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Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ πͺπΊ | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025) https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Book cover with title Multitude by Marie Vibbert image of tentacles rising from a calm sea with stars behind small print cover design by Mikio Murakami Silent Q Design art by Robert CarterCracked Hat Illustration
Cover Reveal!!Β Pre-order my first-contact story about empathy, hope, and carnivorous squid, Multitude here: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/multitude?_pos=1&_psq=mult&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Reminder that we're running another microfiction contest inspired by @reasie.bsky.social's upcoming deep sea sci-fi MULTITUDE! Deadline is next Monday, March 9th! ποΈ π¦
Very excited and honored!
Seb Doubinsky author picture
Delighted to announce the exciting new speculative novella by Seb Doubinsky, The Machine, for the award-winning Luna Novella 2027! Luna Press has acquired EWR from Matt Bialer, of New York Sanford J. Greenburger Associates www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/unveili... @sebdoubinsky.bsky.social β€οΈ
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If you're looking for dark fantasy with
*warring Mage Houses
*monstrous god-kings from another realm
*queer disasters not exactly eating each other alive
*traumatised siblings and dysfunctional family
*bringing back the dead
*people making terrible life choices
then son I have you covered
Werewolves can be friends and allies, dangerous predators, or folks just trying to survive. Here are six standalone novels that explore very different takes on life as a lyncanthrope...
Who's a big fan of @readingtheend.bsky.social? The whole internet, that's who.
Really pleased Jenny is back at SH with this review on a curious romcomantasy (it's her term, don't @ me).
"Is this a good book? I donβt know. What even does it mean to be good?"
A fascinating conversation about style in SFF from Strange Horizons, between Paul Kincaid (who recently reviewed Whitney French's Syncopation), Dawn Mcdonald and Dan Hartland.
POETRY by Janet McAdams Afterstory Quote Even as the trees were softening, their bark for the hungry to scrape and scrape and spread it on whatever bread they could beg or bake. end Quote 2 March 2026 Strange Horizons
Afterstory
by Janet McAdams @janetthemcadams.bsky.social
"Even as the trees were softening, their bark for the hungry to scrape and scrape and spread it on whatever bread they could beg or bake."
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Good news: my dragon is now on Netgalley!
Itβs a different sort of dragon rider novel: one from the dragonβs POV. Heβs just here for the free food, he swears.
If you are an ARC-ish sort, there is a Read Now window open through Friday.
"A really pronounced style might feel in the way, but I think that science fiction is such a capacious genre that it has space for a lot of experimentation."
Let's talk more about words! Thanks to @ndbooks.bsky.social and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for work that sparks these sorts of conversation.
Cover of Nick Hubble's Culture Wars in Britain: The Myth of Exceptionalism and the Reality of Division. This in the 'Society Now' series of Emerald Publications. Background red with pattern of black culture mask symbols - titles in black against white circle in middle of cover.
We are getting closer to the 13th May 2026 publication of my book Culture Wars in Britain. I explain how far from being a superficial recent import from the US, culture wars have played a central role in British life since at least the 1910 constitutional crisis. We need to take them seriously (1/3)
I'm so glad and really appreciate your review!
Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions
Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!
More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit β¬οΈ
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Such a joy to read this brilliant review of my novella in Strange Horizons! π₯Ή Also, published in March - timing couldn't be better π±πΈ
Huge thank you to Nick! It's a real honour to have their eyes on my work. And I'm always so grateful to Dan who's a fantastic editor and a lovely, supportive person.
If you're a Woman in Horror, be it artist, illustrator, author, writer, reviewer, director, WHATEVER-
Say hi and link to your work here!
Let's make a thread of Horror from Women that people can peruse & discover some cool, new stuff
I'll start, in the comments/replies :)
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Such a joy to read this brilliant review of my novella in Strange Horizons! π₯Ή Also, published in March - timing couldn't be better π±πΈ
Huge thank you to Nick! It's a real honour to have their eyes on my work. And I'm always so grateful to Dan who's a fantastic editor and a lovely, supportive person.
Up at SH today: @thehubble101.bsky.social on Hana Carolina's The Inescapable March. They find it an "engaging and emotionally intelligent" fantasy which "combines wit, humour, and magic."
Nick also has Thoughts on contemporary fantasy. That the novella sparks them seems another sign of its quality.
I'm in here!! Let's get it done folks πͺ
π¨ SOUND THE PODCAST KLAXON!
A new episode of Critical Friends has just arrived, fresh-faced, in your feeds. Paul Kincaid and @yukondawn.bsky.social talk to me about style: what is it, what place has it taken up in SFF, and why is it so fraught?
Come for Le Guin and Vonnegut, stay for police raids.
We're super excited to share with you all the stunning pieces that we'll be publishing in Issue 6: Craving. These pieces are sharp, tender, strange, hungry, and impossible to forget.
Issue 6 will be out May 1st, and we can't wait for you to read! π©Έ
A muted greyscale banner for short story, The Mirror and the Wind by Andrew Senior published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring an ornate mirror on a light coloured wall.
It has been uncharacteristically sunny around the tower today. We're certain that the weather is up to something. We're uncertain whether that something is nefarious. We'll distract ourselves with today's story:
"The Mirror and the Wind" by Andrew Senior
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Left cover of The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillipΒ featuring a person sleeping draped over a rock with a black horse in the background. Right REVIEWS Quote The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is by and large concerned with three thingsβhow can imagination set people free, what do people imagine, and how do those imagined things/people/places connect and change throughout space and time? reviewer: Roy Salzman-Cohen 23 February 2026 Strange Horizons
The reviews are in!
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillipΒ
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
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#bookreviews #fantasy #patriciaamckillip
Thought-provoking article here. I don't strictly agree with the definition of lit fic, or the lines drawn between that and spec fic. But the conversation about interrogating change and choices and power is great (and timely)
NON-FICTION Quote Every world build makes choices about where agency rested in the great stages of its past, using histories as models and also practicing the historianβs craft: making claims about how the world changes, and who has the power to change it. end Quote Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians by Ada Palmer 23 February 2026 Strange Horizons
Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians
by Ada Palmer
"Every world build makes choices about where agency rested in the great stages of its past, using histories as models and also practicing the historianβs craft..."
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Audio book cover for The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen - two siblings in silhouette stand in front of a blue and red aurora with monstrous eyes
Audio book cover for A Million Points of Light by CL Hellisen. A single silhouetted figure stands in front of a strange being of ice and light
My Crossfades duology is now all up on Audible, narrated by the very talented Omari Douglas from Black Doves.
If dark queer fantasy is your jam, then you might like this in your ear holes.
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βOkotie arrives at a vision which allows for chaos whilst also arriving at a new clarity through dialog. Is SF equipped to make the formal innovations necessary to survive into the futures it foresees?β
Kudos to @melvillehouse.bsky.social for publishing work like Okotieβs. We need it to think with
What future for the novel of the future? What are the bits of SF that might enable it to persist, or help the novel itself survive? How might writers reuse them?
My latest Snap! column for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org: βSF can formally as well as intellectually contribute to the effort of revival.β
