Reading the earliest chapter 5 ideas when I made it up in like 2016
Alex Kingsley
@alexyquest.bsky.social
writer/comedian/game designer | they/them | co-founder @StrongBranchPro | Author of EMPRESS OF DUST | ✍️ Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal | UIC English MA student | Rep: Sara Megibow
What is the role of an artist amidst turmoil? If you've been asking yourself this question, join us for our virtual panel: Challenges of Being an Artist in Difficult Times, Saturday July 25 3PM CDT. Link to join: us06web.zoom.us/j/83650201648
LUCIANUS is nearly here! every time I make one of these posts I try to think of something more clever to say other than “this shit slaps” but today…today I’m just gonna say THIS SHIT SLAPS! 📚💙📚🪐 get it here: mybook.to/lucianus
That's one day of the membership drive in the books, and already we're 13% of the way towards our goal! Thank you to all our new members! Remember to join us for our Kick-Off panel today at 3pm CDT.
The SLF’s membership drive is growing close! To kick off the next month of content, we’ll be hosting a kickoff panel on July 11th from 3-4:30pm CDT. Members of our wonderful staff will be there to talk about the opportunities that the SLF offers. We look forward to seeing you all there!
BLAST OFF! The SLF Membership Drive Begins! What can you do to help? Well, become a member, of course. Our goal is to reach 100 new members after 30 days. But what are the benefits of becoming an SLF member? Stay tuned to find out.
I’ve got a paper in this!!! 🤖🦾 please check it out!!!!
Douglas A. Van Belle@dougvanbelle.bsky.social · last mo.The Selected Proceedings from the 2025 Seattle WorldCon are out, and note that we negotiated a very low price for the softcover version for both classroom use and so worldcon members can afford to grab a copy. link.springer.com/book/9789819...
That @alexyquest.bsky.social is back at SH today, reading a volume of Rebecca Roanhorse's short fiction. "The throughline of these stories is not simply the representation of Indigenous and Black characters, but rather themes of fraught identity."
River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse
Sociopolitical SF is at its strongest when it is not a cut-and-dry allegory.
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Thanks for the shoutout!! ❤️ I had a great time working on this audiobook. I recommend it often!
Eve Harms, Orph Understander@eveharms.com · 2mo agoDelighted by this post!! I also wanted to give a shout out to @sadiabies.bsky.social who created this beautiful cover and @alexyquest.bsky.social who did the sound mastering! This audiobook was a self-produced labor of love with an all trans crew, and I couldn't be more proud of the work we did 🖤🏳️⚧️
Back the campaign and you can preorder it, along with the rest of the series! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 5, part 1!
It's Space Wizard's fifth anniversary, and we have some great titles for you! From reincarnated wizards to post-apocalyptic Florida, rocket racing, martial arts, space rabbits, and giant crabs, we've ...
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Alex Kingsley@alexyquest.bsky.social · 2mo agoCOVER REVEAL! 🦀🦌The third and FINAL book of The Bastion Cycle comes out with @wctracy.bsky.social this November!
COVER REVEAL! 🦀🦌The third and FINAL book of The Bastion Cycle comes out with @wctracy.bsky.social this November!
fun fact, EMPRESS is now available to illinois residents through biblioboard 😍 yay libraries!!!! library.biblioboard.com/content/4dde...
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Proud to be the 100th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 5, part 1!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 5, part 1!
It's Space Wizard's fifth anniversary, and we have some great titles for you! From reincarnated wizards to post-apocalyptic Florida, rocket racing, martial arts, space rabbits, and giant crabs, we've ...
