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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 20h

Anti-Prime Day is ongoing today!

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Anti-Prime sale is ongoing at @bookshop.org (Oct 7 & 8) with FREE SHIPPING. It's a good moment to get a copy of my dark SF novella Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle and still support local bookstores! 💀🌌

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Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle

Check out Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle - In 2144 AD, the generation ship Kap's Needle left Earth to settle a new world. It all went wrong. Now, two years into a desperate return trip, ...

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 19h

Oh hey, it's #WorldOctopusDay? 😉 🐙

This is what I call my nearly-hard desi SF meets cephalopod-love short story. It got an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois's last Year's Best anthology.

CW for somewhat spicy and norty scenes; bigotry and prejudice.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/harris_08_17

Reversion by Nin Harris

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 20h

Anti-Prime Day is ongoing today!

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Anti-Prime sale is ongoing at @bookshop.org (Oct 7 & 8) with FREE SHIPPING. It's a good moment to get a copy of my dark SF novella Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle and still support local bookstores! 💀🌌

bookshop.org/p/books/disg...

Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle

Check out Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle - In 2144 AD, the generation ship Kap's Needle left Earth to settle a new world. It all went wrong. Now, two years into a desperate return trip, ...

bookshop.org

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 20h

Exactly. As of now, I think most of them are operating with loss.

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 21h

I LOVE 11/22/63. One of my favorites, no doubt!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

My short fiction reading list is always somewhat endless, but this time around I have @carolinehung.bsky.social, @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social, @aimeeogdenwrites.com, among others!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Anti-Prime sale is ongoing at @bookshop.org (Oct 7 & 8) with FREE SHIPPING. It's a good moment to get a copy of my dark SF novella Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle and still support local bookstores! 💀🌌

bookshop.org/p/books/disg...

Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle

Check out Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle - In 2144 AD, the generation ship Kap's Needle left Earth to settle a new world. It all went wrong. Now, two years into a desperate return trip, ...

bookshop.org

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

I made a proper graphic for anti-Prime day! Free shipping on @bookshop.org — these are just some of my books! #solarpunk #hopepunk anti-AI short stories and more #SFF #sci-fi #steampunk

Descriptions in the alt-text or hop over to bookshop: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

#booksky #books

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Yep!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Looks like his obsession

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Stephen King's range is admirable. From the depth and sentiment of Life of Chuck and The Shawnshank Redemption to WHAT IF TRUCKS WERE POSSESSED?

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

We will all pay extremely high energy bills very soon because the world desperately needs more slop on the internet and non-sense videos! Thank you, OpenAI. The future has come 🥹

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 2d

We are still crowd-funding for this great anthology! There are perks at all levels. #books #horror

Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 8d

Our #horror anthology OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM has reached 18% funding on Ko-fi, and we have also added prominent editor @scarlettralgee.bsky.social to the updated cover! See the roster and back this stellar book, out in June 2026: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-dre... #Books #HorrorCommunity

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

It seems that no matter where we go in this ravaged internet we end up in the same damned place

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 2d

the wise admins of bluesky have decided that creating a moderation list of AI slop posters is a no no

Hi there,
Your Bluesky account
(@carrion.bsky.social) has created a list called "Al Slop Posters" that may violate our Community Guidelines. We've temporarily hidden this list from other users because it contains one or more of these issues.
- Harmful language such as insults or slurs
- Unverified claims
- Appears intended to shame or abuse users

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning! We're only ONE PERCENT(1%!!) away from Apex Magazine opening to nonfiction submissions for the FIRST TIME! our nonfiction is full of new voices, fresh perspectives, and is scientifically*-proven to regrow brain cells ⚡🧠🌱

*probably. just trust us 👽👇

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

a cow being lifted into space in a UFO tractor beam. An astronaut floats in the corner, staring at the UFO in surprise. The cow's thought bubble reads, "$5, 797!"

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

Happy to see Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers (@starsandsabers.bsky.social) in this Bookshop list in the company of @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, @kristinaten.bsky.social, @angelasylvaine.bsky.social, and other wonderful collections!

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Short Story Standouts

Check out these gripping, funny, and exciting short story collections & anthologies!

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 7d

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 4d

Julie sends her best wishes!!!

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 8d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 4d

So beautiful!

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 5d

HAPPY FRIDAY

FUND TRANSLATIONS

MORE STORIES is good for EVERYBODY (and especially the people whose stories otherwise don't come to the English-speaking world!)

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7d

The African Translation Project needs to make $3370 by October 31 to fund the translation of TWO BOOKS!

Please donate if you can
Please share
Please keep sharing
Have a look at the art store, which directly benefits the fundraiser!

ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3370, 66%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 7d

Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton.

Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229

Subscriptions available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 6d

Oooh! That might be it! I hadn't made the connection (or if I did, I completely forgot). But probably it was something like this that made me associate him with a woman with a machine gun at the time.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 7d

Spooky season is finally ON! 🎃 If you want to be spooked by oxygen rationing in a spaceship, claustrophobic feelings, and a crew doing ANYTHING to survive, then you might enjoy my short novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle. Or gift someone with it! 🖤

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A black cover reading Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle. Author is Renan Bernardo, Nebula and Ignyte finalist. The cover contains a skull in a space helmet with colorful streaks leaking up and down. Tags around the cover: powerful narcotic, hostile fungus, coup in a generational ship, degenerate crew, noir vibes, doomed spaceship, dark space opera, sci-fi thriller.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 6d

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Welcome to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website
Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement?
You could get a payment from the $1.5 billion Settlement.

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