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...Many thanks to H David Blalock; my painting, 'Splinter' made it to the cover of the latest issue of ParABnormal Magazine. A real treat to work on. And what an extraordinary line-up of sublime talent to be featured among! TOC here, ladles an' jellyspoons www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page...
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
...Many thanks to H David Blalock; my painting, 'Splinter' made it to the cover of the latest issue of ParABnormal Magazine. A real treat to work on. And what an extraordinary line-up of sublime talent to be featured among! TOC here, ladles an' jellyspoons www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page...
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We're very excited to share our latest issue, featuring a range of fantastic art, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction - available digitally and in print. Huge thanks to all contributors, including Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social whose art appears on the cover! #art
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Science Fiction Magazine dedicated to publishing quality short stories, poems, scientific articles which reflect optimism in the future.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We're very excited to share our latest issue, featuring a range of fantastic art, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction - available digitally and in print. Huge thanks to all contributors, including Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social whose art appears on the cover! #art
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...Huge thanks to Tristan Evarts and Angelica Sokolovskaya Bryer @utopiascifi.bsky.social ! What a treat to be included in such an esteemed line-up. Pick up your copy here: www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
...Huge thanks to Tristan Evarts and Angelica Sokolovskaya Bryer @utopiascifi.bsky.social ! What a treat to be included in such an esteemed line-up. Pick up your copy here: www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...
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The 7 day count down to our Alien Celebrations issue has begun. It's our art special with profits donated to charity, so we're very excited to share it. It's also your last chance to get our latest issue before it becomes an old one #sciencefiction
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Science Fiction Magazine dedicated to publishing quality short stories, poems, scientific articles which reflect optimism in the future.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The 7 day count down to our Alien Celebrations issue has begun. It's our art special with profits donated to charity, so we're very excited to share it. It's also your last chance to get our latest issue before it becomes an old one #sciencefiction
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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction
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Weird Science Fiction Submission Call
Submit before 01/01/2026
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November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction
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Please welcome @toeken.bsky.social, long-time collaborator and artist of “The Sons of Victor Levitak” and “Unblooded Gospel” in The Future Fire #74, for this week’s installment of our #microinterview series.
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Micro-interview with Toeken
Please welcome Toeken, long-time collaborator and artist of “ The Sons of Victor Levitak ” and “ Unblooded Gospel ” in The Future Fire #74...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Please welcome @toeken.bsky.social, long-time collaborator and artist of “The Sons of Victor Levitak” and “Unblooded Gospel” in The Future Fire #74, for this week’s installment of our #microinterview series.
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Justin Taroli gives us “Unblooded Gospel,” a razor sharp, queer, punk, urban apocalypse, with art by the splendid @toeken.bsky.social.
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Unblooded Gospel, Justin Taroli
There’s a guy at the bar with lips like wet marble and a credit score you can feel in your spine. He orders vodka neat. Who drinks vodka neat? People who don’t need mixers, or feelings, or food. Peopl...
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Rowley Amato offers the dark but hopeful, gorgeously voiced “The Sons of Victor Levitak.” The always superb @toeken.bsky.social provides art. #freeScifi #speculativefiction
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The Sons of Victor Levitak, Rowley Amato
Victor Levitak was not well-loved by the other residents of the Coop, but we sat a feeble shiva for him anyway.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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...new ish of The Future Fire out now. Huge thanks to Djibril, Valeria and the gang, and of course to Rowley Amato and Justin Taroli whose superb tales I got the chance to illustrate. Check out the whole issue here...
New issue: 2025.74
Fiction and art by Barbara Candiotti, Carmen Moran, Eleanor Glewwe, Justin Taroli, Leuren Ferebee, Nancy S. Koven, Naomi Simone Borwein, Rowley Amato, Toeken & V. Zixin.
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Fiction and art by Barbara Candiotti, Carmen Moran, Eleanor Glewwe, Justin Taroli, Leuren Ferebee, Nancy S. Koven, Naomi Simone Borwein, Rowley Amato, Toeken & V. Zixin.
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New issue: 2025.74
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by hum...
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September 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
...new ish of The Future Fire out now. Huge thanks to Djibril, Valeria and the gang, and of course to Rowley Amato and Justin Taroli whose superb tales I got the chance to illustrate. Check out the whole issue here...
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The whole “the genie is out of the box, we just have to live with this.” Bullshit is just that. The world is a graveyard of ideas and technologies that didn’t pan out.
NFTs
Crypto
Nuclear powered cars
Asbestos
Radium glassware
The rail gun
Inflatable furniture
3d tvs
The list goes on.
NFTs
Crypto
Nuclear powered cars
Asbestos
Radium glassware
The rail gun
Inflatable furniture
3d tvs
The list goes on.
September 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The whole “the genie is out of the box, we just have to live with this.” Bullshit is just that. The world is a graveyard of ideas and technologies that didn’t pan out.
NFTs
Crypto
Nuclear powered cars
Asbestos
Radium glassware
The rail gun
Inflatable furniture
3d tvs
The list goes on.
NFTs
Crypto
Nuclear powered cars
Asbestos
Radium glassware
The rail gun
Inflatable furniture
3d tvs
The list goes on.
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While we run our annual art contest, our friends at the SFPA are also running their annual poetry contest. Click the link to learn more:
www.sfpoetry.com/contests.html
www.sfpoetry.com/contests.html
Science Fiction Poetry Association
Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
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July 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
While we run our annual art contest, our friends at the SFPA are also running their annual poetry contest. Click the link to learn more:
www.sfpoetry.com/contests.html
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On sale now!
