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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · 9h

Coming to see the show with my kids, all the way from Sweden!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 12h

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · 12h

That's what I'm reading now bc of your rec! Pairs well with peppermint & licorice tea, green-shaded lamp, twangy-honeyed folk music and my cushioned glider as I explore this book's world and all its secrets and shadows...

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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · 12h

10yo says, about as tall as my chin. 6yo says, earth-sized pony.

btw, they are both huge fans of MLP & Bea Wolf. My kid did a school presentation on Old English because of your book. Delivered in Swedish bc we live in Sweden.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 8d

Guard your valuables and keep your eyes peeled! There are THIEVES about!

The Canarviers have arrived and I’ll be at Little District books with Venessa Vida Kelley tonight to celebrate! See you there, DC!

A stack of A PHILOSOPHY of Thieves and gold mask

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 10d

If you're a voter abroad or know one, it's time to start thinking about voting in November.

ESPECIALLY if you're in PA, VA, NJ, and CA.

www.votefromabroad.org

Vote from Abroad: Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens

www.votefromabroad.org

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 14d

in which i have sold some books & now must write them

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 14d

I am aquiver with delight at this publication news from @kellylink.bsky.social

MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link's THE LOVER OF BOOKS, in which dinner party guests relate uncanny stories as a haunting—filled with wet footprints, mysteriously placed caches of buttons, and ghosts, past and present—casts a specter over the evening; plus an untitled anthology of ghost stories compiled by the author.

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 21d

Yesterday feels like a dream, yet all the more special knowing it was real. If you weren’t able to join last night, I’ll be in conversation tonight with @casskhaw.bsky.social at 8pm EST, hosted by @loyaltybooks.bsky.social!

Link below, hope to see you in cyberspace!

loyaltybookstores.com/thefox

Martin Cahill and Cassandra Khaw for Audition for the Fox

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erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · 22d

Happiest Book Birthday to @mcflycahill90.bsky.social's Audition for the Fox! 🦊 I'm still in awe of how much world Marty managed to fit in such a slim volume. (Vesper is, too.) This book is a marvel. 🖤 tachyonpublications.com/product/audi...

A copy of Audition for the Fox standing on a table. Looming behind it is a silver tabby cat, peering over the corner with large, curious eyes.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · Sep 8

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 1

JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH

(from @ellecordova.bsky.social)

youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...

Em dash on ChatGPT allegations

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

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Diana M. Pho (she/her) 📚 🔊 @dianapho.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm still stunned and processing over salmon and eggs at SEA-TAC. Grateful and honored by my Hugo win for Best Editor, Long-Form last night. Also, tired. Very tired 😆 love to all the winners & finalists.

People can watch my speech at the livestream starting at 1:06. 🥳✨💕🎉 #HugoAwards #AuntieEditor

Diana standing on the stage with her Hugo, dressed in a brocade maroon jacket and black pants.

Close up of Diana in the Hugo winners photo, staring at the camera

Ashley doing the Will Smith proud pose raising her arms to gesture at Diana holding the award.

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · Aug 17

Brava, @dianapho.bsky.social !!!!! You deserve this and so much more!!!!!! 🎉

Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Aug 17

The #HigoAward for Best Editor, Long Form goes to Diana Pho.

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · Aug 15

Finished copies are here & they’re BEAUTIFUL! That cover, the @nkjemisin.bsky.social quote upfront, the @catvalente.bsky.social quote on the back, the Starred @libraryjournal.bsky.social review, the art, all of it!

Holy macaroni, guys, it’s real. It’s a month away. Truly, what the actual fox? 🦊

A finished copy of Marty’s book, Audition for the Fox!

A finished copy of Marty’s book, Audition for the Fox! This is the back!

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Doubleday Books @doubledaybooks.bsky.social · Aug 12

Volume 1 Brooklyn calls @giano.bsky.social‬'s AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY, "“A well-crafted work of upmarket adventure fiction."

www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/07/a...

