When There Are Wolves Again is on the UK Kindle Daily Deal today (5 October) for 99p. Bargainous! 😊🐺 amzn.eu/d/0en8hTOd
Searching for your next spooky read to kick off October? We've got some (monster) bite-sized recs for you! 👻📚
More unexpected than ever. My collection of odd, interlinked stories coming January 26th from @influxpress.bsky.social. Cover by Dylan Marcus McConnell.
The goodreads reviews of The End of Everything are just phenomenal.
Engines Beneath, U.S. -- My upside-down folk-horror-but-in-a-housing-estate novella is now available in the US thanks to the good folk at @influxpress.bsky.social. It's a very handsome book that would look lovely in your absolutely giant American bookshelves.
Engines Beneath, U.S. -- My upside-down folk-horror-but-in-a-housing-estate novella is now available in the US thanks to the good folk at @influxpress.bsky.social. It's a very handsome book that would look lovely in your absolutely giant American bookshelves.
A huge congratulations to Helen Marshall for her 2026 Sunburst Award win for THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH! So well deserved! 🎉🐯
Huge congratulations to @manuscriptgal.bsky.social, this year's Sunburst Award winner for her gorgeous novel The Lady, the Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death! It was such an honor to serve on the jury and a delight to get to read so many amazing works! locusmag.com/2026/09/wins...
Marshall Wins 2026 Sunburst Award - Locus
The Sunburst Award Society hasannounced Helen Marshall, author of The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death (Titan) [amazon / bookshop], as the winner of this year's Sunburst Awardfor Excellenc...
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Brilliant, brilliant news. Wonderful to see The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl who Loved Death get the attention it deserves.
Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 4w agoMarshall Wins 2026 Sunburst Award locusmag.com/2026/09...
Felix C Gotschalk sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gotsch... and Helen Marshall sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/marsha... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Barclay Shaw, Odbert/Gaughan, Chris Buzelli and [couldn't identify]):
This is a wonderful, subtle and very moving book. Lovely to see it out in the world.
Anne Charnock@annecharnock.bsky.social · last mo.Out in the world! Many, many thanks to the whole team at Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. I’m so grateful to early endorsers. The starting point for this eco-fiction: see link in comments. @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Oh my GOSH, we have galleys and such beautiful galleys! I love love love the design and interior art. Putnam allowed my editor to commission interior illustrations, which I've seen and simply ADORE!
An excellent review of an excellent series.
Abigail Nussbaum@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew blog post: thoughts on the first four books of Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume. "Balle is thinking more deeply, and more interestingly, about the time loop premise than just about anyone who has played with it in decades." wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/08/rece...
Author copies! Such beauties 🥰. I’m so thrilled ALSTON MOOR is alive! And I’m immensely thankful to everyone involved @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social Pre-orders are open at all excellent bookshops. 📚🥰📚 Coming 1 September 2026. @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Today marks the one year anniversary of this book coming out in the US/Canada, almost the three year anniversary of it being out in India, and nearly the nine year anniversary of when I started it in 2017. The moral of this story is I’m old.
So glad Haynes is truly getting her moment in the sun
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐@pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 3mo agoHaynes is a remarkable writer. Her stories are perfectly structured and any one could serve as an example of Mark Fisher’s definition of ‘weird’ as a presence that shouldn’t be there. Shifts in time or space, ghosts, supernatural beings, spirit voices — Haynes explores them all.
I've received one of those AI scam emails promising to increase my book sales. They boast of "excellent attention to detail", and express concern that "Your Cass Neary series has no visible linking to Wylding Hall." (Other than @elizabethhand.bsky.social's name on the cover, perhaps?)
I wrote about language, lying & world-building for the NYTBR as expressed in 3 extraordinary & very different books: THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm, THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley, & THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS by SL Huang.
New Science Fiction About Truth and Lies in an Age of War (Gift Article)
Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.
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Friends: 3rd iteration of SalamAward workshop has been scheduled for March 2027 Elizabeth Bear and Saad Z Hussain will be traveling to Pakistan to teach students If you’d like to support the future of the field, esp for South Asian SF, here’s your chance www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
Transform Lives for 12 Young Writers - Salam Writing Workshop by Salam Award - Indiegogo
Your contribution will be used to provide scholarships to participants and fund logistics of The Salam Workshop 2027 including travel costs for the instructors. Since 2023, we have hosted two biannual...
