Darusha Wehm
@darusha.ca
they/them
Nebula Award winning SFF author
A fifth of @darklylem.com
Member of @manyworldsforum.bsky.social
Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social
Aotearoa New Zealand
Latest: Transmentation | Transience
All: https://darusha.ca
Pic: Erica Poole
Nebula Award winning SFF author
A fifth of @darklylem.com
Member of @manyworldsforum.bsky.social
Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social
Aotearoa New Zealand
Latest: Transmentation | Transience
All: https://darusha.ca
Pic: Erica Poole
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Darusha Wehm
@darusha.ca
· Apr 21
M. Darusha Wehm
Science fiction and mainstream books by award-winning author M. Darusha Wehm
darusha.ca
Hi, new folks! I mainly write SF originals and tie-ins. Latests are: Shores of a New Horizon (a Terraforming Mars novel) and Hamlet, Prince of Robots (exactly what it sounds like).
I'm also a fifth of @darklylem.com, whose multiversal political thriller, Transmentation | Transience, is out now!
I'm also a fifth of @darklylem.com, whose multiversal political thriller, Transmentation | Transience, is out now!
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Friends! The Deadlands could use some help! Have a look! Support if you can! 💀🖤
okay, beloveds, some real talk
in just three days, we'll be raising our patreon pricing
BUT
if you join before the 1st you'll get the old pricing (and it will stay that way)!!
🖤 thank you 🖤 from the bottom of our crunchy, calcified hearts for considering!
www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...
in just three days, we'll be raising our patreon pricing
BUT
if you join before the 1st you'll get the old pricing (and it will stay that way)!!
🖤 thank you 🖤 from the bottom of our crunchy, calcified hearts for considering!
www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...
Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
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December 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Friends! The Deadlands could use some help! Have a look! Support if you can! 💀🖤
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Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
And guess what showed up in the post today??
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And guess what showed up in the post today??
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The B&N pre-order sale is on, which includes Book 2 of the Formation Saga, Transmentation | Transgression (hardcover and paperback).
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Transmentation Transgression: Or, a Spark on the Eve of the Five Hundred Year Burn|Hardcover
From bestselling authors Darkly Lem comes the next explosive installment in their gripping, genre-defying Formation Saga.A shocking death. A dangerous alliance. The worlds’ order on the verge of...
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The B&N pre-order sale is on, which includes Book 2 of the Formation Saga, Transmentation | Transgression (hardcover and paperback).
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Authors! Readers! The grand Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is now upon us. Use the code PREORDER25 to save 25% off basically every pre-ordered book for next year.
Authors: please reply to this post with your upcoming book title, a link, and at least one cool thing in your book!
Authors: please reply to this post with your upcoming book title, a link, and at least one cool thing in your book!
December 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Authors! Readers! The grand Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is now upon us. Use the code PREORDER25 to save 25% off basically every pre-ordered book for next year.
Authors: please reply to this post with your upcoming book title, a link, and at least one cool thing in your book!
Authors: please reply to this post with your upcoming book title, a link, and at least one cool thing in your book!
It's Barnes & Noble preorder sale time, which reminds me that I have a standalone SF mystery coming out in February from @goldsf.bsky.social.
Contains: Art. Memory. Drugs. Universal Basic Income. Aotearoa New Zealand.
Contains: Art. Memory. Drugs. Universal Basic Income. Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Department of What It (Really) Means to Be Human|Paperback
A near-future real-life society transitions to a post-capitalist, post-climate change reality.The Department Of What It (Really) Means To Be Human is a thoughtful, optimistic sci-fi novel set in a nea...
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's Barnes & Noble preorder sale time, which reminds me that I have a standalone SF mystery coming out in February from @goldsf.bsky.social.
Contains: Art. Memory. Drugs. Universal Basic Income. Aotearoa New Zealand.
Contains: Art. Memory. Drugs. Universal Basic Income. Aotearoa New Zealand.
I don't know about accomplishments for the year but today I waterblasted the house and thought, what the hell, I'll do the deck too and it turns out the deck was actually the colour of wood under all the filth! Who knew?
December 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I don't know about accomplishments for the year but today I waterblasted the house and thought, what the hell, I'll do the deck too and it turns out the deck was actually the colour of wood under all the filth! Who knew?
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Pivot away from video
December 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Pivot away from video
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I'm tired of being surprised by news, so I just went ahead and predicted the publishing news for the next year, month by month.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm tired of being surprised by news, so I just went ahead and predicted the publishing news for the next year, month by month.
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This reminds me of when my pals and I decided to play bridge with an Uno deck. We called it Bruno and we played it way more than it deserved.
Dos is a real Uno variant that you can buy at a store, I’m not making it up, just saying because I realize it does sound kinda fake 😅
December 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This reminds me of when my pals and I decided to play bridge with an Uno deck. We called it Bruno and we played it way more than it deserved.
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So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Same. Frankly, I can’t imagine any situation where using an LLM to generate text would not make writing the book take ten times as long.
In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).
December 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
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I'm with @therisingtithes.bsky.social on my shock at Wake Up Dead Man having the character of Lee Ross, a wash-up author, write a book that is 782,815 words long!
I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.
I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.
December 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I'm with @therisingtithes.bsky.social on my shock at Wake Up Dead Man having the character of Lee Ross, a wash-up author, write a book that is 782,815 words long!
I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.
I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.
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Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
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This sort of thing bugs me a lot. There are valuable use cases for machine learning, involving pattern recognition and sifting thru a ton of data quickly. Totally valid + useful.
These get lumped together with useless brain-eating plagiarizing chatbots under the umbrella term "A.I."
These get lumped together with useless brain-eating plagiarizing chatbots under the umbrella term "A.I."
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This sort of thing bugs me a lot. There are valuable use cases for machine learning, involving pattern recognition and sifting thru a ton of data quickly. Totally valid + useful.
These get lumped together with useless brain-eating plagiarizing chatbots under the umbrella term "A.I."
These get lumped together with useless brain-eating plagiarizing chatbots under the umbrella term "A.I."
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Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
I actually rather like being on camera, but I don't want to work in media that I don't enjoy experiencing, and I am not into short videos at all. That's why I don't do regular chatty newsletters either — they aren't for me as either a recipient or a creator!
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I actually rather like being on camera, but I don't want to work in media that I don't enjoy experiencing, and I am not into short videos at all. That's why I don't do regular chatty newsletters either — they aren't for me as either a recipient or a creator!
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This fuckin’ government, man…
“We would like to inform you that FluTracking New Zealand will pause over the summer period. The final survey for 2025 was emailed on 15 December. The Ministry of Health of New Zealand has decided not to renew the contract with FluTracking Australia going forward. “
“We would like to inform you that FluTracking New Zealand will pause over the summer period. The final survey for 2025 was emailed on 15 December. The Ministry of Health of New Zealand has decided not to renew the contract with FluTracking Australia going forward. “
December 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This fuckin’ government, man…
“We would like to inform you that FluTracking New Zealand will pause over the summer period. The final survey for 2025 was emailed on 15 December. The Ministry of Health of New Zealand has decided not to renew the contract with FluTracking Australia going forward. “
“We would like to inform you that FluTracking New Zealand will pause over the summer period. The final survey for 2025 was emailed on 15 December. The Ministry of Health of New Zealand has decided not to renew the contract with FluTracking Australia going forward. “
Speaking of Hamlet retellings...
hello I've been up since six this morning and it's not even 7 pm yet even though it's been dark again for like three hours already why is december like this
buy my books!
(links in next post!)
buy my books!
(links in next post!)
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Speaking of Hamlet retellings...
So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forc’d cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall’n on the inventors’ heads. All this can I Truly deliver.
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forc’d cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall’n on the inventors’ heads. All this can I Truly deliver.
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Universal Basic Income ✨
taking a nap
December 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Universal Basic Income ✨
Ooh, my first set with the "new" paper packaging.
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Ooh, my first set with the "new" paper packaging.
In my late teens* my buddies and I went to the midnight screening of the X-rated version of Caligula. We did not know that it was X-rated. We sat in the front row, very eager cinema-goers.
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Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
In my late teens* my buddies and I went to the midnight screening of the X-rated version of Caligula. We did not know that it was X-rated. We sat in the front row, very eager cinema-goers.
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Wooo! Look at this! 💛
Beautiful book post; coming soon from @goldsf.bsky.social! @darusha.ca
December 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Wooo! Look at this! 💛
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International conventions should not be held in the U.S.
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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December 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
International conventions should not be held in the U.S.
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I've been doing a bunch of media about Australia's social media ban for under 16s this week.
NZ looks likely to follow.
Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇
#nzpol
NZ looks likely to follow.
Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇
#nzpol
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I've been doing a bunch of media about Australia's social media ban for under 16s this week.
NZ looks likely to follow.
Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇
#nzpol
NZ looks likely to follow.
Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇
#nzpol