Hi, it's me, your weird bookseller/author friend with a reminder that this is the BEST time to preorder books coming out in the winter/spring of 2027. Why? Because buyers at bookstores are in the middle of placing their big orders for the next season. 🧵

This may be - and it's a crowded field - the best Snap! Criticism piece I've read yet. I would never have imagined someone could put these two works in conversation like this and have it be so productive, and yet here we are, and Dan has. Fucking marvellous, is what it is.

Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 4d ago

💥 Good news! I’m back at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org with more of my “smoosh the books together and see what happens” nonsense! Here I am on Palmer/Walton’s Trace Elements and Hachemi/Sanches’s The Mulai - and on why, if a genre is a conversation, we should make it as noisy and unwieldy as we can.

For Time Magazine , wrote about the story of the protests that have convulsed India this week: time.com/article/2026...

In India, a Dark Shadow Falls on Its Vaunted Elections

"Mass protests have convulsed India after 130 million Indians were removed from electoral rolls by the country’s election commission," writes Gautam Bhatia.

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whats Dracula's sperm count like do you think

My novel Unspeakable Things is out today — here's the latest (short) review in Book Pages, with an accompanying interview. Thanks so much to everyone who pre-ordered the book and offered support — I'm very grateful!

Unspeakable Things by Elizabeth Hand: Review | BookPage

Elizabeth Hand masterfully uses the gothic to explore the tumult of the ’20s in her bold and brilliantly written queer thriller.

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH

it was her translations of europides in grief lessons for me and i can recall so profoundly the physical experience of her words on the page, summer rain just outside the window, everything becoming realigned

FUCK IT. Let's give away 3 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated!

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💚💚💚 So delighted, and a warm congratulations to all other winners and nominees. Thank you also to Alter Mag for commissioning a long-form essay on the history of Indian SF as the debut piece in their magazine. It’s available to read for free here: altermag.com/articles/the...

The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.

Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.

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The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Creative Nonfiction recognizes works related to the field of speculative fiction. Congratulations to @gautambhatia88.bsky.social and THE SECRET HISTORY OF INDIAN SCIENCE FICTION

many people say that to become a genre writer, you must know how to write. this is false. to become a genre writer, you must first have at least one hyperfixation

Girls don’t want boys girls want books that scratch precisely the same itch as the Westing Game

HELL YEAH

Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 3w ago

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Really nice bit about a) when to ignore your critique group and b) filter effects when using experimental techniques in fiction Learning takes a long time, if you listen to surface level feedback and delete your experiments, you will not grow leave.substack.com/p/timelike-c...

"Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves" in Reactor

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It should never be forgotten MEL BROOKS had the World Premiere of BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at the Pickwick Drive-In Theater in Burbank, Los Angeles for 250 invited guests - ALL ON HORSEBACK.

Sometimes a drug trip is a profound experience where you realize that you’ve been carrying pain in your heart for years, that you can forgive yourself. Other times you come up with a concept called “gay money” (money that’s gay) and you text your friend “gay money” days later. Both are healing. ❤️‍🩹

what’s this? an interview with China Miéville on Defector? that’s right

China Miéville On The “Completely Defining” Book It Took 20 Years To Write | Defector

It takes an open mind to engage with China Miéville’s work. A writer for whom the already cliched phrase “genre-bending” is even more banal, Miéville has never opposed the designation of genre writer....

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Tantric Cosmic Egg, the fertilized world egg, divided into spheres and currents of energy, Rajasthan, 18th c. Gouache on paper, 27 x 41 cm.

it’s really moving that people can connect to plants as geometric/internally logical and also wild/unruly

"...the thin line between the inside and the outside is beginning to erode and at the moment I’m a thirty seven foot tall one thousand one hundred & seventy-two pound man inside this six foot frame and all I can feel is the pressure all I can feel is the pressure and the need for release"

David Wojnarowicz: "I wake up every morning in this killing machine called america & I’m carrying this rage like a blood filled egg & there’s a thin line between inside & the outside a thin line between thought & action & that line is simply made up of blood & muscle & bone..."

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

idolatress.com website is up. chapter 1 on october 2. check it out.

about idolatress

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"You want to be a universal language. You want to be the scent of a dream slipping through cracks in the stars." This story has me in a chokehold!! Everyone read MR_MR_CENTICORE

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · last mo.

The Internet Culture Special Issue continues! MR_MR_CENTICORE by Micah Giddens "...the California sun is too mean to let you play outside so you stare at Magic Eye books all day until you get good at unfocusing your gaze to uncover hidden realities." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

My new book is out next month, 3+ years in the writing. Was it worth it??? Now’s your chance to let me know! So far it’s got raves from PW, Kirkus, and Booklisr, whew. It’s on pre-order at 25% off today through Friday.

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