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National Book Award-winning author of unrealisms—mostly for young readers. SUNWARD, my first novel for grownups, is coming soon from Saga Press. He/him. www.willalex.net

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Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara.

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara.

Celebrate, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter funded! THERE WILL BE A 12TH YEAR OF UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Next up are the STRETCH GOALS! Original covers! Staff raises! Keeping flash fiction and a novella! buff.ly/d6biJJf

02.08.2025 14:41 — 👍 44    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 10

more and more it seems like one of the goals of this current fascist era is to diminish the rights of children. The internet allowed young people to have unprecedented access to other kids and to information, which led to powerful youth movements, and now we are seeing the backlash.

01.08.2025 17:51 — 👍 250    🔁 87    💬 2    📌 1

Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.

31.07.2025 23:49 — 👍 1191    🔁 357    💬 22    📌 30

I keep forgetting to boost this. Please preorder this book! I’d love to keep making comics forever. 🙏

31.07.2025 15:56 — 👍 581    🔁 257    💬 6    📌 0

True!

31.07.2025 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
This is the front cover of the book ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. The text is black against a background of solid red. The only image is a charcoal sketch of a small girl standing beneath a descending missile. She has flowers in her hand. The petals are falling. The bomb is falling. To read this book is to fall in love with language while falling out of love with every broken promise ever made under the shadow of the word genocide.

This is the front cover of the book ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. The text is black against a background of solid red. The only image is a charcoal sketch of a small girl standing beneath a descending missile. She has flowers in her hand. The petals are falling. The bomb is falling. To read this book is to fall in love with language while falling out of love with every broken promise ever made under the shadow of the word genocide.

"The very history of the word “genocide” meant as a mechanic of forewarning rather than some after-the-fact resolution, is littered with instances of the world’s most powerful governments going to whatever lengths they can to avoid its usage, because usage is attached to obligation..." 1/4

28.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

The human capacity for kindness and ingenuity is fucking incredible.

27.07.2025 21:34 — 👍 175    🔁 48    💬 4    📌 0
Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara

Caroline M. Yoachim

Caroline M. Yoachim

Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine Interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim wrote a Guest Post on Black Gate in support of the the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter! Please check out "AI Could Not Write These Stories"! buff.ly/KbZYMJd

28.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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@willalex.bsky.social brilliantly said in the book banning panel- each individual action may not have a huge effect, but when we act together our actions all together do have effects.

19.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

...She has flowers in her hand. The petals are falling. The bomb is falling. You are reading this book, and you are falling in love with language while falling out of love with every broken promise ever made in the shadow of the word genocide. 4/4

28.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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This is the front cover of the book ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. The text is black against a background of solid red. The only image is a charcoal sketch of a small girl standing beneath a plummeting missile... 3/4

28.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
This is the front cover of the book ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad, because we need to see it again. The text is still black against a background of solid red. The only image is still a charcoal sketch of a small girl standing beneath a descending missile. She has flowers in her hand. The petals are falling. The bomb is falling. You are reading this book, and you are falling in love with language while falling out of love with every broken promise ever made in the shadow of the word genocide.

This is the front cover of the book ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad, because we need to see it again. The text is still black against a background of solid red. The only image is still a charcoal sketch of a small girl standing beneath a descending missile. She has flowers in her hand. The petals are falling. The bomb is falling. You are reading this book, and you are falling in love with language while falling out of love with every broken promise ever made in the shadow of the word genocide.

"...It was never intended to be enough to simply call something genocide: one is required to act." 2/4

- Omar El Akkad, from ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS

28.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
This is the front cover of the book ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. The text is black against a background of solid red. The only image is a charcoal sketch of a small girl standing beneath a descending missile. She has flowers in her hand. The petals are falling. The bomb is falling. To read this book is to fall in love with language while falling out of love with every broken promise ever made under the shadow of the word genocide.

This is the front cover of the book ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. The text is black against a background of solid red. The only image is a charcoal sketch of a small girl standing beneath a descending missile. She has flowers in her hand. The petals are falling. The bomb is falling. To read this book is to fall in love with language while falling out of love with every broken promise ever made under the shadow of the word genocide.

"The very history of the word “genocide” meant as a mechanic of forewarning rather than some after-the-fact resolution, is littered with instances of the world’s most powerful governments going to whatever lengths they can to avoid its usage, because usage is attached to obligation..." 1/4

28.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Many thanks!

27.07.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

24.07.2025 16:21 — 👍 346    🔁 481    💬 3    📌 11

I just got my own copy!

27.07.2025 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sharing this at my own peril.

23.07.2025 20:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
ALEX DE WAAL: So, let me say that I've been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.

ALEX DE WAAL: So, let me say that I've been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

23.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 1927    🔁 856    💬 2    📌 28

Take care of yourself! Sending healing potions.

23.07.2025 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally swam through this conversation today, and now I need to dive right back in to hear it again.

23.07.2025 19:36 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0

🎶Happy belated BOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAY dear @cheriepriest.com haaaaaaaappy booooooook daaaaaaay tooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

23.07.2025 12:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It occurs to me that maybe some of my friends would be more comfortable donating to Gaza through a Jewish org.

I have to continue believing that even if people disagree about many things, they all still want to feed starving kids.

(I have to believe that)

secure.nif.org/3-oDUABbOEyn...

23.07.2025 08:17 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

❤️🤖🚀

22.07.2025 22:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I got to listen to an excerpt of SUNWARD during a residency recently. It's not to be missed!

22.07.2025 18:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Ditto!!!!

22.07.2025 22:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

22.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 11354    🔁 2538    💬 122    📌 90

Happy muppet flail!

22.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ditto! Fantastic to see you!

22.07.2025 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks, Barth!

22.07.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎶Happy BOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAY dear @jasonsanford.bsky.social haaaaaaaapy booooook daaaaaaaay toooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

22.07.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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