really a kind of make believe that everyone goes along with? Conveniently also the SM/SF have always been F/M respectively, & typically attractive & healthy. What are the odds? Is that just how the gods chose to manifest, or is it a sign of human bias? 🤔🤔🤔
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
really a kind of make believe that everyone goes along with? Conveniently also the SM/SF have always been F/M respectively, & typically attractive & healthy. What are the odds? Is that just how the gods chose to manifest, or is it a sign of human bias? 🤔🤔🤔
On the first day of the murder trial of San Francisco journalist and filmmaker Kevin Epps, attorneys presented wildly differing depictions of Marcus Polk, the homeless man Epps shot dead nine years ago.
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Murder or self-defense? S.F. filmmaker Kevin Epps’ long-awaited trial begins
Lawyers today presented wildly differing depictions of Marcus Polk — the homeless man Epps shot dead some nine years ago.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
On the first day of the murder trial of San Francisco journalist and filmmaker Kevin Epps, attorneys presented wildly differing depictions of Marcus Polk, the homeless man Epps shot dead nine years ago.
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I had two short stories published in 2025 and I'd be honoured if you considered them in your nominations for the various SFF awards. And Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 is eligible for Best Anthology in the Locus, World Fantasy, and Aurora Awards.
I had two short stories published in 2025 and I'd be honoured if you considered them in your nominations for the various SFF awards. And Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 is eligible for Best Anthology in the Locus, World Fantasy, and Aurora Awards.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
✨ ‘Tis the season…for award eligibility posts! ✨
I had two short stories published in 2025 and I'd be honoured if you considered them in your nominations for the various SFF awards. And Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 is eligible for Best Anthology in the Locus, World Fantasy, and Aurora Awards.
I had two short stories published in 2025 and I'd be honoured if you considered them in your nominations for the various SFF awards. And Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 is eligible for Best Anthology in the Locus, World Fantasy, and Aurora Awards.
Not to mention the first series of Gunslinger/Dark Tower short stories (that were done for F&SF magazine and then compiled into the first Dark Tower book) were definitely S&S with guns and cowboys.
See also Lavie Tidhar's Gorel short stories
See also Lavie Tidhar's Gorel short stories
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Not to mention the first series of Gunslinger/Dark Tower short stories (that were done for F&SF magazine and then compiled into the first Dark Tower book) were definitely S&S with guns and cowboys.
See also Lavie Tidhar's Gorel short stories
See also Lavie Tidhar's Gorel short stories
A real problem with separating art from artists in SF/F is how much SF/F cultivates parasocial relations between fans and creators (and indeed, predators in that milieux use that parasocial element). So someone like Gaiman hurts more than a random TV writer. (Not gonna touch Wizard School Lady...)
26) Sword & Sorcery still has to deal with the legacy of Marion Zimmer Bradley
At some point, literary historians need to wash out the Augean stables and critically re-evaluate both MZB's legacy as an editor and writer, and what's worth keeping.
At some point, literary historians need to wash out the Augean stables and critically re-evaluate both MZB's legacy as an editor and writer, and what's worth keeping.
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A real problem with separating art from artists in SF/F is how much SF/F cultivates parasocial relations between fans and creators (and indeed, predators in that milieux use that parasocial element). So someone like Gaiman hurts more than a random TV writer. (Not gonna touch Wizard School Lady...)
I love the Hyborian Age and OG Cthulhu Mythos because they came about in an age before the LotR appendices, i.e., in an age when SF/F fandom didn't hang up on "Lore." Just a pretend world to tell stories in.
11) You cannot be corrected on your history if there is no history.
Howard set Conan in the Hyborian Age so he could write Conan doing whatever without worrying about the historical details. Conan police procedural? Done. Conan the Elizabethan pirate? Done. Conan in Afghanistan? Sure, why not.
