@ewenmaer
SFFH writer & nerd, associate ed. @EscapePod | π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ they/δ½’/keoi5 | words in Amplitudes, Uncanny, The Deadlands, etc. | indie cantopop enthusist | http://ewenma.com (terfs, tankies, tories, & zionists gtfo) π
Live in BCS #450 β Science-Fantasy Month 8: "Precipice Sun" by @ewenmaer.bsky.social "Do you remember Vaihuei-Sing still, Aohane? Iβm just sorry you arenβt here to see this star through my eyes. You would have fallen in love with it the way I have." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/prec...
Thank you!! π
My new (scifantasy, F/F) novelette "Precipice Sun" is now free to read in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! This piece has a special place in my heart, and I'm really excited (and nervous) for it to finally be out in the world alongside the other excellent stories in this science fantasy issue of BCS. π€
"Medusa's Ship, or the Thing About Bodies" is out now! Formally Experimental Greeks in Space, anyone? www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/medu...
@bcsmagazine.bsky.social also did an incredible job podcasting the story. Listen, I am in awe: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-35...
New (double!) Issue: BCS #450 Science-Fantasy Month 8! Stories Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social and Ewen Ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social today, @rhiannonheld.bsky.social and @eskaftun.bsky.social next week (but in ebook now), podcast of Theodoridou. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, βBarbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "Our meetings have become ritual by now: me and Tsing, once every few seasons, or years, or decades, or however long it takes for one of us to buckle from the weight of our individual lonelinesses and contact the other first."
ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine Poll?
Try the short story "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" by Ewen Ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/2INC09Q
BCS #450 ebook--double-issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8!--out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers; stories @nassos.bsky.social @rhiannonheld.bsky.social @ewenmaer.bsky.social @eskaftun.bsky.social weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJN1JQWD
I hardly ever post here, but since I'm back I just want to highlight this new animation from Hong Kong-- it's a gorgeous dark Ghibli-esque fantasy called "Another World" that's screening across the UK right now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaux...
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report dated 22 January 2026 that reads: "Author of SOUR CHERRY Natalia Theodoridou's ANNA DREAMS OF A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY, about a filmmaker attempting to memorialize his time as a transgender political rebel in 1960s Greece, cycling between screenplay, recollection, and present-day curation of letters and historical documents, pitched as a puzzle-box story of loyalty, memory, revolution, and the ghosts that haunt a nation, to Masie Cochran at Tin House Books, for publication in 2028, by Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary Management (NA)."
π£ New novel announcement:
ANNA DREAMS OF A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY is coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2028. When people ask what it's about, I say it's like SOUR CHERRY, except the haunted house is Greece, and Bluebeard is fascism. π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπβ
Keep writing your queer, trans, antifascist books, friends.
Cover art by Tyler Edlin for BCS Science Fantasy Month Issue 8, featuring two space-suited figures approaching a monolithic statue of an alien with a glowing amber gem in its forehead
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, and it's the science fantasy month special double issue! Featuring stories by @nassos.bsky.social, @rhiannonheld.bsky.social, @ewenmaer.bsky.social, and @eskaftun.bsky.social and cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
Fusion Fragment #27 Cover, mostly in various shades of green, features a skull on a floor, with green stalks, leaves, and shoots growing out of them, some with pink and purple flowers blooming. Bees alight on the flowers and skull, while red pills are scattered throughout.
The beautiful cover for FF#27 has arrived! Stunning work once again by @abistevensart.bsky.social!
Stories are coming your way soon from @ewenmaer.bsky.social @jyzh.bsky.social @julialicia.bsky.social @catenotkate.bsky.social @rossshowalter.com @katharinetyndall.bsky.social and Anya Leigh Josephs.
A huge thank you to everyone for bearing with me so far! I'd really appreciate it if you'll give these pieces a read, (and maaaaybe submit them to recommended reading lists if you like these stories enough?) π.
(these works and everything else I've written can be found in www.ewenma.com/works btw!)
And last (but not least!), "What Does Your Revolution Look Like? (or, A Dragon Crawls Across the Moon: A Movie in Two Acts)", a poem in @havenspec.bsky.social
www.havenspec.com/what-does-yo...
"Where the World Goes Sharp and Quiet", a short story in "Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity", published by Erewhon Books and edited by the incredible @leemandelo.bsky.social
(I'm particularly fond of this piece tbh.)
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
"Pale Serpent, Green Serpent", a fun lil queer flash about immortal snake-demons that's also near and dear to my heart, in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pale...
