Thanks, it was really fun!
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Thanks, it was really fun!
Recent midlist SFF books that deserve everything:
The Tales of the Plains trilogy by @davewragg.com
The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social
Seven Recipes for Revolution by @ryanprose.bsky.social
A bit older but The Graven trilogy by @essahansen.bsky.social
Reminder!!
Tomorrow, I'll be doing an AMA on r/fantasy on reddit, staring at about midmorning Eastern time, pop on in if you have any questions, or if you want to show me pictures of your dog!
Reminder!!
Tomorrow, I'll be doing an AMA on r/fantasy on reddit, staring at about midmorning Eastern time, pop on in if you have any questions, or if you want to show me pictures of your dog!
Reddit-heads, Reddistas, Redditory birds, etc, I am doing an r/Fantasy AMA on 3/3/26 starting at around 10 AM Eastern. Mark the date and ask me about the dogs in my life (and also my books if you really want to)
Reddit-heads, Reddistas, Redditory birds, etc, I am doing an r/Fantasy AMA on 3/3/26 starting at around 10 AM Eastern. Mark the date and ask me about the dogs in my life (and also my books if you really want to)
The Part is supposed to come at different times for different people! Never early, never late, but precisely when it means to
Weirdos are 100000% my target demographic
You don't need a marketing department, you just need a bunch of weirdos to make a podcast about your book and recommend it to other weirdos
CC @hironennes.bsky.social
Read The Works of Vermin, people
Your boy's on the Locus 2025 Recommended reading list, not once, not twice, but thrice!
Aside from The Works of Vermin, I have stories in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
READ THEM, and congrats everyone!
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
Couverture de « The Works of Vermin » de Hiron Ennes.
@hironennes.bsky.social 's "The Works of Vermin" is a remarkable book and you should read it if you like anything weird or weird adjacent.
Or just remarkable books in general.
I have many thoughts and I might try to put them in order at some point, but boy, I am stunned.
We all must stan the Bishop!
Me and @jonathanthornton.bsky.social discuss a fantastically bizarre book! @hironennes.bsky.social 🥰
The STP newsletter has returned! In which I elaborate on what I mean when I say we don't publish moralising stories. Expect copious reference to Walter Benjamin.
this list by @naomikritzer.bsky.social is excellent & helpful, & of course i hate that we need it, but we really need it. please read & share.
everyone can do at least one thing from this list every day & that's a fact.
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
GET WEIRD. BECOME TREE.
Reading the Weird dissects @hironennes.bsky.social's "Our Best Selves," first published in Weird Horror 🪴🪴🪴
Hey worms, give this a listen! A fascinating discussion of aesthetic regime change, the conflation of high art and realpolitik, mistranslating Gramsci, and, of course, spoilers for The Works of Vermin.
Really cool episode--can't wait to read the essay
The WORKS OF VERMIN by hiron ennes surrounded by leaves and plants and shit
THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
The Works of Vermin, @hironennes.bsky.social. What if you got a book about the pest exterminators in Yhanam or Ambergris? An absolutely astounding portrait of a city via the people who help keep it running, some absolutely astounding imagery that I particularly liked rolling around in mentally
This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather
The author and their books: Kerstin Hall, author of ASUNDER The book they'd love for Xmas ALECTO THE NINTH THE HOUSE OF LEAVES Their favourite read of 2025 THE WORKS OF VERMIN Their anticipated read of 2026 RADIANT STAR THE HALLOWED GAME #2
We asked @kerstinhall.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the books she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated reads of '26.
Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @hironennes.bsky.social @markzdanielewski.bsky.social @anneleckie.bsky.social & more!
https://geni.us/asunder
The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social
Finished it, went "how did I not realise???" and then immediately read it again
It was even better the second time, getting to really enjoy all the world building and see just how well everything is put together. I am absolutely feral about it
My New Year’s resolution is to be even more of a hater to “A.I.”
A soul-murdering scam to create a generation of dead-inside drones - if you use it on the reg you’re a clown at best and if you promote it you’re lower than the shit on Satan’s hoof, sorry I don’t make the rules etc.
Hey, thanks! glad you like it
The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social - One of the weirdest things I've ever read. I didn't understand it - AT ALL - but I loved every moment. My ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review is here, for what it's worth; I try to talk about it, but I'm not convinced that's possible. Just go read it. bit.ly/4jp14ek
I have been infested by THE WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social and can only sing thanks to the mechanics of my transformation. What an absolutely brilliant work of art, and if it isn’t on lists for Best Novel next year, I shall dive into the Catoptric.
*deep breath* READ THE WORKS OF VERMIN
Having recently read Deep Water, Strangers on a Train, and now making my way through the entirety of the Mr. Ripley canon, I still have to say my favorite Patricia Highsmith character is George Santos.
