Amanda Rutter

Manifesting the absolute visceral burning death of AI in 2026.

Diagram Do I need Ai? No

You need to try The Secret Santa 🤣 I watched it last night and it is a terrible Christmas film in all the right ways 🤣

A hand palm up with fingers curled inward showing sparkly red nail polish with a chrome zigzag representation of a Christmas tree on the ring finger nail!

Festive nails!!!

This book demands reading ❤️

Some early reactions to the HOME SICK cover reveal.

Thanks everyone for the warm reception! I can't wait to share this unhinged cottagegore nightmare with you all 🪓🐑

HOME SICK
14 July 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

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✨🌘2025 Awards Eligibility Post 🌒✨

With book award nomination season upon us, CRY, VOIDBRINGER is eligible for the novel and fantasy novel categories. If you read and enjoyed the book, please consider nominating! 🥰

Oh no. I did a search to find out what month foxgloves start flowering to ensure a book is accurate, and now every single ad in my algorithm is serving me gardening accoutrements.

I kill plants, advert people. I am not the right audience for this. You will not get a sale.

I will no longer be accepting anyone else into the role of Shakespeare

Barring The Lost Boys, I am pretty sure your 50 times list looks much like my 50 times list 😂

Against a blue, red and pink space background, the first four LADY ASTRONAUT books by Mary Robinette Kowal . From left to right: THE CALCULATING STARS, THE FATED SKY, THE RELENTLESS MOON and THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner. White text reads "Blast off with the Lady Astronauts."

Grab the fourth instalment in @maryrobinettekowal.com‬ 's Hugo and Nebula award-winning #ladyastronaut series - THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY!

"A deeply personal novel about whether the human race will survive and, if it does, what it will be" - Bookpage

Buy now: geni.us/lamarcon

I mean, just in the last week, I have had on in the background three of the films I have watched more than six times: Clueless, Love Actually and Dirty Dancing.

On the flip side, I have never watched Aliens, Terminator 2 or Robocop and I can't really see that changing.

I will say that this is spectacularly easy for me and I have hundreds of these, because I either don't want a film or watch a film endless times.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Whatever else it can do, this tech adds work and erodes trust. The extra work is time-wasting and wearying, and I resent the erosion of trust most deeply. I cannot believe it is healthy for society to be ever less sure that anything you encounter is the real thought or expression of a fellow human

She suspected no one who had lived through the crash was entirely whole. She suspected everyone in the Bell weather was here because the Oracle and her gathered ghosts where far far better than whatever they had left behind. The thought of losing this place made it hard to breathe.

Welcome to @rainewilson.bsky.social 's THE SALT ORACLE, where a diverse group of academics, engineers & boatmen are cloistered together on a giant floating college, with an uncanny girl who can channel the digital ghosts scattered throughout their post-internet world...

Buy https://geni.us/saltorac

Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video

Hey lovely Womble, I hope you're well. I am reading The Alchemist's Secret by Scott Mariani, the first in his Ben Hope series. I needed something firmly not SFF and it's in an effort to go back to read one of the oldest Kindle purchases I made!

Ugh. Always such utter red flags when women in a book all have long, lustrous locks, and the one who cuts her hair short apologises to a man for it.

The cover for THE AMBER OWL against a autumn leaves background

The book cover for THE HIDDEN WAY against an orange flower background.

🚨 ICYMI🚨

We're bringing World Fantasy award-winner @julietmarillier.bsky.social 's HEARTWOOD duology to the UK next year!

Book 1 THE AMBER OWL hits shelves in July 2026 and is available to preorder now from all good bookshops: https://geni.us/amberowl

Book 2 THE HIDDEN WAY arrives Summer 2027!

Keep your eye on the leads, especially on first and last dog, and see that they seem to emerge from stomachs

The bard himself

Gawd, this is a grim warning for me. So I watched that animal shelter vid going round, felt all teary and happy, shared it - without the ability to parse that it was AI because I *wanted* to believe it. Have unshared. Wish it was real. But mostly wish we weren't lied to by AI.

The perfect Christmas present for your fantasy-reading friends 😁

And here is the - considerably smaller! - starter pack of Solaris staff!

go.bsky.app/L3tmFRR

As we've had a lot of new followers join us recently, we thought now would be a good time to reshare our bumper Starter Pack of superb Solaris Authors!

Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!

Apparently this is the wrong answer, so Wes Streeting is launching another review by a team picked to deliver a more convenient answer 🙄

Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.

Gazing into the abyss – Ten SFF books that dive into the ocean and our relationship with it Author Lorraine Wilson runs down 10 SFF books that tackle head-on our connection with and responsibilities toward the ocean.

I wrote a thing! Over with the fab @scifinow.bsky.social crew!

About our relationship with the sea, some splendid books which explore that, and some of my, ahem, Opinions...
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@solarisbooks.bsky.social
www.scifinow.co.uk/books/gazing...

Against a black starred background, two dark blue circles. In the smaller one, an author photo of Ryan Kunz, in the larger white text "ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT. Ryan Kunz. Valkyrie Moon. Spring 2027. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

🚨ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨

In collaboration with our friends @reactorsff.bsky.social , we are thrilled to announce the acquisition of VALKYRIE MOON (Spring 2027) a sweeping science fantasy by Ryan Kunz, perfect for fans of RED RISING and THE WILL OF THE MANY!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3MrxLet