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Christopher Hennessy

@thealtchris.bsky.social

SFF Writer | Poet (1 book) | Interviewer (2 books on Queer writers) Here to signal boost SFF voices with daily takes on what I’m reading and digging 📚 —and why. Golden age fan + debut, indie, queer cheerleader. Join me in building a community! ✨ #Booksky

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Christopher Hennessy@thealtchris.bsky.social · 2w ago

@amalelmohtar.com selects 3 books about war that are rooted in "bewildered grief" (!!). Great fiction teaches empathy, and maybe if more of us embraced grief as love (instead of power), we'd not be so fucked. Books mentioned by authors @qntm.org, @slhuang.com. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...

New Science Fiction About Truth and Lies in an Age of War

Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.

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Christopher Hennessy@thealtchris.bsky.social · last mo.

@file770.bsky.social - maybe another one for your Pixel lists? Apologies if you already included and I missed it. from the great @mariapopova.bsky.social www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/17/l...

The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up

It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It is less like the evolutionary diagram of th…

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Christopher Hennessy@thealtchris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I adore @mariapopova.bsky.social @file770.bsky.social , with mad respect for your site, this is the kind of thing I love seeing on it, in case it's of interest. Apologies if you posted and I missed it! www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/06/j....

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

“Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.”

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Christopher Hennessy@thealtchris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thanks, @mikechenwriter.bsky.social and @jennaschmenna.bsky.social. Very much worth the read, especially re: the convo around: "What I would go on to discover was that I would hear either [too scifi for a literary press.”] or the inverse...." jennasatterthwaite.substack.com/p/a-chat-wit...

A chat with NYT Bestselling author Mike Chen

On IP work, what it really feels like to hit the NYT list, and writing in too many genres to count

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Christopher Hennessy@thealtchris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

List includes: Great time travel concepts: @josepheckert.bsky.social and @jessicagolds.bsky.social Winner best title: @angelahur.bsky.social And a book that automatically goes on TBR list b/c I loved his Cabin at the End of the World: @paultremblay.bsky.social lithub.com/unicorn-dive...

Unicorn Diversions, Robot Valets, and More: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

In just a few weeks, the summer solstice marks the longest day of the year on June 21. To get you ready, here’s this month’s excellent SFF offerings. An actress joins a Time Travel Agency that’s al…

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Christopher Hennessy@thealtchris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@sygwriter.bsky.social thank you somuch for this. This is the kind of writing that truly matters. Imagination IS hope. Imagination is an act of emapthy. Imagination is a form of magic. And all of this is especially true and especially meaniingful for queer people. lithub.com/tending-the-...

Tending the Fire: Exploring AIDS Writing of the Last Ten Years

There are countless testimonies, books, poetry collections, plays, visual works and films from queer people amid the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, surviving in the midst of so much death. Many …

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