GoldSF
@goldsf.bsky.social
GoldSF is a new Goldsmiths Press imprint publishing intersectional feminist science fiction, looking to the future & imagining new ways of being in the world.
"Wonderful, imaginative, lively, angry in a good way" -- Nancy Hopkins (MIT) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777553...
The Path of Most Resistance by Jessy Randall: 9781915983275 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Poems about historical women in STEM fields. Women have always worked in technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes they made important discoveries and breakthroughs; sometimes the...
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✨ @otherwiseaward.org Honor's mention for "The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science", by @jessyrandall.bsky.social, illustrated by #KristinDiVona ✨ A clever & compelling conversation that expresses a diverse array of women’s voices & identities, & asserts their right to be celebrated.
Announcing the 2025 Otherwise Award winner! « Otherwise Award
The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce one winner for the 2025 Award: Luminous, by Silvia Park. We’re also announcing an Honor List and a Long List.
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@kathygiuffre.bsky.social , book stylist
Kathy Giuffre@kathygiuffre.bsky.social · last yr.The poems in The Path of Most Resistance by @jessyrandall.bsky.social, her second book of poems about women in science, are witty, whimsical, strange, and deeply profound. Perfect read for people interested in the lives and works that history is always in danger of forgetting. 💙📚 #booksky
@jessyrandall.bsky.social writes poems about #HistoricalWomeninSTEM–“Maybe not the most effective form of resistance, but the project staved off my feelings of helplessness & hopelessness“ ➡️hermathsstory.eu/poetry-as-lens-two-historical-women-mathematicians @goldsf.bsky.socia @mitpress.bsky.social
I’m a big fan of Sandra Newman’s novel The Heavens with its time slip from noughties New York to Elizabethan England. So, I’m pretty overwhelmed to read this early response. Coming: September 2026 @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Hello! I'm a hybrid author, but my book Hamlet , Prince of Robots was published by my own imprint and my latest The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human was published by the university press imprint @goldsf.bsky.social.
M. Darusha Wehm
Science fiction and mainstream books by award-winning author M. Darusha Wehm
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Next week Radio 4 from @goldsf.bsky.social author @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social: The Woman Who Saw Atoms: "On the eve of the Anschluss, a Jewish scientist fixes an image of a proton and changes physics for ever [...] The hidden life of unsung pioneer Marietta Blau." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Woman Who Saw Atoms by Pippa Goldschmidt, Observation
On the eve of the Anschluss, a Jewish scientist captures an image of a proton.
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Terrific to see @jessyrandall.bsky.social's "The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science" on the Otherwise Honors List for this year! Congrats, Jessy! @goldsf.bsky.social otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...
Announcing the 2025 Otherwise Award winner! « Otherwise Award
The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce one winner for the 2025 Award: Luminous, by Silvia Park. We’re also announcing an Honor List and a Long List.
otherwiseaward.org
Featured on the @otherwiseaward.org Honor List "The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science", #JessyRandall #KristinDiVona A fascinating body of work whose sum is a poetic statement on gender. bookshop.org/p/books/the-... @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social
Andy Hedgcock in The Morning Star has chosen "Maybe the Birds" as one of his cultural highlights of 2025. ✨🙏🏼💛 @ajashworth.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trad...
Traditions are reclaimed and fear meets fun
ON the surface, The Albino’s Secret (Gollancz, £10.99), a novel by Michael Moorcock and Mark Hodder, is a postmodern homage to the action-packed storytelling of the interwar period. Set in Istanbul in...
morningstaronline.co.uk
Many thanks to Gus Gresham for this fab review of Maybe the Birds 💛 everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi... @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
Review by Gus Gresham of "Maybe the Birds" by A. J. Ashworth
This short story collection by A. J. Ashworth is a rewarding read, each story like a piece of mysterious treasure from a dug-up pirates’ che...
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Brilliant night at The Arts Centre Edge Hill for the launch of AJ Ashworth’s Maybe The Birds - fantastic reading from Andrea!
And wonderful readings at the launch of AJ Ashworth’s Maybe The Birds at EHU Arts Centre in the first half from Prof Ailsa Cox, Elizabeth Baines and John D Rutter.
And @ajashworth.bsky.social's fantastic new collection of speculative short stories, MAYBE THE BIRDS, is out now from @goldsf.bsky.social! www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Maybe the Birds
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Maybe the Birds, by @ajashworth.bsky.social featured on MIT Reader from @mitpress.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-j-ashworth...
A.J. Ashworth: ‘The Guide’
Across millennia, a cave painter and a son confront the shadows of creation and loss. A story from A.J. Ashworth’s new collection “Maybe the Birds.”
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"We had sensed this need for greater diversity in the ecosystem" Editors of GoldSF @unamccormack.bsky.social & Paul March-Russell - on why they started a feminist sci-fi imprint, who they want to read proposals from and where the project is going! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhL...
GoldSF author @abicurtiswriter.bsky.social on the IZ Pod talking about the magic of the ordinary, the power of place, writing about early parenthood, and her novel "The Headland". @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdM...
A first look at Jessy Randall’s upcoming poetry collection, “The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science”! With illustrations by NASA artist Kristin DiVona, the lives of these often overlooked historical figures are brought into the light. This book is available for pre-order now.
GoldSF series editor and Foundation editor Paul March-Russell in conversation with Chris Deacey: @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social chrisdeacy.com/2025/04/09/c...
Cabin FM Tuesday 8 April 2025
Highlights from Afternoons on Cabin on Tuesday 8 April 2025 including a live interview with the editor of the science fiction journal Foundation, Paul March-Russell, who talks about Doctor Who writ…
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The first review of this week at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is from @octavia-cade.bsky.social, of Pippa Goldschmidt’s BSFA-shortlisted collection from @goldsf.bsky.social. “I didn’t quite shove all the other reviewers out of the way to get to this, but it was a near thing.” On lives in science:
Schrödinger’s Wife (and Other Possibilities) by Pippa Goldschmidt
If there’s a repeated theme in Schrödinger’s Wife (and Other Possibilities) it’s how the practice of science mirrors the life of its practitioners.
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'Schrödinger's Wife' reviewed in Strange Horizons: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #GoldSF #IntersectionalSF #FeministSF #NewSF
Schrödinger’s Wife (and Other Possibilities) by Pippa Goldschmidt
If there’s a repeated theme in Schrödinger’s Wife (and Other Possibilities) it’s how the practice of science mirrors the life of its practitioners.
strangehorizons.com
“The Mune” is our newest Gold SF title. 30 Victorian women - “surplus” mothers - are shipwrecked on an island in a parallel universe. To survive, they must create a new society. How will they shake off the patriarchal chains that bound them & raise their children to be free?
Great event Women in Science Fiction with @unamccormack.bsky.social for @yorklitfest.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social #womeninscifi
And big congrats to @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social, whose collection "Schrodinger's Wife (and other possibilities)" has also been shortlisted! @goldsf.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978191598318...
Schrodinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities)
The stories in Schrödinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities) travel through laboratories, observatories, rockets, hotel rooms, hospitals, out to the Antarcti...
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🎉The #BSFA Awards Shortlist was announced last night, & one of our very own #GoldSF titles "Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities)" by @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social is shortlisted for Best Collection.🎉 @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social file770.com/bsfa-awards-...
BSFA 2025/ Nick Hubble's Selections: "Schrödinger’s Wife" is one of 3 books (pictured) on the longlists from @GoldsmithsPress GoldSF imprint, with Vonda N. McIntyre’s "Little Sisters & Other Stories" also on Best Collection list & Abi Curtis’s "The Headland" on Best Novel longlist.
