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Renan Bernardo
@renanbernardo.com
Nebula and Ignyte Finalist • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE - NOW OUT! • DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE also OUT! • Codex • He/him • Brazilian author

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Convincing you to read my novella with the first sentence. Add yours if you'd like.
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Awards Season is upon us! My novella Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle (19,500 words), a dark space opera set in a generation spaceship returning to Earth after a failed expedition, is eligible as Best Novella in the Nebulas, Hugos, Locus and for Best Shorter Fiction in the BSFA.
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Almost 6 months later (due to issues with customs), I finally have my novella in my hands! Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is a dark space opera about a ship returning to Earth after a failed expedition! 🌌👩‍🚀
October 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Julie sends her best wishes!!!
October 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Spooky season is finally ON! 🎃 If you want to be spooked by oxygen rationing in a spaceship, claustrophobic feelings, and a crew doing ANYTHING to survive, then you might enjoy my short novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle. Or gift someone with it! 🖤

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October 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Got my finalist certificate for the Argos Award 2024! The Argos Award is the oldest Brazilian SFF award and my novelette A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair was a finalist for it last year, for its Portuguese version in @samovarmag.bsky.social. 🪑
September 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Starting this one.
August 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
My contributor copy of Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite, by @starsandsabers.bsky.social, arrived!

It contains my fantasy piece The Crumbs of My Body about a tribe that can grow their food on their own body!

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August 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I've finally got my contributor copy of Bright Green Futures, which features my solarpunk piece The Doglady and the Rainstorm about a dog walker that just wants to leave the dogs under her care in their homes… and stay away from the inevitable rainstorms. 🐶🌧️☀️
August 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
My fantasy piece The Crumbs of My Body is now out in @starsandsabers.bsky.social's Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite!

Though Juruaru's body grows his own food, he knows his people's blessing is temporary. While on a quest to end famine in the forest, he's captured by a tribe in pain.
August 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Already got my ebook copy of Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinity, a magic anthology by @starsandsabers.bsky.social, which will contain my piece The Crumbs of My Body about a tribe that grows food on their bodies—and what happens when that fails. Print copy is coming!
July 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Got my swag from Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite, a @starsandsabers.bsky.social anthology coming Aug 5th! My fantasy piece, "The Crumbs of My Body", about people who grow their food on their own body, will be in it! 🔮
July 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Right-wing Brazilians took to the streets to manifest support for Donald Trump. Look at the multitudes.
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I think I have a (very rough) first draft 👀
July 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Name a film flop that you wish had done better at the box office.
July 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thank you for the apologies, Gareth. We're on the same side on this fight.

About the cover, it was the version with the complete layout. It was just to show how these tools can fail, anyway. It doesn't mean anything, much less since it's from 2019.
July 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Starting in about 45 minutes!
July 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Always happy to find a review like this for my (mostly forgotten) collection, Different Kinds of Defiance 🥰💚
June 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm currently reading an advanced copy of @patrickbarb.bsky.social's new novel and really digging it! X-Files meets Gone Girl.
June 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today marks the one-month anniversary of my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! I want to thank everyone who has take the time to read it, review it, and leave a comment about it.

You can get in paperback and ebook, but an audio version is coming!

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May 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Found this old pic from 2013 in NY, featuring @hntdove.bsky.social sneaking from the flank after an army of Tolkiens.
May 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Some nice reviews of Kap's Needle popping out!

You can get the book in paperback and ebook!

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May 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Pause! Before you scroll further, quote this with at least one book you're looking forward to in the rest of this year."

There are several, but I'll mention @lyndseycroal.bsky.social's collection!
May 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Just realized I was in Vatican on May 8th, 2014.
May 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Bright Green Futures has been spotted in Brilliant Books at Traverse City, Michigan! 🔆🌏🌳
April 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM