Matthew Kressel
@matthewkressel.net
Nebula & World Fantasy Award Finalist, SFF writer, coder, artist. Books: THE RAINSEEKERS, SPACE TRUCKER JESS, HISTORIES WITHIN US, KING OF SHARDS & QUEEN OF STATIC. Creator of Moksha submissions system. Co-host of Fantastic Fiction at KGB. 🥄 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
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Matthew Kressel
@matthewkressel.net
· Jan 11
NewScientist lists THE RAINSEEKERS as one of the best new science fiction books of ’26, along with books from Ann Leckie, Neil Jordan, Adrian Tchaikovsky and more. Out Feb 17th from @tordotcom.bsky.social
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I’ve just been reading this lovely story: In the Shells of Broken Things by A. T. Greenblatt (@atgreenblatt.bsky.social) and I wanted to share it, because it warmed my dented heart. I know, I’m late to the party, but a good story is timeless 😉 clarkesworldmagazine.com/greenblatt_0...
In the Shells of Broken Things by A. T. Greenblatt
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
I’ve just been reading this lovely story: In the Shells of Broken Things by A. T. Greenblatt (@atgreenblatt.bsky.social) and I wanted to share it, because it warmed my dented heart. I know, I’m late to the party, but a good story is timeless 😉 clarkesworldmagazine.com/greenblatt_0...
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If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/palant...
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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After all the invertebrates we've been seeing driving dem leadership, it's so heartening to see these public servants doing their jobs with appropriate fury.
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
After all the invertebrates we've been seeing driving dem leadership, it's so heartening to see these public servants doing their jobs with appropriate fury.
I rolled my own home surveillance system because I don't trust Ring or any cloud based service with my private data. It's hard to set up but Home Assistant works well and is highly customizable.
February 11, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I rolled my own home surveillance system because I don't trust Ring or any cloud based service with my private data. It's hard to set up but Home Assistant works well and is highly customizable.
ICE is opening up offices all around the country. We need to protest this HARD. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 AM
ICE is opening up offices all around the country. We need to protest this HARD. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
AI sucks so bad even the Yiddish-speaking parts of BlueSky are complaining about it.
February 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
AI sucks so bad even the Yiddish-speaking parts of BlueSky are complaining about it.
Apropos of nothing, here is a pic I took in Seattle this past summer.
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Apropos of nothing, here is a pic I took in Seattle this past summer.
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Reading Reality ~ A- #BookReview: The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel www.readingreality.net/2026/02/a-bo... via @readingreality.bsky.social
A- #BookReview: The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel
My Review: The blurb isn’t exactly wrong, but the emphasis is on the wrong person. Not that Sakunja Salazar doesn’t tell her own story in this story, but it’s not about her. It’s about all of them, co...
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February 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Reading Reality ~ A- #BookReview: The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel www.readingreality.net/2026/02/a-bo... via @readingreality.bsky.social
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ICYMI: here are 16 SF/F books coming out in February that caught my eye: www.andrewliptak.com/sci-fi-fanta...
16 new SF/F books to check out this February
Books about interstellar invasions, conspiracies, monsters, and quite a bit more to add to your TBR
www.andrewliptak.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
ICYMI: here are 16 SF/F books coming out in February that caught my eye: www.andrewliptak.com/sci-fi-fanta...
I'll be live on NYC radio WBAI 99.5 FM tonight from 9-10pm ET for Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf radio show to talk about my forthcoming novella THE RAINSEEKERS. You can listen live at the link below or at a later time on their archive page. www.wbai.org/listen-live/
@wbai.org
@wbai.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I'll be live on NYC radio WBAI 99.5 FM tonight from 9-10pm ET for Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf radio show to talk about my forthcoming novella THE RAINSEEKERS. You can listen live at the link below or at a later time on their archive page. www.wbai.org/listen-live/
@wbai.org
@wbai.org
A great metaphor, actually
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
A great metaphor, actually
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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This novella was great! It comes out on February 17th! Here's what I said about it! @matthewkressel.net
February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This novella was great! It comes out on February 17th! Here's what I said about it! @matthewkressel.net
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A- #BookReview: The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net @stmartinspress.bsky.social #stmartinspress #sciencefiction #booksky
A- #BookReview: The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel
My Review: The blurb isn’t exactly wrong, but the emphasis is on the wrong person. Not that Sakunja Salazar doesn’t tell her own story in this story, but it’s not about her. It’s about all of them, collectively. A somewhat motley crew of characters in search of the ineffable, surprisingly like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales - and isn’t that a bit of a surprise?
www.readingreality.net
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
A- #BookReview: The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net @stmartinspress.bsky.social #stmartinspress #sciencefiction #booksky
February 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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I want all writers to be into writing as much like themselves as possible. I hate to see someone say writing's so good they wish they'd written it. You couldn't have, you're you, & they're them. That's the spirit of plagiarism behind AI. Believe in your capacity to create beauty unique to you.
February 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I want all writers to be into writing as much like themselves as possible. I hate to see someone say writing's so good they wish they'd written it. You couldn't have, you're you, & they're them. That's the spirit of plagiarism behind AI. Believe in your capacity to create beauty unique to you.
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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If you generate a book-length blob of text every day, and it takes me six months to write a SHORT STORY I still win the race because I care about art and not just volume of words.
February 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
If you generate a book-length blob of text every day, and it takes me six months to write a SHORT STORY I still win the race because I care about art and not just volume of words.
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To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...
February 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...
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Just arrived: PANDEMONIUM WALTZ, the new collection from horror & weird lit great @jeffreyford8.bsky.social! Incredible cover art by Jeff's son Derek, and closed with an interview by @kellylink.bsky.social. Beautifully designed by @lethepress.bsky.social. www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
February 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Just arrived: PANDEMONIUM WALTZ, the new collection from horror & weird lit great @jeffreyford8.bsky.social! Incredible cover art by Jeff's son Derek, and closed with an interview by @kellylink.bsky.social. Beautifully designed by @lethepress.bsky.social. www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
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🎉 A short thread of recent good #writing news 🎉
Delighted that my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" will be translated into Chinese to appear in SFWorld!
Read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
Delighted that my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" will be translated into Chinese to appear in SFWorld!
Read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War - Uncanny Magazine
Kestrel House There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement pa...
www.uncannymagazine.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
🎉 A short thread of recent good #writing news 🎉
Delighted that my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" will be translated into Chinese to appear in SFWorld!
Read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
Delighted that my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" will be translated into Chinese to appear in SFWorld!
Read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
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NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.
www.wired.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*: