Posts by Vera Brook
Biome - Speculative Fiction podcast is open for submissions!
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Everyone is welcome!
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In 3D Euclidean space, the surface equidistant from a point is a sphere, with constant curvature.
In (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, the equidistant surface is a (1+1)-dimensional de Sitter spacetime, which also has constant curvature.
I am a happy subscriber. Have been for several years. Every new issue makes me happy. If you love the fiction & narration & non-fiction in Clarkesworld, then consider pitching in too. 🥰
Absolutely! I want to read it.
Story idea!
Holy smokes, so honoured that my short story collection "Six Dreams About the Train" is mentioned by the wonderful Samantha Mills: "8 Story Collections That Inspired Samantha Mills’s Stunning Speculative Fiction". (AMAZING company to be in!)
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Looks very useful. Thanks!
Pre-ordered!! Can’t wait to read Samantha’s collection. 🎉🎉🎉
(Thanks for the review. A perfect nudge.)
#BookSky #NewRelease #ShortStories #SpeculativeFiction
Great news from the wonderful Pat Cadigan:
“In case you couldn’t hear me partying here in London, I beat terminal cancer. I kicked its ass down the stairs, took its lunch money, and threw rocks at it as it ran away crying. I don’t have cancer any more.”
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Humble Bundle of a whole bunch of @datlow.bsky.social -edited anthologies including short work from some of the best SFFH writers in the business and, er, me.
Congratulations!! I cannot wait to read it.
Shown is a graphic that has a creamy background with elegant writing across it. coming from the top left is a black fountain pen with a gold nib. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a silver dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’.
The British Fantasy Society is excited to announce our next event day, taking place on Saturday 18th April 2026, 10am to 6pm (BST).
BFS Online: Language in SFFH
Language is vast and flexible, providing writers a broad platform on which to build their world.
Ticket: tinyurl.com/sffhlang
I supported Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 4 on @kickstarter.com!
Can’t wait to get my ebook & dive in. #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #ShortStories #Booksky
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Gorgeous.
Cover for issue 235 of Clarkesworld is by Ian McQue and features a craft floating above dockyards. Background is a hazy purple. Smaller ships float nearby. This issue includes interviews with John Chu and Suzanne Palmer, an article by Jason Collins, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Our April 2026 issue features stories by Ryan Cole, Tania Fordwalker, Rajeev Prasad, Katherine Khan, Nadia W. Aldsen, Malena Salazar Maciá, and Abby Nicole Yee.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_235
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Congrats! Well deserved. I loved that story!
So many books! Books! Books!
It's the 2026 giant World SF bundle! 15 books for $30! With
@tadethompson.bsky.social, @aliettedebodard.com, @lavanya.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @genni.bsky.social and many more! Plus supporting
@locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts hugely appreciated!
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Congrats!! I love the title, the concept, and the cover! 🎉🎉🎉
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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A few photo impressions from Eastercon, part two: an octopus, David Wake, David Stokes, David Lascelles.
@easterconuk.bsky.social
@davidwake.bsky.social
A few photo impressions from Eastercon, part one: Fiona Moore’s micro-army of creatures.
@drfionamoore.bsky.social
@easterconuk.bsky.social
In less than two weeks, Kaleidotrope will re-open to fiction and poetry submissions for one week. April 19-25. One of only three weeks the zine will be open this year!
My review of the January issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!
locusmag.com/review/clark...
Congratulations!! Very happy for you.
BSFA award trophy for best novel 2025 against a garden backdrop in the sunshine
BSFA award trophy for best novel 2025 and a copy of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift against a sunny garden backdrop
Photo of E. J. Swift with the BSFA award trophy for best novel
Over the moon and can't quite believe this happened, When There Are Wolves Again won the BSFA Award for Best Novel 🐺 Thanks so much to everyone who voted and congrats again to all the brilliant finalists.
My pleasure!
Cora at the Brisbane Worldcon bid table
If you're at Eastercon in Birmingham, drop by at the Brisbane in 2028 Worldcon bid table and say hello. We have restocked on candy and swag, including our popular tiny koalas. But if you want to cuddle the lobster, you need to presupport. #Eastercon #Brisbane2028 #Birmingham
Hi. Sorry to have missed you! This was possibly the closest we were together in space after being connected online for years. 🤣
Next time!