Matthew Kressel
@matthewkressel.net
Nebula & World Fantasy Award Finalist, SFF writer, coder, artist. Books: THE RAINSEEKERS, SPACE TRUCKER JESS, HISTORIES WITHIN US, KING OF SHARDS & QUEEN OF STATIC. Creator of Moksha submissions system. Co-host of Fantastic Fiction at KGB. 🥄 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 NOKINGS
Wow! Got this lovely review of THE RAINSEEKERS in the most recent Analog! “Matthew Kressel has a deserved reputation as one of the most inventive authors in the genre…. With The Rainseekers, he may have outdone even himself.” —Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Discussing cross-genre stuff a lot lately. I'm an interdisciplinary storyteller: I'm an actress, tour guide, playwright, audiobook narrator & author of fiction & non-fiction. Each craft informs the other. Rarely do I get to discuss how it all weaves together! I do here! #BookSky #WritingCommunity
Matthew Kressel@matthewkressel.net · 2d agoIn our 19th episode of The Nerd Count Podcast, we welcome the award-winning author, actress, playwright, tour guide and all around creative force Leanna Renee Hieber! Listen on your favorite pod app! @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social
This is all the original fiction I had out in 2025: (1/5) “Threat Assessment.” Co-written with Mercurio D. Rivera. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Ed. Sheree Renee Thomas. Must Read Books. November 21, 2025. - NOVELLA
A new fund will pump $200 million into efforts to pull 100 imperiled animals and plants back from the brink of extinction and restore them in the wild. It’s among the largest philanthropic funds focused entirely on species recovery, standing out for the scope and specificity of the wildlife.
Phoenix Species Project Announces Funds for Imperiled Wildlife
A new fund called the Phoenix Species Project will provide $200 million to help pull imperiled wildlife back from the brink of extinction.
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Dear fellow writers, had such a lovely time with @matthewkressel.net & @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social discussing my career's wide range of storytelling and how it applies to fiction, non-fiction, playwrighting, acting, tour-guiding for @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social & much more, check out our chat!
Matthew Kressel@matthewkressel.net · 2d agoIn our 19th episode of The Nerd Count Podcast, we welcome the award-winning author, actress, playwright, tour guide and all around creative force Leanna Renee Hieber! Listen on your favorite pod app! @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social
I know it's a ways off, but I'm doing a panel on September 22nd: Scientific American Panel: Science in Fiction, featuring Heather Frances, Isabel J. Kim, Matthew Kressel, and Sarah G. Pierce, Moderated by Brianne Kane. And there will be a food and wine reception after! Info and RSVP link in thread.
A 3d render I did two years ago illustrating a scene from my novel SPACE TRUCKER JESS, "A Little Early for the Bazaar". (The cover art is by the great Paul Chadeisson, used with permission.) No AI was used.
In our 19th episode of The Nerd Count Podcast, we welcome the award-winning author, actress, playwright, tour guide and all around creative force Leanna Renee Hieber! Listen on your favorite pod app! @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social
In our 19th episode of The Nerd Count Podcast, we welcome the award-winning author, actress, playwright, tour guide and all around creative force Leanna Renee Hieber! Listen on your favorite pod app! @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social
I’m astonished by the ability of my fellow humans to forget the events we all just lived through. Folks remember the masks and the remote school. The million US dead are rarely mentioned. Folks, we lived through a plague.
Catch our last interview with @matthewkressel.net? Here @catrambo.bsky.social asks Matt about writing with authenticity. Listen to If This Goes On (Don’t Panic) itgodp.libsyn.com/site/the-rai... @itgodp.bsky.social
A 3d render I did two years ago illustrating a scene from my novel SPACE TRUCKER JESS, "A Little Early for the Bazaar". (The cover art is by the great Paul Chadeisson, used with permission.) No AI was used.
I know it's a ways off, but I'm doing a panel on September 22nd: Scientific American Panel: Science in Fiction, featuring Heather Frances, Isabel J. Kim, Matthew Kressel, and Sarah G. Pierce, Moderated by Brianne Kane. And there will be a food and wine reception after! Info and RSVP link in thread.
americans, man. you only have to hit them upside the head with a two by four like ten or twenty times before they start to figure out that getting hit in the head with a two by four hurts
Divergent introduced dystopian fiction to a legion of young adult readers. Now, @veronicarothbooks.com returns to the genre with Seek the Traitor's Son. In this new interview with @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, Roth discusses dystopian fantasy, yearning, and the moment when a character becomes real:
Complex Dystopias, Time Jumps, and Prophecy: A Conversation With Veronica Roth - Reactor
Veronica Roth may have arrived on the scene with her Divergent trilogy fifteen years ago, but she has written a wealth of other titles, each of which are smart, gripping, and mercurial: epic retelling...
