I'm very happy to have got the chance to participate in this project, and particularly enjoyed reading *this* post lol

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 13h ago

In March of 2011, Ursula wrote a colorfully titled blog post about colorful language: "I remember when swearing, though tame by modern standards, was quite varied and often highly characteristic." On this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, author @vajra.me reads "Would You Please Fucking Stop?"

I started reading Watership Down to my kid this week. Tonight we read the story about Frith blessing El-Ahrairah, and the line "but first they must catch you" and I shivered in the best possible way, all over goosebumps. I wonder I shivered when Mom read it to me the first time?

Jared Pechaček@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 4d ago

frith, inlé

Ahahahaha I amuse myself (WICKHILLS is coming out this September! We got spies, we got demons, we got... we got very nice restaurants actually, we got weird things that clean the gutters, we got *looks around* *grabs him* we got this here vampire "Hello!" us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

the other thing about the prisoner is that (with all this idiotic talk of second screen tv) you can engage with it on any level. glance up every ten minutes to see the most perfect context-free image possible, or pin your eyelids open and eat a bottle of adderall

And . . . here I am watching Hunt for the Wilderpeople again—someone came over who somehow’s never seen it. I fix things. It’s what I do.

Imagine being this rich and not having someone to grow you backyard tomatoes, one of the few shiningly perfect foods in this world. Seriously, what is the point of money?

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another odd moment occurred when Musk insisted that work in the future would be "optional" because robots would do everything. Musk said people might still work in the future but compared it to people who grow their own backyard tomatoes. He said they could just go to the store for better tomatoes.

Thou saw’st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw

This review captures so much of what I wanted to say with THE FLOATING REPUBLIC. Thank you for reading!

Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 3w ago

He Held The Line: @chloroformtea.bsky.social goes to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for her latest Small Press Dispatch column, discussing Rebecca Campbell's THE FLOATING REPUBLIC!

Attention SFFH Writers & Critics who are queer people of color: This is a reminder that @anathemamagazine.bsky.social will be open to submissions until July 20th! I’d love to see more nonfiction submissions before this window closes — (1/2)

UPDATES Call for creative writing: Contemporary Indigenous Horror (University Press of Mississippi, 2027) solicits original, unpublished short horror fiction, poetry, and experimental works by self-identifying Indigenous creatives. www.cfplist.com/CFP/46993

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Huge congratulations to the authors on the Sunburst Awards Short List! It's been a joy and honor serving on the jury this year. So many fantastic works! It really was a challenge to narrow the list down to five finalists! locusmag.com/2026/07/2026...

2026 Sunburst Award Shortlist - Locus

The five-title shortlist for the 2026 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic was announced July 6, 2026: The Works of Vermin, Hiron Ennes (Tor) amazon / bookshop Horsefl...

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Every genre is science fiction if you analyse its underlying epistemology closely enough

You can now listen to the audio version of my short story "Ice, Rock, Empathy". Thanks again to Kate Baker for her wonderful narration ^u^ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4a9gTlvACwcFhuwsw7gMqX?si=gIwvCZtERMmXHDIsDMUb6Q YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=pMGi347FbfM

Ice, Rock, Empathy by Damián Neri

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Damián Neri@damianneriart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have a new short story in the latest issue of Clarkesworld ^u^ “Ice, Rock, Empathy” is about alien crabs inhabiting Europa's inner ocean, the persistence of mind after death, and their contact with the humans that landed in the outer face of their world 🦀 ⋆⭒˚.⋆🪐 clarkesworldmagazine.com/neri_06_26

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Happy "lottery" day to those who celebrate. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny..."

This is one of my favorites. It was also fun to learn that @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social read her first Ursula story at the age of eleven. Ditto. Ursula called it a "hinge-age," a transformative threshold. It's also a prime number, which is neat.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last mo.

This week on In Your Spare Time, author @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social reads post 11, "The Tree," from January of 2011. This post is Ursula's lovely eulogy for a Christmas tree: "A real Christmas tree, a cut tree, is a ritual sacrifice. Better not to deny the fact, but to accept and ponder it."

I got to contribute to this wonderful project by reading about a Christmas tree. I loved living inside her words for a few minutes.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last mo.

This week on In Your Spare Time, author @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social reads post 11, "The Tree," from January of 2011. This post is Ursula's lovely eulogy for a Christmas tree: "A real Christmas tree, a cut tree, is a ritual sacrifice. Better not to deny the fact, but to accept and ponder it."

The annoying thing about doing a subscription drive is having to keep yelling about it. Doesn't work if I say nothing. Strange, eh?

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 2mo ago

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Solidarity among the not-naturals! We get to a different place in the end, though. No lightning strikes, but the slow accumulation of insight. Or so I tell myself to cheer myself up.

José Pablo Iriarte@labyrinthrat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know some people are naturals whereas I am not, I've had to work hard at this, but I just don't get ... I dunno, being in complete denial about the reality that it takes most people a LOT of time and effort to get good at a thing.

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

It was the last day of school yesterday and David wanted to celebrate by camping out by the vegetable garden. It didn't get dark until past ten and the birds were up around 4am. A short night with so many stars-- I could see them through the mosquito netting on the roof of the tent.

I sold a short fiction collection to @mrjoshuawilson.bsky.social at @fabulistmag.bsky.social The Fabulist Editions! It's called THE PALADIN IN THE FOREST OF THORNS: ECOFICTIONS, and you can read more about it, and subscribe to hear even more as events warrant, here: mossyskull.com/writings/i-s...

"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."

Happy Pride to everyone. Thinking about how my late uncle Aveek (lost to the pandemic), who was the first openly queer person I knew, gently told me I was queer many years before I realised it myself (I denied it at the time). I think it was not long after the below book was published.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last yr.

It's Pride month, so I'll say that my debut THE DEVOURERS, a novel about shapeshifters and queerness, sex and sexual violence, probably helped me figure out I was genderqueer & had experienced sexual assault (both belatedly, after publication). It also helps (v modestly) me earn an income:

HELLO ALL did you know: my publisher is doing a GOODREADS GIVEAWAY of my upcoming novel WICKHILLS! Please enter and spread the word! It is a good fantaspionage book! It only contains one (1) word of doom! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Book giveaway for Wickhills by Premee Mohamed Jun 15-Jun 29, 2026

Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jun 15-Jun 29, 2026. Enter for your chance to win an ARC of WICKHILLS by Premee Mohamed!

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"A Hole Cut in the Wall of the World" found another home at the Best Weird Fiction, among some terrifyingly good stories. The earlier volume & versions of the anthology are wonderful and unsettling and smart, the way weird fiction should be. Preorder!

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's my great pleasure to announce the authors and their works selected for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Thank you to all the writers, editors, and publishers who sent in work for consideration. The print edition is now up for pre-order. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

@gothgreenwitch.bsky.social read the novella for me. Her taste & eye were a great help!

Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They)@gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Floating Republic" is a gorgeous, multi-POV novella delicately handling that tricky balance of the weight of the world and complicated histories and their fallout settled on weary shoulders owned by people with no choice but to keep moving. Absolutely worth reading if you haven't already.

It's a joy when people connect with your work. I worried this wouldn't land, since it's about very tired people on the edge of the known universe who are trying to do the right thing in a small way, while the huge, dangerous world grinds on around them.

Jay@tarvolon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Floating Republic by @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social digs into the interpersonal and legal messiness when a far-flung mining outfit isolated for decades suddenly has to deal with the return of civilization. Nothing in the plot is earth-shaking, but it all *matters* deeply to those involved

Hey ho, look at all this. Pretty good. Might be your jam, and we have the ebook on sale for just $4. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...

Very excited to announce our latest special issue submission call: for an all flash fiction issue edited by @andrewkozma.net! reckoning.press/reckoning-fl...

Reckoning Flash Fiction Call – Reckoning Gets Weird | Reckoning

For Reckoning’s next special issue, we are asking for environmental justice flash fiction of 1000 words or less. While we'll take 0-1200 words, we strongly prefer things in the 500-1000 range. Outside...

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