John Joseph Adams
@johnjosephadams.com
Series Editor of BASFF. Publisher of @lightspeedmagazine.com (+ Editor) and NIGHTMARE. Editor of 40+ anthologies. Co-editor (with Jordan Peele) of OUT THERE SCREAMING.
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In the wake of the Democrats' feckless capitulation re: the shutdown, it's clear that it's far past time we have a change in Democratic leadership. That's right: We need to primary the donkey and elect a cat instead. Who loves donkeys? No one! Who loves cats? Everyone! I've already got the logo.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In the wake of the Democrats' feckless capitulation re: the shutdown, it's clear that it's far past time we have a change in Democratic leadership. That's right: We need to primary the donkey and elect a cat instead. Who loves donkeys? No one! Who loves cats? Everyone! I've already got the logo.
But look, I fixed it
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
But look, I fixed it
I use MailerLite for my newsletter, and recently they made this UI change that is maddening. See attached image. The DONE EDITING button changes to PLEASE WAIT every time you make a change (as it saves progress). The buttons also resize slightly. It's SO DISTRACTING. Whyyyyyyyyyyy.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I use MailerLite for my newsletter, and recently they made this UI change that is maddening. See attached image. The DONE EDITING button changes to PLEASE WAIT every time you make a change (as it saves progress). The buttons also resize slightly. It's SO DISTRACTING. Whyyyyyyyyyyy.
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
THE TIME TRAVELER'S PASSPORT is now available, a new collection from Amazon Original Stories. 99¢ each or free w/ Prime/KU membership. Stories by: John Scalzi, RF Kuang, Peng Shepherd, Kaliane Bradley, P. Djèlí Clark, & Olivie Blake.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
THE TIME TRAVELER'S PASSPORT is now available, a new collection from Amazon Original Stories. 99¢ each or free w/ Prime/KU membership. Stories by: John Scalzi, RF Kuang, Peng Shepherd, Kaliane Bradley, P. Djèlí Clark, & Olivie Blake.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD
"Origin Story" by Tochi Onyebuchi, from OUT THERE SCREAMING (2023) www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/out...
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"Origin Story" by Tochi Onyebuchi, from OUT THERE SCREAMING (2023) www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/out...
BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025, edited by me and guest editor @nnedi.bsky.social is now available! See the cover and full TOC in the attached image. This is volume 11 (!!!) of BASFF.
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
@marinerbooks.bsky.social
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@marinerbooks.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025, edited by me and guest editor @nnedi.bsky.social is now available! See the cover and full TOC in the attached image. This is volume 11 (!!!) of BASFF.
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
@marinerbooks.bsky.social
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
@marinerbooks.bsky.social
Since DUNGEONS DEEP just came out, I wanted to post again about my indie-published adventure, ASCENDANCY OF NUR'RY'ZA. It's about missing wizards-in-training, a cursed game, and monks who worship a dark entity.
PDF: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Roll20: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
PDF: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Roll20: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Since DUNGEONS DEEP just came out, I wanted to post again about my indie-published adventure, ASCENDANCY OF NUR'RY'ZA. It's about missing wizards-in-training, a cursed game, and monks who worship a dark entity.
PDF: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Roll20: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
PDF: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Roll20: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
My article series about Downtime Activities in 5e/Tales of the Valiant concludes with Performing. My favorite part is the result you get if you roll a 1-10 on your Performance check (i.e., the worst you can roll).
koboldpress.com/your-bard-ca...
Whole Series: www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/dow...
koboldpress.com/your-bard-ca...
Whole Series: www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/dow...
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My article series about Downtime Activities in 5e/Tales of the Valiant concludes with Performing. My favorite part is the result you get if you roll a 1-10 on your Performance check (i.e., the worst you can roll).
koboldpress.com/your-bard-ca...
Whole Series: www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/dow...
koboldpress.com/your-bard-ca...
Whole Series: www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/dow...
Hey! I've got two adventures in this book that just came out from @koboldpress.com. They're both co-written with dope author @bryancamp.bsky.social. Our adventures are “Clockwork Phylactery” and “The Dark God’s Ziggurat.”
koboldpress.com/kpstore/prod...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
koboldpress.com/kpstore/prod...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Hey! I've got two adventures in this book that just came out from @koboldpress.com. They're both co-written with dope author @bryancamp.bsky.social. Our adventures are “Clockwork Phylactery” and “The Dark God’s Ziggurat.”
koboldpress.com/kpstore/prod...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
koboldpress.com/kpstore/prod...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
After being missing since June 3, my cat Bender finally came home last night! We saw him in our driveway on July 23 and have been seeing him around now and then since, but he wouldn't come inside. Last night he finally did. And boy did he want pets.
August 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
After being missing since June 3, my cat Bender finally came home last night! We saw him in our driveway on July 23 and have been seeing him around now and then since, but he wouldn't come inside. Last night he finally did. And boy did he want pets.
Ever since druids could easily get a familiar I wanted to live out this fantasy in game. In 2024 if you're a moon druid you could be the weasel not just riding the bird but the weasel blasting enemies with starry wisp from afar. Now you can also talk in WS so you could be a weasel almost full-time.
