Cody R Brown
@codyrbrown.bsky.social
PhD @ UBC English, sf and ecocriticism, Luddite, walking the laneways of the Lower Mainland of BC
I felt a little bad about not doing my seasonal university press recommendation lists this year, so I decided to go over all the spring and fall catalogs for 2026 to create a list c. 60 books from 32 presses. Hope this is helpful to folks!
2026 University Press Recommendations
A curated list of recommended books published by university presses and academic publishers in 2026.
seanguynes.com
read Centroeuropa
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 4w agoA huge congratulations to the seven (!) WWB contributors longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature! Check them all out here: www.nationalbook.org/longlist-for... @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @worldedbooks.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social
A huge congratulations to the seven (!) WWB contributors longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature! Check them all out here: www.nationalbook.org/longlist-for... @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @worldedbooks.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social
Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature - National Book Foundation
The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Find the New Yorker announcement here. New York, NY (September 15, 2026) – The National Book Foundation today announced…
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this is so important it needed its own clip actually
michael lutz@ztul.bsky.social · last mo.in this episode cmrn reads a letter tolkien wrote where he talks about how lore is beside the point of storytelling and he doesn't understand all the people asking him fine-grained questions about calendars and stuff and This Is The Truth They Have Hidden From You
Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here!
not a medievalist but this is a cool CFP! apply!
Dr Basil Arnould Price@basilaprice.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou have just over a month to apply to the sessions Hunter Phillips and I organised at @kzooicms.bsky.social on either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS ( tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2). (Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms) Join us! #medievalsky
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
As an MJH diehard I pre-ordered The End of Everything (the signed Blackwell's edition) from the UK, received it in the post, and finished reading it last week. Rest assured: it's got the juice. So pleased it's getting this sort of recognition.
Cody R Brown@codyrbrown.bsky.social · 3mo agoM. John Harrison on the Booker longlist! That's what's up!
seriously one of the best stories I've read in a minute
An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are asking the WSFS business meeting to extend this story’s eligibility until 2026, because it received extremely limited distribution in 2025. Only 5,000 copies of the print edition were distributed in late 2025, to a primarily non-SFF audience. It became available online on July 9, 2026. 1/2
We are asking the WSFS business meeting to extend this story’s eligibility until 2026, because it received extremely limited distribution in 2025. Only 5,000 copies of the print edition were distributed in late 2025, to a primarily non-SFF audience. It became available online on July 9, 2026. 1/2
An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Something has taken place that we cannot speak of or know or even fully perceive, yet the fact of which sits before us." Nuanced story that plays with epistemological malaise. jewishcurrents.org/the-event
A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
nbcnews.com
renee gladman, cristina rivera garcia, barbara comyns, nell zink, pip, adams, and many more! incredible work coming out of dorothy press.
Dorothy, a publishing project@dorothyproject.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe're having a TWO-DAY SUMMER SALE on all our books! 🎉 You know what to do. Go do it here: www.nyrb.com/collections/...
I wrote about The End of Everything & I think the paywall is down so: observer.co.uk/culture/book...
The visions of M John Harrison | The Observer
The End of Everything is a bravura, brain-melting sci-fi in which Britain comes under attack from the astral plane
observer.co.uk
HR 822 requires trusted adults (school employees, counselors, coaches as well as doctors & other health workers) to monitor children for signs of gender stereotype non-conformance and report them. Non-compliance results in steep fines and criminal punishment. This goes into effect in Idaho today.
Liz Saila@lizsaila.northsky.social · 3mo agoThe ACLU's rundown on Idaho's H 822 social transitioning ban is here: www.acluidaho.org/legislation/...
pulling for Works of Vermin! everybody read Works of Vermin!!
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 4mo agoWe're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
if you're working in the sf studies/weird studies space you'd do well to read Jeffrey Ford's "Well-Built City Trilogy"
Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 4mo agoTruly fantastic news. I go on about this excellent trilogy at length here but the short take is “you’ve got to read these books”
Truly fantastic news. I go on about this excellent trilogy at length here but the short take is “you’ve got to read these books”
We Are Close, We Are Almost There | Los Angeles Review of Books
Zachary Gillan reflects on Jeffrey Ford’s ‘Well-Built City Trilogy’ in the era of resurgent fascism.
lareviewofbooks.org
jeffreyford8@jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 4mo agoSigned a contract with PS for a hard and soft cover omnibus editions of The Well-Built City trilogy. First time these books will have appeared in this format in print. I've always wanted to do an edition like this. Derek will do the cover and interior illustrations. Look for it in the Fall of 2027.
Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities
The first issue of SMALL PLANET: THE SF IN TRANSLATION MAGAZINE is OUT! www.sfintranslation.com?p=16928 #SFinTranslation
Issue #1: Small Planet: The SFT Magazine – Speculative Fiction in Translation
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(it's because they basically want slaves: conscious entities—but software this time!—that they can use and dispose of when convenient. this is the big tech logic of "sentient AI.")
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 5mo agoLike imagine a scenario where you are calling fully sentient minds into existence, asking them for cooking instructions or erotic roleplay, then snuffing them out when you're finished. That's grade A nightmare cyberpunk dystopia right there
the value of the university and education more broadly is the production of self and world
cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 5mo agoI went to college because it was my only opportunity to change social classes in life. It worked. I also discovered a whole other universe of knowledge while I was there. I think both of these functions are important and should be preserved.
I went to college because it was my only opportunity to change social classes in life. It worked. I also discovered a whole other universe of knowledge while I was there. I think both of these functions are important and should be preserved.
If we're talking academic field, it's something like Outer Limits, Night Gallery, or Kolchak. If it's based on pure, goofy interest: The Sandbaggers or Spooks/MI-5. I'd also like a crack at LOST.
Jose Molina@josemolinatv.bsky.social · 5mo agoWriter-types: what's a franchise you were born to write, but you never will? I'll start: The X-Files.
good call, here. I love emailing people that I liked what they made!
Erin Blakemore@erinblakemore.bsky.social · 6mo agoSend fan mail to your heroes. Send fan mail to your kind-of heroes. Send fan mail to obscure and penniless authors. I'm always amazed by how touching I find reader mail. Someone took the time to read something I wrote and let my voice narrate their world for a bit? Incredible. 💖
