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2026 WSFA Small Press Award Opens The Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is now accepting nominations of works “published for the first time in the English language” in 2025 for its Small Press Award, given a…

Psst! The WSFA Small Press Awards are now open for submission of works originally published in 2025.

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The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

well, you had me at fried bologna (working class Philly kid here) but the rest terrifying & sad/beautiful 🥹

Thanks so much for reading and commenting. Appreciate it, to be sure.

FBI document detailing tip about possible murder and sex parties at Trump golf coourse.

Yeah, idk, might seem like something to follow up on.

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Tomorrow is the final chance to vote on the Preliminary Stoker Ballot. Please consider @thomasha.bsky.social's "Uncertain Sons" in the Long Fiction category, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece's "St. Dymphna's School for Borderland Girls" in Short Fiction.

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Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

It's that time! Vote in the annual Locus Awards Poll & Survey to determine the winners of the 2026 awards (tickets available now)!

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We have Best of American SFF, Best of Canadian SFF, Best of British SFF. I wish so badly that editors take up the task of editing an yearly Best of Latin American SFF as well. It would be great!

In case you missed it yesterday, I'm giving away a copy of Ballad of the Bone Road. I'll pick the winner in a few hours. There's still time to enter!

I don’t usually campaign for awards, but this year I’ve decided to go for broke for a Fan Writer Hugo Award. Yay me!
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Image of a tarp, nailed down to a bare roof with wood strapping, with feet of snow piled up. A small path has been partly shoveled out through the deep snow along the peak. A pair of work gloves are lying at one edge.

Thank you so much!

The big storm in Oct 2025 ruined our roof, we've been using a tarp since. Everyone we've asked for help, like Habitat for Humanity, has refused.

We're poor & disabled, so far behind on bills. Anything helps!

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The Deadlands - Issue 40 | Psychopomp Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Malena Salazar Maciá, Belle Biscotti, Testimony Odey, Shana Ross, Erin Ulm, Matthew Wollin, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, R.B. Lemberg, Kat Sed...

we've got some shout-outs in the latest @locusmag.bsky.social for issue #40! 🎉 locusmag.com/review/the-d...

read Malena Salazar Maciá's The Last Minute Before the Rooster Crows

@esedia.bsky.social's Punks Don’t Die

and ALL of issue 40 here:

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Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

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Book Review: The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Volume One by Michael Kelly, ed. - Lightspeed Magazine If you're looking for a gorgeously curated selection of stories, Arley Sorg suggests you check out The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Volume One edited by Michael Kelly.

Well, I'm just blown away by this review of Best Weird Fiction of the Year by the inimitable @arleysorg.bsky.social over @lightspeedmagazine.com

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Find you next favorite horror read! The Monster in the Closet – Bill Gauthier Heart Eater of Norhaven – Tyler Come The Red Winter – Cameron Sullivan Trust No One – James Rollins Isolation – Devon C Ford Away to Me – Patricia B McConnell Weird Horror – Undertow Publications Dollface – Lindy Ryan Weavingshaw – Heba Al-Walsity What the Bones Know – Kirstyn McDermott The Gods Must Burn – TR Moore Foxhunt – Caitlin Breeze Queen – Birgitta Trotzig It Sleeps Below – William F Gray Wretch – Jeremey Wagner Promises: She Who Carries the Echo -Tamika L. Smith Bloody Vengeance – P H Nix Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune 3 – Tismon Feral Bloom - H.M. Read & C.J. Holden Sinner’s Pass – SS Fitzgerald Quaint Folk – Bitter Karella anOther Nemesis - Angela Yuriko Smith & Maxwell I. Gold & Ai Jiang & Eugen Bacon Look What the Cat Dragged in – Jason Rekulak The House Built on Alligator Bones – Sophia Huneycutt

Find you next favorite horror read!

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Reading for the Hugos, Nebulas, or Locus Awards? Please consider @thomasha.bsky.social's novelette "Uncertain Sons" in your long fiction categories. Free to read here:

undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

I've got my pre-order in, have you got yours?

Cheers, Chris!

I remember the whole reason the US government insisted on banning, and then taking over, tiktok was because it collected so much data that could end up in the hands of the Chinese Government. And how scared we should be of that possibility.

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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Andy, thanks very kindly for reading. Glad you enjoyed it.

Looking for a computer job. I have programming experience in BASIC, Turbo Pascal, LOGO (of course) and some C++. VERY familiar with the Windows 95 operating system, global communications networks like Fidonet, and troubleshooting 2400bps modems. E-mail me at the BBS with offers.

If you're looking for something weird and dark to read I have a story up at The Dark about growing up poor in Toronto, (write what you know); loneliness; effigies; and the dark dreams of languid summers.

www.thedarkmagazine.com/hunger-2/

And cigarette butts.

Little Ghosts Books Workshop Space Little Ghosts Books horror bookstore & community hub is looking to expand its space by renovating our back garage into a studio to host our workshops, book clubs, and author events.

Can we help our pals @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social expand their programming and build a fabulous workshop?

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Good news!