Lorraine Wilson
@rainewilson.bsky.social
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE coming 06/11/25 https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her
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✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Massive thanks to Locus & @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social for reviewing The Salt Oracle 🖤🖤🖤
Explore @NussbaumAbigail’s review of @rainewilson.bsky.social: “Wilson describes THE SALT ORACLE as her attempt at dark academia, and indeed, despite the novel’s borderline-apocalyptic setting… some familiar academic quirks quickly establish themselves.”
The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson: Review by Abigail Nussbaum
The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson (Solaris 978-1-837865-741, £18.99, 400pp, hc) November 2025. Bellwether College is a floating structure somewhere in the Baltic Sea. In the future that has followe…
locusmag.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Massive thanks to Locus & @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social for reviewing The Salt Oracle 🖤🖤🖤
Wee boost of this as it's the last day to nominate for the @bsfa.bsky.social awards 🖤
It's odd posting about awards eligibility & asking please consider me when my book's barely out so not many of you have read it.
But I have one sole eligible thing this year, and I'm proud of it in all its briny strangeness. So hey, please consider THE SALT ORACLE if you're nominating? 🖤🖤🖤
But I have one sole eligible thing this year, and I'm proud of it in all its briny strangeness. So hey, please consider THE SALT ORACLE if you're nominating? 🖤🖤🖤
December 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Wee boost of this as it's the last day to nominate for the @bsfa.bsky.social awards 🖤
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
It's the final day to nominate stories for the BSFA awards.
Here are my award-eligible works from 2025:
@giganotosaurus.bsky.social @thepinkhydra.com @thisjulieday.bsky.social
Here are my award-eligible works from 2025:
@giganotosaurus.bsky.social @thepinkhydra.com @thisjulieday.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's the final day to nominate stories for the BSFA awards.
Here are my award-eligible works from 2025:
@giganotosaurus.bsky.social @thepinkhydra.com @thisjulieday.bsky.social
Here are my award-eligible works from 2025:
@giganotosaurus.bsky.social @thepinkhydra.com @thisjulieday.bsky.social
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A very satisfying Solaris Stack of all the hardback novels we're releasing in 2025!
Featuring:
THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY @roannelau.bsky.social
THE NEEDFIRE @mkhardywrites.com
RAGWORT @samkhorton.bsky.social
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE SALT ORACLE @rainewilson.bsky.social
Buy now!
Featuring:
THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY @roannelau.bsky.social
THE NEEDFIRE @mkhardywrites.com
RAGWORT @samkhorton.bsky.social
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE SALT ORACLE @rainewilson.bsky.social
Buy now!
December 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A very satisfying Solaris Stack of all the hardback novels we're releasing in 2025!
Featuring:
THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY @roannelau.bsky.social
THE NEEDFIRE @mkhardywrites.com
RAGWORT @samkhorton.bsky.social
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE SALT ORACLE @rainewilson.bsky.social
Buy now!
Featuring:
THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY @roannelau.bsky.social
THE NEEDFIRE @mkhardywrites.com
RAGWORT @samkhorton.bsky.social
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE SALT ORACLE @rainewilson.bsky.social
Buy now!
Me 10 mins ago, ignoring the heavy frost - eh who needs shoes to pop out & feed the birds? Pfft.
Me now - why can I feel nothing below my shins
Me now - why can I feel nothing below my shins
December 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Me 10 mins ago, ignoring the heavy frost - eh who needs shoes to pop out & feed the birds? Pfft.
Me now - why can I feel nothing below my shins
Me now - why can I feel nothing below my shins
Writing an article that's making me relive some of the most heartbreaking parts of working in marine conservation and yes, I am mainlining after eights to get through, but STILL. ugh 💔
December 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Writing an article that's making me relive some of the most heartbreaking parts of working in marine conservation and yes, I am mainlining after eights to get through, but STILL. ugh 💔
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Hop over to our friends @thefantasyhive.bsky.social to read @rainewilson.bsky.social 's fascinating guest post on 'The Lures and Flaws of Dark Academia', celebrating her own take on the genre - THE SALT ORACLE!
Read more https://bit.ly/3JAXBvE
Buy THE SALT ORACLE https://geni.us/saltorac
Read more https://bit.ly/3JAXBvE
Buy THE SALT ORACLE https://geni.us/saltorac
bit.ly
December 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hop over to our friends @thefantasyhive.bsky.social to read @rainewilson.bsky.social 's fascinating guest post on 'The Lures and Flaws of Dark Academia', celebrating her own take on the genre - THE SALT ORACLE!
Read more https://bit.ly/3JAXBvE
Buy THE SALT ORACLE https://geni.us/saltorac
Read more https://bit.ly/3JAXBvE
Buy THE SALT ORACLE https://geni.us/saltorac
Genuinely delights me that Solaris collects genretwisty authors like a lil dragon gathering its hoard 🐉
Genre rules are only guidelines anyway!
Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?
We've got all that and more!
1/3
Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?
We've got all that and more!
1/3
December 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Genuinely delights me that Solaris collects genretwisty authors like a lil dragon gathering its hoard 🐉
The cannibal ants
They destroyed their nuclear bunker
Yes
YES
The ants are out
They destroyed their nuclear bunker
Yes
YES
The ants are out
December 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The cannibal ants
They destroyed their nuclear bunker
Yes
YES
The ants are out
They destroyed their nuclear bunker
Yes
YES
The ants are out
I won't repost the fox killer but fwiw the only correct response if your kid comes out as gay/trans is:
1. Okay. I love you.
That's it.
It is, however, also natural to feel fear and anger *for them* - that their life just got that bit harder and more hurtful because of other people's idiocy. 1/2
1. Okay. I love you.
That's it.
It is, however, also natural to feel fear and anger *for them* - that their life just got that bit harder and more hurtful because of other people's idiocy. 1/2
December 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I won't repost the fox killer but fwiw the only correct response if your kid comes out as gay/trans is:
1. Okay. I love you.
That's it.
It is, however, also natural to feel fear and anger *for them* - that their life just got that bit harder and more hurtful because of other people's idiocy. 1/2
1. Okay. I love you.
That's it.
It is, however, also natural to feel fear and anger *for them* - that their life just got that bit harder and more hurtful because of other people's idiocy. 1/2
Very much looking forward to this 🙌
The British Fantasy Society is excited to announce our next event day, taking place on Saturday 10th January 2026, 10am to 6pm (GMT).
BFS Online: The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
BFS Online: The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
December 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Very much looking forward to this 🙌
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The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
In case you've not seen - SFWA have opened a quick survey on generative AI in writing/publishing/awards here 👇
It's limited in scope but still worth filling in if you have a moment
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
It's limited in scope but still worth filling in if you have a moment
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
Press Release - December 22, 2025 - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
The SFWA Board of Directors extends its apology and next steps after an inappropriate Nebula rule change announced on Friday, December 19.
www.sfwa.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In case you've not seen - SFWA have opened a quick survey on generative AI in writing/publishing/awards here 👇
It's limited in scope but still worth filling in if you have a moment
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
It's limited in scope but still worth filling in if you have a moment
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
Reupping this for all those last minute gifts 📚📚📚
My annual holiday reading/buying/hoarding recommendations list is UP!!
It has many splendid books, I had to miss off even more, so let me know your suggestions!
www.patreon.com/posts/holida...
It has many splendid books, I had to miss off even more, so let me know your suggestions!
www.patreon.com/posts/holida...
Holiday book recommendations - gifts, reading and feeding the tbr pile | Lorraine Wilson
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December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reupping this for all those last minute gifts 📚📚📚
A beautiful thread, both for the brilliant art and the love shining through it all
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A beautiful thread, both for the brilliant art and the love shining through it all
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
A thread to read up and down.
