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Darusha Wehm

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they/them Nebula Award winning SFF author A fifth of @darklylem.com Member of @manyworldsforum.bsky.social Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social Aotearoa New Zealand Latest: Transmentation | Transience All: https://darusha.ca Pic: Erica Poole

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · Apr 21

Hi, new folks! I mainly write SF originals and tie-ins. Latests are: Shores of a New Horizon (a Terraforming Mars novel) and Hamlet, Prince of Robots (exactly what it sounds like).

I'm also a fifth of @darklylem.com, whose multiversal political thriller, Transmentation | Transience, is out now!

M. Darusha Wehm

Science fiction and mainstream books by award-winning author M. Darusha Wehm

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 4h

Legend.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Margaret A-Spelle 🎃 @margaretadelle.bsky.social · 1d

The new blog post is here.

And we're talking about my new favorite sci-fi trope: Gay Robot Romances!

Seriously, if you have any more recs, PLEASE let me know.

#bookblog #booksky

Gay Robots in Love

Fictional creatures have always been used as allegories for queer romance. It’s long been speculated that original tale of “The Little Mermaid” was inspired by the depression it&#…

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 21h

It's not a Romance (obviously) but there is romance in it.

Hamlet, Prince of Robots - M. Darusha Wehm

A beat-by-beat retelling, Hamlet, Prince of Robots grapples with conscience, ambition, and pain, and what it means to be, or not to be, human.

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 1d

These are not the only things GoldSF publishes but the very existence of GoldSF dismantles part of the torment nexus mitpress.mit.edu/series/golds...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

A bit about this in the Irish press from Monday: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
I hope they eventually release a breakdown of how the return was calculated! I'm sure they will - seems like the whole world is paying attention...

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 2d

It is good! So good!

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

I have still not read The Death of Mountains (sooooon -- I just have a long research and to-blurb list atm) BUT I have loved everything else of Jordan's that I've read, and if Premee says something's good, it's good.

Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 2d

as a reminder, i wrote a book that came out this year and you can read it!! people say it's pretty ding dang good!!

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 2d

Looking at the Government's (terrible) new quarterly action plan. To be fair, though, this is the most relatable the Govt has ever been - I also put basic requirements on my to-do list so that I can tick them off and feel accomplished without any effort.

Publish the Government’s priorities for Budget 2026 in the Budget Policy Statement.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes I have to ruin peoples day by telling them that the theme tune to the BBC Hitchhikers Guide was actually devised and performed by The Eagles and now they have to like an Eagles song like a Dad

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 3d

It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 3d

Poor Bagel. But on the other hand, Bagel in a doughnut!

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 3d

Click through for the shitlist, then stay for absolute fucking inspiration to follow. Legend.

Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 3d

Quoting for "screencrap" 🤣

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

I once again beg all y'all not to screencrap nonsense from the former Twitter and bring it here to dunk on it, that's like inviting a vampire in to tell them their fangs look stupid, maybe you're right but they're still going to fucking eat you

(also "screencrap" was a legit typo but I left it in)

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 5d

Māori writers, it's time to apply for the 2026 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence — a $15,000 stipend, mentorship, and writing space at the IIML could be yours if you apply by 31 October!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Emerging Māori Writer in Residence | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Apply for the Emerging Māori Writer in Residence—$15,000 stipend, mentorship, and writing space.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 8d

as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)

In their ruling, released today, the NZMC also took issue with that, writing:

The parents are entitled to express their views about the tragic events and their views on the teen’s gender identity and RNZ is entitled to report them. But their perspective came from a particular point of view and drove the narrative. The fact that the story was brought to RNZ by a group that is regarded as having an anti-trans perspective should have alerted RNZ to the fact that there was a wider agenda at play.

The NZMC concluded:

The Council believes RNZ should have been aware that there was a wider agenda at play and another side of the story that needed to be told, particularly when further information emerged after the publication of the first story. They could have provided a balancing alternative perspective in a number of ways, in the original story or subsequently.

The complaint is upheld for lack of balance and fairness.

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 8d

Thinking of you. 💙💙💙

Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 9d

I'm not generally into "this generation vs that generation" type thinking, but I really think that those of us who came of age during the AIDS crisis, especially queer folks, have a different outlook because of it. It's just always there in the background, all those missing people and all that fear.

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 10d

They appear to be scraping Amazon author accounts specifically. So avoiding having one of those saves you from this!

Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 10d

I get these nearly every day. Yesterday's was for... checks notes... an issue of a now dormant magazine in which I had a short story. 😆

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 10d

My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...

Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine

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Ni-cola Ga-stan @nicgaston.bsky.social · 12d

First time I’ve seen the rabbit/bird illusion with an actual photo. Took me just a half second to process the word in all caps…

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 12d

whomst among us etc

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 11d

More than the Sum of its Parts is starting in just about 15 minutes!

Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 14d

Are you going to @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social? Me, too!

Join me at More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with @nassos.bsky.social, @vajra.me, and @yarntheory.bsky.social in hour 28.

Then @phoebebarton.bsky.social and I talk After Capitalism, Then What? in hour 51.

More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with Natalia Theodoridou. M. Darusha Wehm, Vajra Chandrasekera, Ursula Whitcher in Hour 28 #FoNovellnStories

After Capitalism, Then What? with M. Darusha Wehm & Phoebe Barton in Hour 51 #FoFPostCapitalism

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 12d

Nonbinary nemeses are nemesibs. Got it.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 13d

PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam.

It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 13d

Oh, hell yeah!

In that vein, I'm [redacted] the [redacted] of Hamlet, Prince of Robots right now, and damn if I didn't hit every single thing I was aiming to do in that book. 🦾

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 13d

It's popular, I think, to be demure about one's own writing or to distance oneself from something well-written as if it popped into being fully formed and independent of our making it.

So before imposter syndrome returns: I have read it again, and I wrote the fuck out of this mermaid book, y'all.

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 14d

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