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The Wildcraft Drones by T K Rex Rex’s debut collection takes its name from AI-powered drones, but the 14 connected sci-fi tales within prove deeply human. The o...

My publisher emailed me this today, it’s a review?? Of a book?!? That I wrote ?!?!?!! 😳🫣😮
(thanks @stelliform.press !)

www.publishersweekly.com/9781998466030

Locus Awards Announces Guest of Honor Stephen Graham Jones locusmag.com/2026/03...

Bittersweet Endings (for All Who Live to See Such Times) - Uncanny Magazine This is a story about the theatrical release of The Fellowship of the Ring, about finding hope in your despair and despair in your hope, and about the year 2001. I first read The Lord of the Rings at ...

I wrote a personal essay about my love for bittersweet endings and LOTR, via the awfulness of the year 2001. And uh I wasn't expecting history to be rhyming quite so hard this week but here we are 😓

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/bitt...

What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...

I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

“What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

i keep seeing writers who want both:
* to be bold iconoclasts going against the pretenses and trends of the day and
* to have a perfect 5.0 review score on goodreads

and like, I'm sorry. those things don't go together.

Hugo Award Nominations Now Open

Hey Hugo nominating people. You know who you are. Now's the time to nominate your favourite works from 2025 for the greatest, most stupendous, most prestigious award in the entire universe: The Hugo Award!

A striking portrait of a triangular-headed tortico cat with big green eyes, perched on a window seat.

as i travel to baltimore all i can think of is the anya i leave behind

Flash Fiction Online - SPECIAL CALL -- "Tiny Gods" FFO Special Call: “Tiny Gods” Speculative fiction about small, personal rituals and moments of worship to the tiny gods in the protagonist’s life. Flash Fiction Online is seeking speculative fiction s...

My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards ahead of the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader

"Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/bf99...

You are… dangerously curious🥀 Now this is hardly appropriate behavior on anyone's part...

This month's news letter has one final little taste of whats to come + some important info before Hunting the Scavenger comes out in just a few short weeks!
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‘Not again’: Gaza rushes to stockpile amid Iran war, crossing closures Crossing closures following US-Israel war with Iran spark panic buying in Gaza, where residents fear food shortages.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Vindictive israel finds another way to punish #Gaza - food shipments have ground to a halt causing starvation, panic

The zionist state's institutional cruelty surprises even the most hardened of aid workers

It's sickening & the world awakes to more 🇺🇲🇮🇱 horror

a black and white typography edit that reads "i am making permanent choices because i want permanent changes." the text is in all caps and is printed over a opened case of tools. the image is textured with very small halftone dots

i ❣️ bodily autonomy

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️

Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW!

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Twin Peaks opening with text reading Kaleidotrope

Damn fine cup of coffee!

Trio of people covered in dust and ash, including an elderly woman and a man carrying a woman in his arms. The street behind them is in flames.

Tehran tonight.

Twenty people were killed in a US–Israeli attack on Niloufar Square, a busy mixed residential and commercial neighborhood in Tehran.

(The photo was taken by Iran’s Student News Network and has been geolocated.)

digital illustration of various antiques including, a ceremonial dagger, a netsuke, a pistol, a bell, a whistle, a music box, and a statuesque container

drew some things from the v&a museum catalogue

CONGRATS TO YOU TOO NICO <33

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Dungeons & Dragons monk in a combat pose with a determined expression. They have a long black braid, and one of their eyelids is closed.

thinking about my #dnd guy 🫣

no war on iran, hands off iran. the united states and israel are an existential threat to all human life.

JOYOUS CONGRATULATIONS to all the @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling nominees!!!

to my astonishment, my long poem “One Hundred Thousand Legends and the Longing Underneath,” published by @cbdroege.bsky.social, is among them! ⚔️

i share this honor with gamers everywhere

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False Beet - Small Wonders Her lips pale as chalk, / she begs me for sustenance. / There is nothing left.

Sharing again my favorite poem from last year (by @rjaurand.bsky.social), because it was nominated for a Rhysling <3 smallwondersmag.com/piece/false-...

“This is mad,” Trishna says, clinging to the Dagný‘s taffrail. “It’s a mad thing, Jack.”

“Wouldn’t be the first,” Jack says as he pulls his shirt over his head, shivering in the fresh cold of the twilight.

Trishna doesn’t laugh.

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i’m biased but i think you’ll like this one. friendship! courage! lobster dads!

Flash Roundup * Jan/Feb 2026 A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

Jan/Feb speculative flash roundup + bonus recs!

Myna oh my goodness. I read these round-ups like clockwork and to see one of MY humble stories on it is astonishing in the best way!!! I am so happy that “Songbook” resonated with you! Thank you for showing the community such love with your attention and your thoughts! You make it richer <3

AAAH, it made my week to see “Songbook for the Jovian Resistance” in such esteemed company! I’M ON A MYNA CHANG ROUND-UP! :’)

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Psst, can we interest you in a cover for next month's issue? We love Sandy Butchers's bucolic painting of a young kid with their dragon. It's not too late to get this issue if you subscribe today! smallwonders.lemonsq...