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(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com
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🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social.
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
strangehorizons.com
First(ish) time on a (books, definitely) podcast! (I’m really shy and talking is hard). But Dan and Paul were really great to chat with and this is a subject I’m apparently really passionate about 😆
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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice. . . .
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
— T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets
#hope #new #beginnings #photography #landscape
And next year’s words await another voice. . . .
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
— T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets
#hope #new #beginnings #photography #landscape
January 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice. . . .
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
— T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets
#hope #new #beginnings #photography #landscape
And next year’s words await another voice. . . .
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
— T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets
#hope #new #beginnings #photography #landscape
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Everyone. THE BOOK IS DRAFTED.
**Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development**
I wrote it through so much overwhelm and grief. But also in deeper sensitivity to intimacies with land and the dead, how we all touch. I hope it's as meaningful to others as it is to me.
**Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development**
I wrote it through so much overwhelm and grief. But also in deeper sensitivity to intimacies with land and the dead, how we all touch. I hope it's as meaningful to others as it is to me.
December 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Everyone. THE BOOK IS DRAFTED.
**Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development**
I wrote it through so much overwhelm and grief. But also in deeper sensitivity to intimacies with land and the dead, how we all touch. I hope it's as meaningful to others as it is to me.
**Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development**
I wrote it through so much overwhelm and grief. But also in deeper sensitivity to intimacies with land and the dead, how we all touch. I hope it's as meaningful to others as it is to me.
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While you're at it, bookmark our list of 2026 New and Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases!
We keep the list updated, so it's your best source of JLit release news!
We keep the list updated, so it's your best source of JLit release news!
2026 New and Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases - Read Japanese Literature
About this list: what's included, possible changesIt does not include most manga, light novels, or picture books. Listed released dates listed are tentative. Descriptions are excerpted from book sell…
readjapaneseliterature.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
While you're at it, bookmark our list of 2026 New and Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases!
We keep the list updated, so it's your best source of JLit release news!
We keep the list updated, so it's your best source of JLit release news!
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ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction!
Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️
Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️
Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Nominations for ECO25 Now Open!
ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction is an annual showcase of some of the most compelling and thought-provoking ecofiction published every year. If you published speculative ecofiction in 2025 ...
www.apexbookcompany.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
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From the Editors' Shelves: @casella.bsky.social reviews work from Ethan Rutherford (Strange Object/@deepvellum.bsky.social), Pip Adam (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social), An Yu (@groveatlantic.bsky.social), Thomas Ha (@undertow.bsky.social), and Eddie Robson (@torbooks.bsky.social)
From the Editors’ Shelves: December 2025
Jake Casella Brookins In this new occasional feature, ARB editors offer some quick thoughts on recent reads. For our first entry, Jake Casella Brookins talks about five books from this year that he…
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December 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
From the Editors' Shelves: @casella.bsky.social reviews work from Ethan Rutherford (Strange Object/@deepvellum.bsky.social), Pip Adam (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social), An Yu (@groveatlantic.bsky.social), Thomas Ha (@undertow.bsky.social), and Eddie Robson (@torbooks.bsky.social)
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My latest list of China books of the year up at @fivebooks.com —along with an interview (key to read for a sense of the books AND at the end has a note explaining some of the rules I set myself embarking on an impossible task given how many good works keep coming out) fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
The Best China Books of 2025
American professor and modern Chinese history specialist Jeffrey Wasserstrom recommends favourite books about China published in 2025.
fivebooks.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My latest list of China books of the year up at @fivebooks.com —along with an interview (key to read for a sense of the books AND at the end has a note explaining some of the rules I set myself embarking on an impossible task given how many good works keep coming out) fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
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Andrea Hairston celebrates the work that gave her pleasure in 2025. "Storytellers saved my life every day this year! Imagination sustained us all as we cruised on this death-defying rollercoaster ride, hurtling into 2026."
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2025, pt. 20: Andrea Hairston
We have made it to December 2025! Storytellers saved my life every day this year! Writers, musicians, and filmmakers too. Imagination sust...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Andrea Hairston celebrates the work that gave her pleasure in 2025. "Storytellers saved my life every day this year! Imagination sustained us all as we cruised on this death-defying rollercoaster ride, hurtling into 2026."
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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We asked our committee, events organisers, reviewers, and other volunteers who help us keep the lights on around the BFS for those SFFH things that made an impression this year.
Read the full post here: britishfantasysociety.org/best-of-2025...
Read the full post here: britishfantasysociety.org/best-of-2025...
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We asked our committee, events organisers, reviewers, and other volunteers who help us keep the lights on around the BFS for those SFFH things that made an impression this year.
Read the full post here: britishfantasysociety.org/best-of-2025...
Read the full post here: britishfantasysociety.org/best-of-2025...
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The December issue of Salon Futura is now live, featuring books by Mike Carey, EJ Swift, LR Lam and Bethany Jacobs, plus fish people, hobbits, and an absolutely wonderful worldbuilding bible for 7th century Pictdom:
Issue 75
This is the December 2025 issue of Salon Futura. Here are the contents.
www.salonfutura.net
December 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The December issue of Salon Futura is now live, featuring books by Mike Carey, EJ Swift, LR Lam and Bethany Jacobs, plus fish people, hobbits, and an absolutely wonderful worldbuilding bible for 7th century Pictdom:
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Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines…
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Black Horror | Call for Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
blog.flametreepublishing.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines…
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
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Page 1 of the notebook in which my mother recorded every Christmas present she gave, and how much it cost, 1957 to 2003 (she died the next month). The recipients included her hairdresser, the milkman, the postman, the paper boy, the dustbin-men and “Tony’s boy” (toffees, 2s. 6d). She did good.
