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Sophie Burnham

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sff novels & weird seagull noises 👽 🌈 rep: maria napolitano // kt literary books: sargassa, bloodtide (daw) https://linktr.ee/sophieburnham

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · Apr 15

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.

DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · Apr 15

The rebellion gets a bold new look for the paperback release of SARGASSA by
@sophieburnham.bsky.social: coming October 7th, ahead of the release of BLOODTIDE.

Cover art by Simon Prades. Cover design by Adam Auerbach.

Don't want to wait? Dive into the ebook now for only $9.99 for a limited time.

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 1m

Bloodtide is out tomorrow and I feel really normal about it!!!!

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 1h

I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book

Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · Oct 30

'A visceral, doesn't-give-a-damn biopunk thriller that treats the "punk" part of that subgenre not as mere window-dressing but as an antifascist shriek... vital and urgent SF that reaches places realist writing never could' ― @interzone.press

If you like cool shit get this 🕶️

geni.us/extremophile

Extremophile

Pre-order now:

geni.us

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Aug 12

Medievalists making gay male characters for their historical novel: what if he was a monk

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Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

The economics of AI (LLM) data centers continue to be utterly unworkable. This whole thing is going to crash sooner rather than later and leave a giant smoldering crater where a big chunk of the economy used to be.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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DEMSEC @demsec.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 5d

Listen, if anyone's responsible for this I'm guessing it's actually you 😌

Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 5d

I also have the full moon and inflammatory cytokines whispering hateful shit in my ear, if it's any consolation

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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 5d

The winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Sargassa, is out in paperback! This is the first in a speculative trilogy that is equal parts political intrigue, queer romance, and revolution. Read this? Preorder Bloodtide, book 2, out next week!

buff.ly/vY1LYFw

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 5d

I'm in the midst of writing a book series about truth and history and collective survival. What's wild to me is that when I first started writing it five years ago, GenAI was a thing most people hadn't even heard of. Now, it's our most immediate existential threat.

Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 6d

Somehow all my big release dates got stacked up against each other but hey! Sargassa's now in paperback!

astrapublishinghouse.com/product/sarg...

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 7d

One week baybee!!

RBmedia | Bloodtide

Listen to the audiobook Bloodtide, written by Sophie Burnham, narrated by Cassandra Campbell.

rbmediaglobal.com

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Narancia⚧️ still in the blue wonder @naranciazebest.bsky.social · 7d

😞🤚: "The fall of the US empire"

😌👉: "The rise of the indigenous nations free trade corridor"

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 7d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 8d

Pecking at a review of BLOODTIDE (sequel to the Sidewise Award winning SARGASSA , forthcoming from @sophieburnham.bsky.social
"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 8d

It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 9d

the Sargassa paperback publishes next Tuesday, and Bloodtide the week after that. it is time.

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 13d

That is, excuse me, a damn fine stack of books.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 13d

It’s Mailbag Monday! Today we’ve got dragons, and witches, and heroes of old, weird cities, antiauthoritarianism, a Rome yet to come, & some Scots who can’t stop. Plus top-tier tunes & the drinks you really need to pair with them. Plenty of great reads of all lengths for my fall! What's on your TBR?

[A stack of books on a rough wooden windowsill (bottom to top): AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS by Samantha Shannon, LIVES OF BITTER RAIN by Adrian Tchaikovsky, DAUGHTER OF THE UNDERWORLD by Shauna Lawless, THE WITCH OF PRAGUE by J.M. Sidorova, BLOODTIDE by Sophie Burnham, BOOZE AND VINYL by André Darlington and Tenaya Darlington, BOOZE AND VINYL COUNTRY by André Darlington, DAEDALUS IS DEAD by Seamus Sullivan, SAVAGE BLOOMS by S.T. Gibson, A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Lowachee]

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 13d

Really looking forward to chatting next week!

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Only two more weeks to go!

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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Bloodtide is the 2nd book of the Ex Romana trilogy, and the fate of the empire hangs in the balance in this speculative fantasy. Perfect for readers of stories with strong, queer voices, this is an imagining of a world on the brink of revolution.

buff.ly/2Sptbsa

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 18d

The homogenisation and consolidation of buisinesses and brands has led to the erosion of the midlist, the indie movie or band or comic. There's a real sense of "I'll only try media that's already popular / famous," and I'm begging you to look for the weird shit, the experimental, the niche.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 20d

Autism does not need to be cured! It's the rest of society that needs to be more accommodating!! Neurodivergence and disabilities cause suffering only because we have so little understanding or support. Treating it as something "broken" or "wrong" only enforces that, please just help people instead.

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 22d

The last sentence here is why all of these platforms should be burned to the ground and also why the fascists want us all addicted to them

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 24d

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

Anderson felt her bio was authentically her even if it was written by a chatbot. “My bio is 100 percent in alignment with my true personality,” she told me. “I don’t have a filter. I’m very witty. I’m full of personality.” Nor did she think using ChatGPT reflected the “bare minimum energy” she loathed. “It took me an hour and change to drill down my bio to be that good,” she explained. “I had to edit it, edit it, edit it down. I have to keep talking to it.” On the other hand, she admits that ChatGPT has sapped her motivation to write a first draft of anything herself, even though she minored in writing in college and described herself as a “wordsmith.” “I’m gonna be honest with you: Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore,” she said.

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