Howard set Conan in the Hyborian Age so he could write Conan doing whatever without worrying about the historical details. Conan police procedural? Done. Conan the Elizabethan pirate? Done. Conan in Afghanistan? Sure, why not.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I love the Hyborian Age and OG Cthulhu Mythos because they came about in an age before the LotR appendices, i.e., in an age when SF/F fandom didn't hang up on "Lore." Just a pretend world to tell stories in.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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To be a *real* F&SF show, it must have more than one of the following:
• A body-swap episode
• A Groundhog Day episode
• A musical episode
• A body-swap episode
• A Groundhog Day episode
• A musical episode
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
To be a *real* F&SF show, it must have more than one of the following:
• A body-swap episode
• A Groundhog Day episode
• A musical episode
• A body-swap episode
• A Groundhog Day episode
• A musical episode
15 cm s.FH 13/1 (Sf.) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schlepper (f) (Sd.Kfz. 135/1)
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
15 cm s.FH 13/1 (Sf.) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schlepper (f) (Sd.Kfz. 135/1)
In junior high, I read a 1959 novel called Mary Jane by Dorothy Stirling, which was about the integration of an all-white school. I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto so learned a lot from it. I've read sf&f for my entire life... 3/
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
In junior high, I read a 1959 novel called Mary Jane by Dorothy Stirling, which was about the integration of an all-white school. I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto so learned a lot from it. I've read sf&f for my entire life... 3/
For me, #Gargoyles passes the Sheppard test: to be a *real* F&SF tv show, it has to have either W Morgan Sheppard or Mark A Sheppard in it. (Morgan's in this one.)
And actual SF authors Michael Reeves wrote 14 of them and @steveperrywriter.bsky.social Perry wrote 3 and @diane.dianeduane.com wrote 2.
And actual SF authors Michael Reeves wrote 14 of them and @steveperrywriter.bsky.social Perry wrote 3 and @diane.dianeduane.com wrote 2.
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
For me, #Gargoyles passes the Sheppard test: to be a *real* F&SF tv show, it has to have either W Morgan Sheppard or Mark A Sheppard in it. (Morgan's in this one.)
And actual SF authors Michael Reeves wrote 14 of them and @steveperrywriter.bsky.social Perry wrote 3 and @diane.dianeduane.com wrote 2.
And actual SF authors Michael Reeves wrote 14 of them and @steveperrywriter.bsky.social Perry wrote 3 and @diane.dianeduane.com wrote 2.
i read all of them in middle school because i just went down the two “sf&f” shelves in our small-town library and was hyperlexic
i had some very confidently wrong ideas about humanity for years
i had some very confidently wrong ideas about humanity for years
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
i read all of them in middle school because i just went down the two “sf&f” shelves in our small-town library and was hyperlexic
i had some very confidently wrong ideas about humanity for years
i had some very confidently wrong ideas about humanity for years
I unboxed a lot of books, including a heap of SF/F paperbacks, and now I'm wondering where the old 2x4 I used to use to double-row paperbacks ever wound up...
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I unboxed a lot of books, including a heap of SF/F paperbacks, and now I'm wondering where the old 2x4 I used to use to double-row paperbacks ever wound up...
Hi my story "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" is on this list, alongside a bunch of fantastic stories by some really incredible authors! Please give these stories a read, and if you enjoyed "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent", I'd be very honoured if you would consider it for 2025 SF/F awards nominations. 🖤
Behold, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine 2025 Award Eligibility post! buff.ly/2OBnGgP
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hi my story "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" is on this list, alongside a bunch of fantastic stories by some really incredible authors! Please give these stories a read, and if you enjoyed "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent", I'd be very honoured if you would consider it for 2025 SF/F awards nominations. 🖤
oh wow, that murder-suicide in #sf is part of why orbit coffee (yummy viet #coffee) in #oakland closed.
"The financial troubles also impacted their entrepreneurial ventures, included Red Planet Roastery, Orbit Coffee’s two locations in Oakland"
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f...
#SanFrancisco
"The financial troubles also impacted their entrepreneurial ventures, included Red Planet Roastery, Orbit Coffee’s two locations in Oakland"
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f...
#SanFrancisco
Autopsy report reveals cause of death in S.F. Westwood Highlands murder-suicide that left 4 dead
San Francisco medical examiners released the autopsy report following the family of four found dead in their Westwood Highlands home.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
oh wow, that murder-suicide in #sf is part of why orbit coffee (yummy viet #coffee) in #oakland closed.
"The financial troubles also impacted their entrepreneurial ventures, included Red Planet Roastery, Orbit Coffee’s two locations in Oakland"
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f...
#SanFrancisco
"The financial troubles also impacted their entrepreneurial ventures, included Red Planet Roastery, Orbit Coffee’s two locations in Oakland"
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f...
#SanFrancisco
ATTN: SF/F FOLK:
I'm pitching a SF/F seminar for '26. It'll touch on exploration/colonization narratives and I need suggestions for field trips--not just US sites. Anywhere.
Where can HS students go to better grasp these concepts?
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I'm pitching a SF/F seminar for '26. It'll touch on exploration/colonization narratives and I need suggestions for field trips--not just US sites. Anywhere.
Where can HS students go to better grasp these concepts?
@tkingfisher.com @womzilla.bsky.social @sigridellis.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
ATTN: SF/F FOLK:
I'm pitching a SF/F seminar for '26. It'll touch on exploration/colonization narratives and I need suggestions for field trips--not just US sites. Anywhere.
Where can HS students go to better grasp these concepts?
@tkingfisher.com @womzilla.bsky.social @sigridellis.bsky.social
I'm pitching a SF/F seminar for '26. It'll touch on exploration/colonization narratives and I need suggestions for field trips--not just US sites. Anywhere.
Where can HS students go to better grasp these concepts?
@tkingfisher.com @womzilla.bsky.social @sigridellis.bsky.social
...actively rescued the long out-of-print backlist of many sf/f/h authors by forming one of the very first e-book publishers in 1999, long before the Kindle was even a gleam in Jeff Bezos's eye. (2/6)
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
...actively rescued the long out-of-print backlist of many sf/f/h authors by forming one of the very first e-book publishers in 1999, long before the Kindle was even a gleam in Jeff Bezos's eye. (2/6)
This is not Howard Fast’s fault, but seeing the title of his story “The Martian Shop” on that F&SF cover has triggered an earworm, namely “The Martian Hop.”
“Papa oo mir mir papa oo mir mir
papa oo mir mir papa oo mir mir
EE-ee-EE ee-EE the MARTIAN HOP
EE-ee-EE ee-EE-ee-EE!”
—The Ran-Dells, 1963
“Papa oo mir mir papa oo mir mir
papa oo mir mir papa oo mir mir
EE-ee-EE ee-EE the MARTIAN HOP
EE-ee-EE ee-EE-ee-EE!”
—The Ran-Dells, 1963
1963 HITS ARCHIVE: Martian Hop - Ran-Dells
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November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is not Howard Fast’s fault, but seeing the title of his story “The Martian Shop” on that F&SF cover has triggered an earworm, namely “The Martian Hop.”
“Papa oo mir mir papa oo mir mir
papa oo mir mir papa oo mir mir
EE-ee-EE ee-EE the MARTIAN HOP
EE-ee-EE ee-EE-ee-EE!”
—The Ran-Dells, 1963
“Papa oo mir mir papa oo mir mir
papa oo mir mir papa oo mir mir
EE-ee-EE ee-EE the MARTIAN HOP
EE-ee-EE ee-EE-ee-EE!”
—The Ran-Dells, 1963
Very indicative of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of fascism that all of the SF/F which actually supports it is so bad they have to pretend it doesn't exist and instead misinterpret an avowed antifascist like Tolkein.
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Very indicative of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of fascism that all of the SF/F which actually supports it is so bad they have to pretend it doesn't exist and instead misinterpret an avowed antifascist like Tolkein.
Howard Fast (1914-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Karel Thole, 1970; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1959
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
L, Karel Thole, 1970; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1959
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Howard Fast (1914-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Karel Thole, 1970; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1959
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
L, Karel Thole, 1970; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1959
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
GDR-FLPH.ANS, 1997-01-26 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
GDR-FLPH.ANS, 1997-01-26 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)
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Didn't get a screenshot of standings but finished 2nd in Pioneer Challenge tonight :3 Streamed first half but energy crashed from traveling all day. Thanks to @partypat95.bsky.social for helpin me stay awake on the back half LOOOL
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November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Didn't get a screenshot of standings but finished 2nd in Pioneer Challenge tonight :3 Streamed first half but energy crashed from traveling all day. Thanks to @partypat95.bsky.social for helpin me stay awake on the back half LOOOL
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It's apparently award eligibility post season in the SF/F world!
I am delighted to say that I am eligible for absolutely nothing, so you can vote for whatever you want without crushing my dreams!
I am delighted to say that I am eligible for absolutely nothing, so you can vote for whatever you want without crushing my dreams!
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It's apparently award eligibility post season in the SF/F world!
I am delighted to say that I am eligible for absolutely nothing, so you can vote for whatever you want without crushing my dreams!
I am delighted to say that I am eligible for absolutely nothing, so you can vote for whatever you want without crushing my dreams!
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM