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35 Years of Reading Science Fiction Like It Matters. Currently on a pause, coming back soon.
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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
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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
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Hi everyone from launch day for A Philosophy of Thieves!
Thieves is my 9th novel & it’s launching close to the10-year birthday of my first book, Updraft. To celebrate, I’ve made my monthly craft essay public, with how-to-writer thoughts I’ve picked up over the past decade.
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Thieves is my 9th novel & it’s launching close to the10-year birthday of my first book, Updraft. To celebrate, I’ve made my monthly craft essay public, with how-to-writer thoughts I’ve picked up over the past decade.
www.patreon.com/post...
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hi everyone from launch day for A Philosophy of Thieves!
Thieves is my 9th novel & it’s launching close to the10-year birthday of my first book, Updraft. To celebrate, I’ve made my monthly craft essay public, with how-to-writer thoughts I’ve picked up over the past decade.
www.patreon.com/post...
Thieves is my 9th novel & it’s launching close to the10-year birthday of my first book, Updraft. To celebrate, I’ve made my monthly craft essay public, with how-to-writer thoughts I’ve picked up over the past decade.
www.patreon.com/post...
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At long last, there is a new issue of @nyrsf.bsky.social! Kermit flail! weightlessbooks.com/new-york-rev...
New York Review of Science Fiction #357
Special Awaken from Your Slumber Issue: Brian Stableford: Xavier de Ricard’s "poésie scientifique"; Joe Sanders: Kate Wilhelm’s extant Nothing; Ayal Hayut-man: Memory & Trauma in Rothfuss; Lola Grange...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
At long last, there is a new issue of @nyrsf.bsky.social! Kermit flail! weightlessbooks.com/new-york-rev...
And we're back.
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And we're back.
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Ever wish you understood your cat better? This is your lucky day. After years of research, I have compiled A Comprehensive Dictionary of Cat.
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A Comprehensive Dictionary of Cat
. After years of labor, I have finally assembled a comprehensive dictionary of Cat. It is as follows: now?: Oh, please, sir. I'm ever...
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July 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Ever wish you understood your cat better? This is your lucky day. After years of research, I have compiled A Comprehensive Dictionary of Cat.
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📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
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June 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
It begins again.
April 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It begins again.
Well, we didn't make it this year. Damn.
But I'm making progress on the next issue--we have a lot of great articles and reviews in the hopper and I've just wrapped up a giant freelance project. So: Work for a better new future, everyone, because it isn't going to happen by itself.
But I'm making progress on the next issue--we have a lot of great articles and reviews in the hopper and I've just wrapped up a giant freelance project. So: Work for a better new future, everyone, because it isn't going to happen by itself.
Hello new followers!
2024 continues to be absolute garbage. Still hoping for an issue before the end of the year.
2024 continues to be absolute garbage. Still hoping for an issue before the end of the year.
I started work on the next issue in 2023. The year since has included a family death, Arthur spending 5 months in the hospital, *me* going to the hospital, emergency home repair, and other tribulations.
We very much hope to get an issue done before December just to prove this year couldn't kill us.
We very much hope to get an issue done before December just to prove this year couldn't kill us.
January 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Well, we didn't make it this year. Damn.
But I'm making progress on the next issue--we have a lot of great articles and reviews in the hopper and I've just wrapped up a giant freelance project. So: Work for a better new future, everyone, because it isn't going to happen by itself.
But I'm making progress on the next issue--we have a lot of great articles and reviews in the hopper and I've just wrapped up a giant freelance project. So: Work for a better new future, everyone, because it isn't going to happen by itself.
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And now it's George Zebrowski. I only met him a couple of times, but I liked him. This has been a terrible year.
December 22, 2024 at 7:01 PM
And now it's George Zebrowski. I only met him a couple of times, but I liked him. This has been a terrible year.
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I didn't realize this had launched: the 40th Anniversary edition of TALES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS on GameFound!
I'm particularly excited by this revised, expanded version because it has 10 solo adventures I wrote and 5 solo adventures by the great Jennell Jaquays. Over 125K words of all-new material!
I'm particularly excited by this revised, expanded version because it has 10 solo adventures I wrote and 5 solo adventures by the great Jennell Jaquays. Over 125K words of all-new material!
Tales of the Arabian Nights 40th Anniversary Edition by Play to Z
Play to Z is proud to present the 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the award-winning Tales of the Arabian Nights!
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December 4, 2024 at 3:20 AM
I didn't realize this had launched: the 40th Anniversary edition of TALES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS on GameFound!
I'm particularly excited by this revised, expanded version because it has 10 solo adventures I wrote and 5 solo adventures by the great Jennell Jaquays. Over 125K words of all-new material!
I'm particularly excited by this revised, expanded version because it has 10 solo adventures I wrote and 5 solo adventures by the great Jennell Jaquays. Over 125K words of all-new material!
Hello new followers!
2024 continues to be absolute garbage. Still hoping for an issue before the end of the year.
2024 continues to be absolute garbage. Still hoping for an issue before the end of the year.
I started work on the next issue in 2023. The year since has included a family death, Arthur spending 5 months in the hospital, *me* going to the hospital, emergency home repair, and other tribulations.
We very much hope to get an issue done before December just to prove this year couldn't kill us.
We very much hope to get an issue done before December just to prove this year couldn't kill us.
November 21, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Hello new followers!
2024 continues to be absolute garbage. Still hoping for an issue before the end of the year.
2024 continues to be absolute garbage. Still hoping for an issue before the end of the year.
I started work on the next issue in 2023. The year since has included a family death, Arthur spending 5 months in the hospital, *me* going to the hospital, emergency home repair, and other tribulations.
We very much hope to get an issue done before December just to prove this year couldn't kill us.
We very much hope to get an issue done before December just to prove this year couldn't kill us.
October 31, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I started work on the next issue in 2023. The year since has included a family death, Arthur spending 5 months in the hospital, *me* going to the hospital, emergency home repair, and other tribulations.
We very much hope to get an issue done before December just to prove this year couldn't kill us.
We very much hope to get an issue done before December just to prove this year couldn't kill us.
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Hey, science fiction writers. A request to make.
Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it.
Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church?
(Read on...)
Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it.
Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church?
(Read on...)
August 15, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Hey, science fiction writers. A request to make.
Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it.
Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church?
(Read on...)
Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it.
Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church?
(Read on...)
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I have a book coming out! Publication date tomorrow:
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I really enjoyed compiling this. Thank you to Edward James and to several of you on facebook for helping me come up with non traditional choices.
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I really enjoyed compiling this. Thank you to Edward James and to several of you on facebook for helping me come up with non traditional choices.
Classic Fantasy Stories by Farah Mendlesohn
Find out more about Classic Fantasy Stories by Farah Mendlesohn
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July 10, 2024 at 2:12 PM
I have a book coming out! Publication date tomorrow:
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fara...
I really enjoyed compiling this. Thank you to Edward James and to several of you on facebook for helping me come up with non traditional choices.
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fara...
I really enjoyed compiling this. Thank you to Edward James and to several of you on facebook for helping me come up with non traditional choices.
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Ooh, 50% off Lisa Yaszek's 2-volume set THE FUTURE IS FEMALE, a survey of sf stories written by women from 1928 to 1979.
The Future Is Female: Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women (2 volumes) - Library of America
Bending and stretching the conventions of science fiction to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential i...
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April 29, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Ooh, 50% off Lisa Yaszek's 2-volume set THE FUTURE IS FEMALE, a survey of sf stories written by women from 1928 to 1979.
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Slightly surprised nobody has yet jumped down my throat with "oh won't somebody please think of the incompetent gas-guzzling robots".
Maybe all that mountain of hype has fallen on deaf ears? Fingers crossed
Maybe all that mountain of hype has fallen on deaf ears? Fingers crossed
New language for our publisher guidelines? "We don't knowingly sell titles that employ generative AI in any capacity. If we find out a particular title was created using AI, we reserve the right to remove AI-generated portions or delete the title from our offerings entirely." Opinions welcome
April 5, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Slightly surprised nobody has yet jumped down my throat with "oh won't somebody please think of the incompetent gas-guzzling robots".
Maybe all that mountain of hype has fallen on deaf ears? Fingers crossed
Maybe all that mountain of hype has fallen on deaf ears? Fingers crossed
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I’ve said this before, but a functional definition of “the SFF community” is “the set of people who read LOCUS plus those who have a lengthy explanation of why they don’t read LOCUS.” It’s indispensable. I just now donated to their fundraiser, which has mere hours to go.
Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2024
Celebrating and uplifting authors, artists, and story -- the guide to the world's imagination
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April 5, 2024 at 2:25 PM
I’ve said this before, but a functional definition of “the SFF community” is “the set of people who read LOCUS plus those who have a lengthy explanation of why they don’t read LOCUS.” It’s indispensable. I just now donated to their fundraiser, which has mere hours to go.
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this is what happens to those spherical cows
March 29, 2024 at 10:21 PM
this is what happens to those spherical cows
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I’m incredibly happy to announce that THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS has won the IAFA Crawford Award for a first fantasy novel! vajra.me/2024/03/04/t...
The Saint of Bright Doors wins the Crawford Award
I’m incredibly happy to announce that The Saint of Bright Doors has won the IAFA Crawford Award!
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March 4, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I’m incredibly happy to announce that THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS has won the IAFA Crawford Award for a first fantasy novel! vajra.me/2024/03/04/t...
We are deeply sorry for the loss, to his family, his friends, to the sf community, and to sf scholarship. Brian was unfailingly kind and charming with us to degrees only matched by his generosity and productivity.
By themselves, his translations of French proto-f&sf made him a giant, in our eyes.
By themselves, his translations of French proto-f&sf made him a giant, in our eyes.
Very sorry to hear of the death of author Brian Stableford. His alternate history vampire novel The Empire of Fear is a very important book for me.
February 26, 2024 at 2:38 PM
We are deeply sorry for the loss, to his family, his friends, to the sf community, and to sf scholarship. Brian was unfailingly kind and charming with us to degrees only matched by his generosity and productivity.
By themselves, his translations of French proto-f&sf made him a giant, in our eyes.
By themselves, his translations of French proto-f&sf made him a giant, in our eyes.
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So much popular SFF of the latter twentieth century reads to me as reworking the orientalist occultism of the preceding half-century—e.g. how much Julian May's MANY-COLOURED LAND or Clarke's CHILDHOOD'S END have drawn from Theosophy or Aurobindo. This is fascinating to me on at least three levels
February 25, 2024 at 4:15 AM
So much popular SFF of the latter twentieth century reads to me as reworking the orientalist occultism of the preceding half-century—e.g. how much Julian May's MANY-COLOURED LAND or Clarke's CHILDHOOD'S END have drawn from Theosophy or Aurobindo. This is fascinating to me on at least three levels
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Best possible news about the 2024 Hugos.
The Hugos and me
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As a Hugo administrator in the past, my own record is clear.
fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-hugos-an...
As a Hugo administrator in the past, my own record is clear.
The Hugos and me
As a Hugo administrator in the past, my own record is clear.
fromtheheartofeurope.eu
February 24, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Best possible news about the 2024 Hugos.
The "yes, there have been women writers in f&sf all along" discussion is going strong. Here's a list David Hartwell assembled of 200 major works from women in the field just for the period 1984-2001, drawn from awards, recommended reading lists, and other "best of the year" lists.
200 Significant Science Fiction Books by Women, 1984–2001, by David G. Hartwell
For a separate project, I was asked to assemble a list of major books of science fiction written by women over the period 1984 to 2001. I restricted myself to works of science fiction (which eliminate...
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February 22, 2024 at 3:20 PM
The "yes, there have been women writers in f&sf all along" discussion is going strong. Here's a list David Hartwell assembled of 200 major works from women in the field just for the period 1984-2001, drawn from awards, recommended reading lists, and other "best of the year" lists.
Re-upping this for the new arrivals. Fresh, unpleasant family complications have been eating up vast amounts of time so we're still not quite ready to awaken, which depresses me terribly.
Since people have been asking: We have been on an unannounced hiatus for the last 18 months. We do hope to have an issue out before the end of the year, and our further hope is for multiple issues next year. We apologize for the long silence and thank you for the concern.
February 11, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Re-upping this for the new arrivals. Fresh, unpleasant family complications have been eating up vast amounts of time so we're still not quite ready to awaken, which depresses me terribly.