There’s a great, upside-down pleasure in reading a book so well-suited to your tastes that not having read it already feels like some kind of cosmic joke
Anneke
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yearning for the sea short fiction in Strange Horizons, Baffling, Nocturne, Hex, others articles editor at Strange Horizons rep'd by Martha Perotto-Wills annekeschwob.info
Cover reveal! Our August issue features cover art from Katie Beardmore with stories by Anneke Schwob, Denise Dumars, Katherine Marzinsky, A. Katherine Black, and more! zurl.co/IG1Oa
Meet me in the marketplace of ideas in next 20 minutes if u want an ass kicking
bringing this one back in light of recent publishing-related news
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8mo agothe most important thing any novel can have, though, is The Worst Woman In the World
Cultist nuns and bog goddesses, coming to a bookshop near you: www.instagram.com/orbitbooks_uk/ Go follow @ernerker.bsky.social for more!
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I can't believe I missed this – I loved reading this story about a missionary in a strange land in our slush and I'm so glad it's out in the world (and even better)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine@bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 2mo agoLive in BCS #459: "A Candle for Her Tireless Dead" @louisinglishall.bsky.social "Twelve years, imagining their empire in my mind. Confronting its demons and devising my own antidotes. Fashioning theodicies. Any tool to lead them from the hungry dark." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ca...
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 · 4w 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
WILL SOMEONE TELL ENGLAND THEY’RE LEGALLY ALLOWED TO PLAY IN THE SECOND HALF
Again I say for the millionth time that it’s a disappointment and a travesty that no one has put out a J. F. Gleeson collection yet
ergot.@ergot.bsky.social · 3w ago"We would spend a lot of our time, such as child’s time is under the weather and light, in the meadow; and in the meadow Tom would conduct his tours." Today on ergot.: 'Rolliecoaster Meadow' by J. F. Gleeson www.ergot.press/authors/J_F_...
I've been a fan of J.F. Gleeson since I read "The Age of Swirling Mists" in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and this one is just as weird and wonderful. He excels at creating worlds that feel untethered and floaty and strange while having real heft to them
ergot.@ergot.bsky.social · 3w ago"We would spend a lot of our time, such as child’s time is under the weather and light, in the meadow; and in the meadow Tom would conduct his tours." Today on ergot.: 'Rolliecoaster Meadow' by J. F. Gleeson www.ergot.press/authors/J_F_...
I know it’s tough to know where to put your dollars when it feels like all the zines are running their fundraisers at once. But consider throwing some cash at khōreō, who do incredible work and deserve to be recognized for it
Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred@lpkindred.bsky.social · 4w agoJust a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
If you like sf, if you care about Palestine/Israel, if you dig weird fiction, or if you're just a human, please experience "The Event" A taste: jewishcurrents.org/the-event
![WHAT HAPPENED WAS SO VAST AND
TERRIBLE, "absolute in its terribleness,"[3]
and its cause so obscure that it became, in
Marguiles's sardonic formulation, "a perfect
culture for growing theory."[4] The number
of "explanations" offered in the first month
alone, by experts and amateurs, was
bevond count,'5] many of them untestable,
absurd or meaningless ("a local suspension
of the laws of physics"; "invasion by an
alien species"; something called
"renumerology").[6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreib4ojpofa5iri3kydt2ici7juohcqmj52pdztj2jup6poxim47t64)
The first page of @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social’s WHAT WE ARE SEEKING is so good I closed the book in a rage and will be DNFing
CABO VERDE, THE ONLY TEAM IN FIFA WORLD CUP HISTORY TO BE UNDEFEATED IN REGULATION
The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.
It's been 10 days since we began the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive! So far, we've raised 75% of our base goal of $22K, which will allow us to continue existing in 2027. We would love to get there, and beyond, so we can raise our writers' pay. To help us: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵
This pitch targeted me with surgical precision on my goddddd
CLASH Books@clashbooks.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are so excited to be publishing another book by @horrorsong.blog Such a unique and talented author who has done something special with Dead Boys Don’t Cry. Drops in June 2027. Get ready to lose your mind, heart and soul with this one!
24-hour-update: Thanks to your generosity, we've raised $9635 already: some way to our base goal of $22K, and to our overall goal of $30K in order to keep our writers' pay at 10c/word. Our next milestone is $10K, to unlock a new poem. Get us there: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser
The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!
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Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵
The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.
Alright I've done my due diligence, and my current count for the Q1-Q2 publishing period is 57 titles. I know it's an undercount! If you're a transfeminine author who's published a book between January 1st and June 30th in ANY GENRE, and your book isn't on this list, please let me know!!!! ⬇️
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Surreal, lyrical, grotesque, reads like a mattress-thick palimpsest of theatre posters and warning notices melting off a wall in the rain Shades of Burroughs, Ian Sinclair and Dave McKean I maintain it's possible to do psychogeography right, just that most who do shouldn't @hookland.bsky.social
Anneke@ernerker.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy very weird story about cottaging, Brighton in the 1960s, numbers stations, Polari, the deep scattering layer, Punch and Judy, and the experience of being profoundly alienated from your own desires, even as you find yourself the object of others’, is up now on @ergot.bsky.social.
i think that you should read this! many excellent things together, it really works, and the WRITING. my goodness. beautiful prose. very precise.
Anneke@ernerker.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy very weird story about cottaging, Brighton in the 1960s, numbers stations, Polari, the deep scattering layer, Punch and Judy, and the experience of being profoundly alienated from your own desires, even as you find yourself the object of others’, is up now on @ergot.bsky.social.
Hopefully it’s not Breaking the Code to say I read—and pushed for—this story as a first reader at two different pubs and was countermanded at both and am stoked it finally found a home
Anneke@ernerker.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy very weird story about cottaging, Brighton in the 1960s, numbers stations, Polari, the deep scattering layer, Punch and Judy, and the experience of being profoundly alienated from your own desires, even as you find yourself the object of others’, is up now on @ergot.bsky.social.
My very weird story about cottaging, Brighton in the 1960s, numbers stations, Polari, the deep scattering layer, Punch and Judy, and the experience of being profoundly alienated from your own desires, even as you find yourself the object of others’, is up now on @ergot.bsky.social.
Have a weird pride, duckies 🐟
ergot.@ergot.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is what Charley does, when he’s not...alone with his endless numbers. He is Britain’s foremost naturalist of human desires. And where better to conduct his study than in Brighton, 1964 Today on ergot.: 'The Professor of Desire Presents' by @ernerker.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Anne...