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Anneke

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yearning for the sea short fiction in Strange Horizons, Baffling, Nocturne, Hex, others review team at GrimDark Magazine articles editor at Strange Horizons rep'd by Martha Perotto-Wills @ TBA annekeschwob.info

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · 9d

me when I spill my lunch while reading: in a promotion designed for booktok enjoyment….

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · 18d

they’re well-deserved!!

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debbspook @debbshock.blue · 19d

sittin on the dock of the bay

sepia photo of a person in a fish costume on the end of a dock looking dejected

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · 21d

Frankly I think we could use more of this, overall!!!

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Undead in Chicago @mosermostly.bsky.social · 22d

Fukuyama and Find Out

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · 22d

Otherwise, the form of the confusion matters a lot. If it feels like a productive or intentional confusion then I’ll usually let it ride. But sometimes it feels like what I’m picking up on is the author not really knowing what they’re after, either.

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · 22d

I think genre matters a lot for me. If there’s a mystery element present, for example, I’m the world’s most trusting reader, I’ve never once figured out a twist before the detective character told me and I’m just so fine with it. Take me by the hand, I am as a newborn babe, &c

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 23d

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 28d

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Sep 8

(You can read my—unfortunately typo’d—review of The Fortunate Fall at GrimDark here: www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-the-f...)

REVIEW: The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed

The Fortunate Fall is an extraordinary cyberpunk debut from Cameron Reed, back in print from Tor Essentials after decades.

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Sep 8

My reach is small, my powers are limited and my influence is non-existent but if this book is even one-fifth as good as The Fortunate Fall it stands a very good chance of being one of the best books of 2026

Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Jo Walton's latest book roundup includes a lovely short review of WHAT WE WERE SEEKING:

What We Are Seeking — Cameron Reed (2026)

This is coming out April next year, and it is brilliant and you’re going to love it. It’s very traditional science fiction, with space ships and colonized planets and aliens, and it could not have been written at any moment but the present. This is a traditional space SF story that is post-colonial, thoughtful about gender and other cultures, and it has great characters. Reed has thought about everything you’d expect this story to do and does interesting and thoughtful variations on that. It’s also worth noting that I could not stop myself from reading the first paragraph aloud to my friends because it was so beautiful and complex and wonderful. Gosh I loved this book. You can pre-order it now, and I’ll do my best to remember to tell you when it comes out. I may re-read it when it comes out too; that will be a treat. I’ll definitely be nominating this for awards. It’s just what science fiction should be doing right now. This is very different from The Fortunate Fall but it had the same grabby prose and if anything, I liked it even more.

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Sep 8

for more on this, consider hexliterary.com?p=2603

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Sep 8

This actually solves a year-long mystery for me, which is why Diners Drive-ins and Dives never seemed to be on when I was there

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Sep 7

We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1

A strange creature lurks upright in the colorful darkness, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Sep 6

from the same essay:

Screen shot of a portion of an essay from Vajra Chandrasekera that reads: “Life in dire modernity is about understanding the depth of the multiple-yet-singular emergencies we live amongst, and translating that understanding into uncompartmentalized processes, into live cultures, that are ever-present in your personhood in movement, your personhood as ecosystem. All this must be done without triggering the workaday panic response of the body, which is unsuited for dealing with crises so much larger than the individual animal. You cannot fight or flee: you can only allow yourself to be changed by terrible knowledge, and act, with as much thought and care and attention as you can scrape up from the ulcerated lining of your stomach”

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Aug 27

I loved this!

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Aug 26

What a gorgeous, lush piece of brutality

ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am a girl in a woman’s body, I am a woman in a girl's body, I am thirteen and three thousand years old. My Mother tells me a story about a princess who was turned to cinders.

Today on ergot.: 'The Daughter of Abomination' by Sasha Ravitch @sasharavitch.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Sash...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

www.ergot.press

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 23

this is the kind of thing that would cause a folklorist in 1919 to declare that the Dalek costume goes back to pagan times

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · Aug 23

I love our town fair day, but there's always one violent idiot who has to ruin it for everyone, trundling around making threats.

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Aug 20

brought to you by @rangedtouch.bsky.social Just King Things and the extremely disconcerting color of what's been coming out my tap this morning

Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Aug 20

far be it from me to cast aspersions on our state's largest export, but I feel like if Stephen King had actually ever been on well water he wouldn't be so casual about where he dumped his bodies

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Aug 20

But I loved getting to meet you and @isabellak.bsky.social !

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Aug 20

It was such a disrespectful train wreck

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · Aug 16

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.

‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’

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In this context I feel obliged to state once more that - like the hundreds of protesters arrested last weekend - I too support Palestine Action. If this makes me a "supporter of terror" un-
der UK law, so be it. My books, at least for now, are still published in Britain, and are widely available in bookshops and even supermarkets. In recent years the UK's state broadcaster has also televised two fine adaptations of my novels, and therefore regularly pays me residual fees. I want to be clear that I intend to use these pro-ceeds of my work, as well as my public platform generally, to go on support-ing Palestine Action and direct action against genocide in whatever way I can. If the British state considers this
"terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Aug 16

what a contradictory time to be alive. being evil is encouraged yet our society only punishes the noble Hater

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · Aug 13

Congratulations!!

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