Cover art by John Jennings shows a man with dreadlocks holding a sword that he just unsheathed from a walking cane. There is a city skyline in the background. The color palette is orange, yellow, and green.
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Nnedi Okorafor: The Apology Tour
THE MAGAZINE OF
Fantasy & Science Fiction
VOLUME 1
Soul Rebel
Maurice Broaddus
Justin C. Key
Matthew Kressel
& Mercurio D. Rivera
John Shirley
Inda Lauryn
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction just published their first issue in over a year. Sheree RenΓ©e Thomas continues at the helm, so we are in for some good stories.
Follow along as I post short reviews of my favorites.
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #FandSF
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Daily thought about writing novels
Iβm glad I figured out that I actually make the book great when I revise it. My 1st draft is ideally a joyful race to the end, and to do that, I have to trust myself. But great ideas happen after that too! And they canβt happen until after the 1st draft is done.
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Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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Girl the bots on this site are something ELSE π€£ dead internet abounds!
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A gorgeous, poetic, surreal love story.
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Electronic Brain #1
Check out Electronic Brain #1 - <p><strong>Space Cowboy Books Presents: Electronic Brain</strong></p><p>A new kind of magazine for an idiosyncratic kind of human. Electronic Brain features: stories, p...
Space Cowboy has launched Electronic Brain
The 1st issue features works by @genni.bsky.social, Michael Butterworth, @taracampbell.bsky.social, Alice W Fuller, Rocco Harris, Charles Platt, @dracopoullos.bsky.social, Gregory Feeley, @jamesmachell.bsky.social & John Clute
bookshop.org/a/197/978196...
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Thank *you* for your art!
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βThe Death of Mountainsβ is astonishing work, even from an author as talented as Jordan. Give this one a read for your awards recs! ππΌ
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just use the fucking library.
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"She Builds Quick Machines" by Lyndsie Manusos
This week's guest is Lyndsie Manusos! First up is "She Builds Quick Machines."
You can read it in Apex's ROBOTIC AMBITIONS anthology or you can listen at LeVar Burton Reads!
@lmanusos.bsky.social
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Thank you so much! π₯Ή
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Thank you! ππΌ
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Ahhh thank you!!!ππΌβ€οΈβ¨
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Youβre the best!! β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
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Go read this ASAP! Itβs so so so beautiful and heartfelt and ambitious π« Itβs one of those stories youβll keep thinking about for days after finishing!
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Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted
βThis,β her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, βis how your ship will travel.β With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...
Story day!! Iβm so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with βLove Story in Colored Glass:β an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
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Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted
βThis,β her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, βis how your ship will travel.β With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...
New SFF story by @dracopoullos.bsky.social !!
βThis,β her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, βis how your ship will travel.β With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but..."
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
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Highly recommend getting tickets for this free event, not just because it features Utopia interviewee Ken Liu and contributor Jean-Paul L. Garnier @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social. It also features a range of other experts, providing deep insight into the world of speculative fiction! #sciencefiction
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The Eaton Symposium returns!
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree RenΓ©e Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy stylized as cover text.
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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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.
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Story sale! Iβm delighted that my interdimensional romance, βLove Story in Colored Glass,β will be published in @unchartedmag.bsky.social!!
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oh look the best graduate conference is back π
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CYPRIOT QUEER YA?! Agents, get on this!!
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Finally got my website in order!
Links to my work, bios, photos, and other good stuff can be found at www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com π€
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Thank you!! :)
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Story acceptance! Iβm delighted to say that my short story, βDispersal,β will appear in @hexliterary.bsky.social next year! Itβs about the end of a relationshipβ¦ and the start of something stranger.
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avid reader and reviewer | library worker | lover of queer fiction, fantasy, Sci-Fi, and historical fiction | autistic
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Purveyors of the rare and strange. Independent publishing in Philadelphia. Genre boundaries are so 20th century.
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The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
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August 27-31, 2026
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Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldnβt.
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https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
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all pronouns . assistant to Cameron McClure . literary agent at Donald Maass Literary Agency . closed to unsolicited queries, but check back https://maassagency.com/dylan-haston/ https://QueryTracker.net/query/3919
Baltimore-based queer SFF writer of both original work and fanfic, sewist, bard/barbarian multiclass & parent
Repped by Dylan Haston / @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at DMLA.
@ AO3 13th_blackbird | fayegabriel.com
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your friendly neighborhood offal pile. works in Strange Horizons, ergot, The Dark, khΕrΓ©Ε, & more π¦·π« "Gore Poetics" (collection, Cursed Morsels Press) is out Autumn 2026 π₯©
Radical Mycologist and Gnome Appreciator on full disability. "Serius profeshunal wirtorβ’" of EXTREMELY short fiction. SFWA member. Pronouns: he/him. Rather more than a bit ace. Will likely not notice you flirting with me.
Librarian, SFF reviewer, college instructor. Loves cheese, coffee, collection management, and the Oxford Comma. SFWA & SinC member. she/they
#Queer writer of #YA and speculative fiction. Expect lots of Star Trek references. Failing to meet the demands of capitalism since 1969. Can I pet your dog? https://linktr.ee/rickerje and https://ko-fi.com/jeffreyricker
The most powerful of tools: optimism and repetition.
Director of PR Strategy at @wm.edu, formerly of Boston.
(he/they)πΉAHRC-funded and researching (New) Weird & Ligotti @ Uni of Liverpool πΉ work at Ergot., CHM, Sans Press, Vastarien πΉ the way in is the way out πΉ
Fantasy writer, history geek, dark chocolate addict! Writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for adults and fun MG fantasy adventures. She/her.
linktr.ee/stephanieburgis
Indie press out of Detroit, Michigan β¨ dedicated to the author's authentic voice, thoughtfulness, and community - π editor @edebell.com
Give us a look! atthisarts.com
"for straightforward combinatoric reasons a free and equal republic of sluts"
SFF writer with work at Asimov's, BCS, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, Reactor, Strange Horizons, Tales from the Magician's Skull, Best American SF&F 2023. Books from Pyr and Paizo. He/him. The map in my profile image is by Rhys Davies.
Writer of weird things. Author of The Perilous Gods set of myth-based dark fantasy. Two-time winner of the Colorado Book Award for SFF.
NYT-bestseller, Stoker and Thriller award finalist, writer of horror, fantasy, YA, MG, romance, and Star Wars. Cowriter of the Tales of Pell. Also comics. Olympic lifter. She/her. aka Lila Bowen & Isla Jewell.
Links: https://linktr.ee/delilahsdawson
π Speculative fiction writer from MN
βοΈ Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post & more
πΏ sometimes moss
β¨HWA, SFWA, Codex
AbigailKemske.com π³ https://linktr.ee/abigailkemske
