N. A. Dawn, Author
@nadawn.bsky.social
Beauty against barbarism. | Essays, poetry and speculative fiction in New Contrast mag and Catalyst Press: 'Captive' (2024) and 'Disruption' (2020)
@spyscribe.bsky.social’s “Observations of a Small Object in Decaying Orbit” in @apexmag.bsky.social spotlights the impact of toxic dogmatism on the families of political elites. Humane and unadorned - a space-faring Hemingway, a child-sized Orwell.
#sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction
#sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
@spyscribe.bsky.social’s “Observations of a Small Object in Decaying Orbit” in @apexmag.bsky.social spotlights the impact of toxic dogmatism on the families of political elites. Humane and unadorned - a space-faring Hemingway, a child-sized Orwell.
#sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction
#sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction
An irresistibly wacky premise, delivered in a wry, flippant, sleuth-style voice, Alex Jablokov’s vividly imagined “Lady Ballistic: Fast and Accurate Cleaning” in @analogsf.bsky.social gives exactly the right kind of brain tickles.
Douglas Adams meets Doctor Who.
#shortstories #fiction #sff #scifi
Douglas Adams meets Doctor Who.
#shortstories #fiction #sff #scifi
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
An irresistibly wacky premise, delivered in a wry, flippant, sleuth-style voice, Alex Jablokov’s vividly imagined “Lady Ballistic: Fast and Accurate Cleaning” in @analogsf.bsky.social gives exactly the right kind of brain tickles.
Douglas Adams meets Doctor Who.
#shortstories #fiction #sff #scifi
Douglas Adams meets Doctor Who.
#shortstories #fiction #sff #scifi
Every so often I find a slam-dunk banger of a #scifi #shortstory with a wry, unassuming voice, irresistible suspense and flawless payoff.
Witty and playful, Mark Ferguson’s taut monster tale “It Eats Metal” in @analogsf.bsky.social is a small-town #horror of heroic retirees with gumption to spare.
Witty and playful, Mark Ferguson’s taut monster tale “It Eats Metal” in @analogsf.bsky.social is a small-town #horror of heroic retirees with gumption to spare.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Every so often I find a slam-dunk banger of a #scifi #shortstory with a wry, unassuming voice, irresistible suspense and flawless payoff.
Witty and playful, Mark Ferguson’s taut monster tale “It Eats Metal” in @analogsf.bsky.social is a small-town #horror of heroic retirees with gumption to spare.
Witty and playful, Mark Ferguson’s taut monster tale “It Eats Metal” in @analogsf.bsky.social is a small-town #horror of heroic retirees with gumption to spare.
Unneighbourly shenanigans, the fragile pride of a bourgeois villainess, colonial manners and high-society tedium - @henrylienauthor.bsky.social’s “The Lady’s Aquatic Gardening Society” in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social is more than screamingly funny.
#colonialamerica #historicalfiction #feministlit
#colonialamerica #historicalfiction #feministlit
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Unneighbourly shenanigans, the fragile pride of a bourgeois villainess, colonial manners and high-society tedium - @henrylienauthor.bsky.social’s “The Lady’s Aquatic Gardening Society” in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social is more than screamingly funny.
#colonialamerica #historicalfiction #feministlit
#colonialamerica #historicalfiction #feministlit
Liu Maijia’s “Giant Grandmother” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com dodges the merely sentimental with philosophical depth and moral maturity. Cute elephants, wise grandmas, prosocial limits on scientific research, humane eco-sensitive futures - what’s not to love?
#sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction #eco
#sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction #eco
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Liu Maijia’s “Giant Grandmother” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com dodges the merely sentimental with philosophical depth and moral maturity. Cute elephants, wise grandmas, prosocial limits on scientific research, humane eco-sensitive futures - what’s not to love?
#sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction #eco
#sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction #eco
The more I listen to @bblilikoi.bsky.social speak of poetry - this syncretic, transcendental consolation for the soul - the clearer it seems that the literary life is one of reverence, that elevates our best by turning our worst into beauty.
#poetry #literature #poems #creativewriting #writing #art
#poetry #literature #poems #creativewriting #writing #art
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The more I listen to @bblilikoi.bsky.social speak of poetry - this syncretic, transcendental consolation for the soul - the clearer it seems that the literary life is one of reverence, that elevates our best by turning our worst into beauty.
#poetry #literature #poems #creativewriting #writing #art
#poetry #literature #poems #creativewriting #writing #art
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I think my dream day job is owning a laundromat where I have a small desk where I write books to the dulcet tones of sudsy sloshes and dryers humming.
