Cloud Nixie

Great choice to make it a period piece with a retro future aesthetic. That will distinguish it from the others.

Cover for Issue 62 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Maxine Vee titled "Mermay - Golden Hour." In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The words "January/February 2025" and "Issue Sixty-Two" are at top. The list of credits is on the bottom

Space Unicorns! There are many ways to support Uncanny Magazine! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Pledges to Kickstarter! SPREADING THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!!! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/support-uncanny/

My worlds are African worlds. I'd love to take credit for the culture that is in my worlds' DNA, but I can't. Those cultures existed long before me;I didn't have to imagine them. And my stories certainly don't exist because white male (or female ... let's not forget that white female perspectives also dominate female perspectives in science fiction and fantasy) perspectives refused to imagine them first. My stories aren't a " to whiteness. They exist wholly outside of white-male-anything. These stories that come from my own culture, experiences, from within me, from reflections of specific African cultures. By existing, I'd hope they help bring cultural, ethnic and gender balance to science fiction and fantasy, but that is not my work's reason to exist.

This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in science fiction.

I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

Phoenix Theater | Arts' Nest

#Booksky #Minneapolis For local folks and beyond (there’s streaming tix too) Phoenix Theater in Uptown is currently hosting an adaptation of Patricia Wrede’s “Dealing with Dragons” with dragon puppets and a delightful story.
www.phoenixtheatermpls.org

Non-Corporate Conventions Join the conversation

With the new year, we'd like to share our Starter Pack for Non-Corporate Conventions: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Whether you're a vendor, panelist, guest, or just looking for more fun conventions around the world to attend that are community-minded and focused on fandom, this list is for you!

okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!

I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.

(details below)

I took this twice and got THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell and DEATH OF THE AUTHOR by Nnedi Okorafor.

This is the most fun, most ACCURATE “you should read this next” quiz I’ve ever taken! Also, the quiz itself is a fantastically mystical piece of interactive writing.

I have gifted this beautiful book so many times to writer friends and now is a good time to gift it to yourself too

And any Pennsylvania resident can get a library card from the Free Library of Philadelphia!

catalog.freelibrary.org/MyResearch/r...

Publishers Marketplace deal report for my novel, BEINGS, being published by Bloomsbury. It reads: Author of ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS Ilana Masad's BEINGS, braiding together an account of the first American alien abductees, who claimed to have encountered ETs in the New Hampshire mountains in 1961, with the letters of a forgotten lesbian science-fiction writer and the frantic observations of a modern-day archivist obsessed with both these stories, to Mo Crist at Bloomsbury, for publication in fall 2025, by Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor (NA).

I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives.

Eee!

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 56, “Resurrecting Venus" by Galen Dara: In the background, two planets overlap. A large red one is eclipsed by a blue one, the surface is decorated with waves. At the forefront, a woman's face is split in three pieces that are slowly coming together. Spread throughout the motif of sea waves are present in shades of light blue, dark blue, and purple. The outline of koi are spread throughout too, accompanying the woman. The quote reads: "The women of Dejima Island could never pinpoint when their dreams began to change, but they knew it had something to do with the tradesmen’s tales."

Reading for the Hugo and Nebula Awards?

Try the short story "The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei" by Cheri Kamei!

You can read it here!

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-feast-of-baku-the-yume-no-seirei/

Anti-A.I. stamps!

For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!

You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

Maybe you're forgetful, like I am. You can turn on reminders!

Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text.

Done! Easy accessibility.

Collaboration tea blend for Deathless with @catvalente.bsky.social now live at www.oldgrowthalchemy.com/collections/...

I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)

When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was:

1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display

A student in a school uniform is standing on the roof of a European building with arms outstretched toward a small white gryphon. More gryphons scatter throughout the background - all a combination between white cats and doves.

Befriending the local gryphons

Hi Christina! My adult horror Phantom of the Opera x Chinese mythology set in a Beijing opera house novella, DEMON SONG, comes out Sept 2025 from @titanbooks.bsky.social!! 🎭🩸🖤

www.kelseayu.com/demon-song

A round sticker design with a broken tire swing (open and shredded at the bottom) with LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS written on the tire. In the middle of the tire it says "I can read the ransom notes left by my own heart". At the bottom there is a flower and it says 2025 Tor Books.

If you see me out and about, you can totally get one of these stickers for my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster.

It's about a young witch who teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. It's full of queer joy, tenderness, grief, trauma and forgiveness.

Pre-order link: tiny.cc/qzlnzz

Oh, hey! If you love fantasy that feels like it was written in heart's blood and gall on the palimpsest of a lost liturgy, this one by @nghivo.bsky.social may be for you!

@catvalente.bsky.social A line from The Past is Red has always stuck with me. To paraphrase: This person was so important in my life and it’s been years and here they are again and no one, not ever, has ever figured out how to process that.

Reposting this with some of the concept sketches I did when writing the early drafts of this peice~

Check out my story inspired by the legend of Kiyohime (and my obsession with cursed jars). I wanted to write a story from the perspective of a demon and explore what love means to those who are told they don’t deserve it.

I really love the way this story came out. :)

My only "traditional" vampire story, set at a time when NOSFERATU was still new - and "mysterious pictures" were just getting their footing as the horror genre we love.

(And Black moviegoers packed theaters to see "race pictures" without stereotypes.)

I know many of you have read The Reformatory and know how amazing @tananarivedue.bsky.social is, but if you haven't read her short stories yet, you should. They are fantastic.

Happy Birthday, Fey! 💙