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Justin C. Key

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Nov 13

👋🏽 to my new followers.

I’m a science fiction and horror author.

My short story collection, The World Wasn’t Ready For You, is out now!

My debut science fiction novel should be out early 2026.

Find me in Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming

I’m also a practicing psychiatrist, husband, and father

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll ping you once the issue is out but literally the opening is almost the same (sibling rivalry) but then jumps forward 20 years

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome! I must point you to the upcoming issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. My story in that includes the same main character. Unsure when it’s coming out but should be out soon. At the printers now!

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · 10d

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · 10d

I sent a family member the first story I got published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and they said ‘I can edit this for you.’

🙄

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · 25d

Cover reveal!!!

The Hospital at the End of the World will be released on February 3, 2026. This HarperCollins sci-fi medical thriller will be my first novel!

It’s a near-future exploration of AI’s impact on medicine and my own return to the joys, fears, triumphs, and horrors of becoming a doctor.

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · 29d

First pass, done. Acknowledgements, done. Publicist, assigned.

The Hospital at the End of the World / 02.03.26

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’ve got a short story in the new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Here is the final cover (other versions have been circulating).

My story “The Apology Tour” is directly linked to DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. I’m really proud of it.

Not sure of the pub date but will post when I know.

Nnedi Okorafor: The Apology Tour
THE MAGAZINE OF
• Fantasy & Scienceriction
SUMMER 2025
Soul Rebel
Maurice Broaddus
Justin C. Key
Matthew Kressel
& Mercurio D. Rivera
John Shirley
Inda Lauryn

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Aug 25

I initially read this wrong and was about to mentally make sure all my romantic tension ‘pays off’ in my story 🤣. Glad I read it again.

Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Aug 23

His rejections encouraged me SO MUCH starting out. Eternally grateful

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · Aug 8

Friday Update:

Reading: The World Wasn’t Ready for You by Justin C Key
Watching: Finishing Traitors UK Season 3 (2 episodes left)
Playing: Donkey Kong Bananza
Writing: In theory, new stand up & music and editing my short film script

FalconWizard @falconwizard.bsky.social · Aug 8

Friday Update:

Reading: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
Watching: Just finished Building the Band.. onto something else!
Playing: Cyberpunk 2077 and Pokemon Legends
Writing: Barely...

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Aug 8

Let's see... Friday update time

Reading: The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
Watching: Hacks (2021-)
Playing: Daily Tens
Writing: Gay Sword & Sorcery novella

What you all got?

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Aug 23

I hope you enjoyed!

Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Hospital at the End of the World has copy!!

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Jul 5

My debut sci-fi novel, The Hospital at the End of the World, will be out from HarperCollins 2.3.26.

Cover finalized. Copyedits processing. Blurb requests going out. It’s happening. I’m a novelist. Stay tuned.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · Jul 2

Questions about storytelling? My books? Writing careers? Puppetry? Talking cats? Being a creative person who also has ADHD? Something else? Tonight, July 2 at 8 PM ET, I'm hosting a Q&A for my Patreon supporters. Join with a 7-day free trial: www.patreon.com/c/maryrobine...

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the seed oil sommelier✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · Jun 30

Everyone being racist about Mamdani eating with his hands is now forbidden from eating sandwiches ever again. All of them. PB&J, Publix subs, hamburgers, bahn mi, grilled cheese, Cuban sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, po' boys. ALL OF THEM.

Also pizza.

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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is a rough year. My patients are feeling it so I’m feeling it.

Be kind to each other.

Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Jun 3

Just started the audiobook!

Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · Jun 2

MY DEBUT NOVEL IS GOING TO COPYEDITING.

Let’s fucking goooooo!!!!

a muscular man screaming with the words let 's go

ALT: a muscular man screaming with the words let 's go

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Linda D. Addison @nytebird45.bsky.social · May 23

See creators highlighted in HWA May Seers Table column:
@midnightmuser1.bsky.social, @justinkey.bsky.social, @tadethompson.bsky.social
horror.org/the-seers-ta...

The Seers’ Table May 2025

May Seers’ Table, Kate Maruyama, Diverse Works Inclusion Committee Geneve Flynn recommends: Pauline Yates is the creative force behind the multi-award-winning science fiction novel, Memories Don’t...

horror.org

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Borrowed Trouble📚🎧🎥 @zenzi-ali.bsky.social · May 2

Black Supernatural Horror that doesn't center racialized violence (institutional racism may still be present)

The World Wasn't Ready for You by Justin C. Key

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Borrowed Trouble📚🎧🎥 @zenzi-ali.bsky.social · May 2

So you saw #Sinners and now you're looking to get your horror fix in book form? No matter which aspect of Sinners you loved, I got you #BlackBookSky #DiverseBooksky #DiverseReader📚🧵

🧛🏾‍♂️🩸🧛🏾‍♂️ Black Vampire Main Characters 📚 #BookRecommendations

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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · May 2

My collection "Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions" is included in this awesome story bundle of African SF. Get your summer reading!

StoryBundle @storybundle.bsky.social · May 1

A titillating ensemble of short story collections and anthologies by multi-award-winning writers from Africa and the African diaspora. From time travel, space opera, AI, zombies, African spirituality, it's all here! storybundle.com/scifi

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Rob Cameron @brklyndragon.bsky.social · Apr 24

@zzclaybourne.bsky.social brought together @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, Milton Davis, @geraldcoleman.bsky.social , @erricknunnally.bsky.social , @justinkey.bsky.social 2nd helpings of BLACK MEN READING SPECULATIVE FICTION. Let the funk hit you.
youtu.be/MP6K2MeNJJA?...

Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction 2

YouTube video by MVmedia

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Apr 21

If you loved SINNERS...check out my African Immortals series.

My Soul to Keep
The Living Blood
Blood Colony
My Soul to Take

Book covers for My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood, Blood Colony and My Soul to Take

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