Alex Langer
@alexlanger1993.bsky.social
Lawyer, SFF/horror writer, SFWA member. Jewish social movements and organized labor. Words in Apex Magazine, Heartlines Spec, On Spec, and elsewhere.
No ❤️
A potentially unpopular take, but one that needs to be said as we slide further toward incivility:
Stop bringing your children to breweries.
Stop bringing your children to breweries.
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
No ❤️
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Only 8 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter and we're $6,304 away from our initial funding goal. If you love and appreciate Apex. If you want more dark, weird stories. If you want a market to submit to. Then please consider helping us hit our goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Only 8 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter and we're $6,304 away from our initial funding goal. If you love and appreciate Apex. If you want more dark, weird stories. If you want a market to submit to. Then please consider helping us hit our goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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We're 8 DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter! ⏰❗❗
These final days will decide whether we can publish in 2026. YOUR support is what keeps us going, AND what keeps the great stories coming to your inbox!
Help Apex thrive and join our Kickstarter TODAY! 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
These final days will decide whether we can publish in 2026. YOUR support is what keeps us going, AND what keeps the great stories coming to your inbox!
Help Apex thrive and join our Kickstarter TODAY! 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We're 8 DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter! ⏰❗❗
These final days will decide whether we can publish in 2026. YOUR support is what keeps us going, AND what keeps the great stories coming to your inbox!
Help Apex thrive and join our Kickstarter TODAY! 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
These final days will decide whether we can publish in 2026. YOUR support is what keeps us going, AND what keeps the great stories coming to your inbox!
Help Apex thrive and join our Kickstarter TODAY! 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Get out of here with orzo. If I wanted rice I would just eat rice.
a second day of the same discourse? no. no thank you.
instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape
instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Get out of here with orzo. If I wanted rice I would just eat rice.
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Best SFF of the year, Elbows Up edition!
Contains "The World in Our Hands" by Sophie Gazarian from FF#22, plus work by FF staffers @pbarmby.bsky.social and @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social, and lots of other incredible Canadian writers!
Contains "The World in Our Hands" by Sophie Gazarian from FF#22, plus work by FF staffers @pbarmby.bsky.social and @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social, and lots of other incredible Canadian writers!
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Best SFF of the year, Elbows Up edition!
Contains "The World in Our Hands" by Sophie Gazarian from FF#22, plus work by FF staffers @pbarmby.bsky.social and @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social, and lots of other incredible Canadian writers!
Contains "The World in Our Hands" by Sophie Gazarian from FF#22, plus work by FF staffers @pbarmby.bsky.social and @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social, and lots of other incredible Canadian writers!
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Proud to have a story in this. “Bright Horizons” is an SF cautionary tale about AI in education. It’s just one of many great stories by Canadians. You’ll definitely want to add this book to your collection.
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Proud to have a story in this. “Bright Horizons” is an SF cautionary tale about AI in education. It’s just one of many great stories by Canadians. You’ll definitely want to add this book to your collection.
I have a story in here!
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I have a story in here!
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RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
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Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.
I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.
I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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OKAY PEOPLE YOU KNOW THE DRILL: HIT THAT FOLLOW BUTTON
This is a Canadian small press, with a Canadian editor, so LET'S GET THOSE CANADIAN CLICKS (worldwide clicks also appreciated and loved equally, but I can't bully you in the same manner as I can Canadians)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
This is a Canadian small press, with a Canadian editor, so LET'S GET THOSE CANADIAN CLICKS (worldwide clicks also appreciated and loved equally, but I can't bully you in the same manner as I can Canadians)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
Coming soon: Fascination: Dark Fantasy Anthology
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
www.kickstarter.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
OKAY PEOPLE YOU KNOW THE DRILL: HIT THAT FOLLOW BUTTON
This is a Canadian small press, with a Canadian editor, so LET'S GET THOSE CANADIAN CLICKS (worldwide clicks also appreciated and loved equally, but I can't bully you in the same manner as I can Canadians)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
This is a Canadian small press, with a Canadian editor, so LET'S GET THOSE CANADIAN CLICKS (worldwide clicks also appreciated and loved equally, but I can't bully you in the same manner as I can Canadians)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
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We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
It's a profound injustice that anyone who is subject to criminal responsibility under the law—e.g., children 12 or over—can't vote.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It's a profound injustice that anyone who is subject to criminal responsibility under the law—e.g., children 12 or over—can't vote.
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I feel *very strongly* about Apex and I want to live in a literary ecosystem where it survives and thrives. So, help me be good algae here. This metaphor is really wanting to go off leash so I should probably stop, but please back Apex if you can.
NEW KICKSTARTER TIER UNLOCKED! At 110%, each backer will receive a NEW BRAIN 🧠 with zero microplastics*🚮, a normal amount of dopamine**😃✨, and the ability to see shrimp colors***🦐🌈!
* okay maybe a few microplastics
**what is “normal” anyway?
*** 9 out of 10 shrimps recommend!
* okay maybe a few microplastics
**what is “normal” anyway?
*** 9 out of 10 shrimps recommend!
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I feel *very strongly* about Apex and I want to live in a literary ecosystem where it survives and thrives. So, help me be good algae here. This metaphor is really wanting to go off leash so I should probably stop, but please back Apex if you can.
My go-to bagel order has become a pumpernickel everything with jalapeno tuna, so, yeah. Jalapenos are an important part of a New Yorker's balanced breakfast.
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
My go-to bagel order has become a pumpernickel everything with jalapeno tuna, so, yeah. Jalapenos are an important part of a New Yorker's balanced breakfast.
Folks, Apex is one of the best magazines in the game these days. We need them. I've pitched in, let's get them fully funded.
NEW KICKSTARTER TIER UNLOCKED! At 110%, each backer will receive a NEW BRAIN 🧠 with zero microplastics*🚮, a normal amount of dopamine**😃✨, and the ability to see shrimp colors***🦐🌈!
* okay maybe a few microplastics
**what is “normal” anyway?
*** 9 out of 10 shrimps recommend!
* okay maybe a few microplastics
**what is “normal” anyway?
*** 9 out of 10 shrimps recommend!
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Folks, Apex is one of the best magazines in the game these days. We need them. I've pitched in, let's get them fully funded.
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Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
I'm gonna be in Year's Best Canadian F&SF! One of my favorite stories, "Giant of the Stars," is going to be alongside stories from people I'd lose my mind at the chance to meet. Pretty pretty cool!
I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2
September 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm gonna be in Year's Best Canadian F&SF! One of my favorite stories, "Giant of the Stars," is going to be alongside stories from people I'd lose my mind at the chance to meet. Pretty pretty cool!
BRB writing the adventures of a Carthaginian paddle-steam trireme
alt-histories where you assume things like industrial revolution or general purpose computation were possible to have achieved in antiquity are fascinating because you then have to wonder "how much would present day be different if they got far more of a head start"
September 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
BRB writing the adventures of a Carthaginian paddle-steam trireme
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At the Minnesota State Fair, a 12-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, one vender rules them all: Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar. It operates three stands at the fair and is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.
Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair
Many of the staffers at Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar start as teen-agers. Some of them are committed for life.
www.newyorker.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
At the Minnesota State Fair, a 12-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, one vender rules them all: Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar. It operates three stands at the fair and is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.
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Sometimes I think about the Scots-Yiddish dialect.
!["“Two men vent into a poob and ordered a glass beer. Dey hadna been in dat poob more dan vonce or twice before. Vell, day sip deir beer un’ dey sit talking un’ schmoosing. Dey sit un’ talk un’ talk. At last de barman leans over de counter and he says to dem: ‘Oot!’ Nu, dat’s how it is mit a shul. I come here every veek and Hakodosh Borukh Hu [the Holy One Blessed Be He — that is God] kens me vell, un’ he don’t mind if I take it easy. But dese bleggages dat come vonce or twice a year — no! Dey daven or dey shot op!”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmvc2f5b5fou3ijbgagiovlj/bafkreidrx7362njqldoafxmqg32l3bjyisjksq2eafl54shjza7piyeggi@jpeg)
August 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sometimes I think about the Scots-Yiddish dialect.
I just realized that my current WIP is literally just "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, but make it grimdark sword and sorcery"
August 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I just realized that my current WIP is literally just "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, but make it grimdark sword and sorcery"
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A small taste of our debut issue. Click here to read the full story and much more: https://bit.ly/4454Thk
June 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A small taste of our debut issue. Click here to read the full story and much more: https://bit.ly/4454Thk
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Summer is the season of creepy crawlies. Just be grateful you aren't dealing with these...
From issue #0 of Goblins and Galaxies, available now: https://bit.ly/4454Thk
From issue #0 of Goblins and Galaxies, available now: https://bit.ly/4454Thk
July 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Summer is the season of creepy crawlies. Just be grateful you aren't dealing with these...
From issue #0 of Goblins and Galaxies, available now: https://bit.ly/4454Thk
From issue #0 of Goblins and Galaxies, available now: https://bit.ly/4454Thk
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Alex Langer is a Canadian Jewish writer and lawyer usually based in Brooklyn. He's also the author of the dark, surreal fantasy tale "We Few, We Happy Few," which opens issue #0 of Goblins and Galaxies. It can be found here: https://bit.ly/44Waubl
@alexlanger1993.bsky.social
@alexlanger1993.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Alex Langer is a Canadian Jewish writer and lawyer usually based in Brooklyn. He's also the author of the dark, surreal fantasy tale "We Few, We Happy Few," which opens issue #0 of Goblins and Galaxies. It can be found here: https://bit.ly/44Waubl
@alexlanger1993.bsky.social
@alexlanger1993.bsky.social