UK friends, from the 19th to the 26th July, you can grab a Kindle copy of my latest book ‘The Empire of the Moon and Stars and Other Stories’ for only 99p on Amazon.
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Why not grab yourself a copy – and tell your friends, too.
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UK friends, from the 19th to the 26th July, you can grab a Kindle copy of my latest book ‘The Empire of the Moon and Stars and Other Stories’ for only 99p on Amazon.
Amazon link:
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Why not grab yourself a copy – and tell your friends, too.
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The Empire of the Moon and Stars and Other Stories eBook : Bleaken, Simon: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Empire of the Moon and Stars and Other Stories eBook : Bleaken, Simon: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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July 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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16 tales of horror…
Strange entities, body horror, gothic horror, folk horror, Cthulhu Mythos, Sci-Fi horror, terrible experiments, ancient mysteries, and cosmic forces unleashed.
THE EMPIRE OF THE MOON AND STARS & Other Stories
Out now in paperback, Kindle and on Kindle Unlimited.
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Strange entities, body horror, gothic horror, folk horror, Cthulhu Mythos, Sci-Fi horror, terrible experiments, ancient mysteries, and cosmic forces unleashed.
THE EMPIRE OF THE MOON AND STARS & Other Stories
Out now in paperback, Kindle and on Kindle Unlimited.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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It's online! After a little hiccup, the June issue of #Penumbric has arrived! Find all that transformational goodness at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine
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Introducing Future Ruins.
Some of the most powerful music of our time has never been heard live—until now.
On Saturday, November 8, @future-ruins.bsky.social arrives in Los Angeles: a first-of-its-kind music festival of the world’s most influential composers.
Some of the most powerful music of our time has never been heard live—until now.
On Saturday, November 8, @future-ruins.bsky.social arrives in Los Angeles: a first-of-its-kind music festival of the world’s most influential composers.
May 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Honoured that this story - inspired by a news article on a tiny Greek island and the refugees who were risking their life to get to it - was the winner of the Friction Flash Prize. Half the winnings were donated to the UK’s Refugee Council, where I used to volunteer: frictionlit.org/waves-fall-o...
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Carole Cadwalladr does not mince words, and does not shy away from speaking uncomfortable truths.
Data rights are human rights.
Do not obey in advance.
OpenAI has used her work without consent, credit nor compensation, & facebook has vigorously attacked her.
Solidarity✊🏻
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Data rights are human rights.
Do not obey in advance.
OpenAI has used her work without consent, credit nor compensation, & facebook has vigorously attacked her.
Solidarity✊🏻
youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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May 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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...3 yrs ago today: huge thanks to editors Joe Sullivan and John Brhel @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social for giving me the chance to go nuts with 'Slipgate Cemetery' ~ the wraparound painting for this. Check out the incredible line-up and grab a copy here: cemeterygatesmedia.com/2022/04/15/p...
April 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
...3 yrs ago today: huge thanks to editors Joe Sullivan and John Brhel @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social for giving me the chance to go nuts with 'Slipgate Cemetery' ~ the wraparound painting for this. Check out the incredible line-up and grab a copy here: cemeterygatesmedia.com/2022/04/15/p...
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Psychonauts was released exactly 20 years ago today! So proud of that little game! Thank you to all of you out there who enjoyed it and continue to spread the love! We have a fun little week planned with the big print and merch release this Monday. Love you all! @doublefine
April 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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...this was a treat to work on. Bleaken is an extraordinarily talented wordsmith...
My newest collection is two months old, why not look it up on Kindle Unlimited, or in paperback?
16 tales of terror await, from gothic horror to cosmic, folk, body, and sci-fi.
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16 tales of terror await, from gothic horror to cosmic, folk, body, and sci-fi.
UK Waterstones:
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USA Amazon:
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UK Amazon:
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April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
...this was a treat to work on. Bleaken is an extraordinarily talented wordsmith...
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Congratulations to @yasminkanaan.bsky.social and @sjgroenewegen.co.uk two entries on the BSFA shortlist for non-fiction for articles published in Shoreline of Infinity.
Also congratulations to @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social for her shortlisting in Best Collection.
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Also congratulations to @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social for her shortlisting in Best Collection.
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BSFA Awards 2024 Shortlist
The British Science Fiction Association today announced the shortlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2024. The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. They are v…
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...off shreddin' me headphones for ten mins ...you can't pogo and paint 🤪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSg6...
Soulwax - Krack/Is It Always Binary, Paradiso 04-04-2017
YouTube video by perfectbeat
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March 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
...off shreddin' me headphones for ten mins ...you can't pogo and paint 🤪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSg6...
...'Igneous' 15" x 10.7" Acrylics/oils/mixed media/digital assembly. From the Razor's Edge graphic novel
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March 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
...'Igneous' 15" x 10.7" Acrylics/oils/mixed media/digital assembly. From the Razor's Edge graphic novel
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..."I should have paid attention. I should have been more afraid." From @jaimegill.bsky.social Jaime Gill, a fine piece of writing, by turns moving, disturbing and grimly entertaining. Did two illustrations for this, courtesy of Djibril al-Ayad futurefire.net/2025.72/fict...
March 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
..."I should have paid attention. I should have been more afraid." From @jaimegill.bsky.social Jaime Gill, a fine piece of writing, by turns moving, disturbing and grimly entertaining. Did two illustrations for this, courtesy of Djibril al-Ayad futurefire.net/2025.72/fict...