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Ana Sun

@singingtotigers.bsky.social

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Sci-fi/fantasy writer, occasional poet, accidental artist. Utopia Award nominee '22, Best of British Sci-Fi ’23. 2nd runner-up Mo Siewcharran Prize ‘24. BSFA longlist '25. Solarpunk 🌻, 3rd culture kid, she/her. https://singingtotigers.com/

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 25d

Taking a brief break from Milford Critique Week (where I'm having a fab time at the wonderful Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social) to celebrate the #bookrelease of my #solarpunk short story collection "Futures to Live By" by Newcon Press 🌻

www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Futures to Live By, Ana Sun - Books - Futures to Live By

NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.

www.newconpress.co.uk

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 1d

This whole panel sounds very interesting, I’d love to read your paper!

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

On Monday I'm presenting virtually at the Adaptation Futures conference, on the 'Beyond Adaptation: Loss and Damage and Justice' panel. 8am BST / 8pm NZT.

My paper is titled 'Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and Reparations'. It'll be the first time I present on this new area.

breakdown of the panel, other panellists are Luka Hamel-Serenity, Alicia N'Guetta, Emily Boyd, and Lydia Pedoth.

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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 4d

For your timeline clense, may I offer a little grey parrot absolutely chugging some mint tea. Mr Beet co-stars with helpless giggling. (Volume up)

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations Lyndsey! 🙌

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 5d

Very happy to have been awarded Creative Scotland funding to expand a dark SF project (similar vibes to Limelight)! A multi-POV tale of lives intersecting in a dystopian city run by a nefarious corporation (think Gotham meets Panem) with dark health tech, a heist, and an assassination plot...✨👁️

Collage of photos depicting a futuristic society

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 5d

Brief notes on Copenhagen, Milford Critique Week, the Mo Siewcharran Prize Ceremony, and all the things that I should've posted about earlier this year but never got around to because Life.

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Almost everything not quite everywhere all at once

Copenhagen notes, Milford SF, Mo Siewcharran Prize Ceremony, everything (but not everywhere) all at once.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 8d

Our pick for #solarpunk (online) bookclub for October is in! We'll be reading Solarpunk Creatures!
**October 23rd, 8pm ET**

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@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social @tashanmehta.bsky.social

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Mayo Agard-Olubo @mayowrites.bsky.social · 18d

Delighted to announce that my debut picture book "Kid Rex To The Rescue", illustrated by the fantastic Diane Ewen will be released on the 26th of March 2026
t.co/ohez7oPTcZ (£)(screenshots below)

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 8d

Spent a fabulous evening yesterday with past - and new - winners of the #MoSiewcharran Prize. Congratulations to the 2025 winners! 🥂

Yellow rose and baby’s breath in a small glass vase next to a desktop sign “Welcome to the 2025 Mo Siewcharran Prize Ceremony” on a red chiffon table run.

Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 14d

Very much looking forward to this! 🙌

Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 24d

Announcing "The Glorious Melancholy of Urgency", a Hard SF anthology for mid 2026. With stories by E.J. Delaney, Sydney Sackett, Michael Teasdale, and Lucy Zhang. This modest anthology will be self funded, and also available as a future KS add-on, once I am more sure about the challenges of 2026.

An arabian/asian architectually inspited city stronghold sits on a dusky desert mountainside. A large gray spaceship is tethered to it by cables. At the bottom an exotic caravan is kicking up dust. All oranges and red under a mauve/blue sky.

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Michael Teasdale @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social · 17d

Happy to announce that I've had a story translated into another language for the first time.
'Frank Peterson Comes Home' first published by @shoreinf.bsky.social can be found in the German anthology 'Ihr Körper, das Schiff: Die besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten' by A7L Books.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 14d

Ooooof.

Morning.

#tea.

Iwon'Ta @iwonta.bsky.social · 14d

Cartoon by Dan Piraro

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18d

We have the strongest evidence yet that life once existed on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance Rover drilled into Mars’s Jezero crater and pulled up a piece of mudstone covered in markings that resemble those left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth. buff.ly/BdWp207
#ShareGoodNewsToo

The Case for Life on Mars Just Got Stronger

The Perseverance rover's discovery is the "closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars."

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks so much Sara! 💕

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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 23d

Huge congrats to Ana Sun on her short fiction collection! Just out from NewCon Press (while we are at Milford SF Writer Workshop.) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@singingtotigers.bsky.social
@milfordsff.bsky.social
#speculativefiction #solarpunk #climatefiction #newrelease

www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve been Wombled!! Thank you for reading If the Stars Are Lit and for this lovely, thoughtful review!! 😻

Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 23d

New Review - a really impressive science fiction story exploring themes of identity and memory. Highly recommend if The Stars Are Lit by @skateellis.bsky.social out now via @lunapress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

If The Stars Are Lit by Sara K Ellis — Runalong The Shelves

Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – Out Now Price – £13.57 paperback £4.99 ebook If the Stars Are Lit is a speculative mystery exploring the implications of AI, memory, and loss. ...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

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Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social · 23d

An absolute pleasure to help out at this MK Lit-Fest-arranged event last night in Waterstones, Milton Keynes - a talk by Professor David Wilson, whose new book A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders sounds like a fascinating work of social history. Can't wait to read it! #booksky

A man hold his right arm around a woman's shoulder. They are both smiling.

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks so much Vera! 🌻
Also, such fun to be able to hang out in person! 💚

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 24d

So kind of you to say so, thank you Renan!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 25d

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved!
horror.org/awards/curre...

HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommendations

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 25d

Futures to Live By, Ana Sun - Books - Futures to Live By

NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.

www.newconpress.co.uk

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 26d

I'm in the same boat – partly why I'd barely posted all year! I took another look at the other options a couple of weeks ago but got discouraged... Will take another look in a couple of months and can share my thoughts if it would help?

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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 28d

It's time again for great deals on indie author / small press queer romances: today we have 17 books on sale:

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Join the QueeRomance Ink newsletter list, get 4 free books:

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#salessaturday #gayromance #lesbianromance

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Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 28d

Awesome! I hope you enjoy it ☺️

Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 28d

It seems some of the pre-orders have begun trickling out to people today. (I'd expected it to be next week! 🙀 Eek!) If a particular story resonates with you, I'd love to hear about it 🌻

Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · Aug 15

Incredibly excited (and still a bit stunned to be honest 🙀) to announce that the collection of my #solarpunk short stories "Futures to Live By" by NewCon Press is now available for pre-order in paperback or a signed limited edition hardback:

www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Futures to Live By, Ana Sun - Books - Futures to Live By

NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.

www.newconpress.co.uk

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