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Go read this book. It's fabulous.
A.T. Sayre@atsayre.bsky.social · last wk.According to @matthewkressel.net, I'm a hard science fiction writer. Which, sure, I can't deny it. It just feels weird—I never did well in science class. I'm just a dipshit with a film degree. 'The Asterist' coming October 13th. Pre-order yours today at @barnesandnoble --> buff.ly/jPL3RrT #speclit
So, let me get this right: We get threatened with legal action from our ISP for downloading a copyrighted film or TV show illegally. But AI companies are given free passes to steal copyrighted content from billions of people. Do I have that right?
The layers of nerdism in this skeet are criminal.
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2w agoPaul Atreides doth go to a Frensshe bakerye to picke up breade. Upon arriving at the Frensshe bakerye, Paul Atreides doth fynde that the Frensshe bakeres have lefte a box for hym. Paul Atreides asketh: "What ys yn the box?" And the Frensshe bakeres responde: "Pain."
WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w agoI remain open minded, but the teaser for Blade Runner 2099 is uninspiring. If you think both films were about a "war" between humans and replicants -- whoosh -- that's the sound of the themes flying over your head.
Still one of the greatest songs of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWc0...
The Only Time
YouTube video by Nine Inch Nails - Topic
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Next month at our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, join us with guests Suzanne Palmer & Kailee Pedersen, Wednesday, Aug 12th, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @datlow.bsky.social @kaileepedersen.bsky.social
Listen to me and many others talk about their Readercon experience!
Matthew Kressel@matthewkressel.net · 2w agoWhat's this?! A new NERD COUNT PODCAST episode!? Mercurio and I come to you live from (and on the way to!) the Readercon convention in Burlington, MA, where we interview these ten amazing people about their past and present Readercon experiences and more! Podcast link in thread.
Last day to enter! bsky.app/profile/matt...
Matthew Kressel@matthewkressel.net · 3w agoMy publisher is giving away 20 free copies of the new audiobook of QUEEN OF STATIC, my second book in the Worldmender series after KING OF SHARDS. Leave a comment for ONE chance to win, re-skeet this post for TWO chances. Winners will be notified after July 22.
Review: THE UNHAUNTING by Micaiah Johnson Publishers Weekly: Johnson (Those Beyond the Wall) breathes new life into an old horror trope in this clever inversion of the classic haunted house story. The building at its center is a Civil War–era family home in rural Mississippi, recently inherited by…
Review: THE UNHAUNTING by Micaiah Johnson
Publishers Weekly: Johnson (Those Beyond the Wall) breathes new life into an old horror trope in this clever inversion of the classic haunted house story. The building at its center is a Civil War–era family home in rural Mississippi, recently inherited by Avery Abernathy. Determined to turn it into a peaceful sanctuary from hectic city life, Avery sets about renovating the place with help from his moody older brother, Tobias, and his close friend Shantell.
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Prosecutors and investigators with Hungary's tax authority raided offices housing data servers used by former prime minister Viktor Orbán 's Fidesz party as part of a probe into suspected embezzlement and other crimes, a prosecutor's office spokesperson told the AP. https://to.pbs.org/3RkCiSX
Hungarian prosecutors raid Orbán party's data center in embezzlement probe
Prosecutors in Hungary have raided offices housing data servers used by former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party.
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What's this?! A new NERD COUNT PODCAST episode!? Mercurio and I come to you live from (and on the way to!) the Readercon convention in Burlington, MA, where we interview these ten amazing people about their past and present Readercon experiences and more! Podcast link in thread.
If you'd like to learn whether I can remain coherent while being interviewed after midnight, check out the latest episode of The Nerd Count Podcast!
Matthew Kressel@matthewkressel.net · 2w agoWhat's this?! A new NERD COUNT PODCAST episode!? Mercurio and I come to you live from (and on the way to!) the Readercon convention in Burlington, MA, where we interview these ten amazing people about their past and present Readercon experiences and more! Podcast link in thread.
