The July/August 2025 cover for Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. The cover story is The Chronolithographer's Assistant, by Suzanne Palmer. The illustration depict a young man in old fashioned clothing turning the wheel on a lithograph press. There are vessels of brightly coloured liquids on nearby tables and shelves. The background is dissolved into fuzzy shapes of trees, with two malevolent-looking futuristic drones emerging.

As a mail subscriber to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine, I get a vote in their 2025 reader's awards. It was fun to go back and re-read my favourite stories for the year to decide my rankings:

Best Novella:
1. Quantum Ghosts, #NancyKress
2. The […]

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Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, with cover story 'Spares Parts for the Mind' by Greg Egan, plus stories by Tegan Moore, Ray Nayler, Sean McMullen, Sean Monaghan, Allen M. Steele, and Susan Schwartz.

The most recent #AsimovsScienceFiction to appear in my mailbox features an absorbing cover future story from #GregEgan about a dementia sufferer's experimental brain implants that lead him to a partial recovery, but also highlights a world of techbro hype […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

@asimovssfmag.bsky.social #FavoriteStories Nov/Dec 2025 #Asimovs #Fantasy #SF
Catch a Tiger in the Snow by #RayNayler
Some may say “unreliable narrator,” but what if editing our memories better fits our psyche?

Couverture du livre Dans le berceau du temps d'Adrian Tchaikovski

Couverture du livre La harpiste des terres rouges d'Aurélie Wellenstein

- Dans le berceau du temps d'Adrian Tchaikovski : https://urlr.me/us5zwf

#chroniquelitteraire #sfff #blog #chronique #litterature #lecture #raynayler #patmurphy #aurelie wellenstein #adriantchaikovski #blogpost #lecture #imaginaire

Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 4 Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 4

🔗 Check my blog for more details on the titles, authors, synopses, and the list of awards:

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October4 #GeorgeBernardShaw #ErinEAdams #RayNayler #booksky

Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 4

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October4 #GeorgeBernardShaw #ErinEAdams #RayNayler #booksky

Image de.cochon d'inde avec à cotele livre : Défense de extinction de Ray Nayler

Lu hier soir : Défense d'extinction de Ray Nayler.
Dans la collection Une heure lumière de @lebelial.bsky.social

#lectureFr #avisachaud #lebelial #raynayler #hardsf #écologie

Cover of THE TUSKS OF EXTINCTION, by Ray Nayler

THE TUSKS OF EXTINCTION, by Ray Nayler, is an excellent story set in a bleak and depressingly plausible future. Elephants are gone from the wild, with only captive herds remaining: the battle between poachers and rangers began to target the rangers directly […]

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The Tusks of Extinction Ray Nayler Author of The Mountain in the Sea

This was the first #nebulaaward nominee for best #novella that I read this year (It's a tradition to read them all!) Fascinating, unsettling, and hauntingly beautiful 8/10 💙📚
#moreviews #tusksofextinction #raynayler #booksky #reading #booklover #scifi #mammoths #dystopic #book #read #booktok #nebula

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Our final reading for Day 1 of the #LocusAwards2025 will take place online today at 6 PM! Join us!

You can see all the details for future readings and buy tickets at: locusmag.com/2025-lo... (link in bio!)

Please welcome @byzantienne and #RayNayler

AI, Autocracy, and Afterlife: Sci Fi Novelists Ray Nayler & Tim Weed Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary This week on Writer’s Voice, two authors of speculative fiction explore what it means to be…

Ray Nayler explores how AI and surveillance erode freedom in Where the Axe Is Buried & Tim Weed imagines a post-human world in The Afterlife Project, where a lone survivor awakens 10,000 years after the collapse. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3j4zzxby
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RAY NAYLER Speculative Fiction and multi-genre author Ray Nayler's website -- stories, reviews, audio versions, links and more

www.raynayler.net

Fantastic book! #raynayler a truly gifted writer

@cosmicmariner17.bsky.social book club is going to have the honor of discussing it with him in two weeks!

My #bookhaul from Barnes & Noble the other day!

#cassandraclare #theragpickerking #thechroniclesofcastellane #raynayler #wheretheaxeisburied #hannahkaner #faithbreaker #fallengods #edwardashton #mickey7

@asimovssfmag.bsky.social #FavoriteStories May/Jun 2025 #Asimovs #Fantasy #SF
The Tin Man’s Ghost by #RayNayler
The US won WWII using technology from a crashed alien ship, but Robert Oppenheimer is nonetheless haunted by the same demons. A tale told through the eyes of a cyborg.

