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Martha Wells

@marthawells.com

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SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Jul 22

Linking to this Scientific American interview again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells

Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

www.scientificamerican.com

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Embyr Rose @itsembyrrose.bsky.social · 1h

Had the delight of meeting @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @marthawells.com tonight with some of my favorite people!

@ashzelda.bsky.social @curiouscatart.bsky.social

Embyr, Ash, and Cat posing at the front of a selfie with Chuck Wendig and Martha Wells indulging us from behind the signing table.

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Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam @bonniejostuffle.bsky.social · 7h

Psssssst, I need your help!
My partner and I designed a game, programmed it (!), and some rad creatives (f*ck AI) helped flesh it out... and the demo is live!

It would help the tiny team SO much if people would play and review! 🙏

store.steampowered.com/app/3701990/...

Bad Heroes on Steam

Save the world and romance misfit heroes in the first-ever dating sim and beat-em-up! When a crime wave grips Gloom City, you and your ragtag band of heroes-for-hire uncover shocking truths about the ...

store.steampowered.com

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 8h

We're kicking off your weekend with some Cuban SFF recommendations! How many of these authors have you read?

The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez; These Vengeful Wishes by Vanessa Montalban; Red Dust by Yoss; A Legend of the Future by Augustín de Rojas; The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton; and The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez

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Chron.com @chron.com · 8h

The lie just won't stop spreading.

Fake story puts real Texas woman in Olive Garden breadsticks hell

The lie just won't stop spreading.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11h

Tonight, Friday October 10, with @chuckwendig.bsky.social !

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 5d

Oct 10 Let's Play Books, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 4/11

theendbooks.co/event/2025-1...

Martha Wells, in Conversation with Chuck Wendig

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

theendbooks.co

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 8h

Re-upping this because it has been a very slow day on the Kickstarter and I don’t want to have to worry that people stopped backing us because I talked about queer stuff.

Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 16h

Hooray! We are past 50% in our campaign. Thank you, everyone!

Today Cheryl is off to Aberystwyth for the October Queer Lit Quarterly meeting. In honour of that, today's update tells the very queer story of our cover. (Content warning for sexual assault.)
www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: 53 participants involved in the Vyvgart trial for Long COVID are calling on the government to fund research for the drug after they saw significant improvements that the study didn’t capture.

thesicktimes.org/2025/10/10/v...

Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. - The Sick Times

We are a group of 53 individuals with Long COVID from across the U.S. In 2023, we joined a Long COVID clinical trial for Vyvgart (efgartigimod), a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FD...

thesicktimes.org

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 10h

Hey Minnesota: ICE is now on the ground in NE Minneapolis. See thread. Stay alert everyone!

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 12h

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 10h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 11h

Folks, I read an ARC of this and I highly recommend it.

E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social · 8d

It lives! (Out next week but copies apparently shipping already 👀) My first UK hardback 🥰

Finished hardback editions of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift against a garden backdrop, showing front cover.

Finished hardback editions of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift against a garden backdrop, showing back cover.

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 11h

We can see from losses in recent school board elections around Texas and the number of local groups fighting censorship documented by @penamerica.bsky.social that Americans are tired of library censorship battles and are pushing back.

What can you do? Join @uabookbans.bsky.social to start!

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11h

Thank you! See you tonight!

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11h

Thanks, it’s been great so far!

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11h

Tonight, Friday October 10, with @chuckwendig.bsky.social !

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 5d

Oct 10 Let's Play Books, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 4/11

theendbooks.co/event/2025-1...

Martha Wells, in Conversation with Chuck Wendig

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

theendbooks.co

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 12h

Washington, DC, save the date: @sentencebender.bsky.social and I will be at Little District Books on October 29 at 7 PM ET.

Registration is free, but space is limited. Tell your friends!

Link to register: littledistrictbooks.com/products/app...

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 1d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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meh 🎃 @mharvey816.bsky.social · 13h

They're destroying packages. On purpose this time. Wow.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”

@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12h

The alleged home tree of the Wood Sprite known as Blood Squall. His reputation is high among the fiercest and most troubling of cursers. His favoured appeasements are said to be the medicate wine Tor Tonic, items of pewter, chocolate raisins and teeth – human or animal.

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Karis Rogerson 🏳️‍🌈 @karisselizabeth.bsky.social · 13h

here's a piece on book bans i wrote this summer, feat. reflections and stories from authors @adibkhorram.bsky.social, @kylelukoff.bsky.social, and @katrynwrites.bsky.social as well as my own reflections. ty @electricliterature.com for publishing it!

electricliterature.com/book-bans-co...

Book Bans Continue to Threaten the Wellbeing of Authors - Electric Literature

There are societal, financial, legal, and emotional consequences to book challenges, and writers are facing the brunt of these attacks

electricliterature.com

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VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 13h

If you’re going to NYCC today, come see me and Marie Lu talk Red City, To Clutch a Razor, and urban fantasy today at 11am in 1B02! Bonus, you’ll get an early copy of my next book Seek the Traitor’s Son. ✨

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 13h

Hey guess what? My 2023 novelette "Here Instead Of There" is available at @escapepod.org in two parts!

It's about ethics, meteorology, crony capitalism, and some courageous dirtbags.

escapepod.org/2025/10/02/e...

escapepod.org/2025/10/09/e...

Escape Pod 1013: Here Instead of There (Part 1 of 2)

Waking up sick in a punk house shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody so I don’t know why it always came as a surprise to me. My head throbbed so bad I couldn’t tell the difference between the hangover…

escapepod.org

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 1d

We are $225 from MORE ART! We want to be able to commission one or more additional queer artists to create even more art! Think headers, dividers, the little flourishes and interior art details that bring things to life! Help us support more queer art! 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 14h

Danes prispel iz tiskarne, kmalu na knjižnih policah. Fentabotovi dnevniki 1 / The Murderbot Diaries izjemne @marthawells.com v mojem prevodu.
Prednaročilo že na Fejstbranje fejstbranje.si/produkt/fent...
(Medtem se druga knjiga odpravlja v lekturo.)

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 13h

Congrats!!