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A thread to read up and down.
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Dec 20th's 2025 book advent choice is The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social, a tale of dark mystery and murder aboard a floating research college in a post apocalyptic world of climate disaster and internet collapse, which has left drifting digital ghosts infecting the human world...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dec 20th's 2025 book advent choice is The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social, a tale of dark mystery and murder aboard a floating research college in a post apocalyptic world of climate disaster and internet collapse, which has left drifting digital ghosts infecting the human world...
💙📚🪐
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I always enjoy Womble's end of year lists, so it's extra delightful to see THE SALT ORACLE in such good company 🖤
Their last visit takes us to the future, space and beyond with a look at science fiction novels www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...
Santa Womble Goes to Space! — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! For this final day Santa Womble not just goes to space but to the future which may be a minute away or thousands of years or even an alternate world that could be calling. Yes these are scie...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
December 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I always enjoy Womble's end of year lists, so it's extra delightful to see THE SALT ORACLE in such good company 🖤
Hugely appreciate the authors who are willing to do this kind of self scrutiny about the community labour (which is what blurbing is) they/we do. As Kate says - a big part of this kind of bias lies outwith the author, but asking the question of yourself is still so important. 💪🏽
This was a busy blurbing year for me. I was just looking over the books I got sent to blurb/endorse this year and 92% were written by white authors. This is a cycle that is at least partly on me to break, and I'm going to put some thought into how to do so, but also, publishing, you have some issues
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hugely appreciate the authors who are willing to do this kind of self scrutiny about the community labour (which is what blurbing is) they/we do. As Kate says - a big part of this kind of bias lies outwith the author, but asking the question of yourself is still so important. 💪🏽
Fronds I have finished my list of pre-holiday writing jobs!
I have one during-holiday writing task (or two), because us authors know how to take a break, don't we? BUT STILL if we pretend we can't see those, then WOO HOO!!!
I have one during-holiday writing task (or two), because us authors know how to take a break, don't we? BUT STILL if we pretend we can't see those, then WOO HOO!!!
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Fronds I have finished my list of pre-holiday writing jobs!
I have one during-holiday writing task (or two), because us authors know how to take a break, don't we? BUT STILL if we pretend we can't see those, then WOO HOO!!!
I have one during-holiday writing task (or two), because us authors know how to take a break, don't we? BUT STILL if we pretend we can't see those, then WOO HOO!!!
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People in and near Glasgow, I’m thrilled to participate in this panel on Scottish Speculative Fiction next month at Waterstones Glasgow Argyle Street!
Tickets available via link:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Tickets available via link:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
December 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
People in and near Glasgow, I’m thrilled to participate in this panel on Scottish Speculative Fiction next month at Waterstones Glasgow Argyle Street!
Tickets available via link:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Tickets available via link:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
An almost-noon almost-solstice sea
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
An almost-noon almost-solstice sea
Rhiannon's put together a splendid list of awards eligible work in this thread, please do go check it out for voting/reading inspiration 🖤
There's also the whodunnit meets clifi meets dark academia meets brilliant speculative fiction THE SALT ORACLE from @rainewilson.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Rhiannon's put together a splendid list of awards eligible work in this thread, please do go check it out for voting/reading inspiration 🖤
I hadn't heard of a few of these so am all 👀🤩
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I hadn't heard of a few of these so am all 👀🤩
✨Next event is live!!✨
What do you need to get you through the January slump? How about coming to hang out with me and these three splendid humans, surrounded by books?
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
@solarisbooks.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
What do you need to get you through the January slump? How about coming to hang out with me and these three splendid humans, surrounded by books?
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
@solarisbooks.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
✨Next event is live!!✨
What do you need to get you through the January slump? How about coming to hang out with me and these three splendid humans, surrounded by books?
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
@solarisbooks.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
What do you need to get you through the January slump? How about coming to hang out with me and these three splendid humans, surrounded by books?
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
@solarisbooks.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social