A Resonant History, With Cryptids: On “American Mythology” by Giano Cromley

In this time of Trump, our political discourse is thick with mythology of a more temporally immediate sort than the Greeks or Vikings were ever able to cook up…

www.vol1brooklyn.com

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · Aug 5

In just one week, my first short story collection, A CATALOG OF STORMS, appears from Fairwood Press!

I’m so delighted by what writers I’ve long admired have to say about it — and I’d love for you to grab your own Catalog of Storms, here: fairwoodpress.com/st...

A Catalog of Storms cover and blurb by Michael Swanwick, overlaid on a seaside photo. “ Subtle, quiet, and convincing. This is the shape of science fiction to come.”

A Catalog of Storms cover and blurb by Caroline M. Yoachim, overlaid on a seaside photo. “ A beautiful collection of vividly-imagined worlds and well-realized characters, depicted in gorgeous prose.”

A Catalog of Storms cover and blurb by Nancy Kress, overlaid on a seaside photo. “Wilde is an alchemist, turning the ordinary into the richly, rewardingly strange.”

A Catalog of Storms cover and blurb by A.C. Wise, overlaid on a seaside photo. “Gentle humor, beautiful rage, exquisite worlds that imagine the past, the future, and the never-was… a gorgeous collection that will sweep readers away.”

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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · Jul 29

Congratulations!!

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · Jul 29

THE MEMORY HUNTERS is out today. With my debut, I didn't understand what kind of change a release would mean. Now I do. This book is no longer mine or my team's. I've released it, and all that's in it and all I left unsaid belongs to you.

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The Memory Hunters

Check out The Memory Hunters - Inception meets Indiana Jones in this cinematic, slow burn, romantic fantasy following a headstrong academic and her equally stubborn bodyguard as they ...

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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · Jun 7

like his embodiment of Liszt in Impromptu, with Judy Davis as George Sand and Mandy Patinkin as Alfred de Musset, all their lines delivered so musically too

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · Jun 6

Actually one of my favorite scientists. His writings are marvelous. He had such a sense of wonder and discovery that shines through into his writings. Highly recommend "Humboldt's Cosmos" as a primer, which I may reread next

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · Jun 6

Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️‍🌈

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · Jun 5

The other night I took a late night taxi from the airport & my driver was from Sudan. We got to talking, & he asked what I do - he is a sports journalist who writes about soccer & has been to many World Cups - so I explained what I write...

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · May 27

It’s been an honor to edit this anthology, and I hope that it hits just right in our fraught political moment.

Thanks also to the late José Esteban Muñoz for shaping my understanding—as an artist and a scholar, as a person—of queerness’s radical and critical possibilities.

“The future is queerness's domain....

Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds. Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing."

—José Esteban Muñoz,
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

Introduction

UNDER MY LEFT COLLARBONE is a tattoo that reads, "not yet here."

What's not yet here is queerness; what's not yet here is the future. I first read these words by queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz in my early twenties, and I've returned to them over and over again since then, because I find their message absolutely electrifying. While the world makes it hard for queer and trans people to survive, let alone thrive, we nonetheless fight our way toward other possibilities-toward the horizon of what Muñoz called queer futurity. Simply but radically, queer futurity argues that more than this is possible. Queerness itself rejects the oppressive status quo of the here and now, offering instead endlessly interconnected ways to imagine the "concrete possibility" of another world, another future. Or, many other futures. The same question, of course, underlies some of the most powerful speculative fiction of the last century: but what if things were different?

Grounded in the political realities of the present yet imagining alternate possibilities for the future, the twenty-two pieces…”

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · May 27

At long last, “Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity” is here! I first have to say thank you to every one of our contributors—for trusting me with your work, for being in conversation with one another, for putting up with all my emails.

Copy of Amplitudes held up against an ivy-patch and a grey stone wall

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · May 26

Fabulists & futurists & fantasy writers, oh my! Don't miss out on the 2025 Autumn Online Workshop, where the strange, the weird, and the unknown are all welcome.

Apply here: tinhouse.com/workshop/aut...

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