July 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ever since druids could easily get a familiar I wanted to live out this fantasy in game. In 2024 if you're a moon druid you could be the weasel not just riding the bird but the weasel blasting enemies with starry wisp from afar. Now you can also talk in WS so you could be a weasel almost full-time.
Some of the 2024 changes are hilarious in how much of a 180 they are. Like: 2014 True Strike=absolute dogshit; 2024 True Strike=maybe the best cantrip in the game. 2014 Witchbolt=terrible; 2024 Witchbolt=super good! (My lvl 5 sorc upcast WB at 3rd level, crit, and did 69 points of damage!)
July 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Some of the 2024 changes are hilarious in how much of a 180 they are. Like: 2014 True Strike=absolute dogshit; 2024 True Strike=maybe the best cantrip in the game. 2014 Witchbolt=terrible; 2024 Witchbolt=super good! (My lvl 5 sorc upcast WB at 3rd level, crit, and did 69 points of damage!)
Here's a picture of the inside of my dusty-ass computer, showing the RAM.
July 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Here's a picture of the inside of my dusty-ass computer, showing the RAM.
LitHub is showcasing this year's class of Best American anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (for which I'm series editor). lithub.com/here-are-the...
If you visit my website, you can see the full TOC and list of Notable Stories.
www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...
If you visit my website, you can see the full TOC and list of Notable Stories.
www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...
May 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
LitHub is showcasing this year's class of Best American anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (for which I'm series editor). lithub.com/here-are-the...
If you visit my website, you can see the full TOC and list of Notable Stories.
www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...
If you visit my website, you can see the full TOC and list of Notable Stories.
www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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So! There's a taste of what you get by subscribing to the newsletter. I also share my thoughts on movies/tv and talk about TTRPGs, short fiction, my anthologies and magazines, and other fun stuff. PLUS frequent dog pics like this one of our Blue Heeler/Aussie Shepherd, Lore.
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
So! There's a taste of what you get by subscribing to the newsletter. I also share my thoughts on movies/tv and talk about TTRPGs, short fiction, my anthologies and magazines, and other fun stuff. PLUS frequent dog pics like this one of our Blue Heeler/Aussie Shepherd, Lore.
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. 8/10 A landmark achievement for Okorafor. I tore through it, loved it. I have no doubt it will be one of the most discussed books of the year. Everyone should read it! (You may be wondering if it really is a genre book, even once you're reading it; I promise that it is.)
May 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. 8/10 A landmark achievement for Okorafor. I tore through it, loved it. I have no doubt it will be one of the most discussed books of the year. Everyone should read it! (You may be wondering if it really is a genre book, even once you're reading it; I promise that it is.)
EXHALATION. 10/10 This is a re-read for me, but I had never listened to the audiobook, and I'm on an audiobook kick lately, so I decided to revisit. Ted Chiang is amazing—there's pretty universal agreement on that. But I'll just say that for me to give 10/10 to ANYTHING is extremely rare.
May 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
EXHALATION. 10/10 This is a re-read for me, but I had never listened to the audiobook, and I'm on an audiobook kick lately, so I decided to revisit. Ted Chiang is amazing—there's pretty universal agreement on that. But I'll just say that for me to give 10/10 to ANYTHING is extremely rare.
A DROP OF CORRUPTION. 9/10 I read the first in this series, The Tainted Cup, and loved it, so I was really excited to dive right into book 2, which just came out as I finished that. And Robert Jackson Bennett did not disappoint. I was just as enthralled with this one as I was with the first.
May 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A DROP OF CORRUPTION. 9/10 I read the first in this series, The Tainted Cup, and loved it, so I was really excited to dive right into book 2, which just came out as I finished that. And Robert Jackson Bennett did not disappoint. I was just as enthralled with this one as I was with the first.
TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW. 9/10 Firstly, I'll note this book is not SF/F/H in any way, though as noted above it is about video game designers. I didn't even know what to classify this as, but I see online it is called "Friendship Fiction"—and yeah, that's totally what it is.
May 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW. 9/10 Firstly, I'll note this book is not SF/F/H in any way, though as noted above it is about video game designers. I didn't even know what to classify this as, but I see online it is called "Friendship Fiction"—and yeah, that's totally what it is.
YELLOWFACE. 9/10 This book sounded like fire when I first heard about it, but despite that I wasn't prepared for how incredibly unflinching and incisive it would be. The prose is electric, and Kuang gets every single aspect of the story right—
May 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
YELLOWFACE. 9/10 This book sounded like fire when I first heard about it, but despite that I wasn't prepared for how incredibly unflinching and incisive it would be. The prose is electric, and Kuang gets every single aspect of the story right—
SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN. 7/10 Having not read the cover copy at all, this book was not at all what I was thinking it would be based on the title. I thought it would be kind of urban fantasyish, but nope it's a secondary world fantasy, with a protagonist who is an actual monster.
May 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN. 7/10 Having not read the cover copy at all, this book was not at all what I was thinking it would be based on the title. I thought it would be kind of urban fantasyish, but nope it's a secondary world fantasy, with a protagonist who is an actual monster.