Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
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Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
· May 13
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
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Why I Love The Incandescent by Emily Tesh, written by @fouroffivewits.pizza
Joshua explains why @emilytesh.net's The Incandescent, published by @torbooks.bsky.social, is his favorite book of 2025.
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Joshua explains why @emilytesh.net's The Incandescent, published by @torbooks.bsky.social, is his favorite book of 2025.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Why I Love The Incandescent by Emily Tesh, written by @fouroffivewits.pizza
Joshua explains why @emilytesh.net's The Incandescent, published by @torbooks.bsky.social, is his favorite book of 2025.
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Joshua explains why @emilytesh.net's The Incandescent, published by @torbooks.bsky.social, is his favorite book of 2025.
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Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙
BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
We are THRILLED to announce @freyamarske.bsky.social's Bodies of Magic, a new medical dark academia featuring mages and murder coming September 16, 2026 from Tor Books!
Announcing Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske - Reactor
A dark academia fantasy arriving September 2026
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December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙
BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
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Oh boy do we have #UKSFFBookBargains today.
Daily deals has ten Diana Wynne Jones ebooks reduced to 99p for one day only.
That's the three Howl books plus six Chrestomanci novels and a short fiction collection
HT @emilytesh.net
Links follow in 🧵
Daily deals has ten Diana Wynne Jones ebooks reduced to 99p for one day only.
That's the three Howl books plus six Chrestomanci novels and a short fiction collection
HT @emilytesh.net
Links follow in 🧵
Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Daily Deals: Kindle Store
Online shopping for Kindle Daily Deals from a great selection at Kindle Store Store.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Oh boy do we have #UKSFFBookBargains today.
Daily deals has ten Diana Wynne Jones ebooks reduced to 99p for one day only.
That's the three Howl books plus six Chrestomanci novels and a short fiction collection
HT @emilytesh.net
Links follow in 🧵
Daily deals has ten Diana Wynne Jones ebooks reduced to 99p for one day only.
That's the three Howl books plus six Chrestomanci novels and a short fiction collection
HT @emilytesh.net
Links follow in 🧵
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The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 10
Jonathan chats with Emily Tesh about what she's beenb reading, her podcast Eight Days of Dianna Wynne Jones, The Incandescent, and what's next!
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Jonathan chats with Emily Tesh about what she's beenb reading, her podcast Eight Days of Dianna Wynne Jones, The Incandescent, and what's next!
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Episode 698: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 10 - Emily Tesh
As we approach the halfway mark of our Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls Emily Tesh, Hugo Award winning author of Some Desperate Glory and co-host of reigning Hugo Best Fancast Eight Days of Diana Wynne...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 10
Jonathan chats with Emily Tesh about what she's beenb reading, her podcast Eight Days of Dianna Wynne Jones, The Incandescent, and what's next!
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Jonathan chats with Emily Tesh about what she's beenb reading, her podcast Eight Days of Dianna Wynne Jones, The Incandescent, and what's next!
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2025 Books We Loved: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
The 2025 Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction (TFR Awards)
Thirteen early contenders for the best transfeminine novel of 2025. Voting is open until December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
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Pre-orders are available now, and we expect this order to ship in June 2026 🔥
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The Incandescent by Emily Tesh Signed Special Edition - PREORDER
Discover your new Dark Academia obsession in the LitPins&Co Special Edition of The Incandescent by Emily Tesh!
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December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Pre-orders are available now, and we expect this order to ship in June 2026 🔥
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We are so excited to reveal the cover of our special edition of The Incandescent by @emilytesh.net! 🐦🔥
The cover artwork is by the extremely talented Riotbones, and our very own Jamie did the typeset, the sprayed edges, and the art direction!
The cover artwork is by the extremely talented Riotbones, and our very own Jamie did the typeset, the sprayed edges, and the art direction!
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We are so excited to reveal the cover of our special edition of The Incandescent by @emilytesh.net! 🐦🔥
The cover artwork is by the extremely talented Riotbones, and our very own Jamie did the typeset, the sprayed edges, and the art direction!
