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T. K. Rex
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Science fiction and fantasy author from the western states. Occasional podcaster, reading host, bookseller and barista. Debut solarpunk collection THE WILDCRAFT DRONES drops May 21, 2026 @stelliform.press. Stories & newsletter signup at tkrex.wtf.
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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · Dec 8
The pre-order page for my debut solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, is now live @stelliform.press !!

www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex ⋆ Stelliform Press
Read about short story collection THE WILDCRAFT DRONES by T. K. Rex, linked stories about the evolution of sentient drones and a transformed humanity.
www.stelliform.press
tkrex.bsky.social
NESS is gorgeous and you should partake
emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · 11h
Past issues of NESS have featured lush interior art through and through, so yes, doubling up on said interior art would be terrific.

(Artists credited in the alt text.)
February 14, 2026 at 1:29 AM
tkrex.bsky.social
So many things
February 14, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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charliejane.bsky.social
We've raised nearly $6800 for this utterly essential organization (see thread).

Can you help us get to $7500 today?

(Remember to click "adjust donation")
February 13, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
I nicknamed this one 'Toothless and the Light Fury.'

Detail from a preparatory study.
Brown pencil sketch of a pair of Microraptor resting on a tree branch. One is suggested as being lighter in coloration than the other.
February 12, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
Via @sadiehartmann.bsky.social aka Mother Horror, here is an expertly gathered list of Black horror that will be released/have been released this very year. Some great authors on here:

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Images of a bunch of book covers that I'm not even going to try to describe. The titles are: On Sundays She Picked Flowers Humboldt Cut Mama Came Callin’ Burn Down Master’s House Dead First (10th) Indigent 3/20 You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom 3/10 The Curse of Hester Gardens 3/31 Older Than Ghosts 4/21 House of Margins 5/26 I’ll Watch Your Baby 5/26 Observer 9/15 Our Sister’s Keeper 6/9 These Walls Remember 8/19 The Sunken, The Adored 8/25
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
Free #solarpunk stories for Awards Season—time to nominate & vote!

Stories from
@renanbernardo.com
@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social
@tkrex.bsky.social
@daniellearostegui.bsky.social
@brightflame.bsky.social
@singingtotigers.bsky.social

#BSFAAwards2026
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Bright Green Futures Edited by Susan Kaye Quinn Bright Green Futures: FREE for Awards Season Hugo, Nebula, British Science Fiction Association Awards
February 13, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
We love the Ignytes around here, friends.
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
tkrex.bsky.social
As a fan of both geology and Oakland I’m a little sad I don’t have this book already
cbdawson.bsky.social Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 1d
📚 Hey, I noticed @geology.bsky.social 's book is a staff pick of the month at Pegasus books, and I had to share the staff members' comments:

⚒️🧪 #booksky #oakland
Screenshot of book cover for Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City, by Andrew Alden. Screenshot of text: "Dreamlike” is not an adjective I ever thought would apply to a geology book, but I can’t think of one better for Alden’s Deep Oakland. Part historical walking tour of the Town, part introduction to the field, part light theorization about the movement of the rocks we live on, the whole is an informative and pleasurable journey through the greatest city in the Bay. Like for instance: did you know Oakland is basically a giant sand dune? Alden does a good job of not just dropping that little factoid, but of contextualizing it in geologic time. Dune sand is easily shifted; winds are no tectonic plates. And then there’s the fact that Alden clearly loves the Town, and is not afraid of telling its history honest. And he loves architecture, which is just fun. — Charity
February 13, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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crsutton.bsky.social
Pretty cool to see my novella listed in the new releases on @locusmag.bsky.social ✨

locusmag.com/2026/02/new-...
New Book Releases: February 10, 2026
Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Adams, Guy: The Thirteenth Floor Anthology (Rebellion UK 978-1837866038, $16.99, 352pp,…
locusmag.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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brightflame.bsky.social
My story "Ancestors, Descendants" is among brilliant stories by @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @singingtotigers.bsky.social & @daniellearostegui.bsky.social

The anthology is free atm! Read it--vote!
#solarpunk #SFF #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #BookSky #hope #read
susankayequinn.bsky.social Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d
The Bright Green Futures anthology is FREE for Awards Season!

Nebula nominations open until 2.28!
Hugo nominations now open!

BSFA: *Coriander* is already long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards
(voting closes 2.19)

lnk.to/BGFAwards

#BSFA2026Awards #solarpunk
Solarpunk Awards Eligibility Short Story Bright Green Futures The Doglady and the Rainstorm by Renan Bernardo What Kind of Bat is This? by Sarena Ulibarri Centipede Station by T. K. Rex A Merger in Corn Country by Danielle Arostegui Ancestors, Descendants by BrightFlame The Park of the Beast by T. K. Rex Coriander by Ana Sun **long-listed for BSFA** FREE FOR AWARDS SEASON https:/Ink.to/BGFAwards
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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renanbernardo.com
Bright Green Futures is free during this awards season! My piece The Doglady and the Rainstorm is in it, alongside the great works of @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social, @brightflame.bsky.social, @tkrex.bsky.social, @daniellearostegui.bsky.social, and @singingtotigers.bsky.social!
susankayequinn.bsky.social Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d
The Bright Green Futures anthology is FREE for Awards Season!

