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If you can believe it, we've reached #Shelfies 78! (or is it 73?). Antiquarian bookseller Henry Wessells shares some of his favourites here, including Kavan, Gilman and Straub. What else can you spot?
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Judge Dee (a vampire) facing a lady with her face turned, on the docks at night, with bats flying in the sky.
Let's celebrate Vampire Friday with this forthcoming magnificence!
Not saying this is the greatest movie ever made, but I AM saying this is the greatest balloon noir movie ever made
Excerpt + PB Release
Winders by Ryan O’Nan from JAB Books
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“Clever, kinetic, and personal, O’Nan’s prose will keep your bedside lamp burning till the wee hours.” — Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising
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BRANDON SANDERSON MISTBORN 山 DAN MOREN ETERNITY'S TOMB SARAH J. MAAS ¥ HEIR FIRE 19. Mistborn Brandon Sanderson * 4.7 (4.4K) 20. Eternity's Tomb Dan Moren 21. Heir of Fire Sarah J. Maas * 4.7 (6.5K)
Look, I try not to be swayed by petty contests like sales charts, but it's always nice to pop in there in during pre-order week and find myself squeezed between Brandon Sanderson and Sarah J. Maas, no matter how fleeting. (Thanks, preorderers, you're swell.)
One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson. "A Simulation scenario that digs deeper than the Matrix movies ever did." --Peter Watts, author of The Freeze-Frame Revolution.
Today's the day! One Level Down is out in the world! In a simulated universe, a 58-year-old woman is forced to look and act 5 years old. I had a blast writing this novella, and I hope you'll enjoy reading it! @tachyonpub.bsky.social @jenazantian.bsky.social
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, weird, etc. from around the world
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Highly recommend! Mitchell has a great sense for noir and sci-fi with just the right touch of humor.
Grab it free while you can!
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Hello! I'm the author of the "10 Cent Universe", a sci-fi macrocosm of genre-bending stories. "The Starship Australis Mysteries" follows a disgraced detective on a generation ship, while "Gunslingers of Gaea" is a western series on a new planet orbiting Tau Ceti. Lots more books/series on the way!
Crimson blooms against black,
kaleidoscope nightmare
baring its teeth
biting into the
beat of my heart
which slows
and stills
and stops
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"Dear Diary, my middle-aged angst has a body count. Coupland was a boomer—this is the sci-fi crime novel for Generation X."
-Nick Mamatas, author of Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest and I Am Providence
Happy book birthday to @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social and This Is My Body! I’m so proud of this book and of Lindsay—we worked hard on it editorially and for every note she did something better than I could have imagined
Fueled by cake and coffee, I have written a few hundred words about moss dragons; the start of a fantasy story that I will brazenly embed into my otherwise science fiction #WIP
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Eligibility post time! Catching up on your 2025 reading? I had a couple things out that I'd love for you to read:
My short story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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Hugo awards nominations are approaching, and I’m just going to say, if I find out that Dispelling Fantasies is nominated in the best related category, I promise to post a video of my seriously unhinged reaction! Please consider Dispelling Fantasies if you’re able to nominate!
The journal Extrapolation has a copy of Dispelling Fantasies if anyone is interested in reviewing.
That news! My boys, right there. Manners and werewolves indeed.
And plenty of Edith, Poppy, Silas, Viola, and the rest. ♦️❤️♣️✨
Black Boys Burning. The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School By Grif Stockley
7. Grif Stockley wrote a book about the tragedy in 2021.
Grif Stockley, who has written several books about forgotten Black history im Arkansas. Including a Daisy Bates biography and the 1919 Elaine Arkansas massacre.
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big patricia lockwood news over on elle today 👀 @tricialockwood.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
A blue banner reading "Hugo Award Nominations Now Open with the LAcon V star/wings logo in the bottom right
Me, in a red pullover, holding a copy of These Burning Stars in a bookstore
Me, in a red jacket, pointing at a copy of On Vicious Worlds on a bookstore shelf.
Me, in a green hoodie, holding a copy of This Brutal Moon in a bookstore
THE KINDOM TRILOGY is eligible for Best Series at the Hugos! And I finally saw THIS BRUTAL MOON in a bookstore! Show a girl some love. @orbitbooks.bsky.social @awfulagent.bsky.social @laworldcon.bsky.social
THE TWO LIES OF FAVEN SYTHE by @meganeokeefe.bsky.social - Fast-paced twisty sapphic space fantasy w/pirates!
FATE'S BANE by @clclark.bsky.social - Sweeping epic novella that will break your heart!
CASTHEN GAIN by @essahansen.bsky.social - Interdimensional chef gets caught up in a battle royale!
I'm going on tour!!
This is only part 1 of the stops to come, but please come join me to talk about books, fantasy, and cats.
We kick things off in the Bay Area at the Redwood City Public Library in Redwood City, CA on March 3rd at 6:15 with Fireside Books! #bayarea
Happy pub day to @kalynjosephson.bsky.social and THE LIBRARY OF AMORLIN!!
Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
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Aloha mai kākou! The Killing Spell release date will now be April 2026!
E kala mai to those expecting their copy in November!
A screenshot from The Continent. Partial text: The Continent 28 FEBRUARY 2026 | ISSUE 230 TC BOOK REVIEW BY JACQUELINE NYATHI How safe is sound? If you haven't explored the Sautiverse yet, you're missing out on a fascinating project from an African collective. THE SAUÚTIVERSE is Afrocentric fantasy centred on sound. This universe is held together by the mysterious Mothersound, its magic mediated through song, instruments, and words. Sauúti Terrors, the second short-story collection (after Mothersound) expands the Sauútiverse in dark directions. It brings welcome depth. The editors of the latest anthology - Cheryl Ntumy, Eugen Bacon, and Stephen Embleton - wanted to bring realism to this imaginary African future by showing readers that "everything is not perfect in the federation of planets". In Sauúti Terrors, sound magic is perverted through human failing, through its sheer power, or because good, life-giving sound must have its antithesis in destructive anti-sound (or silence). The collection's authors - including Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Wole Talabi, T.L. Huchu, Moustapha Mbacké Diop, J. Umeh, and more - show us what could go wrong. In Umeh's excellent The Sounding, a healer learns of ancient, evil beings when she becomes inhabited by one. A similarly chilling exploration occurs in Kofi Nyameye's The Unspoken, which unpacks clandestine government experiments at secret military bases. Ntumy's Where Daylight Bows to Darkness gives us an alternate view of 2024's Song for the Shadows in which we meet the mysterious Shad-Dari for the second time. A spacecraft in Wole Talabi's The Final Flight of the Ungu-ugnu is powered by humans singing in chorus. Xan van Rooyen's unsettling Kyi'yaji features anti-music recorded in scars - which can be played back.
Some of my thoughts on this excellent collection in this week's @thecontinent.org, which you can download here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
Welcome to the final reckoning.
SEASON OF THE SERPENT 🐍, the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy, is out from Orbit Books in August 2026. Buckle up.
Our featured author this week was @jackiecozyauthor.bsky.social. You can see all of her cozies here: cozymystery.com/authors/jack...