The cover artwork is by the extremely talented Riotbones, and our very own Jamie did the typeset, the sprayed edges, and the art direction!
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Just finished “Some Desperate Glory” by Emily Tesh, and wow, I liked it so much. So compelling and vivid, and funny and cathartic, and even the minor-est of characters were glorious and complicated. Yay. 💙🚀 #qotd @emilytesh.net
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Just finished “Some Desperate Glory” by Emily Tesh, and wow, I liked it so much. So compelling and vivid, and funny and cathartic, and even the minor-est of characters were glorious and complicated. Yay. 💙🚀 #qotd @emilytesh.net
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ah, Castle in the Air, a book that makes me chuckle fondly and squint judgmentally in approximately equal measure
This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
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Castle in the Air by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
‘That djinn has taken liberties with a person's castle,’ Sophie said. 'Unless I'm entirely turned around, this used to be our bathroom.'
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Edward Said's Orientalism,...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ah, Castle in the Air, a book that makes me chuckle fondly and squint judgmentally in approximately equal measure
This may get the prize for Episode Where I Most Enjoyed The Wider Reading.
This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
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Castle in the Air by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
‘That djinn has taken liberties with a person's castle,’ Sophie said. 'Unless I'm entirely turned around, this used to be our bathroom.'
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Edward Said's Orientalism,...
zencastr.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This may get the prize for Episode Where I Most Enjoyed The Wider Reading.
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This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
zencastr.com/z/v5yFguoY
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Castle in the Air by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
‘That djinn has taken liberties with a person's castle,’ Sophie said. 'Unless I'm entirely turned around, this used to be our bathroom.'
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Edward Said's Orientalism,...
zencastr.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
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🌊 🌈 Simon Jimenez's multi-award winning novel, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, is a sweeping adventure story, an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging and a love story to its blade-dented bone.
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🌊 🌈 Simon Jimenez's multi-award winning novel, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, is a sweeping adventure story, an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging and a love story to its blade-dented bone.
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
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Farah Mendlesohn is convening a symposium on Frances Hardinge next July at King's College London. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge
Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the Interrogative Fiction of Frances Hardinge.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Farah Mendlesohn is convening a symposium on Frances Hardinge next July at King's College London. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
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@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
Discussing the Female Man
The Female Man is Farah Mendlesohn's favourite science fiction novel. Melanie Fishbane has been thinking about its Jewishness. Jed Hartman h
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November 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Please boost!
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
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“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
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Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
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Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”
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be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.
FWIW: Mention books you like or you think others might like. You never know what'll happen:
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.
Muttering ‘technically this is a business expense’ every time I pony up forty quid minimum for an interesting book from an academic press.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Muttering ‘technically this is a business expense’ every time I pony up forty quid minimum for an interesting book from an academic press.
Posted origfic on AO3.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Posted origfic on AO3.
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Absolutely delighted to say that I'll be next year's Guest of Honour at #Novacon 55, 6-8 November 2026! See you in Buxton!
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Novacon – The UK's longest-established science fiction convention
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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Absolutely delighted to say that I'll be next year's Guest of Honour at #Novacon 55, 6-8 November 2026! See you in Buxton!
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author rejecting an editor's note with "wontfix, working as intended," game dev kicking a bug with the comment "STET," we're not so different you & i
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
author rejecting an editor's note with "wontfix, working as intended," game dev kicking a bug with the comment "STET," we're not so different you & i
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Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
Welcome to the 1990s with Diana Wynne Jones! For the first episode of S3, Iona Datt Sharma @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us to talk about The Lives of Christopher Chant, and also Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the magical civil service.
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Welcome to the 1990s with Diana Wynne Jones! For the first episode of S3, Iona Datt Sharma @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us to talk about The Lives of Christopher Chant, and also Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the magical civil service.
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we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
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WE'RE BACK (with bonus @singlecrow.bsky.social to dazzle us with wit and insight)
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
WE'RE BACK (with bonus @singlecrow.bsky.social to dazzle us with wit and insight)