Catherine Nygren

Like somebody else posted, a fish turner is the way to go! I recently got the OXO one and it's been great so far!

I think regularly about Bjartur being so cold that he wakes up to turn a boulder around to warm up - and how he is so matter-of-fact about it.

Oh yes! I've heard so many takes on Death, I'm very curious. Adding Roth to my to-read list now! 👀

I'm taking this seriously and will ask: what sf book (or other) coming out this year are you most excited to read? Ann Leckie's Radiant Star is probably at the top of my list!

Yes! This has been one of my favourite winter albums. I'm really appreciating this musical advent calendar, btw! Thank you!

Thinking about an Indigenous colleague's observation that starting a resolution in the depths of winter is counterintuitive. Wait until nature wakes up, friends; it's okay to rest and reflect while the nights are still long.

I hadn't thought of that! I wonder, too, if part of it is because the empire and other systems are in the midst of falling (iirc) - it's less claustrophobic for me. I just recommended it to a couple students - I'll see what they report back, ha!

One of the three golden sapphics that came out around that time! I remember the cover so distinctly! If you enjoy it, it reminded me of Dickinson's Baru Cormorant books (though, uh, Baru is also pretty brutal with the intersecting systemic oppression)

Bienvenue à Montréal

Diagram illustrating the BookReconciler workflow. On the left, a book cover of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong appears alongside “Minimal Metadata,” listing Author: Truong, Monique and Title: The Book of Salt. An arrow points to a box labeled “BookReconciler” with book and diamond icons. A downward arrow leads to “Enriched + Clustered Metadata,” showing multiple editions of the book cover and expanded metadata, including several ISBNs, subject headings (e.g., Vietnamese–France fiction, women authors, household employees, gay men, cooking), and an author VIAF identifier.

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Beware: your to-read list shall grow, quite a lot!

A table that shows the top 10 most popular authors at the Seattle Public LIbrary. Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, Louise Erdich, N.K. Jemisin, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, Philip K. Dick, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin

Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.

I told my SFF students that I'd give them "a few" recs for holiday reading.

Reader, I gave 17. 😂

Glad to see @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social on this list - it's doing some of the best fantasy storytelling of the past few years, imo. "54 episodes of pure gold," indeed. Excited for their upcoming turn to SF!

It started on the weekend. Ice pancakes form and travel down river toward my bridge 🌿

You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.

I've requested that my library purchase it, and I might get it for myself too...congrats on it! I'm excited to read it, especially as I use the SFF book club that I run as an excuse to discuss texts for my SFF courses!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Some more details on my new #ScienceFiction anthology, including one inclusion that I’m especially happy about (thanks in large part to Brooks Hefner’s terrific work in *Black Pulp*)

With a title quoting Emily Dickinson, a lot of poetry is what I want! 🔥 I hope you like it - I just finished it yesterday, and I think that it is in my top books of the year so far!

If you're interested in poetry and AI, can I recommend Toward Eternity by Anton Hur? There's an AI, and later, multiple AIs, who are, as they say, "built on poetry," who think that "Poetry, not your body, is the true vehicle of your soul."

It also has a chapter which excerpts, at length, a lecture on Milton...anyway, I'm really enjoying this book!

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This sounds SO COOL

Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025.

If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/

Congratulations!!!!!

Ooooh yes, a good one to read as the nights get long!

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover

Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.