Kate

Cover of The Subtle Art of Folding Space, coming April 7, 2026 Four sets of bamboo steamers going from the top of the cover to the bottom. The top one holds steamed bao. The contents of each steamer below it get progressively more surreal. One has bao with the universe as a filling. The next steamer below it has planets. The last steamer is filled with gear works. Two hands holding red chopsticks reach for the first and third steamer.

The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics. Ellie's universe, and this one, is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Taiwanese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it's supposed to. Daniel, Ellie's cousin, has found an illicit device in the skunkworks-one that keeps Ellie's comatose mother alive while also creating destabilizing bugs in the physics of this universe. It's not a good day. If she can confront her mother's legacy and overcome her family's generational trauma, she just might find a way to preserve the skunkworks and reconcile with her sister...but digging into her family's past is thornier than it seems, and the secrets she uncovers will force Ellie to choose between her family and the universe itself.

My novel, The Subtle Art of Folding Space, has a cover!
Read about repairing physics, unreasonable parental expectations, and great Taiwanese food! Out on April 7, 2026. Pre-order now: t.co/0nz8JuNhwf
Art credits: Jacket art by Weston Wei, Jacket Design by Katie Klimowicz.

Art by flaroh illustration. A cream and white Pegasus rears over the severed head of his mother Medusa who stares at him with glazed eyes. Flames rise from the lifeblood seeping from her neck against a red background.

The Birth of Pegasus 🔥🐴🩸

This is actually the 1st in a trilogy, which I didn’t realize when I picked it out. 🪐📚💙

30/100 #BookSky 📚
I completed the @bpl.boston.gov #WinterReadingChallenge with this book, set in the Amazon. It’s a pretty fantastical story about environmental & cultural conservation. She’s a very good writer & I think I liked this one better than the other books I’ve read of hers.

Waxing moon -- we had a stormy day (with lightning and thunder!) so this is one I took about a month ago.

I just realized that today is Chinese New Year, the 1st day of Ramadan, AND Fat Tuesday. That means the Chinese new moon lined up with the Ramadan crescent and also fell exactly the right amount of time before the Easter full moon.

An extremely rare lineup of 3 major moon-based traditions!

About Those 3 Star Books That Are Considered To Be Great Literature … A lot of people love these books, but some people hate them … do these ratings represent a tepid reception of some titles, or embody a…

If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books📚 grrlscientist.medium.com/about-those-...

Sexual misconduct at Oxford ‘fuelled by emeritus immunity’ Complex governance arrangements and lack of regulation of emeritus titles putting female colleagues at risk, says UCU report

'In an emergency briefing sent to all members, the University and College Union (UCU) branch at Oxford has warned that the university’s college-based system and use of emeritus professorships may be putting female colleagues at risk.' 1/2

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

Interested in how climate change will impact oxygen and CO₂ extremes in mangroves? Check out our new paper: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Climate Change Made Deadly Valencia Floods More Intense Man-made climate change intensified the rain that fell over Spain’s Valencia region in 2024, when flash floods and landslides caused at least 230 deaths and an estimated €29 billion in damages ($34 bi...

Man-made climate change intensified the rain that fell over Spain’s Valencia region in 2024, when flash floods and landslides caused at least 230 deaths and an estimated €29 billion in damages

FREE read via @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica's near-freezing deep Many experts had thought sharks didn't exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica.

Many experts had thought sharks didn't exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica. n.pr/4rHpYsZ

I just want to note that this is a fantastic example of community journalism which includes information about ICE hotlines, advocacy organizations, and a reminder about Constitutional rights. It is possible to do journalism that supports democracy.

🇬🇧 Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as Downing Street's chief mouser

The UK's most famous feline, Larry the cat, marks 15 years as the country's chief mouser patrolling the corridors of power of 10 Downing Street.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people.

The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people. n.pr/4qGcdJu

Getting rich assholes like Oz to pay their fair share of taxes would generate a hell of a lot MORE money to pay off the debt, feed the hungry, provide healthcare to every person, house the homeless, and ensure a living wage for every worker in America.

There are two parts of this article:

1 - Historical funding trends & Congressional appropriations.

* Requires a longer conversation on levers of power

2 - "The Republicans Made Peace With Science".

* No, they did not & no they have not. This requires more than a conversation, but a reset.

🧵

Indian Affairs regional employees have more work and fewer people to do it, watchdog reports Officials from one region said that Trump staff cuts impaired a response to a wildland fire, while others characterized disbursing Inflation Reduction Act funds as an “unfunded mandate.”

Officials from one region of U.S. Indian Affairs said that Trump staff cuts impaired a response to a wildland fire, while others characterized disbursing Inflation Reduction Act funds as an “unfunded mandate.” buff.ly/umI7zfH

Bayer Agrees to Pay $7.25 Billion to Settle Roundup Lawsuits The agreement, which still faces legal hurdles, would cover current and future claims that the weedkiller caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and biotech giant, said Tuesday that it had reached an agreement that would pay plaintiffs $7.25 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits that claimed the weedkiller Roundup caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

the strategic 'unnecessarily' makes me uncomfortable

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

Remember that every time they say we’re being paid to raise our voices, that’s because they actually are

After reading Careless People it’s actually wild to open meta’s text-based platforms and see them try to do all of the things to me that Sarah Wynn Williams describes in the book

I think if you are gonna use Threads you have to read the book so you know the anti-democracy machine you’re sustaining

Happy publication day to our eight 20% off new book picks of the week.

Every time I see the details of an atrocity we've committed (and I'm grateful for Rep. Castro and his office doing the work to bring it to light).... I realize how many people must have a hand in to create and execute evil.

Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday according to an announcement sent to Congress today, marking the seventh detained death of 2026 and nearly the 40th since Trump took offi...

Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year
open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

AN EDUCATION IN LONGING By Charlotte Stein Imprint: Avon Author of WHEN GRUMPY MET SUNSHINE Charlotte Stein's AN EDUCATION IN LONGING, a dark academia pitched as DRACULA meets DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, in which a young woman enters a hauntingly gothic magical university determined to overcome the injustice of the rich get everything system, only to immediately make a deadly enemy of their star pupil; the only way out is a pact-he will teach her how to survive, she will keep his bloodthirsty secret, to Tessa Woodward at Avon, in an exclusive submission, by Courtney Miller-Callihan at Handspun Literary (world). Fiction: Romantasy February 12, 2026

So I can finally announce my new deal!! An Education In Longing is the book of my dreams, something I always hoped I would get to write one day as a teenaged scribbling vampire nonsense in giant hardback books my Dad brought me home from work. And here it is!

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

People who immigrate to the U.S. come here to find safety and opportunity and contribute to our communities.

We should be welcomed with dignity, not demonized.

Careless People, Character Limit, and Empire of AI make for a hell of a trilogy.

After reading Careless People I stopped using insta but I haven’t deleted my account yet because the one big thing that evil company has cornered is community events. School, library, neighborhood, city- all that stuff is posted there.