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Dr Amy Borsuk
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SFF Editor for @SolarisBooks.bsky.social by day, contemporary Shakespeare theatre scholar by night. Sometimes theatre critic, dramaturg.
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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Dec 17
I really grew as an editor in 2024. Proud of my work, so grateful for the Solaris team in getting these books out, and making sure Solaris Nova had a great first year as an imprint on top of that.
Consider this a gentle FYC as an editor and a louder one for all these authors!
bardythoughts.bsky.social Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · Aug 21
Whew, all of the books I edited for 2024 have gone to print! It's very satisfying to see them all together. So proud to have worked with all these amazing authors!
A stack of books on their sides: Redsight, Snowblooded, Lady Eve's Last Con, Gorse, The Republic of Salt, and The Mountain Crown
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runalongwomble.bsky.social
A great resource and a chance to remind people what great stuff is out there!
renay.bsky.social Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 10d
As we approach the end of the year, it's a great time to record things you love! Not just for the Hugo Awards, but in general. The rec sheet is a handy resource for nomination, but also at its heart a rec resource in a loud, busy media environment.
The Hugo Awards (2026)
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November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
Turns out I'll be tagging in for @alrutter.bsky.social at World Fantasycon this weekend: I'll be in the PUBLISHING DEMYSTIFIED panel on Friday and the EDITING AND EDITORS panel on Saturday! Hope to see you there!
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
I do freelance editing in addition to my day job &I am encountering more people using programmes eg ProWritingAid to 'assist' in writing their first drafts before coming to me for dev edits/coaching. Wrt making a decision about taking on a client, I'm not sure what to make of this /1
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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shoutoutmapes.bsky.social
In less than a month, my novel The Ganymedan, which combines Altered Carbon with the spacefacing intrigue of The Expanse, will be out in stores. Please consider pre-ordering a copy. If you already have, thank you kindly!

geni.us/ganym
Me holding up a physical copy of my book The Ganymedan Inside title page: The Ganymedan R.T. Ester Solaris Page/excerpt from The Ganymedan: DEPROG In the days following Archer Lenox-Pileser’s death, the official account of what happened on the outskirts of Paradox would go unchallenged. A spacer—a sentient ship—had unwittingly ferried his assassin to the station. While docked for a refuel, the spacer learned of its error and alerted Martian Patrol. The assassin then broke out of the spacer using a signal skipper and a wedger. He died of vacuum exposure before Patrol arrived. Every news feed was whipped into endless war speculation by then. The matter of Archer Lenox-Pileser’s final death—shocking as it may have been when it broke—vanished in a few weeks. At Gan, a woman who’d also been in the news allowed her brother to bring a pair of sentients near her tent. She wept into her palm heels while a song for the killer played, harkening back to ghosts pre-Frontier and past evictions from dome houses they built on Ganymede. When she could spare some composure for the sentients, she invited them in. They dropped off a device the killer had wanted her to keep, then gave the full account.
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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ianthegreen.bsky.social
I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book
ianthegreen.bsky.social Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · Oct 30
'A visceral, doesn't-give-a-damn biopunk thriller that treats the "punk" part of that subgenre not as mere window-dressing but as an antifascist shriek... vital and urgent SF that reaches places realist writing never could' ― @interzone.press

If you like cool shit get this 🕶️

geni.us/extremophile
Extremophile
Pre-order now:
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October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
Realised with a jolt that World Fantasycon is around the corner. I would love to meet folks, especially writers in the folk fantasy and horror spaces! Or please just do say hi!
October 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
(I loved writing my theatre review like an AO3 entry, way too proud of it as an idea)
exeuntmagazine.bsky.social Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Oct 10
The review as fanfic? A review following the evolution of the novel form? A reviewer trapped inside a play, being chased around by Łukasz Twarkowski…?

It must be an Exeunt round-up!
Review round-up: Born With Teeth, Romans, ROHTKO, The Weir
Exeunt writers get trapped inside some recent plays
exeuntmagazine.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
🌊1st in a new epic fantasy series
🛶 Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska
📕 One of Reactor & Indigo's "Most Anticipated" Books of 2025
🐦⬛ Features a REALLY rude Raven

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA!

Buy geni.us/doorsea
Against a background of blue and teal swirled fabric with red and blue ribbons with a hardback copy of THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russel laid on top. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.
October 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
Only October, but we're already looking ahead to the fantastic books coming out next year: give us a pitch if you're interested in reviewing any of these January titles!
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/02/c...
Calls for Reviews & Essays: January 2026
The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…
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October 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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casella.bsky.social
Really enjoyed how this review brings theater & speculative criticism together. Good stuff!
September 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
My theatre life and publishing life collide in a book review of this fascinating SF re-imagining of The Tempest!
September 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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ptklein.com
Good morning it’s their day
September 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
🚨AVAILABLE ON NETGALLEY!🚨

RUN, don't walk, over to Netgalley to request an eARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's darkly romantic eco fantasy of gods and forests, from the perspective of a traumatised "war hero" longing for peace.

Request geni.us/SolarisNG
Preorder geni.us/godsmb
Against a dark green background with autumnal branches, white text "Available to request on Netgalley" above an eReader with the cover for THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.
September 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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rainewilson.bsky.social
Come for the locked boat dark academia murder mystery, stay for a strange and drowning Oracle?

We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Sep 6
🌊 🐚 @rainewilson.bsky.social 's Salt Oracle speaks in riddles and fragments, cantating the digital ghosts that are scattered across the world in the wake of the digital collapse.

But is she a monster to be feared, or a child to be protected?

November 2025. Preorder: geni.us/saltorac
Against a blue background with the salt oracle's semi transparent gold face superimposed on top, white text reads "Please, she thinks, in the moment between the shoal of words dissolving and the wind catching her up. Please. But she doesn’t know what she is yearning for, only that she is a deepwater current now, pressure values in a long series like a song sung into the darkness." The white Solaris logo is in the middle at the bottom.
September 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
Passed my Life in the UK test now I gotta fill in a form, overshare all aspects of my life in a stack of documents, and pay the government an exorbitant amount of money one more time and then y'all are stuck with me permanently
September 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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lizziewallis.bsky.social
"Red kite"
The iconic conservation success story: persecuted to just a few pairs in Wales, an intensive conservation effort has seen a spectacular recovery in population, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023.
More info in Alt txt.
#Stunday
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIforIconic
#Photography
Red Kite: A large bird of prey twists into a dive, head down, wings outstretched, tail flared. The bird is reddish brown with silver patches on wings and black wing tips. 1990 13 youngsters (from Wales & Sweden) released in Chilterns, England. Wild populations established in England and Scotland and further releases occurred in NI and Republic of Ireland. Red kite population has seen a spectacular recovery, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023. In the last 5 years, we now regularly see Red Kites on the North Norfolk coast.
August 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
🚨ARCS ARE READY!🚨

Calling all UK/IE/CAN/US Reviewers & booksellers, pop a wolf🐺in the comments to be in with a chance of receiving an ARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social
's THE GODS MUST BURN: where a disgraced war hero is transformed into the Wolf God against his will.

geni.us/godsmb
White text against a fiery orange background: ARCs are ready! Dark and romantic eco- fantasy from the man’s POV A book that feels like a Hozier yell sounds For fans of The Wolf and The Woodsman and Princess Mononoke Learning to Survive after sacrifice Gods as embodiments of nature Bisexual MC Recovering from a life of pointless war Wild forests need wild guardians Protect her, or burn together On the right, a 3D hardback of THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.
August 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
Today is the anniversary of the opening of The first production of The Threepenny Opera.

I’ll post below it a photo from a production I did in SF some years ago. . .
blnensemble.bsky.social Berliner Ensemble @blnensemble.bsky.social · Aug 31
heute vor 97 Jahren, am 31.8.1928, wurde "Die Dreigroschenoper" auf unserer Bühne hier am Schiffbauerdamm unter turbulenten Umständen uraufgeführt. sie wurde ein riesiger Erfolg und machte Bertolt Brecht und Kurt Weill weltberühmt. zu lange unerwähnt blieb die Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Hauptmann!
Historisches Szenenfoto in Schwarz-Weiß der "Dreigroschenoper" mit zahlreichen Personen auf der Bühne, dahinter zwei helle rechteckige Flächen am Rand des Bühnenbildes mit Text über den Köpfen
August 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
Slowly making my way through these - the Le Guin prize is always a great way to discover incredible work
ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jun 18
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
August 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
Happy 10 years in the UK to meeeee 🥳🥳✨️
August 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
It's not every day I see Antonio Gramsci (Italian political philosopher, commentator on the shifting world order, political prisoner of the Mussolini regime) name-dropped in a piece of literary analysis, and this is a good name-drop.
An excerpt from the quoted essay, with the last sentence highlighted by yours truly: "To put a finer point on this difference between the horrific and the weird, we might look at two translations of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist. While imprisoned by the fascists in 1930, he wrote: “La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.” This has been glossed, most famously by Žižek, as “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” But it’s more accurately translated as “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born: in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Monsters are visible, knowable, specific; they are specific dangers that call out to be defeated by an individual hero—they suggest, in other words, a narrative stitched up in a neat little package. “Morbid symptoms” are a bit more mysterious, undefined, discomforting; something inchoate haunting the world at large, or at least haunting the way we view and understand the world. [highlight begins here] The dreadful, non-cathartic affect of the weird lives exactly in the liminal space where the old is dying and the new cannot be born."
August 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.
August 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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ursulakleguin.com
Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
August 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
If you want an emotional double-feature experience I highly recommend reading Remember You Will Die (Eden Robins) and Notes From a Regicide (Isaac Fellman) simultaneously or in close succession. Such loving encapsulations of queer life and memory, and acts of remembering
August 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
bardythoughts.bsky.social
The ending so moved me in college that I threw the book across the room in outrage.
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Aug 20
The end of Tale of Two Cities made me cry in high school.
ellyzoe.bsky.social Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · Aug 6
Reading Tale of Two Cities for the first time. How did I never read it before?? No surprise tho: Dickens writes bangers.
August 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM