Jessica Reisman
@jesswynne.bsky.social
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
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...
fairwoodpress.com
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...
& my collection, The Arcana of Maps & Other Stories, are both available at Fairwood Press! fairwoodpress.com/store/p165/S...
I am so sick and tired of ugly, small, heartless excuses for humans living all over the rest of us.
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I am so sick and tired of ugly, small, heartless excuses for humans living all over the rest of us.
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This is moving and beautifully written; highly recommend.
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...
& 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...
fairwoodpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is moving and beautifully written; highly recommend.
Cats emit sleptons. Science.
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Cats emit sleptons. Science.
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
www.patreon.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
I attended Clarion West in 1995 (old am I) and it was such a wonderful, intense, growing six weeks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I attended Clarion West in 1995 (old am I) and it was such a wonderful, intense, growing six weeks.
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Prosper with Dragons HOLIDAY SALE is still going! ✨Only $25 for a deck! (Plus free US shipping!)✨
Just because this is a cooperative game, doesn't mean things won't get heated. One bold move by a player could tank the whole group, or save the day... 🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Just because this is a cooperative game, doesn't mean things won't get heated. One bold move by a player could tank the whole group, or save the day... 🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Game mechanics time! The resource gathering system in Prosper with Dragons drives the sense of thrill in this game. Each turn, you choose to minimize risks or maximize rewards...and hope your teammates have a strategy that won't tank you all! 🐲
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
#cardgame #dragon
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
#cardgame #dragon
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Prosper with Dragons HOLIDAY SALE is still going! ✨Only $25 for a deck! (Plus free US shipping!)✨
Just because this is a cooperative game, doesn't mean things won't get heated. One bold move by a player could tank the whole group, or save the day... 🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Just because this is a cooperative game, doesn't mean things won't get heated. One bold move by a player could tank the whole group, or save the day... 🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
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Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.
The common vaccines that can prevent chronic disease or some cancers
In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.
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Even in winter, the wood whispers to tramp its paths. Its Sprites and Woodwose may sleep through days demanding our heaviest coats, but its mysteries do not. Bare branches scratch the low sky and still its mysteries sing. We walk for wonder. We walk for cold magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Even in winter, the wood whispers to tramp its paths. Its Sprites and Woodwose may sleep through days demanding our heaviest coats, but its mysteries do not. Bare branches scratch the low sky and still its mysteries sing. We walk for wonder. We walk for cold magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981
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I mean...arrgh. But here's a new digital collage. Not AI. And I try with the alt text, though these collages are a little hard to describe.
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I mean...arrgh. But here's a new digital collage. Not AI. And I try with the alt text, though these collages are a little hard to describe.
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it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
kadoore.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
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If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
Hyperbole Bookstore
A family-owned independent bookstore in College Station, TX
hyperbolebookstore.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
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WE. ARE. LIVE.
11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS.
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS.
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
Black Friday | Peculiarity Shop
The Peculiarity Shop Black Friday Collection, 11/28/2025, 12pm EST.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
WE. ARE. LIVE.
11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS.
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS.
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Channel Island fox
Maine moose
Armadillo
Pelicans
Elephant seal
Channel Island fox
Maine moose
Armadillo
Pelicans
Elephant seal
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Channel Island fox
Maine moose
Armadillo
Pelicans
Elephant seal
Channel Island fox
Maine moose
Armadillo
Pelicans
Elephant seal
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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I signed this petition organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice. They still need more signatures. Can you sign and share as well? www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
We Ain't Buying It! Pledge to Boycott with SURJ · Showing Up for Racial Justice
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### SURJ is joining forces with the _We Ain't Buying It!_ Campaign to send a clear message to corporate America and the ...
www.mobilize.us
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I signed this petition organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice. They still need more signatures. Can you sign and share as well? www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
I mean...arrgh. But here's a new digital collage. Not AI. And I try with the alt text, though these collages are a little hard to describe.
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I mean...arrgh. But here's a new digital collage. Not AI. And I try with the alt text, though these collages are a little hard to describe.
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Said it before will say it again: never used it. Won’t use it. I will go into the woods and become mulch before I use it.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Said it before will say it again: never used it. Won’t use it. I will go into the woods and become mulch before I use it.
From a walk last week.
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
From a walk last week.
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Great interview about Murderbot:
Bifurcating Character with Incisive and Witty Inner Monologue: a Masterclass with ‘Murderbot’ Co-Showrunners Paul Weitz and Spirit Awards Winner Chris Weitz
www.filmindependent.org/blog/bifurca...
Bifurcating Character with Incisive and Witty Inner Monologue: a Masterclass with ‘Murderbot’ Co-Showrunners Paul Weitz and Spirit Awards Winner Chris Weitz
www.filmindependent.org/blog/bifurca...
Bifurcating Character with Incisive and Witty Inner Monologue: a Masterclass with ‘Murderbot’ Co-Showrunners Paul Weitz and Spirit Awards Winner Chris Weitz - Film Independent
One of the most delightful series to premiere this summer, Murderbot is a witty, quirky sci-fi dramedy that explores thought-provoking themes under the
www.filmindependent.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Great interview about Murderbot:
Bifurcating Character with Incisive and Witty Inner Monologue: a Masterclass with ‘Murderbot’ Co-Showrunners Paul Weitz and Spirit Awards Winner Chris Weitz
www.filmindependent.org/blog/bifurca...
Bifurcating Character with Incisive and Witty Inner Monologue: a Masterclass with ‘Murderbot’ Co-Showrunners Paul Weitz and Spirit Awards Winner Chris Weitz
www.filmindependent.org/blog/bifurca...
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Big bodega cat
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Big bodega cat
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I know there’s a lot going on but if you have any money to spare, please consider protecting a vital wetland area, or share this link.
secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...
secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...
Be One In a Million
We are asking YOU and 1 million people to give $10 to protect and preserve 1,400 acres of wild lands on West Galveston Island.
secure.qgiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I know there’s a lot going on but if you have any money to spare, please consider protecting a vital wetland area, or share this link.
secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...
secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...
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Just some Scaramouche. No reason.
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Just some Scaramouche. No reason.