I never know what to say in interviews when they ask me how I go about creating characters, because I feel like they want me to talk about charts and diagrams, when the answer is “I make up a guy and then think about him a lot”
K.L. Schroeder
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Science fiction + horror writer. PhD microbiologist. NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD out from Psychopomp 💀 🔭🔬 🇨🇦 🇸🇪 they/them
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
ATOMIC COFFIN is really good. do you like Alien? you will like this story.
Benedict Anning@benedictanning.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey ATOMIC COFFIN got featured in SFX mag!! I'll take that tempered praise ty v kindly x
he is evolving, getting closer to his final form
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2mo agoKFC has updated its logo 🍗
Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Daydreamers by @alvinlu.bsky.social, @fictioncollective2.bsky.social & No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social, @psychopomp.com. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
we LOVE THIS NOVELLA SO MUCH!! check out @klschroeder.bsky.social on My Favorite Bit with @maryrobinettekowal.com ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ 🖤
Mary Robinette Kowal@maryrobinettekowal.com · 4mo agoMy Favorite Bit: K.L. Schroeder talks about NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD K.L. Schroeder is joining us today to talk about their novel, No One to Hold the Distant Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description: Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming…
My Favorite Bit: K.L. Schroeder talks about NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD K.L. Schroeder is joining us today to talk about their novel, No One to Hold the Distant Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description: Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming…
My Favorite Bit: K.L. Schroeder talks about NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD
K.L. Schroeder is joining us today to talk about their novel, No One to Hold the Distant Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description: Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming ecological disaster. But by the time she arrives, the catastrophic degradation of the planet's terraformed environment has already passed the point of no return, and she finds its people defeated, sleepwalking through a slow-moving death.
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Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme? 3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice” Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”
Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…
I'm so slow, but NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD by @klschroeder.bsky.social is a haunting elegiac wonder, a slow dream of empty skies that asks the only question worth asking- what is to be done? "Let the dead rest, and fight for what we still might be able to save.” Beautiful unflinching work
Psychopomp@psychopomp.com · 7mo agodo you need an amazing read?? “Beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s sadly rare to find an author like Schroeder who approaches the non-human with such compassion and respect. A must read.” No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social get it here! psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
Life is too short not to read a book that was written well and by an actual human being.
This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's about 1 km tall. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.
Remarkably Realistic #Marine #Invertebrates Made of #Glass Surface at the Mystic Seaport #Museum. #Blaschka #GlassArtists #MarineLife #Art Link for more information and amazing photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/blas...
🖤 @acwise.bsky.social's Year in Review is up!! No One to Hold the Distant Dead, @klschroeder.bsky.social! Summer in the House of the Departed @joshrountree.bsky.social! “Extreme Sports Club for Octogenarians” @katelechler.bsky.social fr @thedeadlands.com issue 37!! locusmag.com/feature/the-...
The Year in Review 2025 by A.C. Wise
The Year in Review 2025 It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of another year, or at the beginning of a new one by the time this is published. Whatever else is going on in the world, reading contin…
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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
my work computer is starting to sound like a pachinko machine from all the notifications. i did not appreciate the solitude of working in a lab behind an airlock nearly enough :(
we are HONORED to get shout outs from @mariahaskins.com for @locusmag.bsky.social Work by @babblewocky.bsky.social, @klschroeder.bsky.social @joshrountree.bsky.social, @aimeeogdenwrites.com @nassos.bsky.social and our own social media skeleton @feliciafm.bsky.social 💀 locusmag.com/feature/the-...
The Year in Review 2025 by Maria Haskins
Maria’s Year-End Roundup I tried to come up with a neat and tidy list-structure for this year-end roundup, but the best I can do is a rambling, somewhat haphazard and certainly nonexhaustive journ…
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oh my god this is so freaking cool!! thank you so much for reviewing Elias, the Godhavn is absolute perfection ❤️
Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 6mo agoNEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD by K.L. Schroeder. An ecofiction meditation on colony collapse and memory loss at the edge of space, a powerful and transportive work of SF. Our drink is the Godhavn: cachaça kissed with pom and anise.
While I love the current SFF interest in all things fungi/mushroom, I am eagerly awaiting the humble slime mold’s turn to shine. ✨
its a wonderful surprise to find No One to Hold the Distant Dead recommended on this list! thank you so, so much ❤️ and congratulations to everyone whose work is featured :)
Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago2025 Recommended Reading List locusmag.com/2026/02...
so very excited to see @klschroeder.bsky.social’s Garden exquisite novella No One to Hold the Distant Dead on the BSFA longlist 🖤 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
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feeling so thrilled for Distant Dead to be in this long, long list of very good writing!
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters@clhellisen.com · 7mo agoSeen several familiar names on the BSF longlist - huzzah! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... @bethkesh.bsky.social @ldlapinski.bsky.social @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @klschroeder.bsky.social @sjgroenewegen.co.uk @seraph76.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social and more!
I loved this book by @klschroeder.bsky.social - snap it up, creatures!
Psychopomp@psychopomp.com · 7mo agodo you need an amazing read?? “Beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s sadly rare to find an author like Schroeder who approaches the non-human with such compassion and respect. A must read.” No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social get it here! psychopomp.com/product/no-o...