Miriam Seidel
@miriamseidel.bsky.social
Writing weird stuff as Mir Seidel. TESLA'S OPERA (Fomite Press, September 2025), THE SPEED OF CLOUDS (New Door Books), stories/essays in Bourbon Penn, Into the Ruins, NYRSF. SFWA associate, Codex, more at linktr.ee/miriamseidel
I don't understand why they'd withhold the author's identity. They knew what they were doing.
KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 6d agoSo...the book was worth $2.5million...but the bidders hadn't actually read the manuscript?? the agents hadn't read it? How tf do you get to a 14-way auction for millions and *then* turn round to say "terrible prose, reads like slop"?
Reminding myself that a book is never expired, esp. less than a year after it came out: FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN is my debut novel, a DMT death trip through the digestive system of empire. It is a political horror adventure that makes Hobbes’ Leviathan a real kaiju + New Atlantis a real “utopia”
Feast of the Pale Leviathan
A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Owen finds inside is a community of fellow su...
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OMG this is sickening www.news.com.au/technology/o...
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · last wk.keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down.
My horror novel BEDFELLOW is available right now on Bookshop for $1.99 on ebook. I have no idea how long the sale will last. bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
Bedfellow
A mysterious intruder takes hold of a family's memory and mind in this "impressively inventive . . . delightfully disturbing" horror novel ( Kirkus Reviews). First it first broke into the house. But s...
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Apparently they're making a new Robocop show. They are REQUIRED to redo this classic episode where Robocop squares off against a bunch of feminist freedom fighters who force men to wear aprons and do housework: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8o...
RoboCop vs Feminist Rebels | RoboCop Full Series | Ep 16
YouTube video by Sci-Fi Central
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I was a child in 1976. This chart illustrates the difference between what was going on weather-wise in 1976 and 2025. In 1976, the heatwave was an outlier. In 2025, it is part of normal variation. In 1976, a heatwave would be one-off. By 2025, it's likely to be on-and-off all summer.
Overheard @rcwordsmith.bsky.social on her Saurotopia series: "I'm talking with my cowriter about who we kill when" (characters, not editors)
Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/
Let AI Burn
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@clarkesworldmagazine.com is 20 years old this year! To help them stick around another 20, they're doing a subscription drive. July's issue has new stories from @thomasha.bsky.social @carloshem.bsky.social & me (mine was inspired by BTS-more on that later). clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/
This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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This is such a great list. Kudos to the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation.
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last mo.We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
“What I'm trying to get at in my poem is that we have our human relatives…but we're in an environmental crisis precisely because we have forgotten that we have non-human relatives.” #Indigenous #Métis #children #books #Cree
Poem turned picture book finds a beautiful place in between the ancestors
Serendipity is the best way to describe how Métis writer Naomi McIlwraith’s poem “My Big Red Canoe” became the children’s picture book The Great Gathering Place.Or as McIlwraith said, “It is an incred...
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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long this sale will last. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Folks, you all should just get this because John Chu. But you can go the long way around and read the review then buy it because John Chu.
John Chu@johnchu.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey, UK readers! You can now buy The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Release day was actually yesterday, but I completely forgot to post about it. Also, @locusmag.bsky.social posted @niallharrison.bsky.social 's glowing review of my book. locusmag.com/review/the-s...
The Flame Tree antho WERE WOLF SHORT STORIES (ed. Gillian Whitaker, Catherine Taylor & Nick Wells) has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award! This antho contains my short story "Margaery the Wolf" so I'm claiming a bit of the honour this morning! 🐺 www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2026/05/28/n...
I am so very, very, excited about the @sfwa.bsky.social Nebula Conference. Here are the official places you can hear or interact with me, but if you're there, I hope you'll say hi! ❤️
Today's the release day for @kvjohansen.bsky.social 's wonderful Breath and Bone - and our website is working again! So, relaunching - Breath and Bone is now available on our site and most other sources. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2026/05/18/r...
Release Day for Breath and Bone!
It’s the release day for Breath and Bone, K.V. Johansen’s gorgeous new sapphic fantasy. Johansen is well known for settings that feel steeped in history, where the past always intrudes to complicate t...
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So thrilled to have my first chapbook out in the world, from Bottlecap Press! 12 moody, spooky micros and flash stories. This is a huge milestone for me. Thanks to everyone who’s shared in the joy! bottlecap.press/products/gho...
Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
I'm happy to share this great, thoughtful review of TESLA'S OPERA from Reading Bud: thereadingbud.com/2026/05/08/b...
Litel Free Libraryes have proliferatid, bringinge delighte. But their more mysterious, more sinister cousins are nowe beginninge to appear. Goode people! No mattir how jaunty the signe, no mattir how supposedlye nonexistent the cost, nevir evir evir walke thrugh the door of a Litel Free Labyrinth.
One of those things I couldn't talk about? I can now talk about.
The Broken Binding@thebrokenbinding.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are thrilled to share our special edition set of The Wormwood Trilogy by Tade Thompson in association with Orbit! 🥀
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧@charliejane.bsky.social · 3mo agoTime for a periodic reminder! A) I don't know how much longer I'll be active on social media, due to death-spirals and anti-trans bullshit. B) I have a weekly newsletter about writing, queerness, personal stuff, etc. If you wanna stay in touch w me, pls subscribe: buttondown.com/charliejane
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