SFFH Books!

The Other Shore, by Rebecca Campbell from Stelliform Press. A matte black book cover with a skeletal rabbit diving into skeletal grass and mushrooms.

Stunning book mail today. So delighted to see a Shimmer story collected in here. 🖤 @stelliform.press @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social

Slow Gods by Claire North.

I have finished this. A man touched by the dark of arcspace is witness to a double supernova & its lightspeed wave of destruction. Worlds die, populations are evacuated or oppressed, interventions are contemplated. The SLOW have...other plans. Lots to like. 👍🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #spaceopera #nowreading

Sketches of nine corsairs of Umbars wearing various helmets inspired by marine animals, such as seashells and fish. There is also a sword with decorative hilt shaped like the open mouth of a fish.

A drawing of Tolkien's Numenorean helmet. It has an extended metal visor in the front shaped like a tongue and curved shape on top and a curled shape behind, similar to shrimp. The helmet has scaled design in colors like orange, white, moss green, and dark blue. There are ridges on top.

A painting of Ulmo, Lord of Waters, by Roger Garland. It depicts a sea deity in the form of a giant man with long, white beard formed by sea foam. His body is green and scaled, and his crown is made of the formation of seashells. He emerges from the waves. There is a small image of a man with armor standing on the beach facing him.

I like Jan Pospíšil's unique interpretation of the Corsairs of Umbar's helmets. Visual-wise, I think they are closer to Tolkien's drawing of Númenórean helmet (setting aside the practicality and personal taste). I also saw the crown of Roger Garland's Ulmo in them.

#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

The Fiction Giveaway Extravaganza! (September) Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.

Free SFFH stories for September!

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20 spectacular space operas including Hugo Award winning stories by Michael Swanwick and Peter Watts.
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Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

The Graceview Patient, Caitlin Starling; Punctilious Punctuation, Ian Randal Strock; Artificial Wisdom, Thomas R. Weaver; The Ballad of Jayce, Lluew Grey; Thesaurum Intra, Grizzly Bear Otterman; Song of Spores, Bogi Takacs; Trail of Shadows, Mike Allen; Memory and Magic, D.M. Beuchler; Journey, Phillips/Yanovsky; Portraits of Decay, J.R. Blanes; Starstruck, Aimee Ogden; Summer in the House of the Departed, Josh Rountree; The Ink Witch, Steph Cherrywell; What Happens in Hello Jack/ Wreckage, Peter Straub; Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance, Jane Harrington; The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin

We've made it to another Friday, and here is a new set of books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. What here is piquing your interest?

Strange Horizons, Diabolical Plots and Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Reviews by Charles Payseur Strange Horizons 5/5/25, 5/12/25 Diabolical Plots 5/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/29/25, 6/12/25 The May 5 Strange Horizons opens strongly with Adam Ford’s “The Strangers Came”, a narra­tive poem ab…

“Five Things You Can See” by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social from @strangehorizons.bsky.social, “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by @effies.bsky.social from @diabolicalplots.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social -

Chalk drawing

Big fan of this chalk drawing I saw today on my run

A procession of strange creatures marches against a colorful background along with the 3LBE icon and details from cover graphics.

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“Nothing is yet in its true form.”

- C.S. Lewis

Cherry-Scented Ghosts What does it mean for a lawn – or a landscape – to be haunted? Novelist Wendy Wagner explains.

This week, on HEAT DEATH! @wnwagner.bsky.social traces the ghosts that lurk all around us -- plastic lawns, vanished cherry trees, and transformed creeks. It's a lovely, moody piece and I'm super proud to run it.

Book cover for THE HUNT OF A THOUSAND LEAGUES, showing many and varied killers drawn looming over Orhan the Snow Leopard like mountains.

⚔️ NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS: FINAL REVEAL🏔
@draq.bsky.social brings us this new adventure of The Snow Leopard, with a cover by @vor-bokor.bsky.social, and interior illustration by @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social!

Learn more & sign up for the crowdfund here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Promotional graphic showing the silhouette of a dragon's head and neck along with 22 tiny book covers. Text reads, itch.io. Epic fantasy bundle. 22 books for $20. September 4th - 8th.

