Alexander Pyles

Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy) The second issue of a brand-new optimistic science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Published by Habitats Press.

I just backed Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy) on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

Banger

Digital painting of a landscape with a large airship burning a forest in the distance. Two people plant trees in the foreground.

Replanting

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Love this man.

Going to delete this now bc we met our goal.

Y'all are in our prayers and even if you only offered moral support you're in there too.

Much love ❤️

And like I said this is very humbling and I know things are tight across the board for everyone, but we're trying to do what we can in the interim.

Feel free to share my venmo around too!

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So "anti-woke lit" is just books from the guys who didn't take their workshop feedback well?

New tagline for my weird fiction column:

Horror isn’t necessarily about being scared, but it also isn’t about empathy; it’s about seeing a weird face, or a guy standing there

I want in.

FRFR

Just means you need to come out here bro

A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

So, my long time freelance client's contract ended (read as: they fired me) so I have space for some manuscript reviews or shorter work feedback/edits.

Rates are negotiable bc I have rent to pay and groceries to buy this coming month.

This cover is so great!

If you’ve ever enjoyed my writing, please seriously consider ordering my next novel out 6.10.25. The release event will be at Bucket ‘O Blood in Chicago on 6.14.25. If you can, come say hi. Buy a book. xoxo

Still tho - a cover in 48 hours?

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Bro mad

Open Letter to Worldcon: Concerns about LLM usage in Panelist Vetting
by Jake Casella Brookins, ARB editor and host of A Meal of Thorns
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/01/l...

It went well! The HR rep said she "loved my experience," so taking that as a *good* sign!

Getting ready for my first interview with the publishing company - GL in the chat!

Preach

New piece of writing from me!

Appreciate Fare Forward for allowing me to write for them again: farefwd.com/index.php/20...

Wrote on why Nietzsche & Marx were good for my faith actually. Some cameos from my hometown beach & @thelitcritguy.bsky.social

Yikes. Come on Liz

Two stills from the television show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The first showing Dee speaking to Mac Charlie and Dennis though Mac and Dennis are offscreen and only the back of Charlie's head is visible. The text reads "how do three men in their 30s not have $800 between them?"

The second shows a reverse angle with Mac Charlie and Dennis responding to Dee who is mostly off camera. Text reads "They're-- The economy is in shambles."

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