My interview with poetry Hugo winner @swantower.bsky.social is up on the SFPA blog

Brilliant issue!

New Star*Line out today. Honoured to be featured along with the likes of @spires.bsky.social, @bethcato.bsky.social, @marysoonlee.bsky.social, @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social and many other fantastic poets! #poetry sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

Couldn't agree more!!!

Just finished writing my intro to an interview with S. T. Joshi for the weird fiction issue of @utopiascifi.bsky.social. I think readers are going to be particularly interested to hear his thoughts on how the genre is to be properly defined #weirdfiction

Have my fingers crossed!

The Daily Telegraph is running a poetry competition. Is it just me or is this part of the contract extremely dodgy?

Thrilled to announce that "I Carried a Brain Under My Arm" will be appearing in an issue of Star*Line. This is my second poem for this excellent magazine, the first being "Einstein Dreaming." Link to the first one here! #poetry #sciencefiction sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

The Big Idea: Ren Hutchings 

Very excited to be conducting this interview for @utopiascifi.bsky.social. Let me know if anyone has any burning questions about the history of Weird Fiction! #weird #sciencefiction

William Hope Hodgson wrote brilliant stories, which may be slightly flawed and of their time, but few other writers have managed to channel such authentic weirdness into science fiction!

In case you missed it, "Trip Through Eternity" was performed on the Simultaneous Times Podcast - hosted by Jean-Paul L. Garnier @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social and featuring work by Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social as well as Toshiya Kamei! #sciencefiction www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

You can read my poem and many others in the first year anthology of Oatleaf poetry @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social

My list of the 10 strangest positions in the SF workplace: #sciencefiction #work listverse.com/2023/08/17/t...

Another good #writing day for my #nanowrimo project -> 2252 words so far today, which brings me within about 750 words of where I should be. It's a lot closer than I've been for about 10 days. Catching up! And the story is cooking now, too. 😀 #amwriting #scifi #sff

Very excited by the enthusiasm for our Weird Issue. Can't wait to see the submissions!

Chinese Astronauts Stranded In Orbit - C.J. Cheeryh Comments

10 Most Controversial Writers of Science Fiction, featured in @theangrynoodle.com. #sciencefiction theangrynoodle.com/10-most-cont...

Big thanks to @amazingstories.bsky.social for helping promote the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Substack! amazingstories.com/2025/10/the-...

"The Big Three of Fantasy," featured in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and ...? #fantasy magazine.trollbreath.com/the-big-thre...

Video essay of "Why Asimov Hate 1984" - first appeared in @utopiascifi.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNuO...

Poetry announcment on the @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social Substack substack.com/@encylopedia...

Short story, a personal favourite: www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/ta...

Short story - reprint of the first I ever published @metastellar.bsky.social www.metastellar.com/author/james...

Article about my faith in writers and publishers fighting AI - please don't let the future prove me wrong! www.skeptic.org.uk/author/james...

Simultaneous Times Episode 92 is live! Featuring stories by @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social @fjbergmann.bsky.social and @eladhaber.bsky.social with music by TSG, Oneirothopter, & Phog Masheeen www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social is now on Substack #sciencefiction encyclopediaofsciencefiction.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Nearly three million people have signed a petition against mandatory digital IDs, 100,000 being the minimum for Parliament to reconsider the issue. Yesterday, the government responded that they will not change the the policy and it's for our own good. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves. action.everylibrary.org/nationalaccess via @everylibrary.bsky.social

And here it is October...when I always start planning my #NaNoWriMo project. I'm leaning toward joining #MyWriteClub since it has what I need and want: a place to log my word count and see it as a graph. I could do it myself with a spreadsheet, but this seems to have more accountability. #writing

The reviews are in on our latest issue, courtesy of Chuck Rothman @chuckrothman.bsky.social in Tangent Online. "Speak" by Nico Martinez Nocito @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social is described as a story that hits "far too close to home." #sciencefiction tangentonline.com/e-market-qua...

I've just conducted a fantastic interview with Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social! Look out for her answers in the next issue of @utopiascifi.bsky.social. It's a must read for the speculative artists out there. #art #sciencefiction

Fancy a taster of our latest issue? "Sylvester is an Asshole and Must Die" by Calie Voorhis is free to read! #sciencefiction #funny utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/sylvester-is...

Appreciate the welcome! Glad to be here

Publication Day! My new book, Silver Rush, a novella set in the 1850s western US, is out today! Find links to purchase it on my blog (see below) and thank you in advance for leaving a review. #amwriting #historicalfiction #BookSky

Come celebrate with me for the launch of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM on October 14 at 6:00 PM at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA, where I'll be in conversation with RF Kuang! Ticket gets you a copy of the signed book. (Thank you to Harvard Book Store.) www.harvard.com/event/ken-liu

Very proud to have been a part of this!