December 15, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I think my dream day job is owning a laundromat where I have a small desk where I write books to the dulcet tones of sudsy sloshes and dryers humming.
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The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time
December 18, 2024 at 7:05 PM
The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time
Mournful, not quite cosy, rich with subtle dramas between siblings, friends, creatures and cultures, @drfionamoore.bsky.social’s The Cancer Wolves in @clarkesworldmagazine.com charts a harsh yet hopeful course through the collapse. Resiliently humane.
#sff #scifi #postapocalyptic #shortstories
#sff #scifi #postapocalyptic #shortstories
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Mournful, not quite cosy, rich with subtle dramas between siblings, friends, creatures and cultures, @drfionamoore.bsky.social’s The Cancer Wolves in @clarkesworldmagazine.com charts a harsh yet hopeful course through the collapse. Resiliently humane.
#sff #scifi #postapocalyptic #shortstories
#sff #scifi #postapocalyptic #shortstories
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Literally ONE more annual subscription will allow @othersidespec.bsky.social to publish reprints!!
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OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Literally ONE more annual subscription will allow @othersidespec.bsky.social to publish reprints!!
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Deliciously seditious, a meta-satirical masterpiece. Subtle, restrained, venomous,
@thomasha.bsky.social’s “In My Country” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is a tribute to subtext, ambiguity and the power of the irreducible to foment new consciousness.
Bartleby for the MAGA age.
#sff #dystopian #scifi
@thomasha.bsky.social’s “In My Country” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is a tribute to subtext, ambiguity and the power of the irreducible to foment new consciousness.
Bartleby for the MAGA age.
#sff #dystopian #scifi
October 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Deliciously seditious, a meta-satirical masterpiece. Subtle, restrained, venomous,
@thomasha.bsky.social’s “In My Country” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is a tribute to subtext, ambiguity and the power of the irreducible to foment new consciousness.
Bartleby for the MAGA age.
#sff #dystopian #scifi
@thomasha.bsky.social’s “In My Country” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is a tribute to subtext, ambiguity and the power of the irreducible to foment new consciousness.
Bartleby for the MAGA age.
#sff #dystopian #scifi
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Reposted by N. A. Dawn, Author
"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them."
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them."
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
The only thing more painful than the loss is the losing: the inevitable unraveling, the unstoppable decline.
‘Rules of Biology’ by Dale Bailey in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social paints a devastating portrait of #toxicmasculinity ‘s greatest insecurities with exquisite empathy.
#sff #scifi #shortstories
‘Rules of Biology’ by Dale Bailey in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social paints a devastating portrait of #toxicmasculinity ‘s greatest insecurities with exquisite empathy.
#sff #scifi #shortstories
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The only thing more painful than the loss is the losing: the inevitable unraveling, the unstoppable decline.
‘Rules of Biology’ by Dale Bailey in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social paints a devastating portrait of #toxicmasculinity ‘s greatest insecurities with exquisite empathy.
#sff #scifi #shortstories
‘Rules of Biology’ by Dale Bailey in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social paints a devastating portrait of #toxicmasculinity ‘s greatest insecurities with exquisite empathy.
#sff #scifi #shortstories
Care-for-profit commodifies life, providing healthcare to only the few.
Ray Nayler’s “The Ocean Between the Leaves” in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social, an autopsy of #transhuman #biotech, exposes the violent class logic of turning suffering into surplus value.
A classic for our times.
#scifi #sff
Ray Nayler’s “The Ocean Between the Leaves” in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social, an autopsy of #transhuman #biotech, exposes the violent class logic of turning suffering into surplus value.
A classic for our times.
#scifi #sff
September 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Care-for-profit commodifies life, providing healthcare to only the few.
Ray Nayler’s “The Ocean Between the Leaves” in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social, an autopsy of #transhuman #biotech, exposes the violent class logic of turning suffering into surplus value.
A classic for our times.
#scifi #sff
Ray Nayler’s “The Ocean Between the Leaves” in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social, an autopsy of #transhuman #biotech, exposes the violent class logic of turning suffering into surplus value.
A classic for our times.
#scifi #sff
Rammel Chan’s ‘Tourists’ in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social weaves a tightrope of cross-cultural intrigue.
Exemplary deployment of translator devices, secret identities and forbidden love tropes, given new life with subtle suspense.
#scifi #sf #sciencefiction #shortstories #fiction
Exemplary deployment of translator devices, secret identities and forbidden love tropes, given new life with subtle suspense.
