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Martha Wells
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SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Jul 22
Linking to this Scientific American interview again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...
We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells
Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series
www.scientificamerican.com
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columboscreens.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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tnewmsblues.bsky.social
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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veronicarothbooks.com
if, in this holiday season, you find yourself reflecting on the experience of going home to your family and discovering for the first or the millionth time that you see the world in fundamentally different and irreconcilable ways, perhaps upsettingly so,

i have a book recommendation for you.
the cover of To Clutch A Razor by Veronica Roth, which features two Dymitrs, one of whom is haloed and holding a book
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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genevievecogman.bsky.social
“This is why it is imperative to dispose of any and all witnesses.”
girlsown.bsky.social Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 14h
It is not a mere breach of etiquette for a girl to ride or take country walks alone, it is absolutely unseemly and dangerous, even for a lady of middle age. There is always a chance of meeting tramps, or even drunken men of their own neighbourhood, and the risk of insult or robbery.
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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victoriastrauss.com
New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one
Name: Jeff Email: jeffersonzonon@proton.me Subject: Found your work on file sharing channels Message: Hey Michelle, how are you? So here’s something interesting—I found your work floating around online. Full PDFs. Multiple sites. No paywall, no control, no credit. Just… there. And it hit me: if it’s already leaking like that, your value is slipping faster than you think. And then I realized something else. I can push it even further. I can run your entire catalog through my translation app—takes about thirty minutes per language—and release your work across ten different markets without breaking a sweat. No permission, no courtesy, just pure distribution. Imagine your creations scattered everywhere, read by thousands… yet worth absolutely nothing to you. And honestly? I don’t want that. I’d rather not be the reason your career drops through the floor. That doesn’t help either of us. So here’s my offer: get in touch with me. Talk to me. Stop me from releasing these translations before they hit every file-sharing site and social feed out there. It’s simple. Reach out. Have 500$ —yes, that’s all. A small price to keep the value of your life’s work from dissolving overnight. But don’t wait too long. Silence from you just means I keep translating. And once they’re out, they’re out forever. You have 5 days. Your move
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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mightybattlecat.bsky.social
Orange County CA cats need urgent assistance!
nerdydodger.bsky.social nerdydodger @nerdydodger.bsky.social · 17h
CAT FOLKS: my friends mom passed unexpectedly and she cannot house her mother's two 8 year old cats Jeeves and Bentley. if you know anyone with a loving home for these 2 please let me know!
2 cats on a cat tree. jeeves up top is orange and white and Bentley on the lower tier js white and gray
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
Keep this beautiful book in mind when shopping for gifts this season.
jendiagammon.bsky.social Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 14h
This is a delightful book review for my short story collection TO WONDER AND STARSHINE, new this year! It’s the perfect cozy book gift for anyone who needs a flight of fancy. Published via Trepidatio Publishing / JournalStone.
#books #fantasy #scifi #cozy
These aren't Grimm or Anderson fairy tales - rather, these little vignettes are fairy tales of captured moments in time. From the fae to robots to (my favorite tentacled monsters from beyond, they beautifully capture moments of wistful wonder, unlikely friendships, a gamut of emotions from joy and glee to misty sadness and wistful longing. These are the perfect short stories to read to children before bed, and the kids will clamoring for that inevitable, "Another!" Bravo.
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.

www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social.

Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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sfwa.org
SFWA isn't the only 501(c)3 nonprofit working to better outcomes in literary community - which is why we are proud to launch a new interview series at Planetside, celebrating industry peers like @locusmag.bsky.social.

Don't miss this deep dive into Locus, curated by @janetstilson.bsky.social! 🔽 👀
SFWA Presents: Get to Know Our Industry Peer, Locus Magazine - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Fellow 501(c)3 nonprofit Locus Magazine is celebrating its 58th year. Learn more about the work they do in genre, through reviews and more!
www.sfwa.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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sleary.bsky.social
Hey, TX friends, this includes HEB and Hill Country Fare!

www.mysanantonio.com/food/article...
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Please submit your favorite SFF releases of the year if you:

- Read science fiction, fantasy, or horror
- Enjoy short fiction
- Support The Vampire Lestat's solo music career
Cast Your Vote for the Best SFF of the Year! - Reactor
Books! Movies! TV shows! Video games! Short fiction! And more!!
reactormag.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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fringe-element.net
Peek at the House seals I designed for the new editions of the Dominion of the Fallen trilogy by @aliettedebodard.com coming from @awfulagent.bsky.social March 10!

Book 1 is Silverspires, Book 2 is Hawthorn, and Book 3 is Harrier.
In woodcut style, House Silverspires seal features Morningstar's sword bisecting the silhouette of the façade and the towers of Notre Dame cathedral. In woodcut style, House Hawthorn seal features a crown above a hawthorn tree. In woodcut style, House Harrier seal features a hawk soaring over a burning tower.
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Day 4 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We drape the Bell Hill Worm, remember legends of dragon-carved paths. The stuffed felt snake is an old friend. Its silver stitches glitter, its scales bounce faery light colours. When we turn away, it seems to slither to a different branch.
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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older.bsky.social
Starting now! If you register but can't make it you will get a recording.
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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annleckie.com
I read this, unsurprisingly it's really really good!
johnchu.bsky.social John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social · 20h
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The Subtle Art of Folding Space got a starred review from Library Journal!
"Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel."
DEBUT Ellie visits her comatose mother every weekend. That is not enough for her older sister, Chris, who reminds Ellie constantly she will never live up to Chris's own filial piety, which seems to include using random people to harangue Ellie and repeated assassination attempts. When Chris sends Ellie into the skunkworks-the physics-defying apparatus that creates and maintains universes—for a minor issue, it turns into a cascade of discovered problems, which include her cousin Daniel finding a device that is keeping Ellie's mother alive but creating destabilizing errors that jeopardize the universe. As Ellie and Daniel investigate the source of the illicit device, they find that their family's past is much more convoluted than known, and Ellie may need to choose between saving her family or the universe itself. Intricate worldbuilding, generational trauma, and reports relayed as food are woven into a story that has great action and engaging characters. VERDICT Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel. Reviewed by Kristi Chadwick, Dec 01, 2025
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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victoriastrauss.com
PW's annual jobs and salary report for 2025: "the industry is becoming increasingly diverse—and increasingly skeptical of AI" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
The 2025 PW Salary & Jobs Report
This year’s report, based on 726 responses to our annual survey of publishing professionals, reveals that the industry is becoming increasingly diverse—and increasingly skeptical of AI
www.publishersweekly.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
marthawells.com
It's me on the Coode Street Podcast Advent Calendar!
December 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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kateelliottsff.bsky.social
Peeps! Brains up! Need recs!
(this is for someone else)

Post T.H. White Arthuriana novels (literary and genre), films, tv series, games, comics, etc. Anything in the King Arthur storyworld. Hoping for a blend of new and older material. Thanks!
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Community-led, Latine, immigrant organization Juntos in South #Philadelphia does deportation defense, community care work, and more.

$75,000 will cover January operating expenses. With grants, it would cover 30% of their 2026 budget.

secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...
"Juntos for Humanity" logo in green, dark red, and gold.
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
ICYMI: new covers for Dominion of the Fallen in the US!
New editions with introductions by @aptshadow.bsky.social and @kateelliottsff.bsky.social, plus bonus short stories

Preorder now and save your receipt, there will be a preorder bonus.
aliettedebodard.com Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d
I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!

awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
Cover of the House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard: a banyan tree with grey heraldry showing Notre Dame bisected by a sword The text above reads "Enter a Ruined Paris", and below "March 10, 2026" Cover of The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard: a dragon wrapped around grey heraldry showing a crowned hawthorn tree. The background is blue with spatters of grungy black The text reads "Ruled by Fallen Angels..." and "March 10, 2026" Cover of The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard: a tiger in flames wrapped around grey heraldry showing a hawk above a tower The background is blue with spatters of grungy black The text reads "And Dragons of the depths", "March 10, 2026" Covers of all three books, The House of Shattered Wings (banyan tree and Notre Dame), The House of Binding Thorns (eastern dragon and crowned hawthorn tree), The House of Sundering Flames (tiger in flames and hawk over tower) The text reads "Read the Complete Trilogy", "Available in Ebook and Trade Paperback March 10, 2026"
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
We navigated by The Hum. Transmission tower to transmission tower, compelled to walk below its prophetic song. The electric ley of the land manifesting in sound, steel and porcelain insulators. Writing itself as map tattooed on our bones. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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cypheroftyr.bsky.social
DA buddy & awesome person @kalaelizabeth.bsky.social has a doghouse in need & massive vet bills looming. But something from their Etsy? I’ve got a lot of merch from there & it’s all fantastic. Plus 25% off www.etsy.com/shop/PinsbyK...
www.etsy.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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soniasulaiman.bsky.social
Thank you, @arablit.bsky.social
soniasulaiman.bsky.social Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 1d
I appreciate this review of my story The Dragon from Palestine-1. The story itself is set in my family’s village of ‘Ayn Karem, but its history is intertwined with the nearby Deir Yassin, sure if the most notorious Zionist massacre of the Nakba.
From this submerged center, the collection resurfaces only to plunge inward, into the bodies of children, stripping them of their innocence. In Sonia Sulaiman’s “The Dragon,” ten-year-old Ahmed witnesses the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948—the deadliest atrocity of the Nakba. As his village burns, a saint’s curse temporarily petrifies him and permanently splits his soul. One carefree doppelganger remains forever ten years old, kicking a football among the ruins, and while the surviving Ahmed is freed from stone yet condemned to sleepless wakefulness, the “little dragon” of despair and vengeance growing inside him against his will. The story is rendered in a deceptively calm, fable-like prose that heightens the surreal horror of the allegory. Sulaiman illustrates the Nakba not just as erasure, but as a wound that festers in the child, threatening to birth monsters from the bodies of the oppressed.
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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chron.com
The fluffy newcomer weighed just 90 grams at hatch.
A new penguin chick just hatched at Moody Gardens—see the first look
The fluffy newcomer weighed just 90 grams at hatch.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM