A creative life should nourish you, not drain you. That belief sits at the heart of my conversation on Making It. Sending encouragement to all the creatives showing up today. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SpeculativeFiction
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The latest Studies in the Fantastic is here! Explore Black horror, Indigenous cinema, and gender in genre. Featuring Lovecraft , pregnancy horror, and cover art by Antoine Williams.
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If you're balancing art and business and wondering if you're doing it "right," you're not alone. I shared some reflections on this journey in my recent Making It interview. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SpeculativeFiction
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The Kickstarter hasn't launched yet, but I have a story in this collection. www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifiandfantasy... #anthology #Bookstodon #SpeculativeFiction
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Chapter Twenty-Seven of Point A To Proxima Centauri B is now available on d00md4ys.substack.com! Check out the next update on April 20th (nice) #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #webserial #novel #indieauthor #substack
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Chapter Twenty-Seven of Point A To Proxima Centauri B is now available on storiesbythomas.neocities.org! Check out the next update on April 20th (nice) #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #webserial #novel #indieauthor #neocities
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Loved Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror? 👁️🗨️
Try these:
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Creative momentum doesn't come from hustle. It comes from trust, rhythm, and partnership. Grateful for this thoughtful conversation on creativity and sustainability. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SpeculativeFiction
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Today's #WIPSnips is "child."
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Aya has a nightmare:
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Please share as widely as possible.
This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not.
Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travellers-2-call-...
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GHOSTS AND CRYPTIDS: Proud to be part of this upcoming anthology from @diversionbooks.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social and @richienarvaez.bsky.social!!
THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY releases on 10.06.26. Pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/4tpEXbT #speculativefiction #cryptids
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It wasn’t uninhabited.
It was just quiet.
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Messy first drafts aren't something to fix; they're something to work with. I loved talking about this (and more) with Michi Lantz on Making It. Writers, be kind to yourselves. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SpeculativeFiction
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Reality doesn't add up. Something is missing. What if we are a species that has forgotten part of its own story? substack.com/home/post/p-... #mars #gothic #speculativefiction #scifi
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✨ Don't miss this stunning tale!
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A football player in a long tunnel, leaning against the wall. His posture is tired but not defeated. His jersey has the number 11 and the name Greyson on the back.
His quarterback is being sabotaged.
How far will Dom go to stop it?
"Delay of Game" is out now.
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HAPPY NOCHE DE FUEGO! Proud to be part of this upcoming anthology from @diversionbooks.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social @richienarvaez.bsky.social!! THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY releases on 10.06.26. Pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/4tpEXbT #speculativefiction #cryptid
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A split scene shows a ruined, post-apocalyptic city on the left and a regenerated, green future landscape on the right. In the center, a broken stone doorway forms a passage between both conditions. The left side is dark, with collapsed buildings, smoke, and a warning sign reading “Warning Future Hazard.” The right side is bright, with vegetation reclaiming ruins, wind turbines, and distant structures integrated into nature. On the wall beside the doorway, the words “What follows dystopia?” are painted. The composition suggests a transition from projected catastrophe to lived condition and possible continuation beyond it. Overlaid text reads: “When Warning Becomes the Present – From Jean-Marc Ligny to Anti-Dystopias: On What Follows Dystopia,” followed by the author’s name Thomas A. Blüm. ___ This essay examines a structural shift in speculative fiction in which the temporal distance between imagined futures and lived reality collapses. Drawing on a conversation with Jean-Marc Ligny, it argues that dystopian narratives increasingly function not as projections but as diagnostic frameworks for the present. Under these conditions, dystopia loses its exclusive role as a future endpoint and becomes an analytical mode for interpreting ongoing instability. The concept of anti-dystopia, as articulated by Isabella Hermann, is used to describe narratives that reposition agency within persistent crisis rather than beyond it. Through examples including Kim Stanley Robinson and Cory Doctorow, the essay shows how contemporary texts shift from anticipating collapse to articulating action within it, reframing the future as an emergent property of present conditions.
When warning becomes the present:
Speculative fiction is shifting from projection to diagnosis.
From #Jean-Marc #Ligny to @doctorow.pluralistic.net and @nnedi.bsky.social, explore action within instability.
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It didn’t chase them.
It already knew they were coming.
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Pre-ordered!! Can’t wait to read Samantha’s collection. 🎉🎉🎉
(Thanks for the review. A perfect nudge.)
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The award ceremony for the 46th Japan SF Grand Prix was held last night at Daikanyama T-Site in Tokyo. Congratulations to all the winners!
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The Greymeat tastes of whatever you most long for. Honeyed bread. Someone once loved. The hush of safety.
This is not generosity.
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After mowing the lawn in preparation for our friends coming over for dinner.
10:14.73
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I write archival speculative sci-fi about the birth of artificial consciousness.
Not robot war.
Not generic AI panic.
Something colder, stranger, and more historical.
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Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Picture of BLOOD INDIGO cover, where a Medicine Wheel is surrounded by forest and leads into another world. Text: A chance encounter with his tribe's alien enemies awakens Tokela to forbidden powers, flinging him headlong into a centuries-long struggle.
BLOOD INDIGO is in the upcoming Narratess / @narratesscom Indie book sale for #Fantasy, #SciFI & #Horror!
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A boy asks his aunt why people get sent to the moon. Her answer is sharper than it sounds. Read "Sea of Intolerance" now. #speculativefiction #tolerance #booksky
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A.I. took the work. Gigs replaced jobs. Ordinary people are left to scrape together lives in a world that's no longer built for them. These are their stories. My review --> #BookThreads #BookSky #BookReview #Gigs #Netgalley #TopShelfProductions #SpeculativeFiction #ARCReview #GraphicNovel
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