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Lovely post about EJ Swift's When There Are Wolves Again: "I've never been so haunted by optimism" www.instagram.com/p/DbEct2bsBb...
tom.j.atherton on Instagram: "Clarke Award Book 6This was the best book I read last year. I'm ecstatic it's on the shortlist, and not just because its nomination…"
Clarke Award Book 6This was the best book I read last year. I'm ecstatic it's on the shortlist, and not just because its nomination has given me an excuse to read it a second time. It's a masterpiece, deserving of all the love it's received.When There Are Wolves Again is a radical work of literary eco-fiction. E. J. Swift rejects both the miserabilist climate nihilism that's come to dominate the genre, *and* the hysterical tech optimism that promises us a green utopia delivered by corporatism and capital.Here hope comes from systemic and structural social changes: community and solidarity are offered as the way out of our climate predicaments. The novel spans nearly a century, and Swift utilises imagery of the occupy movement, of rainbow political alliances, and of social cohesion to offer an encouraging vision of our future.It follows the entire lives of Lucy, an environmental activist, and Hester, a film maker, from their childhood, to their intersecting old ages near the end of the 21st Century. It's profoundly moving, endlessly inventive, politically fearless, and beautifully written. Complimenting this, the book is a work of genius structural symmetry, which the nerdy formalist in me found very pleasing. Every character is distinct, with the two central women (whose chapters alternate between first and second person voices) experiencing deep emotional growth, while always feeling consistently the same people, changed through time, but with a psychological line connecting them to their childhood selves.I even liked the right-wing nationalist who antagonises Lucy throughout the novel. In my mind he doesn't know that his online handle - Britannia1412 - contains the year in which Joan of Arc was born, a foreign woman and symbol of emancipation over establishment tyranny. The irony being: he would hate the connection.It's just so vast, and so beautiful, chronicling everything from Chernobyl, to COVID, to an imagined human mission to Mars. I've never been so haunted by optimism.I don't write. I don't have the imagination, or the insight into what makes us human. Or any talent whatsoever, really. But I wish I'd written this.View all comments
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#WorldPeatlandsDay If you're into peatbogs, as I am, look out for ALSTON MOOR, a novel, coming in September 2026 with Elizabeth, an intrepid peatlands scientist as a main character! @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social More: annecharnock.com
So delighted to see Helen Marshall on this list: THE LADY, THE TIGER, AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH is a beguiling piece of literature. And Hiron Ennes’s WORKS OF VERMIN is fantastic. Can’t wait to read the rest.
A.C. Wise@acwise.bsky.social · 4mo agoHuge congratulations to the authors on the Sunburst Awards Longlist! It's an honour to serve as a juror this year. Y'all didn't make it easy. We received so many excellent books to consider and narrowing it down was incredibly hard. www.sunburstaward.org/node/147
Completely unrelated of course, but my story The End of Hope Street is available in this collection: www.influxpress.com/shop/you-wil...
You Will Grow Into Them – Paperback — Influx Press
Malcolm Devlin’s debut short-fiction collection, first published in 2017, announced the arrival of a major new talent in the worlds of weird fiction and literary horror. In You Will Grow Into Them ,...
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Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 4mo agoNEW TRAILER - From the director of It Follows, THE END OF OAK STREET arrives in theaters August 14. A cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports an entire neighborhood to someplace unknown. J.J. Abrams produces.
A circus where illusion and power collide. A girl who must choose between serving those in power — or defying them. 🎪 On sale now! kobo.com/p/may-the-books-be-with-you #DarkFantasy #KoboSale
My Locus piece on Calculation of Volume isn't online yet, so I can't give you the fully evidenced version of this assertion, but UK Kindle users should take advantage of the current 99p deal on volume I because it's probably the best SF series being published www.amazon.co.uk/Calculation-...
On the Calculation of Volume I: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
On the Calculation of Volume I: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025 eBook : Balle, Solvej, Haveland, Barbara J.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Shout out for @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social's fabulously creepy Engines Beneath Us, a horror novella I picked up completely at random. It's the very definition of 'less is more', perfectly drawn, leaving everything to the darkest corners of your imagination. www.waterstones.com/book/engines...
Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin | Waterstones
Buy Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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And here is the fifth and final of BSFA Best Novel shortlist reviews: Nina Allan's A Granite Silence. That this was on the list led to my impulsive decision to review the shortlist according to specific criteria concerning historical mechanisms of change and the idea of the SFF writer as historian.
BSFA Best Novel of 2025 Shortlist: Nina Allan, A Granite Silence
New Intro: I can divulge at this point that it was the presence of Nina Allan’s A Granite Silence on this year’s shortlist that led to my impulsive decision to review this year’s BSFA Best Novel sh…
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