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Page 1 of the notebook in which my mother recorded every Christmas present she gave, and how much it cost, 1957 to 2003 (she died the next month). The recipients included her hairdresser, the milkman, the postman, the paper boy, the dustbin-men and “Tony’s boy” (toffees, 2s. 6d). She did good.
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A mushroom anthropologist and her violence-first bodyguard stumble upon a piece of history that contradicts religious canon, leading to questions about who owns history and who has the right to tell someone's story.
Thinking of how I can trick romance authors into promoting their books with a one sentences description of what actually happens again. We gotta ease off the trope only vibes. WHAT HAPPENS!
December 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A mushroom anthropologist and her violence-first bodyguard stumble upon a piece of history that contradicts religious canon, leading to questions about who owns history and who has the right to tell someone's story.
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I should probably mention that the first and second books in my #hopepunk climate fiction series are free!
A power grid mystery for fans of Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) and Monk & Robot (Chambers).
susankayequinn.com/series/nothi...
#solarpunk #climatechange
A power grid mystery for fans of Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) and Monk & Robot (Chambers).
susankayequinn.com/series/nothi...
#solarpunk #climatechange
December 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I should probably mention that the first and second books in my #hopepunk climate fiction series are free!
A power grid mystery for fans of Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) and Monk & Robot (Chambers).
susankayequinn.com/series/nothi...
#solarpunk #climatechange
A power grid mystery for fans of Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) and Monk & Robot (Chambers).
susankayequinn.com/series/nothi...
#solarpunk #climatechange
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Very pleased that New York City will have an inaugural poet and such a fine one in the great Cornelius Eady. Poet Elizabeth Alexander of the Mamdani arts and culture transition committee doing good work: “Poets and artists…can say things that politicians can’t say.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
‘This Is Our Time’: Acclaimed Poet to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Very pleased that New York City will have an inaugural poet and such a fine one in the great Cornelius Eady. Poet Elizabeth Alexander of the Mamdani arts and culture transition committee doing good work: “Poets and artists…can say things that politicians can’t say.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
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I really should bring this up with the awards people but I just now noticed the title on this beautifully crafted piece of plexiglass from 5 years ago is wrong, so instead I'm gonna post the erroneous title here in hopes you too will get a laugh: New Suns - Speculative Fiction for People of Color.
December 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I really should bring this up with the awards people but I just now noticed the title on this beautifully crafted piece of plexiglass from 5 years ago is wrong, so instead I'm gonna post the erroneous title here in hopes you too will get a laugh: New Suns - Speculative Fiction for People of Color.
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This morning I gave ear to a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Dr. @kateclancy.bsky.social about her book "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (@princetonupress.bsky.social). I hope you will take the time to do so as well as what she has to say very much needs to be heard.
Kate Clancy,
Podcast Episode · New Books in the History of Science · 12/30/2025 · 28m
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December 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This morning I gave ear to a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Dr. @kateclancy.bsky.social about her book "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (@princetonupress.bsky.social). I hope you will take the time to do so as well as what she has to say very much needs to be heard.
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This year’s highlight: the publication of the coedited book (with Daniel Mutibwa) about media and cultural encounters between Africa and China. www.routledge.com/Entanglement...
December 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This year’s highlight: the publication of the coedited book (with Daniel Mutibwa) about media and cultural encounters between Africa and China. www.routledge.com/Entanglement...
I. Am. Delighted.
TIL they did in fact do the thing.
Well, part of the thing, anyway. The first... ten pages of the thing?
Well, part of the thing, anyway. The first... ten pages of the thing?
January 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I. Am. Delighted.
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TIL they did in fact do the thing.
Well, part of the thing, anyway. The first... ten pages of the thing?
Well, part of the thing, anyway. The first... ten pages of the thing?
December 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
TIL they did in fact do the thing.
Well, part of the thing, anyway. The first... ten pages of the thing?
Well, part of the thing, anyway. The first... ten pages of the thing?
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Some of my favorite works of #SFinTranslation from 2025:
December 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Some of my favorite works of #SFinTranslation from 2025:
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Other countries have safety nets. The US has women.
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
June 4, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Other countries have safety nets. The US has women.
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
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December 31, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Maybe I’ll share my 2025 five stars
January 1, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Maybe I’ll share my 2025 five stars
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Black Nerd Probems won a Hugo Award in 2025!
Will & Omar founded the site but this is a collective of writers, authors, streamers, editors, and more that keep this thang thangin'. 1/
Will & Omar founded the site but this is a collective of writers, authors, streamers, editors, and more that keep this thang thangin'. 1/
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Black Nerd Probems won a Hugo Award in 2025!
Will & Omar founded the site but this is a collective of writers, authors, streamers, editors, and more that keep this thang thangin'. 1/
Will & Omar founded the site but this is a collective of writers, authors, streamers, editors, and more that keep this thang thangin'. 1/