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Indie bookstore in Joshua Tree specializing in SF, publisher, Simultaneous Times podcast, editor: Galaxy, Worlds of IF, author. Jean-Paul L. Garnier 2023 Laureate Winner: Best Fanzine & Podcast. BSFA, Ignyte, & BFA finalist spacecowboybooks.com

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · Nov 28

Greetings new followers! We're not just an independent bookstore

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Space Cowboy Books Publications

We also publish science fiction books!

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$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Thank you!

Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 6d

Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.

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EMAIL YOUR REPS: Don't Ban Books in the United States

Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to all the winners!

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 6d

When I first read this book as a submission I thought, damn, Pedro writes like his pen is a knife! So happy to see this book get so much love! Congratulations Pedro!!! Thank you for publishing this wonderful book with Space Cowboy!

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Brian!!!

Get your copy of the winning chapbook at spacecowboybooks.bandcamp.com/merch/microp...

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 8d

The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter launches tomorrow! Will you help us fund 2026 and kickoff another 20 years of strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful short fiction? I hope you will! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Elad Haber @eladhaber.bsky.social · 9d

I am thrilled to announce a new acceptance from @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social to their Simulteanous Times podcast for my story, "Skeletal."

This will be my third appearence on the podcast!

My previous publications with them have been some of my favorite presentations of my work. Links below.

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 14d

New from Space Cowboy Books- speculative poetry collection Space Exploration: Strange New Worlds by John C. Mannone. Now available for pre-order bookshop.org/a/197/979898...

Space Exploration: Strange New Worlds

Strange New Worlds

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 10d

SF audio!

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Space Cowboy Books Presents: Simultaneous Times

Space Cowboy Books is an independent bookstore and small press located in Joshua Tree, CA specializing in science fiction.

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 16d

Now available for pre-order from Space Cowboy Books - One Way & Other Stories by Miriam Allen deFord with an introduction by @reasie.bsky.social

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One Way and Other Stories

Check out One Way and Other Stories - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) was a feminist, a suffragette, birth control advocate, journalist, editor, winner of the Mystery Writer's of America's Edgar Award...

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 12d

Still my favorite SF show!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social for this mini interview about Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! We talked strength in numbers, borrowed forms, and some of the book’s most fun experiments.

Pictured with the current state of tour prep... 😵‍💫

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing this year's Dwarf Stars Award Winners ✨ (thread!)

1st Place
Perish and Live Forever
@pedroiniguez.bsky.social

2nd Place
old junkyard
Ngô Bình Anh Khoa

3rd Place
warp drive folds spacetime
Jean-Paul L. Garnier @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 13d

Working on the layout for our first bilingual book. Very excited to make the announcement soon.

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 13d

You're welcome!

Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 13d

New Book Spotlight up on the blog today. A mini-interview with @kristinaten.bsky.social about Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine from Stillhouse Press

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New Book Spotlight – Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine by Kristina Ten – Space Cowboy Books

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