I’m reading Where The Axe is Buried by #RayNayler.
#book #books #BookSky

A photo of the cover of the recently released novel Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler which depicts in bright colours what looks like a futuristic cityscape hovering over an arctic forest.

The new #RayNayler novel is here! The new Ray Nayler #novel is here!
(Bearing the somewhat ominous dedication, “For everyone who has lost a country.”)
#books #sciencefiction #novels #BookSky

WHERE THE AXE IS BURIED takes place in a world of AI prime ministers, body-hopping tyrants and the resistance that bravely fights against them both. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

www.bookpage.com/?p=213772

#raynayler #bookpage #newreads #april #wheretheaxeisburried

A photo of where the axe is buried on the front table of a bookstore. Cover shown.

Happy pub day to #raynayler! You had us at "plot to assassinate and replace the President." Can't wait for these to fly off the shelves! @fsgbooks.bsky.social

A- #BookReview: Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler My Review: I picked this up because I adored the author’s debut novel, The Mountain in the Sea, very much liked his later novella, The Tusks of Extinction, and was hoping for more of the same. Which I sorta/kinda got, but not in ANY of the ways that I was expecting. I’m every bit as wowed by Axe…

A- #BookReview: Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler @fsgbooks.bsky.social #RayNayler #sciencefiction #artificialintelligence #politicalthriller #technothriller #dystopian

"The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: We will always do what we are capable of." ...dammit Ray. I just wanted to read a nice relaxing book about a giant cephalopod creating language and murdering mankind. Jeez. #RayNayler

Llegamos a nuestra sección favorita: Me lo dices o me lo cuentas. En esta ocasión os traemos La montaña en el mar, de #RayNayler publicado por @novacifi.bsky.social y que me ha fascinado. No perderos los fragmentos escogidos porque de verdad que son alucinante las ideas que plantean

@asimovssfmag.bsky.social #FavoriteStories Mar/Apr 2025 #Asimovs #Fantasy #SF
The Demon of Metrazol by #RayNayler
Metrazol induces extreme anxiety and seizures. Used for schizophrenia and severe depression before electroshock therapy, the FDA banned it in 1982. They did not mention the Demon.

“The causes of the disaster are these: First: The estimations of this planet's temperature were incorrect. The beacon should never have been placed. … Second: My companions are all dead.”
-“Sarcophagus” by Ray Nayler

#shortstories #scifi #raynayler #justfinished

Rezension
Die Stimme der Kraken von Ray Nayler

In der Zukunft. Kraken beherrschen intelligente Kommunikation. Und sie wollen, dass die Menschen verschwinden. Interessante Dystopie.

Weiter zur Rezension: literaturblog-sabine-ibing.blogspot.com/p/die-stimme...

#buchtipp #raynayler @tropenverlag

Book cover shows a monstrous octopus against an ocean background

Damaged characters search for humanity, intelligence, and consciousness in the water in a tech, corporate, surveillance-governed near future.
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
#TheMountainintheSea #RayNayler #justfinished #booksky

Sometimes you stumble onto something truly great. I randomly picked this from the public library shelf because somehow the title spoke to me. And it did deliver in spades. Loved this. #raynayler #TheTusksofExtinction

Deep Dive Into AI and Humanity with Author Ray Nayler | Silicon Valley Reads Explore the wonders of the deep, AI, humanity, and more with best-selling science-fiction author Ray Nayler. In this engaging conversation, Ray will delve into themes from his novel, The Mountain in ...

Author Ray Nayler (The Mountain In The Sea) is giving a talk at Los Altos Library today!

www.siliconvalleyreads.org/event-detail...

#TheMountainInTheSea #RayNayler #ScienFiction #AI #SiliconValleyReads #Literature

I read his first book, Mountain in the Sea, and it was one of those, you don’t fully understand the book as a whole until it’s over, sort of books. But I loved the concept and what it means to be human. I’ve heard even better things about this one. #booksky #raynayler #scifibooks

Couverture du livre SF PROTECTORATS recueil de nouvelles de Ray Nayler

#Protectorats de #RayNayler
Faut-il parler d’un recueil de nouvelles ? Ou plutôt d’un roman, tellement les nouvelles s’enchaînent? Formidable et trépidant ouvrage SF qui fait date , c’est @epauledorion.bsky.social @lecturesmaki.bsky.social qui en parlent le mieux. Ed. @lebelial.bsky.social