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Day Five "Empress of Dust" by Alex Kingsley #booksky #pridemonth @alexyquest.bsky.social
Favorite moments include: - escaping to the woods w/ @stefenahhh.bsky.social & @traewrites.bsky.social - talking science w/ @alexyquest.bsky.social & everyone on the hard science fiction panel & after - parking lot wisdom from @jordankurella.com - @shingai-be-like.bsky.social showing up at the end
My first panel at the #Nebulas2026 is tomorrow June 4th, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Panel 1-5 (O’Hare II) – Building Emotional Resonance with Hard Science and Facts, with: William Ledbetter @williamledbetter.bsky.social Alexis Westmore @alexiswestmore.bsky.social & Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social
Comment on this month’s podcast from a guest on last month’s, noting the layered exchanges between the two. This is the aim! Note last month’s other guest, @alexyquest.bsky.social, is in this Month’s episode itself, with some specially recorded audio following up on the discussion around debuts.
Critical Friends Episode 24: On Oeuvres
Kate Macdonald and Duncan Lawie join Dan Hartland to tackle the question of the back catalog.
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Hana Carolina@hanacarolina.bsky.social · 2mo agoA brilliant listen! Fantastic episode with a wealth of experience and a great density of topics. And dare I say, with some implied and not-so-implied parallels to the previous episode that I deeply connected to. Hearing such established voices discuss these things is both humbling and affirming.
ive got 99 problems and they’re all related to chronic illness
I did my author interview with @wctracy.bsky.social and you can see it here (IF you follow the project 👀 Only then can you hear my secret wisdom) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 5, part 1! Project Update: Author Interview with Alex Kingsley
Hello folks! Here is the fourth video for our Space Wizard Year 5, Part 1 Launch Party! Stay tuned all through May for more videos and the May 28 start of the Book Bazaar Sum...
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Looking for 8 new #queer #fantasy and #sciencefiction books? It's Space Wizard's 5th anniversary, and this campaign will be a big one! Make sure to sign up for out launch party to see interviews with the authors! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 5, part 1! Launch Party
Get excited about Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 5, part 1! on BackerKit - come join!
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“just ask ChatGPT” first of all no but second of all I couldn’t even if I wanted to because they BANNED GOBLINS. now I can’t even think about AI without invoking an arcane warding spell
NEW PODCAST ALERT This week's episode of our Critical Friends podcast features Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social and Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social alongside Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social discussing reviews of debut books and authors. Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
This most recent ep is specifically about reviewing debut books, and whether this tonal line is placed differently there. @alexyquest.bsky.social: We want to say something that is useful and productive for the readers and for the writer while not saying, you know, “Here’s what needs to change.”
Critical Friends Episode 23: On Reviewing Debuts
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Hana Carolina and Alex Kingsley join Dan Hartland to think about reviewing debut books and writers. Is there an extr…
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🗣️ NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS PODCAST! This month, @hanacarolina.bsky.social and @alexyquest.bsky.social talk to me about reviewing debuts: are there extra responsibilities a critic has to new writers, and if so what are they? Hana and Alex also recently wrote debuts of their own, so it's a rich chat.
Critical Friends Episode 23: On Reviewing Debuts
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Hana Carolina and Alex Kingsley join Dan Hartland to think about reviewing debut books and writers. Is there an extr…
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listen, if you're going to run an ai book promotion scam, at least get creative with it. you don't have to poorly summarize my own book at me. i know what happens. i wrote it. and honestly i wouldn't hire you to promote it even if this WASN'T a scam because you made it sound fucking boring
i just backed it!!! im so excited about this hehehe i love it when my friends do cool stuff
jordan makes games@tabletopcrow.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm bringing Our God is Dead back to Kickstarter with a mint tin edition as part of #MicroMay! If a fun little comedy one-shot #ttrpg sounds like a fun time, consider following so you don't miss the campaign going live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tab...
just overheard someone on the bus explaining pinky and the brain to her friend and the friend asked, “are the lovers?” i love that that’s the first question
Friday's review at @strangehouse.bsky.social is from @alexyquest.bsky.social, who writes about Allee Mead's Isaac (out via @wctracy.bsky.social's Space Wizard Science Fantasy). AI, robots, romance: "Despite its brevity," says Alex, "Isaac manages to add another layer of narrative to all this."
Isaac by Allee Mead
Isaac is a hidden gem of a novella.
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