Naysh
@nayshintheory.bsky.social
Here are five essays that moved me this year:
• Dimas Ilaw's The Shape of the Darkness As It Overtakes Us
(www.uncannymagazine.com/article/shap...)
• Dimas Ilaw's After a Revolution (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/afte...)
• Dimas Ilaw's The Shape of the Darkness As It Overtakes Us
(www.uncannymagazine.com/article/shap...)
• Dimas Ilaw's After a Revolution (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/afte...)
December 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Here are five essays that moved me this year:
• Dimas Ilaw's The Shape of the Darkness As It Overtakes Us
(www.uncannymagazine.com/article/shap...)
• Dimas Ilaw's After a Revolution (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/afte...)
• Dimas Ilaw's The Shape of the Darkness As It Overtakes Us
(www.uncannymagazine.com/article/shap...)
• Dimas Ilaw's After a Revolution (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/afte...)
My favorite short story of 2025 is @thomasha.bsky.social's In My Country (clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/). The best "political" story I've seen in a long time. Reading J.F. Martel's Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice also helped me appreciate this story more over time.
December 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My favorite short story of 2025 is @thomasha.bsky.social's In My Country (clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/). The best "political" story I've seen in a long time. Reading J.F. Martel's Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice also helped me appreciate this story more over time.
The best novelette I read this year was @vajra.me's The Limner Wrings His Hands (stateofmatter.in/blog/the-lim...). Utterly unique and beautiful.
The Limner Wrings His Hands – State of Matter
stateofmatter.in
December 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The best novelette I read this year was @vajra.me's The Limner Wrings His Hands (stateofmatter.in/blog/the-lim...). Utterly unique and beautiful.
My second favorite novel of 2025 is August Clarke's Metal from Heaven. I wrote some brief thoughts here (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...).
Shyan's review of Metal from Heaven
5/5: There's so much purple. Bruises, broken sunsets, veins through eyelids, lavender love, tinted azurine groves, poppies, psychedlic fits, noxious candy, puffy gums, and velvet chambers, all present...
www.goodreads.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My second favorite novel of 2025 is August Clarke's Metal from Heaven. I wrote some brief thoughts here (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...).
My favorite novella of 2025 is @aptshadow.bsky.social's Lives of Bitter Rain. Deeply emotional with layered complexity, a really excellent contribution to the Tyrant Philosopher's series.
December 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My favorite novella of 2025 is @aptshadow.bsky.social's Lives of Bitter Rain. Deeply emotional with layered complexity, a really excellent contribution to the Tyrant Philosopher's series.
My favorite graphic novel of the year is @sispurrier.bsky.social and @aaroncampbellarts.com's John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America. The sheer depth of comics history, poetry, and creative sediment the team here excavates to produce this ambitious masterwork was beautiful to see.
December 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My favorite graphic novel of the year is @sispurrier.bsky.social and @aaroncampbellarts.com's John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America. The sheer depth of comics history, poetry, and creative sediment the team here excavates to produce this ambitious masterwork was beautiful to see.
By far my favorite book of 2025 was
@vajra.me 's Rakesfall. I posted some brief thoughts on it here (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), written before it won the Le Guin prize.
@vajra.me 's Rakesfall. I posted some brief thoughts on it here (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), written before it won the Le Guin prize.
Shyan's review of Rakesfall
5/5: Reviews of Rakesfall emphasize it as “hallucinatory,” “not an easy book to read,” the “memory of a dream” that can be enjoyed yet not fully understood. This review is about how Rakesfall is a v...
www.goodreads.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
By far my favorite book of 2025 was
@vajra.me 's Rakesfall. I posted some brief thoughts on it here (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), written before it won the Le Guin prize.
@vajra.me 's Rakesfall. I posted some brief thoughts on it here (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), written before it won the Le Guin prize.
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April 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
OMG a 'splosion of voids to beautify your feed.
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To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.