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We spoke with The Green Bone Saga author @fondalee.bsky.social about her latest standalone dystopian sci-fi epic The Last Contract of Isako, building its cyberpunk world, future projects, and more. Read or watch the full interview below ⬇ #booksky 💙📚 #authorinterview #scifi #cyberpunk #samurai

Fonda Lee talks The Last Contract of Isako and her journey after The Green Bone Saga (Exclusive)

We're currently living through a golden age of fantasy and science fiction, with more promising books being published every single month than any reader could p

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A new episode of The Publishing Rodeo is out, and it feels like a tiny bit of light has returned to the world.

Ravenscar Podcasts (Publishing Rodeo & Bad First Books)@publishingrodeo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Social media is beset by a tidal wave of publishing misinformation, fuelled by bots and platform-farming and algorithms that favour outrage. With special guest Donyae Coles, Sunyi and Scott discus how on earth we can walk the line between being honest, while not fueling an atmosphere of misery.

Esquire couldn’t book this actor for an interview so fed previous responses through a couple of thief machines and ‘interviewed’ a digital photocopy. Including asking personal questions about his dad. People need to be sued and then fired for this.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4mo ago

I feel like I'm going insane aftermath.site/one-piece-zoro...

It was this for me. By the time I left Twitter I'd begun to tense up just visiting it, and I was burned out by being condescending to the folks trying to be nasty to me. When I came here, I fully signed onto the "don't engage, just block" ethos and tried to model a better online version of myself.

Sherry H87 🌻@sherryh87.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don’t know what it is, but there’s definitely a “let’s be better to each other” vibe that most longer-term BlueSky posters attempt to embody. If I had to guess, I’d say it is a repudiation of the nastiness that Twitter seemed to embrace.

I genuinely do not care how large or small this website is or gets. I just care that people I like are here& a lot of you are the kind of weird gremlins I enjoy or at least can tolerate. And so far you’re mostly tolerating me, so thanks. My takes are in fact the hottest ones so you have good taste 🔥

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Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 4mo ago

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell. Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

Val Nolan@vallescurarule.bsky.social · 4mo ago

All stories are political. Yes, even - indeed *especially* - the ones that go out of their way to try and avoid being political.

Science fiction, the genre which famously has nothing to say about social issues, the human condition, or much of anything at all.

Victor Manibo@victormanibo.com · 4mo ago

Arguably the biggest sci fi author of our time:

As I was drafting (another) post about LLM use in literature, this news story popped into my feed. Paywalled but the tl;dr is a freelance book reviewer used LLMs to write a NYT review and the LLMs plagiarized from a Guardian review. Oop www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use | Exclusive

The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer of his reliance on AI.

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I didn't have much of an opinion about Andy Weir before this week, beyond knowing I wanted to read his books at some point, but I sure have seen enough in the past few days to have a not-great opinion now.

This @sffaddictspod.bsky.social writing masterclass on MEMORY & TIME with @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social goes DEEP! Don’t miss it when it airs on March 31.

SFF Addicts Podcast@sffaddictspod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW MASTERCLASS INCOMING! Ep. 196 airs on Tuesday, with @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social and host @adrianmgibson.bsky.social delving into a masterclass on MEMORY & TIME, and how those concepts relate to storytelling ⏳ Available March 31 in audio/video: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtube.com/@FanFiAddict

Want your funny fantasy mixed up with your cozy mystery? Allow me to assist with the next book in my "funny as hell" "Tune in Tomorrow" universe! geni.us/weinterrupt

Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM to tell you about @randeedawn.com 's new novel? Prepare to step into a fabulously fun world of fae ‘reality tv’, where their own interpretation of MURDER SHE WROTE has started to go off the rails… Buy now (only £2.99 in eBook)! https://geni.us/weinterrupt

Less than 45 hrs to go in the WERE-2 #kickstarter featuring stories about shifters OTHER THAN wolves, and less than $100 away from the next stretch goal, a free ebook of @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social's "The Black Tentacle." Don't let this #antho escape! www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb...

In case there are From heads following me (my husband and son are HUGE fans btw-- I like it but I'm kind of a scary fare wimp) -- anyway! -- From, starring the exceptional Harold Perrineau, returns on MGM+ April 19.

Hello Lunchtime Crowd the galaxy is at war in today’s review

Runalong Womble@runalongwomble.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New Review - happy publication day to this fine finale to a great series. I highly recommend the action packed space opera Wolfskin by Jeremy Szal out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/3/...

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Went ahead and talked about AI in writing and publishing (aka, that Shy Girl shit), and the perhaps unseen perniciousness of how AI can utterly fuck up the fidelity of our information environment --

Shy Girl, AI In Writing, And A New Perniciousness

I wanna talk about Cameron’s The Terminator and Carpenter’s The Thing, but first, let’s get it out of the way — If you know anything at all about me in this Current Era, it …

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Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

Resident Evil Requiem is a video game about a woman named Grace who's having a very bad time and a man named Leon who's having a very good time

Wolfskin is (finally!) dropping in one week, concluding the Common Saga! Personally, I'm really excited. 😁

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

DaVaun Sanders@davaun.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Finally get to cartwheel about this in public!!! 🔥🔥🔥 A collection from some of the BEST authors in these SFF streets, and a celebration of @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social

"Locus is authentic in a sea of commercial opportunism." @fondalee.bsky.social writes about @locusmag.bsky.social's impact on SFF writers and readers across its fifty-eight years. And right now, the magazine needs our help:

Locus Is a Longstanding Bright Spot in Our Community - Reactor

Let’s show up and support them the way they support us.

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This image was posted by the official Project Hail Mary account on Facebook, and all I have to say is that their marketing people deserve a raise. Now I want the movie tie-in version of the novel to feature this as the cover.

This is the take. When I saw the Nvidia AI filter, my first thought was "those devs made games like RE9 look the way they do on purpose..."

Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is so disrespectful to the intentional art direction of devs. If devs wanted to lean in to hyper realism they would. This also drastically changes key aspects of visuals like character features, focal points, lighting and so on. What a terrible invention. Nvidia should shelve this one 😭

The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google. The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google. Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/google...

Google's AI Searches Love to Refer You Back to Google

The company's generative AI search tools increasingly cite its own services, like Google Search and YouTube, over third-party publishers.

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Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

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