Hello! I've been radio silent since I'm pretty burnt out on everything (this year has been A Lot π), but I have 3 things out this year so: a 2025 awards eligibility thread!
Cover art for Amplitudes, over a pastel rainbow heart Canva background
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity "The Republic of Ecstatic Consent" by Sam J. Miller "Trans World Takeover" by Nat X Ray "The Orgasm Doula" by Colin Dean "The Shabbos Bride" by Esther Alter "MoonWife" by Sarah Gailey "Forever Won't End Like This" by Dominique Dickey "They Will Give Us a Home" by Wen-yi Lee "There Used to Be Peace" by Margaret Killjoy "Fettle & Sunder" by Ramez Yoakeim "Six Days" by Bendi Barrett "The They Whom We Remember" by Sunny Moraine "When the Devil Comes From Babylon" by Maya Deane "Copper Boys" by Jamie McGhee "A Few Degrees" by Ash Huang "Where the World Goes Sharp and Quiet" by Ewen Ma "Circular Universe" by Ta-wei Chi, trans. Ariel Chu "Blueprint for the Destruction of Solitude" by Paul Evanby "The Garden of Collective Memory" by Neon Yang "Sugar, Shadows" by Aysha U. Farah "A Step into Emptiness" by Aiki Mira, trans. CD Covington "pocket futures in the present past" by Katharine Duckett "Bang Bang" by Meg Elison
For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futuresβand I hope at least one of them will hit for you π€
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, βBarbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "Our meetings have become ritual by now: me and Tsing, once every few seasons, or years, or decades, or however long it takes for one of us to buckle from the weight of our individual lonelinesses and contact the other first."
Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" by Ewen Ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/xYpVeCp
Hi my story "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" is on this list, alongside a bunch of fantastic stories by some really incredible authors! Please give these stories a read, and if you enjoyed "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent", I'd be very honoured if you would consider it for 2025 SF/F awards nominations. π€
FFer Read of the Day: "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" by @ewenmaer.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pale...
βAMPLITUDES: STORIES OF QUEER AND TRANS FUTURITY is an exceptional speculative anthology.β @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social (@QueenOfRats) reviews a new anthology edited by @leemandelo (@leemandelo.bsky.social)
Emerging out of my hermit cave for a bit to say that I'll be attending Flights of Foundry (26-28 Sept) as a participant!
This year I'll be doing a bit of reading, a chill-and-chat (where you get to ask me stuff!), and a panel, plus moderating two other super cool panels as well. Come say hi!! β¨
Emerging out of my hermit cave for a bit to say that I'll be attending Flights of Foundry (26-28 Sept) as a participant!
This year I'll be doing a bit of reading, a chill-and-chat (where you get to ask me stuff!), and a panel, plus moderating two other super cool panels as well. Come say hi!! β¨
π³οΈβπSOME QUEER SHORT SFF - MAY 2025π³οΈβπ
I round up over 35 stories by @jlgeorge.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @domsdickey.bsky.social βͺ@authorizedmusings.bsky.socialβ¬ @ewenmaer.bsky.social @robotleblanc.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social & MORE!!!β¬
www.patreon.com/posts/132353...
I have two!! The first one is "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" in Uncanny (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pale...), and the second is "Where the World Goes Sharp and Quiet" in the Amplitudes anthology (bookshop.org/p/books/amplitudes-stories-of-queer-and-trans-futurity-lee-mandelo/21772078)!
Need some reading recs? This list includes tons of great stories, including some recent work by FFers @authorizedmusings.bsky.social and @ewenmaer.bsky.social!
What a delightful surprise to find "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pale...) mentioned here along with a bunch of other incredible stories!! This is one of my fave stories I've written, and it's super close to my heart. Thanks so much, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social β¨
FFer Read of the Day: "What Does Your Revolution Look Like?" by @ewenmaer.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social
www.havenspec.com/what-does-yo...
An advance copy of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity ed. by Lee Mandelo on a white mantle alongside a prismatic rainbow wash.
A vital and necessary anthology! AMPLITUDES is timely, at moments painfully so, rooted in persistent determination, and powerful in its hard-won perseverance. We have always been here and we will always be here, come flood and famine, beyond the atmosphere and in the heart of memory. A must read.
Cover for Amplitudes, a radiant glowing title
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Happy pub week to Lee Mandelo and AMPLITUDES: Stories of #Queer and #Trans Futurity! These stories will stay with you, and it's an honor to bring out this anthology at a time when readers need tales like these more than ever π π©΅π€π©·
#AuntieEditor @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @leemandelo.bsky.social