Morgan L Ventura

Scion by Thomas Ha Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Hey there. Latest story, now out, "Scion." Strangeness. Estrangement. And the history that gets lost in between. A son and father in a moving house. Deranged relatives at cross-purposes. A community fleeing a murderous intruder. A crumbling lunar colony in revolt. Hope folks enjoy. Twisty one.

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

Nominations have opened for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize!

Anyone can nominate book-length speculative fiction that embodies "hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world."

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Congratulations, Eva!! This is wonderful

Nightmare Magazine Horror & Dark Fantasy Fiction

Today, my poem in the March issue of @nightmare-magazine.com is out, “Zooming Past Shotgun Houses,” on preview, and I need to acknowledge how meaningful this is because I did not think I would be here to see it, and I have. The entire issue is wonderful: www.nightmare-magazine.com 🖤🖤🖤

Glasgow & Edinburgh! I am coming to language with ya.

Weds 4 March, Mount Florida Books, Glasgow, 7 pm, w Adam Benmakhlouf

Thurs 5 March, @argonautbooks.bsky.social, Edinburgh, 7 pm, w @erisyoung.bsky.social

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I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

My cat just ate an entire stick of butter we’d accidentally left unattended on the kitchen table

Botanical garden

A fountain of succulents. 🌵
I want to live here!

I really love being here on this earth. It’s so beautiful and humans are capable of such astonishing things & every culture is fascinating to me & the splendor of our natural world & the diversity of species is like an actual miracle. We must escape the Capitalocene and build something better.

Yes 🩷 I was just thinking too of how one of the craziest things about capitalism is that it convinced us to be loyal to the tools of our own oppression. We can do it, though - we *can* build something better!

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons

"As a writer of literary fiction who has borrowed and rejoiced in fantasy tropes for years, and has now himself written an out-and-out fantasy, I’m beyond embarrassment."

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"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

I’m so sorry, Wendy.

Yesss - so many congratulations Thomas!!

Short break from insanity to share that UNCERTAIN SONS is a BSFA finalist. A testament to @undertow.bsky.social's thoughtful work more than anything else that the book has gone anywhere. Thanks to them and to folks who support indies like UP. Means a lot. Congrats to all the finalists.

Statement by President Connolly following strikes on Iran

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Red and yellow orchid

a good sci-fi orchid

I was just reminded this morning that my poem, “age of villains,” is eligible for the Nebula Award this year! If you’re a member of SFWA please consider nominating it. TODAY is the last day to nominate. Thank you for your consideration!

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I wonder how Hegel in Spanish compares to Hegel in English haha god some of my worst nightmares are talking about the dialectic at UChicago

Background of a blue-filtered street at night. Written on it: Laura Blackwell / 2025 Roundup & Awards Eligibility - "Breathing Night" at Simultaneous Times podcast, narr. Jean-Paul Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 10/15/2025) Fantasy, 1100 words. - The Deadlands, ed. E. Catherine Tobler (Psychopomp). Speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction. Semipro, quarterly. - Story Hour, cohosted with Daniel Marcus. Speculative short stories read by their authors. Fancast, weekly. @pronouncedlahra

I didn't write a whole lot last year, but I did work on some awesome projects! Behold!

Yeah this thread. I'm not dunking on this piece either. I think it's very smart and puts forth a great theory and it rings true in a lot of places for me. That said, as a person who crosses genre boundaries, I don't think it's as neat as when lit wants to challenge power it uses SFF. I think-

Morgan L. Ventura, Four anecdotes from the life of Alexander von Humboldt — Propel Magazine

If you're nominating for the Hugo or Nebula Awards, I'd be honoured to have my poem about gods, Fate, & the violence of colonial science considered. Thank you

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Do you have PayPal by chance @evavroslin.bsky.social ? To make a long story short, my identity was stolen last month & I haven’t gotten my replacement card. But I’d like to send something along. Cuídate mucho 💜

Submitted my Nebula nominations!

SFWA members, don't forget to go vote for what you loved, the deadline is March 1, 2026, at 11:59PM PT (aka SOON).

Also: If you SAVED a ballot, don't forget to go back and SUBMIT it before the deadline!

Botanical garden

A fountain of succulents. 🌵
I want to live here!

Me writing normally: ah yes I love the words they flow freely this is the spirit that moves me

Me writing a cover letter for a job I need: I have done words and also the editing and also I know communication and also

Red and yellow orchid

a good sci-fi orchid

Some Queer Short SFF - January 2026 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

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I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @coreyjwhite.com @thedescenters.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @victormanibo.com @seraph76.bsky.social @remedy.bsky.social & MANY MORE!!!
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This is a great article that really speaks to me as a writer of both fantasy and historical novels.

I think historians & SFF writers share something else, which is that they work in worlds that hinge on realities, but because they no longer exist/never existed, can be visited only in imagination.

Yeah I’ve been following this! I’ve an essay I’m about to shop around that looks back to an old Dr Who serial which seems to have nicely anticipated solar geo-engineering to look at the past’s satirical, dystopian premises have become actual plans for tech