Nebula nominations open until 2.28!
Hugo nominations now open!

BSFA: *Coriander* is already long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards
(voting closes 2.19)

lnk.to/BGFAwards

#BSFA2026Awards #solarpunk
Solarpunk Awards Eligibility Short Story Bright Green Futures The Doglady and the Rainstorm by Renan Bernardo What Kind of Bat is This? by Sarena Ulibarri Centipede Station by T. K. Rex A Merger in Corn Country by Danielle Arostegui Ancestors, Descendants by BrightFlame The Park of the Beast by T. K. Rex Coriander by Ana Sun **long-listed for BSFA** FREE FOR AWARDS SEASON https:/Ink.to/BGFAwards
February 13, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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jdgoulet.northsky.social
Here's a good start.
Downwinders - Manhattan Project National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
February 11, 2026 at 9:44 PM
tkrex.bsky.social
There’s just so, so many things to be mad at the US government for, but here is another one that effected people (including my family) all over the Pacific Northwest, and that they tried really hard to cover up forever, so here ya go
jdgoulet.northsky.social JD Goulet @jdgoulet.northsky.social · 2d
And oh look, that site actually documents the secret experiment gone wrong that caused my older family members to have an unusually high rate of thyroid disease:
The Green Run (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
February 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
tkrex.bsky.social
One for #bugsky
cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d
Hey, nature nerds! Anyone know what kind of moth this is? I very carefully evicted them and know would love to know more about my admired but unwanted guest.
Pic of a brown moth on a wall.
February 12, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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mimulus.bsky.social
My poem about crawling out from the ruins of collapse and establishing queer new ways of being: “Poeisis (Triassic Aubade),” from my collection TIME TRAVEL IS EASY (2025).
Screenshot of a poem that reads: Poeisis (Triassic Aubade) (After Charles Darwin) certainly the forests grew again and that morning we looked out from our burrows, from all our crooks and craws and cranny-made holloways and hideaways, climbed from the collapse and the choking end of everything we knew and when had anything smelled so generous, so vast as outliving all those gutted arcs of ribs the end had come for them, for them, and left us all those jaws splayed now in gardens kingly estates where once we had to hide from prayerful fangs and Pinkerton claws and now that our flesh was our own we tasted the miracle of creating ourselves shaped our endless forms most beautiful wrapped ourselves in feathers and fucked and spread flagrant new avenues of self and for a little while, at least, we were free
February 11, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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locusmag.bsky.social
Get your tickets to the Locus Awards in May! Guests of Honor are Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due, and we are so excited to be partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley!

Buy your tickets at locusmag.com/2026-lo... or via the link in our bio!! See you there.
February 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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suzisteffen.bsky.social
reposting again because trying not to bawl as I finished this. <3
tkrex.bsky.social T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 21d
One of the most validating things that’s ever happened to me as a writer: @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social got subject matter experts to annotate my story about housing & soil remediation. I don’t know if anyone’s read them but I love that they’re there.
Full text: www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-fl...
All the images are screenshots from my story “The Flowers Where Five-Eighty Used to Be” at the link in the post. The title illustration is of two women sitting on the roof of a car in the middle of a field of sunflowers
February 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Bringing this back up for the International Day of Women in Science, and yes, I consider scientific art, as part of scientific process and communication 🫰
February 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
tkrex.bsky.social
Nuclear power is not ok. Uranium mining is not ok, nuclear waste is not ok. The only argument in favor is that it is “more efficient” than other things that are also not ok. Hey, you know what? We actually don’t need ANY of those things, because infinite industrial growth is going to kill us all
February 11, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
tkrex.bsky.social
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
February 11, 2026 at 3:20 AM
tkrex.bsky.social
yes please
cxorlando.bsky.social Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 3d
hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
tkrex.bsky.social
Boosting this. I would like the only food forest I’ve ever been to in real life to still exist when my food forest book is published. I hate petitions but I don’t really know what else to do outside of Austin
tkrex.bsky.social T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 5d
Last year I visited Austin, TX for the first time to read at Festival Beach Food Forest, a public park planted w/ edible species, & a wonderful event & education third space. Completely unique. I just found out the city plans to demolish them.

This is the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...
Pause Wastewater Pipeline Construction at Festival Beach Food Forest
Festival Beach Food Forest (FBFF) is a 3-acre, volunteer-led permaculture food forest on public parkland in Austin, Texas. Built through years of collaboration between community members and the City o...
actionnetwork.org
February 11, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
So @johannavanveen.bsky.social had this to say: “Muñeca is the best sort of story: sexy, witchy, sapphic. A class-conscious fairy tale with teeth that I shall carry within my heart for years to come.” —Johanna van Veen, author of Blood on Her Tongue
🖤🖤🖤
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
tkrex.bsky.social
Just finished The Death of Mountains by @jordankurella.com , what a little gem of a book. Feels like taking a deep breath and remembering that stories don’t have rules, only promises. ⛰️
February 10, 2026 at 3:13 PM