If you're into epic fantasy, there's a fantastic bundle on itch.io of 22 books for just $20, including my first two Mennik Thorn novels. This is an enormous saving!

Particularly check out books by Bjørn Larssen and Ashley Capes.

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Fascinating (and spot on) little essay on Service Model and how it relates to the real world.

Find out what happens when time simply...stops in TEMPORALLY DEACTIVATED, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social!

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Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

#booksky #fantasy #urbanfantasy #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover art for a new book called "SUPLEX & SORCERY" by June Orchid Parker, "A New Edge Sword & Sorcery Novella". A buff, red-haired barbarian wrestler woman is perched on the shoulders of a goopy, green skeleton and clearly about to finish pounding his skull in. He does not look happy, nor does the sorcerer in the background who is clearly controlling him. The crowd watches on...

⚔️ NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS: REVEAL #3🤼
Oh yes! We're bringing you a fun blend of barbarism and bodyslams by @breadsonja.bsky.social, featuring cover art by John Golden and interior art by @samjroyale.bsky.social!

Learn more & sign up for the crowdfund here www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Just write sci fi man

Talent isn't rare. Throw an apple & you hit someone with talent. Perseverance? rare. Work ethic? exceedingly rare; the willingness to grind. Being able to endure the scorn, rejection & privation a life in the arts dooms you to in the United States is unicorn-scarce. But talent? Talent is everywhere.

Birds are dinosaurs

"A kind of SF detective story, starring the curious combination of three scientists, a cop, and a pair of friendly killer whales." I wrote about Cachlot (1980), one of my favourite Alan Dean Foster novels so far, in 2022.

This bundle sounds amazing! 📚✨ I love discovering new reads, especially at such a great price! Happy reading, everyone! 🌟 #SFF #BookLovers #ReadingJoy

Murder at Spindle Manor by Morgan Stang

And here's the latest SPFBO review!

A very well-written story with plenty of atmosphere, and the relationships – both new and old – being particularly well done.

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💙📚🪐 #FantasyFaction #SFFbookRecommenfation #SPFBO #SPFBOx

The Gods We Make Who is the real enemy when your technology is smarter than you? In 2044, the United States and China struggle for global supremacy when an alien artifact is seen orbiting Jupiter, a discovery that may...

Join the adventure!

"The Gods We Make" is an action-packed sci-fi story that explores how AI may change humanity.

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Latest chapter up now. New chapter every 2 days.

#ai #scifi #BookSky

Photo of American author Peter V. Brett taken at Phoenix Fan Fusion 2022. Born New Rochelle NY 1973. Creator of the Demon Cycle.

Book cover. The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Demon Cycle #1 / 2008) Also titled The Painted Man. Cover shows a man with facial tattoos, wearing a cloak, wandering in the desert.

💙📚40 Fantasy Novels
No particular order (40 authors, 40 books)
Day 11 / 40
#Booksky 🪐📚👀
#bookchallenge
#Fantasy
#PeterVBrett

Me to kid: Let’s go to the bog tomorrow! Rare birds have been sighted there!

Kid to partner: Wanna go to the bog?

Partner: That’s ok. But say hi to Shrek for me.

Kid: Shrek lived in a swamp, not a bog. They’re completely different biomes.

Me: *dies*

New Edge Sword & Sorcery is taking submissions in the month of August.

This is a great opportunity for S&S writers!
⚔️🪄

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Reading about Tolkien's literary reception is quite funny.

"juvenile trash"

"Oh God, no more elves."

"All the characters are boys masquerading as adult heroes ... and will never come to puberty"

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3LBE Magazine - The Barrens by Octavia Cade The first body found belonged to a stranger. That made it easier to forget, after the first fascinating horror, even if the circumstances were gruesome.

I have a new story out! The Barrens, which is body horror and swarming sea urchins, is in the new issue of @3lobedmag.com! It's wonderful to be in Three-Lobed Burning Eye again, especially alongside @acwise.bsky.social, @ecatherine.com, and @mariness.bsky.social.

www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe....