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A new issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is here at last from new publisher Must Read Magazines! Featuring @nnedi.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @matthewkressel.net and @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social, @justinkey.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine...
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A new issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is here at last from new publisher Must Read Magazines! Featuring @nnedi.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @matthewkressel.net and @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social, @justinkey.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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3 new nf titles from @pmpress.bsky.social! SEAHORSES features trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive ppl who have navigated pregnancy; EVERYTHING WE THOUGHT WAS BEAUTIFUL interviews radical Palestinian women; and A CLEAN HELL goes inside a federal supermax prison weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
3 new nf titles from @pmpress.bsky.social! SEAHORSES features trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive ppl who have navigated pregnancy; EVERYTHING WE THOUGHT WAS BEAUTIFUL interviews radical Palestinian women; and A CLEAN HELL goes inside a federal supermax prison weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
Since @onspecmag.bsky.social is closing up shop next month, its publishers have reduced prices on all 100+ back issues of OnSpec to just 99 cents! weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Since @onspecmag.bsky.social is closing up shop next month, its publishers have reduced prices on all 100+ back issues of OnSpec to just 99 cents! weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
The November issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/uncanny-maga...
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The November issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/uncanny-maga...
November issues of @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever,and the new-to-us @foofarawpress.bsky.social have arrived and are on their way to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
November issues of @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever,and the new-to-us @foofarawpress.bsky.social have arrived and are on their way to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/
November issues of @locusmag.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lightspeedmagazine.com, The Dark, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and Dirty Magick are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
November issues of @locusmag.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lightspeedmagazine.com, The Dark, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and Dirty Magick are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/
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October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ok actually, because robots.txt is optional and ignorable, here is our current, full AI bot blocking solution using the non-optional .htaccess mod_rewrite (see alt text)
New from @undertow.bsky.social, THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1, edited by Michael Kelly! weightlessbooks.com/the-best-wei...
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New from @undertow.bsky.social, THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1, edited by Michael Kelly! weightlessbooks.com/the-best-wei...
Very happy to add Foofaraw Zine, "a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations", and @foofarawpress.bsky.social! Special introductory offer: subscribe to Foofaraw now for $10 off the cover price, get a free copy of DH Parish's novella THE BODIES!
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October 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Very happy to add Foofaraw Zine, "a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations", and @foofarawpress.bsky.social! Special introductory offer: subscribe to Foofaraw now for $10 off the cover price, get a free copy of DH Parish's novella THE BODIES!
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::shoves hands in pockets and whistles nonchalantly while strolling past the corporate-nazi-captured PayPal automated audit system::
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
::shoves hands in pockets and whistles nonchalantly while strolling past the corporate-nazi-captured PayPal automated audit system::
2 new horror collections out today from @wordhorde.bsky.social: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND: THE HOLLOW EARTH STORY CYCLE by @orringrey.com and LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by @johnlangan.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
2 new horror collections out today from @wordhorde.bsky.social: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND: THE HOLLOW EARTH STORY CYCLE by @orringrey.com and LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by @johnlangan.bsky.social
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Twelve days later, 7 days past their 5 day deadline, our account has at last and without explanation been reinstated at PayPal! Q3 2025 payments are going out to 51 independent presses even now. Thank you all very much for your patience
October 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Twelve days later, 7 days past their 5 day deadline, our account has at last and without explanation been reinstated at PayPal! Q3 2025 payments are going out to 51 independent presses even now. Thank you all very much for your patience
Today's theme is the title song from Primus's 1999 album ANTIPOP (far ahead of its time as usual), only with the letters "p-o-p" replaced with the the letters "p-r-i-m-e" for no particular reason. Then replace "drop" with "die" to make the rhyme work (sort of), and you got yourself an earworm
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Today's theme is the title song from Primus's 1999 album ANTIPOP (far ahead of its time as usual), only with the letters "p-o-p" replaced with the the letters "p-r-i-m-e" for no particular reason. Then replace "drop" with "die" to make the rhyme work (sort of), and you got yourself an earworm
New issue of @apexmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/apex-magazin...
October 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New issue of @apexmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/apex-magazin...
Heeeey it's Q3 2025, and we were about to send a bunch of much deserved money to our hundreds of indie publishers, but PayPal has seen fit to limit our account for arbitrary reasons! Ain't corporate-captured late capitalism grand
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Heeeey it's Q3 2025, and we were about to send a bunch of much deserved money to our hundreds of indie publishers, but PayPal has seen fit to limit our account for arbitrary reasons! Ain't corporate-captured late capitalism grand
October issue of The Dark is here! weightlessbooks.com/the-dark-iss...
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
October issue of The Dark is here! weightlessbooks.com/the-dark-iss...
October issues of @clarkesworldmagazine.com and Forever have arrived and are on their way to subscribers! weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
October 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
October issues of @clarkesworldmagazine.com and Forever have arrived and are on their way to subscribers! weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
New, special issue of @reckoningmag.bsky.social, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, features reprinted work by neurodiverse creators from Reckoning's first ten years: weightlessbooks.com/reckoning-a-...
October 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New, special issue of @reckoningmag.bsky.social, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, features reprinted work by neurodiverse creators from Reckoning's first ten years: weightlessbooks.com/reckoning-a-...
Also new this month, our first-ever magazine of YA and Middle Grade fantasy magazine, Sally Port, edited by Patrick Kidder: weightlessbooks.com/sally-port-m...
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Also new this month, our first-ever magazine of YA and Middle Grade fantasy magazine, Sally Port, edited by Patrick Kidder: weightlessbooks.com/sally-port-m...
New issues of Dirty Magick, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, @locusmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, are here for the month of October, and many of them are spooky! weightlessbooks.com/2025/10/
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New issues of Dirty Magick, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, @locusmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, are here for the month of October, and many of them are spooky! weightlessbooks.com/2025/10/
New issue of Fantasy has arrived from @psychopomp.com! weightlessbooks.com/fantasy-maga...
September 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
New issue of Fantasy has arrived from @psychopomp.com! weightlessbooks.com/fantasy-maga...
New issue of Interzone is here! weightlessbooks.com/interzone-303/
September 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New issue of Interzone is here! weightlessbooks.com/interzone-303/
New from @pmpress.bsky.social, BE GAY, DO CRIME: EVERYDAY ACTS OF QUEER RESISTANCE AND REBELLION, a history of queer activism edited by Zane McNeill, Riley Clare Valentine, and Blu Buchanan: weightlessbooks.com/be-gay-do-cr...
September 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New from @pmpress.bsky.social, BE GAY, DO CRIME: EVERYDAY ACTS OF QUEER RESISTANCE AND REBELLION, a history of queer activism edited by Zane McNeill, Riley Clare Valentine, and Blu Buchanan: weightlessbooks.com/be-gay-do-cr...