Don't forget to read and vote for the Ignyte Awards! The deadline is August 16th, and "Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity" is nominated alongside so many excellent books and stories.

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

Congratulations finalists! Public voting is now open thru August 16: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/ We encourage you to read or otherwise engage with the nominated works/folks between now and then. Thanks for tuning in!

Fuck Harry Potter. Go read A Wizard of Earthsea.

s*w*a*c@swac.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fuck Harry Potter. Go read Orlando.

Be a firefighter. That's a job AI is actually going to help create.

*standing up on the plane* A screaming comes across the sky!

Alex Knapp@thealexknapp.bsky.social · 6d ago

*standing up on the plane* Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days,   everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound. Only   stories now, but I’ll sound the Spear-Danes’ song, hoarded for hungry times...

Ruin a book by adding a word: White Noise Suppression

Andraste Sideyr@andraste.fuckbgp.com · last wk.

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Master and Frozen Margarita

AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

Our anthology AMPLITUDES is a finalist in this year’s Ignyte Awards. And yes, voting is still open!

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

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works (2/5): Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity: ED. @leemandelo.bsky.social

Not particularly well-written (or copy-edited for that matter), and the phrase "this author" should be banned. But a treasure trove nonetheless. Future Noir - Paul M. Sammon #BookSky

The Crusades, but not as you know them. 100% better politics, 100% more gays, and 25% off in the Smashwords July sale: www.smashwords.com/b...

Kashka from Baghdad lives in sin, they say, with another man, but no one knows who.

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some people walk around a large estate, going on about what may or may not have happened there last year.

David Quantick@quantick.bsky.social · 3w ago

A boy teams up with a gang of time-travelling robbers and meets legends of history with thrilling and hilarious results.

I’m writing a gay romance about a brilliant Russian hacker and a nerdy Ukranian drone pilot. It’s called 1337ed Rivalry.

Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm writing a gay romance about two rival whisky distillers. It's called Peated Rivalry.

Yep.

Simon Spanton@simonguy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Even if no other books had been published that year, these two novels would have made 1984 a landmark year for SFF. (And 1986 a landmark year for SFF in paperback.)

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors BONUS (because demarcation criteria are a bitch) 31/30 The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 30/30 The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 29/30 Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 28/30 Mystiek lichaam [Mystical Body] - Frans Kellendonk

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 27/30 This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

You’ve Talked your last Talk.

molly tanzer (I guess!!)@mollytanzer.bsky.social · last mo.

You've Milked your last Neutral Hotel

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 26/30 The Lost District and Other Stories - Joel Lane

It's Pride! It's a rainbow stack! I've been posting one a week this month because I have so many wonderful queer books on my shelves to celebrate. Which of these have you read?

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 25/30 Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence - Andrew Hodges

JRR Tolkien did not endure being eaten by lice in the trenches of Mordor, 1916, so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@planetx.bsky.social · last mo.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 24/30 The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 23/30 Op weg naar het einde [Approaching the End] - Gerard Reve

This is like the robber barons buying up villas after wwI www.srf.ch/kultur/gesel...

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 22/30 Tales of Nevèrÿon - Samuel R. Delany

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 21/30 The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde - Peter Ackroyd

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 20/30 The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 19/30 Heidense heiligdommen [Pagan Holy Places] - Judith Schuyf