Vanessa Fogg
vanessafogg.bsky.social
Vanessa Fogg
@vanessafogg.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy writer. Also lapsed scientist and freelance medical writer. Website: vanessafogg.com
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New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.

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The House of Illusionists – Vanessa Fogg, Writer
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What a gorgeous and affecting book. Thank you @wenyilee.bsky.social!
Here's ep. 390C: Wen-yi Lee chats about WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY, the first book in THE BUTTERFLY DUET and a fierce, glamorous sapphic fantasy reimagining the secret societies of postcolonial Singapore. @wenyilee.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social

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February 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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The Year in Review 2025 by Eugen Bacon locusmag.com/feature...
February 18, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
February 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Check out my February Clarkesworld/GigaNotoSaurus review! Or stick around for a thread of favorites! www.tarvolon.com/2026/02/16/t...
Tar Vol Reads a Magazine: February 2026
Reviews of the best short fiction from February 2026 issues of sci-fi and fantasy magazines Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus.
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February 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Story day! My story "Piglet Delivers" is now available to read online in Apex Magazine! I am so excited to share this strange story of my heart with the world. If you grew up with Milne's books about the Hundred Acre Wood, you might feel (somewhat) at home. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
February 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
"Most of what makes this anthology so good is Fogg’s excellent prose, always very even and assured no matter the subject. . . I also really enjoyed the international flavour of these stories. They feel like they’re from many different cultures and folkways. . ."

What a lovely review! Thank you
February 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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This guy is the true vanguard of Chinese soft power.
Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year.

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February 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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GUYS!! I can’t believe it, but my story tied for 1st place in the Uncanny Reader Poll! I’ve never gotten 1st place in anything, nevermind for something I’ve written, nevermind alongside such insanely good writers. Thank you so much to all the readers! 🙏🏻
Congratulations to Angela Liu! Liu's short story “Barbershops of the Floating City” is the co-winner of the Uncanny Magazine 2025 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll! You can read it here! buff.ly/bMa1ght
February 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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This story by @aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social, about Alan Turing seduced by a faerie lord, is beautiful and elegiac and made me tear up on the way home from a wedding

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February 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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I just finished this collection of speculative fiction short stories today, and WOW. Each one is a gem. I'm biased because I know Vanessa, but she truly is an amazing writer, and I highly recommend this magical collection.

Write more soon, please, Vanessa!
New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.

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The House of Illusionists – Vanessa Fogg, Writer
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February 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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The Locus Recommended Reading List is out! So many great reads here. Congratulations to all with work on the list, including Story Hour guests @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @franwilde.bsky.social, @tanaudel.bsky.social, @pat-murphy.bsky.social, and... (1/4) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
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February 14, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now

we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!

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The Doll House
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February 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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William Blake: (spotting a tiger) RUN! IT'S SYMMETRICAL!!
September 20, 2023 at 10:06 AM
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I’m so happy to share my SF horror flash, ‘The Worldbuilder,’ published today in @lightspeedmagazine.com! The story is an homage to Joanna Russ’ ‘We Who are About To…’, enfolding the morbid xenophilic curiosity of ‘Alien’ (hi, welcome to my work 😈)

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February 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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“That day, we read poetry in the graveyard.”

My micro, “Naming Poets,” appears in Bending Genres today. Thanks to the folks at @bendinggenres.bsky.social!

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#microfiction
Naming Poets
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February 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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The book club scam has taken an exciting new leap forward. I got one today from a "curated literary platform and newsletter" that, unusually, offered a link to its website. I'm in edits, so obviously I took the opportunity to procrastinate. /1
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 AM
We were in Miami escaping the cold. And went to Wynwood Walls, this cool outdoor museum of “street art” (the surreal mural of the horned roseate spoonbill atop the alligator is my favorite)
February 10, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Hurrah, the cover for my slasher romp SLASHER SUMMER has finally been officially revealed on Insta! Look at that amazing art by @turksworks.bsky.social, it makes me want to read the book and I already know what happens. 😅

Coming in June from Crown (US/Can) and Michael Joseph (UK).
February 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Couldn't stop thinking about this review from #LosAngelesReviewofBooks -- it does more than just review Silk & Sinew, it digs into the heart of the book and its works. Thank you Jered Mabaquiao and #LARB. Truly, what an honor.

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What Comes First, the House or the Haunting? | Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora,’ a new anthology edited by Kristy Park Kulski, uses storytelling to demonstrate why ‘the ghosts of our futures cannot just be entiti...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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"She knew her time was ending. Just days, but she didn’t feel the strum of pain or the numbness of morphine. She just felt tired."

join us, beloveds, for today's must read NONFICTION 🖤

Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen by Robin Wheeler

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Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
My parents’ home was never mine.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
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February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold

Keats will hit them so hard, will tackle generations
#poetrysunday
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Melancholy, strange, and lovely
My new sci-fi short story is out now in Lightspeed Magazine (and also featured on Gizmodo io9)! 3 planets, including Earth, meet their apocalypse at the exact same time - and their people experience each other's lives in psychic visions before the end.

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Death Echoes Overlapping - Lightspeed Magazine
On the necropolis space station of the Tau Andromeda planetary system, the keepers of the tomb attended to the dead and the dying. They cleansed, prepared, and prayed over the bodies. They performed t...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Congrats to Vanessa Fogg for THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS, featured on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List! locusmag.com/2026/02...
February 4, 2026 at 4:14 PM