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Ren Hutchings

@voidcricket.bsky.social

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SFF writer, writing mentor, editor, reader, fan 🪐 Author of Under Fortunate Stars, An Unbreakable World, The Legend Liminal, more to come 💫 Rep: Ernie Chiara @ Fuse Literary 🚀 she/they 🏳️‍🌈 website: renhutchings.com links: linktr.ee/voidcricket

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · Sep 9

🪐💫 AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD is out now! @solarisbooks.bsky.social

It's a standalone space opera set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars. I hope you'll love Page, Maelle, Dalya & the Storyteller!

September 9th:
📱🎧 Ebook & audiobook
📖 US/Canada paperback

September 11th:
📖 UK/Europe paperback

Ren holds up a copy of An Unbreakable World against a pink cosmic background. The book cover features a planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.

A new standalone space opera set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars, available in ebook, audio & paperback. Out now from Solaris Books!

Image: A hand holds up a copy of AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD, against a pink cosmic background. The book cover features a planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.

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Jehan Vakharia (does everything) @jehandoeseverythin.bsky.social · 1d

"Breaching"

This is illustration #3 in my series celebrating A. D. Sui's soon to be released scifi novel "The Iron Garden Sutra"

It's also my first spaceship design!! So fun to draw :)

You can follow @thesuiway.bsky.social + @erewhonbooks.bsky.social for release updates and pre-order details!

A monk in white robes stands beyond the precipice of a massive glass window looking at a spaceship emerging from the dark void of space. The sky is a swirl of stars and lines made in a pencil texture. The whole piece is largely monochrome and has the feel of an old sci-fi novel cover painting

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 1d

If you enjoy my books, you might also enjoy: @taranhunt.bsky.social or @alexwhite.bsky.social for emotional, perilous space adventures, @rasinn.bsky.social for mind-breaking time stuff, @mikechenwriter.bsky.social for sci-fi stories to hook readers who don't usually like sci-fi 🛸

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 2d

What books should people be reading if they enjoy yourself? Shout them out! #WritingPrompt

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Bex Glendining @lgions.bsky.social · 2d

night sea

digital illustration of the sea at night. it’s in shades of blue except for the yellow moon and stars reflected in the water.

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 2d

There are a LOT of dragons in Strangehollow. They are found in all parts of the land, the coldest and the warmest, and in the great depths of the caves found under the mountains up north. #drawing #dragon #creature #art #sketch #dragonart

round/flat nosed dragon drawing with some nobbly horns

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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 2d

The shadows grow longer as enchantment swirls among the embers and whispers of this liminal season. We have 5 perfect books:
#books #sff #scifi #fantasy #horror

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 2d

It's the last Friday of this submission period for Translunar Travelers Lounge. If you have some fantasy, science fiction, or other speculative fiction 5000 words and under, why not submit?

(Open until 15th October, please check the guidelines)
translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 1d

i really have nothing to post about so uh space is cool and look at these pretty pictures of it thank you

$A wider field view of Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.$

A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.

A star cluster within a nebula. The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink gas that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end points toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink gas expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are more of these white stars and galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image.

$Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image. At bottom center is a glowing pale yellow, cave-like structure, its top tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave, 3 groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the cloud. The largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At top center, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.$

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 2d

$5 Worldwide shipping on my inprnt right now! witches, reapers, silly cats and star princesses all available!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...

#art #bsnm

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

In case you missed it earlier, GoH Kate Heartfield has also created a Can*Con 2025 Starter Pack so you can get inextricably linked with all your favourite Can*Con minds and gestalt consciousnesses!

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 22d

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

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kanda @kandaem.bsky.social · 2d

working on character c0mms today 💅 twitch.tv/kandaem #art

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bermondt_art | working on comms! @bermondt.bsky.social · 2d

red ⛓🩸🖤

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 2d

YOU DID IIIIT! NOW WE HAVE MORE ART!! This means pretty interior illustrations, small divider details, the little flourishes that will allow us to hire more queer artists per issue! Thank you so much.

Our NEXT stretch goal is NONFICTION 👀

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

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." Five goals, of $6900, $8300, $9700, $11000, $12000, and $13000 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $14000 (Nonfiction) and $15000 (+1 Reprints!) show a closed lock next to them.

