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Agreed. Also the score is fabulous; shout-out to Sarah Schachner.

Case File 2500198 Eve asked if I thought it was really the crown like everyone’s been saying—the fabled crown of Dolerissand, lost a thousand years ago. I told her they were just rumors...

Our November story is out by S.B. MacCreery - her debut short! It's an experimental format that hints at a world with secrets and histories. Check it out here: www.frivolouscomma.com/case-file-25...

#scifi #sff #scififantasy #fantasy #scifiwriters #sciencefiction #shortfiction

Same here: re genre and publishing in general. Something around villains having a backstory, great for empathy, but still gotta call out the bad decisions and choices, often (exclusively?) for selfish reasons. We teach our kids this in black and white terms, but nuance /= excuse.

We Will Rise Again From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...

I highly recommend We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, edited by Malka Older, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord. I wouldn't say it's "utopian" but def. about many ways to fight for, and build, a better future

www.simonandschuster.ca/books/We-Wil...

I've been increasingly bothered by absence of will to call out bad things as bad. And harmful people as harmful.

Take a look at a new personal essay by @yikesyaika.bsky.social on her relationship with haunted house/possession films. Out today:
www.frivolouscomma.com/a-body-haunted/

#personalessay #hauntedhouse #chronicillness #illness

Not Now, But Soon — a new miniseries from @IssuesInST.bsky.social — will challenge the stories we often tell about #disasters and explore how we can use #SpeculativeFiction to create better futures and policies.

Learn more and tune in for the September 16 premiere: buff.ly/SDqyE38

The Trans-Temporal line isn't your average train station. Here, trains don't bridge cities or states, but timelines. That makes things complicated for Detective Valentini when she is assigned to investigate an unusual death at the station. Read what happens on August 31st @rachaelkjones.bsky.social

I'm sincerely enjoying this southern folklore travel guide series thanks to Laura Holt.

It's been a while but we're back to sharing stories from fellow magazines that you might have missed, including a bittersweet last story from Metaphorosis: www.frivolouscomma.com/stories-you-...
@dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social @fabulistmag.bsky.social @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social‬

In this story, Sayan asks us to wonder what we'd give up to keep someone else safe and healthy...Read the next installment in our speculative mystery series, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙢 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 by @rmsayan.bsky.social, now: www.frivolouscomma.com/the-arm-coll...

#speculativefiction #speculativefictionwriter #litmag

...perception may in fact be more important than reality in shaping identity, particularly if one is trying to become a god. Read Alia Luria's timely article here: www.frivolouscomma.com/how-to-becom...

@alialuria.bsky.social

#speculativefiction #scifi #scififantasy #litjournal

The full latine round table discussion is now live! Find it wherever you get your podcasts or watch it here: youtu.be/6u4aoWN9gmI?... @yikesyaika.bsky.social @apthayer.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @cornellwriter.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social
#litjournal #scifi #sff #scififantasy #fantasy

These conversations and "excavations" of who and why we are, are so good and so generative. Thank you to all the writers and thinkers on this panel!

Stay tuned for more clips and the full round table discussion! @pedroiniguez.bsky.social

Let our second story in our 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 & 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨: 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙈𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 collection take you on a ride. Read it February 27th. 🚀
#mystery #speculativefiction #speculativefictionwriter #scifi #scififantasy #litjournal #submissions #writingcommunity #litmag #literarymagazine #publishing

The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses|Hardcover A brand-new entry in the Hugo, Nebula, and Ignyte Award-nominated sapphic, cozy space-opera mystery series The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, which Charlie Jane Anders calls "an utter triumph."Wh...

oh hey look it's pre-order discount time again at @barnesandnoble.com www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-potenc...

We've gathered up our fellow magazines latest releases and put them all in one convenient place.
www.frivolouscomma.com/stories-you-...
@bcsmagazine.bsky.social @metaphorosis.bsky.social @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social
@fabulistmag.bsky.social @curiousgallery.bsky.social @curiousgallery.bsky.social

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.

On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.