#scifi #sf #sciencefiction #shortstories #fiction
September 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Rammel Chan’s ‘Tourists’ in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social weaves a tightrope of cross-cultural intrigue.
Exemplary deployment of translator devices, secret identities and forbidden love tropes, given new life with subtle suspense.
#scifi #sf #sciencefiction #shortstories #fiction
Exemplary deployment of translator devices, secret identities and forbidden love tropes, given new life with subtle suspense.
#scifi #sf #sciencefiction #shortstories #fiction
@katefrancia.bsky.social’s
‘Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth’ in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social binds its delicate character study and crisply textured world, personal history and collective destiny, with nettled vine. The finale looms like a hungry shadow.
#sff #fantasy #shortstories #fiction
‘Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth’ in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social binds its delicate character study and crisply textured world, personal history and collective destiny, with nettled vine. The finale looms like a hungry shadow.
#sff #fantasy #shortstories #fiction
September 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
@katefrancia.bsky.social’s
‘Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth’ in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social binds its delicate character study and crisply textured world, personal history and collective destiny, with nettled vine. The finale looms like a hungry shadow.
#sff #fantasy #shortstories #fiction
‘Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth’ in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social binds its delicate character study and crisply textured world, personal history and collective destiny, with nettled vine. The finale looms like a hungry shadow.
#sff #fantasy #shortstories #fiction
Are wrongs ever fully righted? Do intentions matter? Can we redeem ourselves from collective sin?
@meganflchee.bsky.social’s The Museum of Cosmic Retribution in @nightmare-magazine.com, replies to Dickens and Lovecraft with a star-spangled hammer to the heart.
#horror #sff #shortstories #fiction
@meganflchee.bsky.social’s The Museum of Cosmic Retribution in @nightmare-magazine.com, replies to Dickens and Lovecraft with a star-spangled hammer to the heart.
#horror #sff #shortstories #fiction
September 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Are wrongs ever fully righted? Do intentions matter? Can we redeem ourselves from collective sin?
@meganflchee.bsky.social’s The Museum of Cosmic Retribution in @nightmare-magazine.com, replies to Dickens and Lovecraft with a star-spangled hammer to the heart.
#horror #sff #shortstories #fiction
@meganflchee.bsky.social’s The Museum of Cosmic Retribution in @nightmare-magazine.com, replies to Dickens and Lovecraft with a star-spangled hammer to the heart.
#horror #sff #shortstories #fiction
A kitchen table holds more than food: echoes of quiet war, shadows of our lost beloved, and all that can’t be fully digested.
Peter Balakian’s “Eggplant”, read in @newyorker.com’s Poetry podcast, peels back layers, revealing the Earth we consume.
#poetry #writing #reading #ecocriticism #literature
Peter Balakian’s “Eggplant”, read in @newyorker.com’s Poetry podcast, peels back layers, revealing the Earth we consume.
#poetry #writing #reading #ecocriticism #literature
September 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
A kitchen table holds more than food: echoes of quiet war, shadows of our lost beloved, and all that can’t be fully digested.
Peter Balakian’s “Eggplant”, read in @newyorker.com’s Poetry podcast, peels back layers, revealing the Earth we consume.
#poetry #writing #reading #ecocriticism #literature
Peter Balakian’s “Eggplant”, read in @newyorker.com’s Poetry podcast, peels back layers, revealing the Earth we consume.
#poetry #writing #reading #ecocriticism #literature
In @lightspeedmagazine.com, @p-h-lee.bsky.social provokes disturbing reflection with ‘Only Some of True Love’s Miracles’: slicing through sentimental objectification and violence in the name of care.
Plus: MUCH better than the earworm: ‘What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me.’
#sff #scifi #shortstories
Plus: MUCH better than the earworm: ‘What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me.’
#sff #scifi #shortstories
September 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In @lightspeedmagazine.com, @p-h-lee.bsky.social provokes disturbing reflection with ‘Only Some of True Love’s Miracles’: slicing through sentimental objectification and violence in the name of care.
Plus: MUCH better than the earworm: ‘What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me.’
#sff #scifi #shortstories
Plus: MUCH better than the earworm: ‘What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me.’
#sff #scifi #shortstories
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Hello Bsky!
Re/intro: I'm a political theorist of technology corporations & Silicon Valley at Oxford University. I host and produce the Anti-Dystopians, the politics podcast about tech (with new episodes incoming!)
Podcast: www.alinautrata.com/podcast
Newsletter: alinautrata.substack.com
Re/intro: I'm a political theorist of technology corporations & Silicon Valley at Oxford University. I host and produce the Anti-Dystopians, the politics podcast about tech (with new episodes incoming!)
Podcast: www.alinautrata.com/podcast
Newsletter: alinautrata.substack.com
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The Politics Podcast About Tech. Click to read The Anti-Dystopians, by Alina Utrata, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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November 13, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Hello Bsky!
Re/intro: I'm a political theorist of technology corporations & Silicon Valley at Oxford University. I host and produce the Anti-Dystopians, the politics podcast about tech (with new episodes incoming!)
Podcast: www.alinautrata.com/podcast
Newsletter: alinautrata.substack.com
Re/intro: I'm a political theorist of technology corporations & Silicon Valley at Oxford University. I host and produce the Anti-Dystopians, the politics podcast about tech (with new episodes incoming!)
Podcast: www.alinautrata.com/podcast
Newsletter: alinautrata.substack.com
A true villain origin story reads like a broken soul’s manifesto.
In @babblewocky.bsky.social’s “Butter”, featured in
@nightmare-magazine.com,
an avenging nihilist is born.
Failed by society. Deluded by the eldritch. Grim, gruesome and unforgettably great.
#sff #horror #shortstories #fiction
In @babblewocky.bsky.social’s “Butter”, featured in
@nightmare-magazine.com,
an avenging nihilist is born.
Failed by society. Deluded by the eldritch. Grim, gruesome and unforgettably great.
#sff #horror #shortstories #fiction
September 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A true villain origin story reads like a broken soul’s manifesto.
In @babblewocky.bsky.social’s “Butter”, featured in
@nightmare-magazine.com,
an avenging nihilist is born.
Failed by society. Deluded by the eldritch. Grim, gruesome and unforgettably great.
#sff #horror #shortstories #fiction
In @babblewocky.bsky.social’s “Butter”, featured in
@nightmare-magazine.com,
an avenging nihilist is born.
Failed by society. Deluded by the eldritch. Grim, gruesome and unforgettably great.
#sff #horror #shortstories #fiction
Intoxicating, uncanny, dripping with suspense, “An Even Greater Cold to Come” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com casts a long shadow that never stops stirring. Rarely have I encountered a writer who can consistently surprise as Rich Larson does.
#sff #shortstories #fiction #scifi #horror #shortfiction
#sff #shortstories #fiction #scifi #horror #shortfiction
September 6, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Intoxicating, uncanny, dripping with suspense, “An Even Greater Cold to Come” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com casts a long shadow that never stops stirring. Rarely have I encountered a writer who can consistently surprise as Rich Larson does.
#sff #shortstories #fiction #scifi #horror #shortfiction
#sff #shortstories #fiction #scifi #horror #shortfiction
If you care about truth, freedom and the timbre of text on the mind’s ear, chuck the corporate media slop.
Reclaim your brain:
Truthout
Democracy Now
Jacobin
Intercept
AlterNet
Politico
Counterpunch
The Nation
Mother Jones
Novara Media
Double Down News
The Baffler
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Guardian
New Statesman
Reclaim your brain:
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Democracy Now
Jacobin
Intercept
AlterNet
Politico
Counterpunch
The Nation
Mother Jones
Novara Media
Double Down News
The Baffler
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Guardian
New Statesman
September 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
If you care about truth, freedom and the timbre of text on the mind’s ear, chuck the corporate media slop.
Reclaim your brain:
Truthout
Democracy Now
Jacobin
Intercept
AlterNet
Politico
Counterpunch
The Nation
Mother Jones
Novara Media
Double Down News
The Baffler
n+1
Guardian
New Statesman
Reclaim your brain:
Truthout
Democracy Now
Jacobin
Intercept
AlterNet
Politico
Counterpunch
The Nation
Mother Jones
Novara Media
Double Down News
The Baffler
n+1
Guardian
New Statesman
Gothic premise, pulpy delivery, a voice full of dry decorum and self-deprecating mania. A humorous Lovecraft.
An Offering from the Void by @froid.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com asks: What should we publish? Why spread what can’t be unsaid?
Where’s the stone now?
#horror #sff #shortstories
An Offering from the Void by @froid.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com asks: What should we publish? Why spread what can’t be unsaid?
Where’s the stone now?
#horror #sff #shortstories
September 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Gothic premise, pulpy delivery, a voice full of dry decorum and self-deprecating mania. A humorous Lovecraft.
An Offering from the Void by @froid.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com asks: What should we publish? Why spread what can’t be unsaid?
Where’s the stone now?
#horror #sff #shortstories
An Offering from the Void by @froid.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com asks: What should we publish? Why spread what can’t be unsaid?
Where’s the stone now?
#horror #sff #shortstories