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Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · 2d

This series is one of my comfort reads, with humans humaning awkwardly while saving the universe.

AND it is fundamentally archeology sci-fi (a sub-genre I weirdly love) with a consistent magic system that could make it fantasy, but really it is just sci-fi so soft it's mushy.

Read. These. Books.

Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, I know that everything is terrible right now, but I also have to make money, so I'm going to tell you that A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe is on SUPER SALE this month! Just $1.99!

Amazon:
www.amazon.com/Ship-Edge-Un...

Bookshop (Buy indie!):
bookshop.org/p/books/a-bi...

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers Book 1)

A washed-up treasure hunter, a hotshot racer, and a deadly secret society. They're all on a race against time to hunt down the greatest warship ever built. Some think the ship is lost forever, some t...

www.amazon.com

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 4d

I assembled a list of short films you can watch right now for free this Halloween. Scary, strange, surreal, and sometimes funny, this list includes live action, stop motion, and animated films from around the world and from filmmakers you've never heard of before

Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween

20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.

buttondown.com

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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 1d

A ceremonious unboxing. The Nga'phandileh Whisperer, a #sauuti # novella @sauutiverse.bsky.social @starsandsabers.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4d

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 4d

LEAF!!

#art #peachtober

A playful digital drawing with lots of doodles and scribbles, featuring flowers, leaves, a frog guy, a ladybug and a fish.

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 4d

some beautiful art I got recently from @evenlyevi.bsky.social!

photo of various illustration prints, mostly in blue tones of plants and flowers.

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Abi Stevens: MCM N16 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 5d

Want to shop indie bargains instead on Prime Day?
I still have a tonne of big discounts in my Super Seconds sale this week so here's a thread of what's still up for grabs! 👀💕

1. Three Seconded celestial bat pins! Half price! abistevens.etsy.com/listing/4379...

#artShop #shopSmall #bsnm

A photo of a gold enamel pin featuring an eight-winged two-headed bat in flight, framed by a gold ring and 2 floating mini wings.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 6d

It's spooky season (it is always spooky season in my heart). And here is some of my spooky arts in a thread.

Traditional media plus digital colour. Lots of scanned in charcoal, acrylic paint, pastels, oil pastels and pencils.

First up, FRANKENSTEIN from Universal Monsters, I did a film poster set

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 5d

WE HIT 250 BACKERS!! +1 exclusive sticker for everyone who either added a sticker or backed at a tier with sticker rewards! That is our last backer goal!

We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜

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

Info for our Backer Goals! 50, 100, 150, 200, AND 250 Backers are unlocked! All backer goals are in rainbow with an open lock over a blurred version of OTHERSIDE banner art in purple, with a blurred floating fantastical head on the right.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 5d

everyone stop what you’re doing and look at this picture i took of the moon yesterday!!!!

The full moon shining brightly in the evening sky above the power lines with birds on them and the trees.

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sunyi @handle.invalid · 6d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Now on Netgalley: 3 spectacular SciFi Titles for Spring 2026...

🪐 THE MANY: a new standalone from @neuvel.net!
🌍 THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley: the queen of literary spec fic returns
🍩 INTERGALACTIC FEAST: @lavanya.bsky.social's FLAVOUR HACKER duology concludes

geni.us/SolarisNG

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(V)Ladz The Impaler @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 6d

I'm stumbling late into October with a pumpkin stout and pairing my works with some Halloween icons. Which is your fave?

🧙‍♀️ books2read.com/thecradleofe...
⚰️ books2read.com/TheFealtyofM...

A black cat background with white text that reads “your favorite halloween icon + the book you should read”

A black cat background with text overlaid that says “Witches” below right aligned in the blue cover for The Cradle of Eternal Night with two women back to back. In the bottom left is a white line sketch of a witch on a broom. The Left aligned text reads “women’s wrongs” “grief, and perseverance" and “horror and romance”

A black cat background with text overlaid that says “Vampires” below right aligned in the red, and pink cover of The Fealty Of Monsters, the art makes it look like embossed metal. In the bottom left is the white line art of a vampire. The text reads “political intrigue” “queer and high heat” and “for the gothic girlies”

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