Dr. Meg MacDonald

Infinity Gate by MR Carey

Sargassa by Sophie Burnham

Westfallen by Ann and Ben Brashares

The Last Rival by Kyle Palmer

I'm really excited about the Sidewise Award this year because there are quite a few works I think particularly highly of.

The award is being announced at @seattlein2025.org on Friday, August 15 at 6 p.m. in Room 320.

(I don't know who won.)

www.uchronia.net/sidewise/

Against a background of blue waves and golden orcas, the white Solaris logo in the top left corner, a 3D hardback of THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine WIlson to the right. White text: "An intricate and compelling tale: a dystopian dark academia murder mystery...heart-wrenching and hopeful THE SALT ORACLE interrogates our humanity, our compassion and our right to remain." Gold text: Angela "A. G." Slatter, award-winning author of THE CRIMSON ROAD.

Thank you to @angelaslatter.bsky.social for this fabulous endorsement of @rainewilson.bsky.social 's THE SALT ORACLE -"An intricate and compelling tale: a dystopian dark academia murder mystery...heart-wrenching and hopeful."

Preorder: geni.us/saltorac
Netgalley: geni.us/SolarisNG

So all y'all con running types @glasgow2024.bsky.social has bursaries to help folk get to @smofcon42.bsky.social
Fan cons are run by volunteers and this is our chance to help folk come together & support each other to run amazing fan cons for the whole community.
#FansMakeWorldcon #FansMakeFanCons

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Want to help shape the future of fan cons?

Glasgow 2024 is offering up to 18 bursaries (for aspiring & experienced conrunners alike) to attend SMOFcon 42 in Stockholm this December!

Deadline: 31st August 2025

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Large intelligent spider count is low.
Level of human stupidity/cupidity still high.

There is a relatively low bug count for a Tchaikovsky but it’s still a Tchaikovsky so the count is not zero.

How to Vote Instructions for voting in the 2025 Hugo Awards.

Voting on the #HugoAwards closes in 10 days.

This year, more than most, it would mean a lot if we had your support on the final ballot.

I think we did some of our best work in 2024.

But also, if we ever win, I'd like to do so while my mom is still here.

seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

I'm quite proud of this story.

It's angry.

New story up at GNS

The starling jacks clean the sacrifice altars of hungry gods, until it’s their turn on the block. But Shadow Jack may have his own god whispering to him.

Read “Shadow Jack” by CL Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/shadow-jack/

Queer or ally? Author or editor?

Trip and I are rerunning our standing-room-only workshop from EasterCon, but in a new and improved digital form!

SF Foundation UK News Science Fiction Journal Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews ab

Later than usual - due to several other calls - but the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026 is now open! Details in our newsfeed plus the latest on the AGM. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

Wrath Month - Stories of Queer Rage The punk anthology where queer rage kicks down the doors of fantasy, science-fiction and horror.

Today, we're seeing DOUBLE at Bona HQ, and that's because we've now smashed past 200% of our original goal in less than six days of the campaign! 🤘🔥🏳️‍🌈

Please keep spreading the word! We have huge plans for Bona Books, and with your help, we can crush them! ✊

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

Sexy Sapphic Summer Reading, or, the Pride Month Reading List I Composed After The AI Summer Reading List Debacle It’s hot girl summer! Or, well. It’s queer women doing queer shit all over the place. I’ve copied the cover text, because I’m old and tired. Please share your own sapphic su…

Post now updated to include four more books I originally overlooked.

Purple background, white text, which says The Dublin Portal teases us with the possibility of stepping through but in fact denies us the satisfaction of the threshold moment. "The Dublin Portal... or the Dublin Intrusion?" -- Val Nolan

Val Nolan (@vallescurarule.bsky.social) muses on how the Dublin/New York "portal" was, and was not, like a fantasy portals, and what that meant for folks' interactions with it.

Read the essay now - and if you visited either side of the portal, I'd love to know!

www.speculativeinsight.com

Wiz Duos 2, featuring Bring Me Home by E.M. Faulds at Cymera Festival

In the wild! My novella on a shelf in the Cymera bookshop. 😊

Girl, if you don't buy our new deluxe hardcover edition of I Want That Twink Obliterated!, you're only getting half the story. 🍑

Featuring wraparound art, dust jacket, UV spot, spredges, and a brand-new story by @trip.bsky.social and @chrismccartney.bsky.social!

EXCLUSIVELY at bit.ly/43JGQEi

We. Love. To. See. It.

New podcast episode with lovely @megintransition.bsky.social. It was a delight to chat to Meg about living in a turret, food descriptions in books, feeling at home in cities that aren’t your home and jobbies. alibaker68.podbean.com/e/ep-44-hors...

I’m recording Fantasy Book Swap with @megintransition.bsky.social this evening. This book is my choice. Have you read Lari Don? She’s a Scottish author based in Edinburgh, but this book is set in Speyside.

Right then, we've got an actual shortlist instead of all my hypotheticals; at first glance I'm going to call this the state-of-the-nation shortlist.

The 2nd phase of the Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction will go live just after midnight 2 May running til June 7 2025, with all new lots from genre creators being added regularly and proceeds to new trans charities. If you would like to donate something to be auctioned, please get in touch.

One of the Clyde otters near Glasgow city centre.
#otter #glasgow #riverclyde

Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.

So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans

Whose Science Fiction: Recognition and its Absence in a Reading of Colourfields by Paul Kincaid A deeply thoughtful collection that muses on the nature of SF and its sub-categories, though not one without blind spots Cover art by Tom Jo...

Whose Science Fiction: Recognition and its Absence in a Reading of Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
A deeply thoughtful collection that muses on the nature of SF and its sub-categories
Hugo Finalist @chloroformtea.bsky.social has the meaty review : www.nerds-feather.com/2025/04/whos...

Possibly never really too late cos of the discord. Sometimes worth adding to the chat for that item and seeing if there is an engagement.

Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.

The auction also has goods and services, like a 6 hour sensitivity read from @helenargh.bsky.social, handknitted socks by
@julietk.bsky.social, a custom dragon painting by Kate Towner, bespoke scarves, poems, songs. I can't tag everyone, so please go check it out: www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans

Tricia Sullivan’s Occupy Me (2016) This review first appeared in Foundation 125 (2016): 112-115 [I’ve added additional links to this blog version] Tricia Sullivan, Occupy Me (Gollancz, 2016, 266pp, £16.99) Reviewed by Nick Hubble (B…

I'm sitting in 'Who Runs the World? Feminism in SFF' at #Eastercon. Long discussion of how women SFF writers disappear. I'm starting a daily thread of reviews of books from a few years ago which still deserve to be read and discussed. First up, Tricia Sullivan's Occupy Me (2016). (1/-)

One of my easiest noms to make. Very well deserved and massive congratulations!

An image of the verse-novel Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead, accompanied by the words "2025 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE - BEST POEM"

I am deeply honoured by Calypso's inclusion in the Hugo Award shortlist for Best Poem. My sincerest thank you to all who nominated.

seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

A birthday cake with six layers, from purple to a dark orange, and then a red 5 and five red candles on top, with fireworks overhead. The words “Octothorpe 131” are at the top.

Octothorpe 131 is here! We discuss @seattlein2025.org, Eastercon, the BSFA Awards (@bsfa.bsky.social), and then we talk about the fan funds and handwriting. Also, John actually had a pick in advance this episode. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/131-we-re-...