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Darusha Wehm
@darusha.ca
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Nebula Award winning SFF author
A fifth of @darklylem.com
Member of @manyworldsforum.bsky.social
Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social

Aotearoa New Zealand

Latest: Transmentation | Transience
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It's just about time for the mini-conference Quasar! Among a bunch of excellent panels, seminars and workshops, you can join me this great group to chat about collaboration.
SFF Collaboration Done Right 6:30PM PST | Nov 15th DARUSHA WEHM -PANELIST- M. Darusha Wehm is a Nebula Award winner and Sir Julius Vogel Award winner, the author of Hamlet, Prince of Robots, the game The Martian Job, and over a dozen other novels. Register at events.sfwa.org SFF Collaboration Done Right 6:30PM PST | Nov 15th SYDNEE THOMPSON -PANELIST- Sydnee Thompson is an editor and writer of speculative fiction whose stories have appeared in publications such as io9, Fireside Magazine, Fiyah Lit Magazine, and Tor.com. Register at events.sfwa.org SFF Collaboration Done Right 6:30PM PST | Nov 15th ROSEMARY JONES -PANELIST- Rosemary Jones writes both fantasy and science fiction. Author of multiple game-based novels, include the Drowned City duology Register at events.sfwa.org SFF Collaboration Done Right 6:30PM PST | Nov 15th ANTHONY EICHENLAUB -PANELIST- Anthony W. Eichenlaub's stories appear in On-Spec Magazine, Little Blue Marble, and numerous anthologies. Register at events.sfwa.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Are you going to @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social? Me, too!

Join me at More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with @nassos.bsky.social, @vajra.me, and @yarntheory.bsky.social in hour 28.

Then @phoebebarton.bsky.social and I talk After Capitalism, Then What? in hour 51.
More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with Natalia Theodoridou. M. Darusha Wehm, Vajra Chandrasekera, Ursula Whitcher in Hour 28 #FoNovellnStories After Capitalism, Then What? with M. Darusha Wehm & Phoebe Barton in Hour 51 #FoFPostCapitalism
September 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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If you want to catch up on this multiversal political thriller that will be complete in three books, you can grab Transmentation | Transience now.

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A teal, purple and amber circular swirl with images of different landscapes (various futuristic cityscapes, an endless suburban street, a desert world) and flying whales. Text reading Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem.
September 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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40 plus appreciation post. reskeet with a pic if you're on the right side of 40.

Photo from my 50th birthday.
A white person with teal and pink hair, matching cats eye specs, and pink and black Venus flytrap patterned collared shirt looks at the camera.
June 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Ahhhhhhhh! It's still real.
Screenshot of part of my bluesky profile with an arrow pointing to the phrase "Nebula Award winning SFF author."
June 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Bonus with Clem Fandango.
A white person with pink and teal hair wearing a suit (trousers and blazer) that is black with lots of white cockatiels and pink flowers on. They are wearing a black short underneath, a small pounamu necklace and black and yellow Adidas. There's a blue carpet on the floor, a red sofa and white chair and they are in front of a window with rolling green hills with houses and a blue sky with clouds. Next to Darusha is an unimpressed brindle dog facing away from the camera.
June 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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I'm attending the Nebula Award Ceremony online, but that's no reason not to dress for the occasion. #Nebulas2025
A white person with pink and teal hair wearing a suit (trousers and blazer) that is black with lots of white cockatiels and pink flowers on. They are wearing a black short underneath, a small pounamu necklace and black and yellow Adidas. There's a blue carpet on the floor, a red sofa and white chair and they are in front of a window with rolling green hills with houses and a blue sky with clouds.
June 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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We didn't set out to write a queer trilogy, and I wouldn't really call them "queer books" but there are characters that cover the full rainbow within the trilogy. Also, have you seen the cover of the hardback??
June 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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A Babar the Elephant stuffy looks out a window at a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. There's a speech bubble coming from his mouth that reads, "Hon hon hon... oui!" Text in parentheses labelling Babar reads (le pervers).
May 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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"Avoiding paying attention to Clem Fandango is not an option."
Extreme close up of a brindle dog with white flash on her muzzle. Her ears are back so far they have disappeared and she looks at the camera sternly.
May 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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*laughs in nonbinary*
A screenshot with the title "Moral Alignment Test Results" above a nine part grid with Lawful on the left, Chaotic on the right, Good on the top and Evil on the bottom. There's a dot in the upper right of the middle box and text below reads, "You are 22.5% good, 18.3% chaotic, making you true neutral."
May 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A white person with pink and teal hair and matching glasses with scrunched up eyes and tongue sticking out. Their hands are in the pockets of the overalls and gloriously skinned knees are visible above black sneakers with yellow laces.
April 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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As a former cruising sailor I’m bound by law (the Law of the Sea) to say Captain Ron.
Kurt Russell with long blond hair with a wee braid on the side, wearing a shell necklace, earrings and one of those white singlets that’s mostly just straps so you can see his tanned nude chest. He’s on a sailboat, with the sea in the background. He’s got an eyepatch over his left eye, zinc sunscreen on his nose and lips and he looks thoroughly unimpressed.
April 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Post a warning
A black sign with a white circle with a line through it, but the line is a lightning bolt. In the circle is a red figure that I always think of as Satan, looking like they're in the throes of electrocution. Someone has handwritten "Ahhh! as if it's coming from the figure's mouth.
March 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Best star trek crew, wrong answers only.
The cast of Killjoys stand in the bridge of a spaceship, looking badass.
March 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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While the official Nebula Awards shortlist page is, uh, updating, here are the full finalists for the Game Writing Award.
NEBULA AWARD FINALISTS - GAME WRITING 1000xRESIST Restore, Reflect, Retry A Death in Hyperspace Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree The Ghost and the Golem Pacific Drive Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast
March 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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So this happened.

