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Jessica Reisman
@jesswynne.bsky.social
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I write SF&F and I like rain, animals, & some people. They/them, but not attached. Queer. Always antifascist. Repped by Prentis Literary. http://www.storyrain.com/
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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · Nov 17
Substrate Phantoms-"This genre-expanding narrative unfolds with a distinctive writing style and voice, leaving a hauntingly memorable impression."— BookLife Prize
& my collection, The Arcana of Maps & Other Stories, are both available at Fairwood Press! fairwoodpress.com/store/p165/S...
SUBSTRATE PHANTOMS
JESSICA REISMAN July 30, 2024   978-1-958880-23-4 trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 286 pgs Order copies below, or buy print or ebooks of this title from these dealers. (More venues forthcoming) The spac...
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 21h
Tonight, Friday October 10, with @chuckwendig.bsky.social !
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 5d
Oct 10 Let's Play Books, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 4/11

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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.***
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Gastronauts @gastronauts.bsky.social · 21h
🚀 TONIGHT! A new episode of Gastronauts launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT.

Join host @jordanmyr1ck.bsky.social for a series of unhinged cooking challenges from guest judges:
☄️ @erikaishii.bsky.social
☄️ Becca Scott
☄️ @persephiroth.bsky.social
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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 1d
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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 1d
And a poem about grief.
Falling asleep in the dreaming In the middle of discussing the shrimp dumpling Soup with the delivery waiter Waking in the dreaming Dismayed to not remember going to bed Or falling asleep at all Carrying my heart in the dreaming Heavy with a freight of knowledge Wanting my mother, knowing she’s gone Finding my sister in the dreaming Asking for a hug, holding tight The sad is a weight, a spark, an ocean Waking to the morning, the dreaming Held, draped about me, a shadow garment Stitched with thread loomed from dream blood Tears, longing, and light © Jessica Reisman 2021
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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 1d
Here is a haunted train digital collage I did a few years ago, for the haunting season. Not AI.
A lit train traverses a misted green landscape into over starry night and a giant moth, lost keys falling through the dreamscape.
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 3d
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, at the edge of the Dartmoor woodland behind my work studio. Light shines under the old wooden gate leading out to the hills beyond.
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 3d
“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 3d
One of my favourite series!
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Linda Nagata - (working on the final Inverted Frontier novel) @lindanagata.bsky.social · 3d
Book promo post:
Right now, the ebook edition of EDGES (arguably my most popular novel) is on sale for the "why not take a chance" price of 99¢🎉🚀! EDGES is a far-future, space-faring, nanotech-drenched adventure. Links and info at my website: mythicisland.com/inverted_fro...
#sciencefiction #scifi
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson issues an executive order
prohibiting ICE from using any city-owned property
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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 3d
Sparkling silvery diamante of tiny raindrops on rose bush leaves, close-up, a moment in the garden.
Sparkling silvery diamante of tiny raindrops on rose bush leaves, close-up, a moment in the garden Sparkling diamante of tiny raindrops on rose bush leaves, close-up, a moment in the garden Sparkling diamante of tiny raindrops on rose bush leaves, close-up, a moment in the garden
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 4d
Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 5d
Oct 7 Politics and Prose, Washington DC 2/11

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Martha Wells — Queen Demon (Rising World #2) - with Dr. Leigha McReynolds — at Union Market
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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 3d
Yay! Love these books so much!
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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 3d
Happy book birthday to A Mouthful of Dust, standalone novella in the Singing Hlls Cycle, out today!

This time, Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant the hoopoe memory spirit are investigating the town of Baolin, famous for its pork recipe and its famine.

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A Mouthful of Dust
Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 3d
There are certain moments of childhood which refuse to lose their strangeness. Like that morning you woke to knocked down trees on the common – despite the night being stormless. An overpowering sense that some giant walking the land had casually uprooted them. – Joanna Vickers #VOH
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 4d
Harvest moon, in fact.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 7d
Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 5d
My heart is always happier when my feet – unsteady as they are – take their first few steps into the wood. For the woodland path curves to mystery, curves towards the possibility of feral strangeness. Each visit replenishes my store of wonder, whispers new stories. – #CLNolan,
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 11d
Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support!

Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne...

(If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)
A graphic that reads BANNED BOOKS WEEK, Oct 5 - 11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 5d
Book tour for Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, next book in the Rising World series) starts tomorrow! 1/11

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Bill Blumenreich Presents Martha Wells - The Center for the Arts at the Armory
Martha Wells in conversation with Holly Black for the new book, Queen Demon
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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 7d
In other words, they're criminal and evil.
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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 7d
ICE is absolutely frump's gestapo.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 7d
all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents
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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7d
We are not monstrous when we think on monsters. No. We are only monstrous when we have no feeling for those who suffer horrors at their hands or teeth. - #CLNolan on the 1932 introduction of an H for Horror certificate for films
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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 7d
I never wondered what it'd be like to have a government run entirely by Arkham inmates but here we are
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