Christopher Mark Rose

I'll never not rec this Sturgeon story, which I read for the first time within the last 5 years or so, and thought "how does this STILL feel so relevant?"

There's also a great audio version (narrated by Anson Mount, of New Trek fame) by @escapepod.org (link to follow)!

Great opportunity for early-career writers to improve their short fiction eye, under the tutelage of one of the best teams in SFF!

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

This is equally dismaying and incomprehensible to me—this looks like a shakedown of the chip industry. Also, completely illegal, if that even matters anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(gift link):

Illustration of Moomin troll in a field of blue flowers

I learned that Tove Jansson was born today, August 9th, in 1914 - So here’s some Moomin fan art to celebrate!

#illustration #kidlit #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustrationforkids #picturebooks #moomin #tovejansson

Banner says book launch Thomas Ha in conversation with Brian Evenson Uncertain Sons and Other Stories

Hey! I'm doing a small Uncertain Sons event at North Fig Bookshop next month. Brian Evenson will be there, which is wild and very nice of him! I think there will be tacos. Maybe we'll talk about Wolfe and weird horror. If you live in LA stop by. Will be chill and mainly my cousins. 9/20, 7 pm.

Live your life such that no one ever denies you a pierogi.

Rogue Thoughts: Charming Rogues - Trollbreath Magazine Rogue Thoughts: Charming Rogues

My essay on rogue planets, in Trollbreath magazine:
magazine.trollbreath.com/rogue-though...

A pink and purple paperback copy of New Year, New You: A speculative Anthology of Reinvention displayed against a backdrop of pink, purple, and silver mardi gras beads, with a $5 sticking out like a bookmark because this awesome anthology is currently on sale for less that $5 on Amazon. WHAT? Go buy it now!

Our little-anthology-that-could is still randomly on super-sale from Am*zon. Less than $5 for this beautiful paperback: a.co/d/0NE0fgO

It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more.

#speclit #booksky

🚀Its day 9 of #31DaysofAction: NASA needs us! Trump’s budget slashes NASA funding by ⅓. CRITICAL missions are at risk. Print, post, and microflyer these now. Use biodegradable adhesives if available. Rally with us: zurl.co/6Wssv #StandUpForScience

A big weird bug under a leaf.

Bug.

The Outer Rim Sci-Fi Film Festival, next weekend in Baltimore!

Paging @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social

I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.

It’s real. It’s here. Aaaaaaaah!!!!

Happy birthday Jennifer!! Hope you have a great one!!

This is who runs this account.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Exploration Takes Flight on Titan | Johns Hopkins Events

JHU professor Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social speaks about the unique nature of Saturn's moon Titan and NASA's mission to explore it, Dragonfly, in a free virtual event August 19th:

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Check out Nisi Shawl

Fantasy, Horror, Sci Fi

When I was little, I told my middle sister Julie convoluted tales of how I, a mermaid, had come to dwell in the small midwestern town of Kalamazoo, Michigan. This odyssey involved the Saint Lawrence Seaway, several of the ...

@nisishawl.bsky.social

Drop some bones.

My total fail on my Alt text—sorry. It's a picture of the main board on Archon, an Electronic Arts personal computer game released in 1983. Looks like a weird chess variant. Instead of simply taking pieces, moving into the square occupied by an opposing piece caused the game to cut to a fight board.

Archon. A classic for the ages.

Fascism on the streets if America. Who the hell would do this? What is wrong with you?

Alvin Toffler, hold my hand. ✋

Smiling, remembering that I bought my dad a drone once, and the first time he flew it, he flew it so high that he lost it forever. There's a good metaphor in here somewhere—

Photograph of a water fountain, and over it is an aluminum sign that reads: THE MOUTH IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES WHERE THE DRY OUTSIDE MOVES TOWARD THE SLIPPERY INSIDE

Jenny Holzer

Also, who doesn't love matching turrets?

I'll just say, a castle, with a pottery studio, on the banks of the Erie Canal—someone's got my number. <Sigh.>

Dreaming of making this place into an artists/writers retreat—apparently it comes with a distillery, a selection of swords, a throne, a pottery kiln, a pipe organ, two pianos, and the Ark of the Covenant? Boy, with all that stuff, the price is a steal! Who's in?