Congratulations to the whole A Death in Hyperspace team and special thanks to Stewart C Baker for orchestrating the whole thing.
Screenshot reasing Finalist — Game Writing. A Death in Hyperspace. STEWART C BAKER, PHOEBE BARTON, JAMES BEAMON, KATE HEARTFIELD, ISABEL J. KIM, SARA S. MESSENGER, NACA RAT, NATALIA THEODORIDOU, M. DARUSHA WEHM, MERC FENN WOLFMOOR
March 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Clem Fandango reports that *someone* was nosing through the garbage, but she has no idea who it might have been.
A brindle dog sits, staring at the camera with the upside down lid of a trash can stuck on her head.
February 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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In spooky synchronicity, the week's New Scientist is kinda making the inverse of this joke.
Special report: Quantum computing. Analysis Geopolitics. No solace for quantum. Fears that quantum computers could give nations an advantage are leading to crackdowns that make it harder for researchers, says Matthew Sparkes.
February 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Happy birthday to me! This is 50.
A white person with teal and pink hair, matching cats eye specs, and pink and black Venus flytrap patterned collared shirt looks at the camera.
February 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Occasionally I'm felled by weakness and click on this, curiosity having gotten the better of me. Without fail each time I'm impressed by past-Darusha's sensibility and concern for me. Thanks, pal.
Screenshot of Bluesky's "Post Hidden by Muted Word" warning.
January 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Yes, it did take 5 days to get the tape off (everyone else in Te Whanganui-a-Tara knows why) but it's not bad! Some scraping of the old paint off the windows still to do, but everyone will know it's my house now.
A bright pink door with three small stained glass panels of a white background and pink flowers. The jamb and trim is painted teal. There's a small black sign on the door reading "Bienvenido a Casa Fandango."
January 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Favourite selfie of 2024: me and the ARC of the first book by @darklylem.com
The author, a white person with pink and teal hair and matching cat-eye glasses, holding a copy of Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem. The cover is a teal, pink, purple and amber circular swirl with images of different landscapes (various futuristic cityscapes, an endless suburban street, a desert world) and flying whales. We match.
December 7, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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I went for a walk along the beach!
Green scrub and a leafy tree lead into a pebble beach with the harbour beyond. Hills on the other side under fluffy white clouds and patches of blue sky.
November 24, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

I know others remember this, but I will never mis an opportunity to stan for my '90s Toronto vampire cop.
A white man with five o’clock shadow hisses with his fangs out, looking to his right. His eyes have been tinted yellow for some reason, while his skin is tinted green. There is lightning over a cityscape in the foreground. Text reads: Meet Detective Nick Knight. When the sun goes down, so does the crime rate. GERAINT WYN DAVIES IN FOREVER KNIGHT 13TH CENTURY VAMPIRE 20TH CENTURY COP NEW EPISODES! MONDAYS AT 10PM/9C PREMIERES SEPTEMBER 18 USA NETWORK
November 20, 2024 at 9:45 PM