Michael Klaas Book Talk

World Fantasy Awards Winners The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2024 were presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, held October 30 – November 2, 2025 in Brighton, UK. The Life Achievement …

World Fantasy Awards Winners

An assortment of books on a wooden shelf by Sarah Swanson. There are six copies of one that is green with orange letters reading: Cascade Range.

@powells.bsky.social is fully stocked with my books, including the out-of-print Must-see Birds of the PNW! I’m excited to be here for @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s book event.

In Defense of Dan Brown Brown's new book doesn't offer award-winning literary prose. But intellectual snobbery and review elitism is foolish in an era of growing cultural ignorance and counterproductive political sneering.

I wrote about Dan Brown’s new book, the perils of intellectual snobbery, and why I’m no longer hiding my copy of “The Secret of Secrets” in a paper bag.

It's official: My next book is about Battlestar Galactica! Long ago, the gods decided my fate, and I have embraced it: I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica! I made it official at the Creation convention that took place in New Jersey this past weeken...

it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...

Cover for the book SUNWARD by William Alexander: a sun in eclipse shines out in the darkness between the surfaces of a moon and a red planet

So, I want to say a couple things about this book SUNWARD, by @willalex.bsky.social, which comes out in a few days. (If you pre-order it right now, it will be waiting for you when it drops!)

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❝The Empire is huge. ...A massive colossus, …and yet it is prone to wounds, infections, fevers, and ill humors. But its strangest feature is that the more its citizens feel it is broken, the more broken it actually becomes.❞
- Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup (2024)

A book cover for A House Between Sea and Sky is central on a dark blue background. Arrows point from text blocks to the book, describing that it features the most anxious & lovable murder house you'll ever meet, that it's cozy fantasy with a literary feel, it is set in 1926 Carmel-by-the-Sea in California, and that it's a found family tale about a grieving woman, a secret-riven Hollywood star, & an abandoned witch's hut. Also, the novel includes book club discussion questions.

My new book, A House Between Sea and Sky, is an Amazon First Reads pick for September! If you're a Prime member, you can acquire it for free; other people can get it for $1.99!

So, what's it about? Well...

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I’ve been asked many times if I would ever write a follow up to my novella, “Buffalo Soldier.” Well, I finally did. It’s called “Soul Rebel” and it is coming out in the next issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION (edited by the legendary Sheree Renee Thomas)!

ANNA THE AUTHOR WITH THE BOOKS SHE WROTE AND SOME COLORFUL FLOWERS

It's official. The books that I wrote arrived. I am an author y'all. I AM AN AUTHOR. A childhood dream I never thought could happen is happening!!!!!! 🥹

In 15 days, #TheDoubleTax is coming to a doorstep, bookstore, and library near you. Please pre-order by 9/16: annagifty.com!

#booksky #blacksky

Someone You Can Build a Nest In (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive **Nebula Award Winner***Featuring all-new exclusive material for the trade paperback: an author's note, reading group guide, and teaser for Wearing the Lion!*“This unusual queer romance is a...

It's my birthday next week! So Barnes & Noble put the special purple edition of Someone You Can Build A Nest In up for 25% off: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/someone-yo...

Cover of Between Two Rivers, Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History, by Moudhy Al-Rashid

Started reading @moudhy.bsky.social’s book Between Two Rivers and the premise and arrangement of the book - which I will not spoil here as that is a wonderful surprise in and of itself - is absolutely wonderful.

WATCH: President Obama added Chris Hayes' book, "The Sirens' Call" to his 2025 Summer reading list.

For the curious, he means Twilight of the Elites.

If you missed the live recording of the Murderbot interview episode at WorldCon, you can watch it here:

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One of those rare cases where I like the book and film equally. They're both different takes on the same story and scratch a different itch for me thematically.
In fact... Contact may be due for a re-read. 🤔

❝I had discovered in the past couple of years that the more dire your own personal crisis, the less impressive the bureaucratic office that fixes it will be.❞
- Jo Piazza, The Sicilian Inheritance (2024)

#BookSky Hit me with a great quote from a book or other piece of writing you read this week!
Clever, funny, thoughtful... Whatever strikes your fancy.

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

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'Here Comes The Sun' with Bill McKibben Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 08/26/2025 · 54m

Arguably the biggest story happening in the world right now and also the most hopeful. #WITHPod

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Eighty years after Hiroshima, a new book narrates the history of the atomic bomb : NPR's Book of the Day It’s been 80 years since the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths. Garrett Graff’s new book The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is an or...

Thrilled to see my book DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY as NPR's "Book of the Day" today: www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...