It is the inscription on his tombstone apparently too.

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

My book officially drops in almost a month!! And I’ll be reading at the online launch event!

Introducing TriCon! ✨May 15-17, 2026 in Kjipuktuk | #Halifax. Celebrating spec fic, we couldn't be prouder to have @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social and @kurestinarmada.bsky.social joining us as our Guests of Honour. Earlybird tickets available now! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

Woke up thinking about how to halt the slide in Canada and thinking about FDR's warnings that the growth of fascism is made possible by the growth of private power and failure to better the lot of ordinary people. Mamdani's success shows that now is precisely the time to argue for social democracy +

Lolsob. Accurate picture of a vile, vile man.

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

The best take on this so far.

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

🚨 1/ This Saturday there is a rally against hate and white nationalism at Christie Pits Park in Toronto. It’s in response to a “Canada First” protest calling for remigration and mass deportations... 🧵