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Cliff Winnig
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Cliff is a carbon-based life form. Writes, plays sitar, dances, sings. Does aikido, karate, and tai chi. Host of SF in SF and 3rd Sunday host of the B Cubed Sunday Morning podcast. (he/him) cliffwinnig.com
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Hey @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, you were freaking awesome as the Major in #TheLongWalk. I knew you would be, but you exceeded my (high) expectations.

It’s fun to play the bad guy, isn’t it? (I got to do it on stage in high school.)
September 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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It’s going to be a weird Wednesday! Story Hour welcomes Debbie Urbanski back to weird us out in the very best ways! Christopher Tradowsky makes his debut with his own kinds of weird. Come see July 9 at 7:00 PDT! #Booksky @debbieurbanski.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Color Polaroid photo in landscape view. It shows author Debbie Urbanski, a fair-skinned woman with sleek ash-blonde hair worn in what might technically be a bob? And might just reach her shoulders? Lens flare makes it hard to tell. She is in three-quarters view, with the camera shooting upward from below. She is standing inside, perhaps in a house; there’s a white-painted doorframe behind her, but it’s hard to see much else because of the angle. She wears a collared denim shirt and large, roundish cat-eye glasses. Her expression serious, she regards something at her eye level that we can’t see. Head-and-shoulders color photo of author Christopher Tradowsky, a fair skinned man with straight blond hair worn at collar length, a graying blond beard and goatee, and thick blond eyebrows. He stands before a background of leafed-out green trees and buildings with low stone arches. He wears a collared seersucker shirt with thin horizontal stripes. Shoulders squared forward, he looks straight into the camera with a serious smile.
July 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Add an issue of Locus to your bookmail! Receive a full-color print copy of Locus Magazine every month jam packed with recommended reading, short story and novel reviews, exclusive interviews, and book stats for writers and readers alike! subscribers.locusmag...
USPS mail envelope with 3 locus magazines sitting on top. The magazine on top has the headline: "Catherynne M. Valente, Get to the Future"
June 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Story Hour is always awesome. This week’s episode looks to be particularly awesome!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · Jun 18
This week, the illustrious Gregory Norman Bossert returns to Story Hour—and Anaxagoras explains the cosmos! Oh, wait, this is *David* Anaxagoras. Well, who’s to say he won’t? Join us Wednesday at 7:00 PDT and find out! @gregbossert.bsky.social @davidanaxagoras.com #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
Black-and-white headshot of Gregory Norman Bossert, a white man with graying dark hair worn short and brushed straight up. He wears a crew-neck sweater over a lighter tee. He looks straight into the camera and smiles a close-lipped smile that gives him laugh lines. Head-and-shoulders black-and-white of writer David Anaxagoras, a fair-skinned man with a short hair and a long beard. He wears a dark woven shirt and black-framed glasses. He sits in front of a bookcase and looks into the distance with a serious expression.
June 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Story Hour is very proud to start June with stories from the benevolent Ben Francisco and the stupendous Suzan Palumbo. Guest hosting by the magnificent Meg Elison! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 PDT! #Booksky @benfrancisco.bsky.social @sillysyntax.bsky.social @megelison.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Waist-up color photo of writer Ben Francisco, a Latinx person with dark hair worn short, dark eyes, and perfectly arched eyebrows. They wear a dark brown turtleneck, a long scarf patterned in swirls of bright, warm colors, and gold stud earrings. They stand in front of a bookcase full of speculative fiction titles and smile warmly into the camera. Color close-up of Suzan Palumbo, a Trini woman with dark hair worn in a short asymmetrical bob and tipped with purple. She wears heavy black eyeliner, a black shirt with a collar, and a dark gray necktie. She looks to the side with a serious expression.
June 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Please take a look at the Locus Gofundme. You'll be helping an essential publication, plus you can grab some amazing perks.
locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · May 30
THIS IS OUR LAST PUSH!
We have 1 day to reach our fundraising goal & we have a ways to go!!

Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!

Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky
text: 1 day left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien
May 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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For our $45k stretch goal, we have an Act of Whimsy from author CSE Cooney, who will dress up as a book! Wait, what?

No really, she'll dress up as JUST LIKE HOME by Sarah Gailey. Help us get to that goal and you can nab a super reward too!

igg.me/at/locusmag2025
Book Cover: Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
May 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Awesome magazine for those who like science fiction & fantasy novels and stories. It’s got reviews, author interviews, & publishing news.
locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · May 6
Your place for upcoming books, interviews, features, and more! Keep up with all the latest SF, fantasy, and horror news and new releases with Locus Magazine.

What will you read next?

www.locusmag.com
Locus logo of a blue rocketship made of geometric shapes in front of a black circle.
May 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Tonight—should be awesome!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · Apr 29
You know who we’ve missed at Story Hour? Madeleine E. Robins. You know who we’ve been missing out on? Kemi Ashing-Giwa. But don’t despond—they’re BOTH going to read SFF stories for us this week! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 PDT! @madrobins.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Color photo of author Madeleine E. Robins, a fair-skinned woman with curly brown hair worn in a chin-length bob without bangs. She wears wire-rimmed glasses, a fitness tracker on a black band, a ring on one finger, and a black short-sleeve blouse with a pattern of leggy dogs in profile. She sits in front of a cinderblock wall and rests her elbows on an unseen surface. Strong light comes from over the wall, throwing shadows on her face and making her hair look misty. She looks straight into the camera and grins. Black-and-white photo of Kemi Ashing-Giwa, a Black woman with a natural worn short on the sides and tall on the top. She wears a fine-gauge crew-neck sweater in a light tone and lip gloss. They sit on a chair or sofa with an upholstered back, in front of a light source (a curved window with panes?). She is turned with her face in three-quarters view as she looks attentively toward something or someone off-camera. Their eyes are focused, creased at the corners in part of their warm, broad smile.
April 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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If you like multiverse novels, this great one is on sale for $5.99 on all ebook platforms today in the US. Transmentation | Transience by the author collective Darkly Lem, which includes @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social, who created the shared world setting.

