Dr Amy Borsuk

Starred Publishers Weekly review for The Ganymedan.

Huge congrats to @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social for his started review for The Ganymedan in Publishers Weekly!! @solarisbooks.bsky.social @bardythoughts.bsky.social

Against a blue and green space background, the book cover for THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

Sometimes, to destroy a tyrant, you have to burn your own life down too.

Out this fall, THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester/@shoutoutmapes.bsky.social, a dark, compelling SciFi debut examining agency and sacrifice through one man’s desperate attempt to reach home.

Preorder: geni.us/ganym

So glad we can shout about this now!!

Amanda is an amazing colleague and friend, please help if you can

Shit Amanda, I'm so sorry. Donating and boosting

Pip the cat marking his nose on Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender?

In other news I've started reading this and as usual Butler's materialist and psychoanalytic take is illuminating, but I do also want an essay comparing their analysis of gender being used as a 'phantasm' to the metaphor of the 'spectre haunting Europe'.

Me, looking at each thing individually: cool! Yes! Awesome! Let's do it!
Me, looking at my calendar: what have I done

Next time I decide to do a book review, study for the Life in the UK test, start a freelance side hustle to support my 28k salary and revise a book proposal all at the same time, someone slap me

Rhiannon I just want you to know this is my favourite book announcement video

At the end of the trailer for Twilight Breaking Dawn, as the subtitle "part 1" appeared a bro in front of me declared loudly, "Oh fuck there's another one"

Calls for Reviews & Essays: November 2025 The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…

If you're interested in reviewing for ARB, or just interested in seeing what books we have our eyes on: our calls for reviews for November is live! As always, we're open to other titles, and VERY interested in your ideas for essays & guides:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/31/c...

Explore THE CROWNS OF ISHIA by Karin Lowachee Read now:

A Covenant of Ice is out today in North Am! It wasn’t written by AI in any way. The cover art is human made. My publisher & editor are cool beans. @solarisbooks.bsky.social

If you want to support art being made by humans, for humans, give my anti-colonial, queer+ dragon book a go geni.us/ishia

A circular embroidery in a wooden hoop of the White Horse using various stitches including hundreds of French knots for the main grass, long and short for the folds of the hill below the horse, and turkey tail for a field and scattered trees.

Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...

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Thank you to @ianthegreen.bsky.social Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted author of EXTREMOPHILE, for this fabulous endorsement of @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social 's THE GANYMEDAN!

"Sci-fi as dark as the space between the stars"

Out Nov '25. Preorder geni.us/ganym
Netgalley geni.us/SolarisNG

Any big summer plans? Summer plans that you keep in a heavily guarded vault? Summer plans that our unlikely team of scrappy outsiders can steal in a thrilling heist?

❤️❤️❤️ Karin!! I'm so grateful to work with you!

A stack of books on their side, top to bottom: The Soccer Diaries book 3, The Unkillable Princess, The Desert Talon, A Covenant of Ice, The Needfire, The Door on the Sea. The world book day Soccer Diaries Rocky Takes the Lead leans against the stack.

Sometimes you need to stack up your editorial projects to remind yourself you're working hard. Proud of all these titles, and proud of the yet-to-be-printed Ragwort and The Ganymedan to round out the year!

Yesssss! @cxorlando.bsky.social nailed the exact same feeling I had reading the manuscript for the first time (and the third and fourth)!

My novel The Ganymedan is currently up for preorder at a 25 percent discount at Barnes & Noble. If you enjoy sentient spaceships, brain uploads, sentient space stations, virtual afterlife environments, space rebels, The Ganymedan has all that and more and will be hitting store shelves November 4th!

Did a chatgpt write this??

Against a watery undersea background, white text "One of Indigo's Most Anticipated Fantasy Books - preorder now for 25% off". Below, a gold arrow pointing to a 3D hardback of THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell. A red circle with white text "7th-13th July only". The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

We're so excited that Indigo Books have selected Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA as one of their "Most Anticipated Fantasy Books"!

To celebrate, from 7th-13th July you can preorder for 25% off exclusively through Indigo - what are you waiting for?! bit.ly/4euljo9

Calls for Reviews & Essays: October 2025 The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…

Calls for Reviews & Essays: October 2025

when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married

My MA dissertation nearly 10 years ago was PbR using a LLM to make recombinant Shakespeare texts; I concluded that it was most valuable as a cognitive, dramaturgical tool. The process of using it was a way to deconstruct methods, intentions and expected results. The outputs were almost incidental

My point here is that LLMs alone are not inherently bad, but their applications are so horribly misused that what they produce is just plain wrong.

This is how LLMs have always worked! Their gibberish is just good enough now to sometimes be passable to an undiscerning human. Using this technology to produce accurate data is like using a pie chart--a method that exists, but is a poor method and bad practice for conveying accurate data.

Why does it feel like the thing no one says about using generated AI is that it generates material that is random and inaccurate. Not "hallucinated". Not "mistakes". Data that is wrong.