Shortlisted for the 2019 Clarke Award too!

Seconded.

Since everyone has Frankenstein on the brain: more people should read Ahmed Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad.

UK folks, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is a monthly Kindle deal for November: just 99p! Often this sort of deal leads to price-matching at other online retailers, too. Happy reading!

😱 - "Yes! Hell yes!"

Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes

Why aliens might not “speak physics” the same way we do If an alien species achieved interstellar communication or even interstellar travel, can we assume they've developed the same laws of physics as us? Maybe not, and here's why. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #physics #aliens #space #nature

Some blurbs hint (1/2) Originally published by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social the @michaeljbooks.bsky.social edition of Lauren Beukes' @clarkeaward.bsky.social winning Zoo City features the original cover & blurb. The book's big weird involves criminals being magically attached to animal familiars ...

With stories by Danie Ware, Juliet McKenna, Anna Smith Spark and many others, Fight Like A Girl #2 has been a feature on award short lists this year. Find out why people love it so much: wizardstowerpress.co...

Had a fantastically effusive message from "Dinah Arnold Literary" who use a gmail address and do not otherwise seem to exist, praising a recent book in quite extraordinarily purple prose and setting out a detailed "campaign strategy" to market it. Assume AI generated, but it's

WRETCH by @ericlarocca.bsky.social is currently 25% off in the Waterstones 2026 Pre-Order Promotion! #WPreorder Use the code OCTOBER25 on their website or app, now until 23.59 October 17. https://bit.ly/WSpreorder

#Booksky Big congratulations to author/legend Samuel Delany, who was just inducted into the Academy of Arts & Sciences! (Fun fact: our publisher, Catherine Lundoff, was one of his students.)🎉🎉🎉 www.amacad.org/person/samue...

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…” … including this great Blade Runner inspired art piece spotted at London’s Other Art Fair by artist Fletcher Sibthorp! #TearsinRain

Hope in Fiction, Are we living in the darkest timeline? Probably. Can storytelling still inspire us? Absolutely. Is the future set? You tell us. These collections from our Clarke Award authors may just be the creative fire you were looking for! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/lists/hope-i...

Hope in Fiction, Are we living in the darkest timeline? Probably. Can storytelling still inspire us? Absolutely? Is the future set? You tell us. These collections from our Clarke Award authors may just be the creative fire you were looking for! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/lists/hope-i...

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

I had such a great time writing this piece for Reactor! one of the great things about publishing a book is people let you write about things you’re vaguely obsessed with

"Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, what is real?" Philip K. Dick

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

A worthy winner. It raises a concern about modern society, explores a semi-plausible scenario (that Greer manages to make creepier than I imagined by the end), and it made me think.

📣 Did you hear that @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social now offers ebooks? If you're looking for an excuse to check them out (like you need one) we should also flag that this year's Clarke Award winner ANNIE BOT is only 99p on their site right now! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9780...

This is a very worth while read.

📣 Did you hear that @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social now offers ebooks? If you're looking for an excuse to check them out (like you need one) we should also flag that this year's Clarke Award winner ANNIE BOT is only 99p on their site right now! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9780...

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m reviewing EJ Swift’s wonderful new novel When There Are Wolves Again, a contender for novel of the year fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/10/when...

Project Hanuman is out on November 11th. Today, I wanted to highlight that the gent that is @justinleeanderson.com gave it this summary: Battlestar Galactica crossed with The Matrix on a heavy dose of LSD. Which, honestly, will do for me. #sff #sciencefiction #scifi

UK based SFF reviewers: we need you! We have a few unclaimed review copies left of both these brand new titles! If epic fantasy or unusual, character driven scifi is your thing, get in touch for a copy. Strictly first come, first served ⚔️🚀

Exceptional Doctorow piece on the solar rollout, why it's unstoppable, & why many old downsides of solar aren't factors anymore. The entire material mining needed 4 a global solar transition = only 17% of the fossil fuel mining we do every year! & then we're done! doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me) introduces his second novel, Rakesfall, which is is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Independent bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales, and ebooks will be priced the same as they are on Amazon.

Excited to be talking AI & SF (incl. killer-love-sex-art bots) with 2025's @clarkeaward.bsky.social winner, Sierra Greer, my fave @drkatedevlin.bsky.social and the Science Museum's Jenny Wong Thurs 2 Oct at 1pm BST at Kings' online AI conference. Tix are free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...

Blurbs in the wild (1/2): 'Which they were. But now they are not.' These two short, plain sentences early in the blurb for @headofzeus.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social The Book of Love provide the hinge for this pitch. Three dead teenagers are no longer dead – why? A subtle, surprising . . .

Join me and my fantastic panelists online this Thurs 2nd Oct as we explore the stories we tell about AI (and the ones it hallucinates all by itself!) 🤖

If you're not a supporter of Escape Pod and you're looking to be, lock in your subscription before October 1st, lest you hear the ads crackling against the cosmic microwave background. More details here! www.patreon.com/posts/lock-i...

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

📡 Signal boost! The latest edition of the Clarke Award newsletter includes events with ANNIE BOT author Sierra Greer, a quantum micro-fiction competition, and The Handmaid's Tale turns 40.

Blurbs in the wild: Sell one, sell the them all. The blurb for @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social and @annleckie.com @clarkeaward.bsky.social winner Ancillary Justice is a two-parter. First, it tells you why should read this landmark trilogy (many prizes, a masterpiece, contemporary societal concerns).

In which I briefly discuss the science fiction murder mystery genre, offer up 5 books that I think provide some of its pleasures and thus hint at why I wrote a SFMM myself with Exo. Thanks, @shepherdbooks.bsky.social @zenoagency.bsky.social @diversionbooks.bsky.social shepherd.com/best-books/s...

Locus is a magazine built for & by readers AND writers. Get insider news about which magazines are publishing what kind of story, as well as our reviewers' favorite books of the year. Immerse yourself in our community, we would love to have you. linktr.ee/locusmagazine

I am delighted and honoured to say that on Thur 16 October, Ada Lovelace Day and Government support for women in STEM will be debated in Westminster Hall at 3pm. Enormous thanks to @lizzicollinge.bsky.social for organising, and all other MPs who have supported ALD over the years!

Heads up! Rather exciting writing retreat for our friends at @cymerafestival.co.uk www.cymerafestival.co.uk/writing-retr...

Please come see me and Paul Cornell THIS SATURDAY at Waterstones, Piccadilly, London <3 <3 We'll be signing copies of WHO KILLED NESSIE? and also some of our other books! It should be a cool time :3 It's also free to attend!

Fancy some #FridayFun? Here are Solaris' recs for #SapphicSeptember! From Scifi heists & cons to alluring housekeepers & vulnerable brides in crumbling Scottish mansions, regency romantasy to anarchist fantasy, vampirates & wuxia rebels to blind space nuns, we've got it all! Ft authors below👇 1/3

Solaris Presents is back with a bang! On 27/09 at 5pm BST join us for a fun, FREE!, online event with @taranhunt.bsky.social & @voidcricket.bsky.social talking about the latest releases (THE UNKILLABLE PRINCESS & AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD) in their expanding SciFi Universes! 👉https://geni.us/SPTHRH

TOMORROW! Join @voidcricket.bsky.social and I at Forbidden Planet in #bristol at 5:30 pm where we will be talking about and signing our new #books. Free entry and everyone welcome!

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

Crossing the Veil - Supernatural and Folklore in Fantasy: Marisa Linton, RJ Barker and David Barnett in conversation with Alexandra Beaumont. Tuesday 7th Oct, 6pm (BST). Waterstones, Covent Garden. Ticket: tinyurl.com/fosup

Now booking! "Annie Bot vs The Tech Bros." SF’s influence on modern tech culture. 🗓️ Thurs 2 Oct, 1pm, online Join Clarke Award winner Sierra Greer + expert panel: @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @laurenbeukes.com Jen Wong, Science Gallery London Register👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...