It’s the fiiiiiiiinal countdown!!! Having the absolute best time reading all these incredible stories and can’t believe it has to end, but I also can’t wait to get to work on Issue 2. It’s going to be so so very good.
What is this I see here?
A Kickstarter that includes ME and several other amazing folks?
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Coincidentally it's on sale on steam for $3 so I will probably play it sooner than I thought. Thanks again!
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![Picture is a black, white, and yellow graphic showing the table of contents for Issue 5 of the magazines Saros SF and listing 3 content and theme tags for each story
Edited by Ariel Marken Jack
“Land of Lasts” by Theodore Hill
endlings / what are your three things? / the story is us
“On the Matter of Homo sapiens” by Kel Coleman
orienteering / they made us / we remake them
“Root Words” by Yasmeen Fahmy
metamorphosis / linguistic detectives / mercy, mercy, mercy
“Solitary, Not Alone” by Robert Helfst
blue jays (?) / deep breaths / follow the psychopomp
“[Redacted]” by Spencer Nitkey
erosion / you can’t tell anyone / the thing is me
“Gardenias Under a Temporal Window” by Vijayalaxmi Samal
the past is present / she can fix it / but I’m right here
“Walk With the Angels” by Wren Douglas
homecoming / the blood is the life / song and sacrifice
“This Was the Planet of Sound” by Rex Burrows
singing seas / searching shrieks / expectant hush](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nfbdfgeoibh3hvoq6qi3p7b5/bafkreig2b3ufwffv55lfzvic26imv67pogfwttlvaqdpuxew3jlihialmu)
Picture is a black, white, and yellow graphic showing the table of contents for Issue 5 of the magazines Saros SF and listing 3 content and theme tags for each story Edited by Ariel Marken Jack “Land of Lasts” by Theodore Hill endlings / what are your three things? / the story is us “On the Matter of Homo sapiens” by Kel Coleman orienteering / they made us / we remake them “Root Words” by Yasmeen Fahmy metamorphosis / linguistic detectives / mercy, mercy, mercy “Solitary, Not Alone” by Robert Helfst blue jays (?) / deep breaths / follow the psychopomp “[Redacted]” by Spencer Nitkey erosion / you can’t tell anyone / the thing is me “Gardenias Under a Temporal Window” by Vijayalaxmi Samal the past is present / she can fix it / but I’m right here “Walk With the Angels” by Wren Douglas homecoming / the blood is the life / song and sacrifice “This Was the Planet of Sound” by Rex Burrows singing seas / searching shrieks / expectant hush
It's release day for Saros SF #5, the sound/silence issue!
This was my first go at editing a magazine. I have more to say about the experience, and about each of these fabulous stories, but for now: Yay!
You can (and I hope you will!) acquire the issue for free or PWYC here: sarossf.com/issue-5/
The Anthropic book theft settlement is essentially done, but many more battles remain. I also agree with Catherynne M. Valente's recent essay calling the settlement "blood money." 1/
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Text on a blurred purple background. Text reads: ISSUE 2 POETRY WISHLIST: your most visceral poems, queer joy and euphoria, ghosts monsters Goosebumps vibes, surreal and lyrical poems, the interplace of form and content, weird/unpexpected over warm/fuzzy
Our submissions for Issue 2 close in a week! Poets, here is a wishlist of poetry vibes from our poetry editors Jess Cho and Angel Leal 👀
Read our full guidelines here, then send us your poems and make all their dreams come true: othersidespec.com/guidelines?u...
Against a blue space background, the book cover for Yoon Ha Lee's 10th anniversary edition of NINEFOX GAMBIT.
🚨COVER REVEAL🚨
Our friends @reactorsff.bsky.social have revealed our special 10th anniversary edition of @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social 's superb SF classic NINEFOX GAMBIT with a fabulous new introduction by @annleckie.com ! 👉 https://bit.ly/4eiI4NK
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Cover of Wolfpack by Rem Wigmore, featuring a brown-skinned woman holding a coppery fox mask. She is mostly obscured by red smoke and a little below the title is a domed white building on a green mountain
Wolfpack is OUT!
The sequel to Foxhunt, this queer solarpunk adventure features our favourite disaster bard Orfeus climbing to new heights to forge her own way ... but can you really escape the bloodstained past you inherit?
The Vengeful Wild duology is now complete!
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Tiny story day!
I didn't do this in March, but I'm back! Drop a comment in the thread and get a tiny story just for you. If you'd like a prompt, feel free to riff off of any sort of transportation.
I'll get to these through the rest of the month, and hopefully you'll get something fun to enjoy.
Oof, so...guess what? Due to a very frustrating mistake, I had to temporarily "unpublish" my preorder option for A Waltz of Sinister Import (#3 in the Unexpected Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven)...which lost every one of its 200+ preorders! 😱
I am SO sorry for the inconvenience and frustration. 1/2
this morning was a whirlwind, let me properly flail now!!
HI YES I'm honored that "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" is available over at @lightspeedmagazine.com! it's a tragic sapphic space knights story with SO much mess. it's fine!! ✨
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New story day.
This story was deeply personal. It gave me the courage to keep resisting.
Thank you @lightspeedmagazine.com for publishing this story.
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New Story Day: "Welcome To Heroism" is out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
A mysterious app is daring people to increasingly impossible things for a chance at fame. The feats seem so ridiculous that nobody notices they might have some altruistic sides. Could the app have an agenda...?
Cover art for The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu. Has a blurb from Max Gladstone "A work of crystalline vision and meticulous humanity"
Spend a little time with my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Available today!
Bugs in the physics! Status reports in the form of food! Finding a family!
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Chapter 4 of JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING drops tomorrow morning, in which Deimos tries to fix a big problem with his massive revenge plot, with the help of the digital intelligence that he programmed of his dead sibling. And then does drugs.
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I’d somehow missed that Charles Payseur had included my novelette “The Soundtrack of My Afterlife” (@adventitiouswords.bsky.social) on this list of January queer fiction. Thanks @cypayseur.bsky.social!
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oh interesting. Betrayal at the House on the Hill sort of has that vibe, too. Thanks!
Anyway last thoughts. Of these first 25 puzzles...
My favorite: probably #11: Dungeons & Dragons bc c'mon
The hardest: #14: Liberty Rainbow all that solid black was SUCH BULLSH*T
The easiest: #24: Balloon Magic bc it's only 300 pieces
Will forever haunt my dreams: #12: Crazy Crop
Anyway the puzzling will continue. Husband and I still like these a lot and there's a lot to be said for spending a night listening to music and doing a jigsaw puzzle. We are old.