More about the book at www.darklylem.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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storyhour.bsky.social
Story Hour moves to YouTube this week, but we still have awesome guests. Like Effie Seiberg, who’s read for us many times—and Erin Roberts, making her Story Hour debut! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 PDT! The things that matter stay the same. @effies.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Effie Seiberg, a fair-skinned woman with pink cheeks and curly black hair parted on one side and worn at shoulder length. She wears glasses with violet frames, large dangly earrings, and a light blue collarless knit shirt. She sits in what looks like an office chair with a black leather back in front of what might be a glass window in geometric shapes. She smiles broadly at the camera. Head-and-shoulders color photo studio portrait of writer Erin Roberts, a Black woman with brown skin and black braids worn in a high ponytail that cascades to one side of her face. She wears cat-eye glasses with red frames, slender dangly earrings, and a brown-and-blue print dress or blouse in a simple repeating floral pattern. She stands before an olive-green background and holds a pen to an open notebook, looking directly into the camera and smiling warmly.
April 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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For the last 2 years, we ran HUGE Indiegogo campaigns w/oodles of rewards, but it took way too much time away & the mag suffered. Now we are trying an end-of-year giving campaign & we hope you will still choose to support LOCUS with a donation today. 🚀

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LOCUS: THE GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S IMAGINATION
December 11, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Why aren’t people calling it the eXodus?
November 25, 2024 at 6:43 AM
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On this day in 1960, a six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white school in Louisiana.

A mob protested her.

This is not ancient history. Ruby bridges is 70 now.
November 14, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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BOOK RELEASE! Traumatized by psychic warfare as a child, a young woman with extraordinary psychic talents negotiates a treacherous path to peace
Kindle buff.ly/4cfj5Xm
ePub buff.ly/3XiCZwA
Also in hardcover buff.ly/48QprMG; Ingram 978-1-938185-83-0
Amazon.com: Arilinn (Darkover) eBook : Bradley, Marion Zimmer, Ross, Deborah J.: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: Arilinn (Darkover) eBook : Bradley, Marion Zimmer, Ross, Deborah J.: Kindle Store
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November 13, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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Audible subscribers: I just discovered that my odd-couple alien detective book The Qubit Zirconium is included in the Plus catalogue for the next few weeks, so grab it for free if fun science fantasy hijinks are your jam!
The Qubit Zirconium
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Alien detectives stumble across a mystery that could tear apart their patchwork planet, the Crucible, in this riotous science fantasy novel from the smash h...
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October 11, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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A new issue of F&SF is out, and it starts with @rajeevwriter.bsky.social’s moving story “What It Means to Drift,” set in a future version of Hyderabad…
September 9, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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In like seven minutes!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · Aug 20
This week's Story Hour takes us to a Brazilian lagoon and frosty Maine. Our guides are writers Renan Bernardo and Jeff Reynolds. Dress in layers and join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! #StoryHour2020 @renanbernardo.bsky.social @trollbreath.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Casual color head-and-shoulders photo of writer Renan Bernardo, a man with dark eyes, straight dark hair, and a neatly trimmed dark beard and mustache. He wears glasses and a black Judas Priest shirt. He appears to be sitting in front of a many-paned window and is looking at something in the distance. Casual color head-and-shoulders photo of Jeff Reynolds, a fair-skinned man with shoulder-length brown hair tingeds with gray. He wears metal-frame glasses, a brimmed hat with steampunk goggles, a banded-collar button-up shirt, and a green velvet coat (frock coat, perhaps?) with silver piping and a black leather collar. He appears to be standing on a boardwalk in a pedestrian area and looks at the camera with an alert expression.
August 22, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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👀 📢 SALE! This time Hild, for $1.99 on all US and Canadian platforms. I've no idea when it started and no idea how long it will last.

#medievalsky

More about the book here:
nicolagriffith.com/2014/02/26/h...
Cover of a novel, HILD by Nicola Griffith, announcing it's ono sale for $1.99
July 8, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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THIS SUNDAY Meet @samtasticbooks.bsky.social @hanalee.bsky.social and Caitlin Chung at MAY SF in SF

http://www.sfinsf.or...

@sfinsfevents.bsky.social @cliffwinnig.bsky.social @lisarodgers.bsky.social @awfulagent.bsky.social #sanfrancisco
May 13, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Building better worlds. #AlienDay
April 26, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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2024 Dragon Awards Nominations Open locusmag.com/2024/04...
2024 Dragon Awards Nominations Open
Dragon Con has announced that nominations are open for the 2024 Dragon Awards. “There is no qualification for submitting nominations or voting – no convention fees or other memberships are ne…
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April 6, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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Rewards are going fast! We have a ton of one-off items -- personalized books, author chats, crits & more -- so go look regularly in case that perfect perk show up! Or the just-right birthday present for the SFF fan in your life. Thanks for your support!

igg.me/at/locusmag2024
March 23, 2024 at 8:25 PM