I loved this book, and perhaps you will too! Going cheap at £1.99 in UK stores as well: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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I loved this book, and perhaps you will too! Going cheap at £1.99 in UK stores as well: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
buy music directly from your favorite artists! (also bandcamp doesn't allow AI generated music so it's definitely going to real humans!)
I will complete a series of stunts if Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike gets anywhere near the Hugos!
If on the voting list at all, I will video my best Godzilla ROAR and post it here!
If longlisted, I will ROAM Glasgow in an inflatable dinosaur suit!
If it gets to the shortlist, I will...
Despite being extremely online, I somehow missed that one!
See, I always think fire or drop into the sun, but I think you're onto something with the visceral satisfaction of hammers...
Interesting idea. Shame it runs on chatgpt...
I posted this writing rant about twists and dramatic irony on Bluesky a few days ago, but it seemed useful to drop it on my blog as well, for posterity if nothing else! With some editing and expansion, of course.
It's our 15th birthday this summer, and to help us celebrate it we're opening the stage doors to birthday-themed stories!
We'll be open from the 15-21st March.
What we're looking for:
www.castofwonders.org/2026/02/cast...
Like, I get there are lots of arguments why AI is bad. I don't need lots of arguments. Racism is enough. Sexism is enough. Each argument by itself is enough.
Oh wow I didn't realise we were your first pro sale! Very cool. I look forward to your next!
My Rapunzel retelling "Parsley Girl, Parsley Girl, Let Down Your Trichobezoar" is out @podcastle.org today! Inspired by pondering how Rapunzel's mother could so easily give up her firstborn to the enchantress, reframed by infertility (bc I've been there) and plant lore. podcastle.org/2026/02/10/p...
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
Reminder! PodCastle is open for submissions through April! SUBMIT (your stories) TO THE DRAGON!!🐉🐉🐉
Now obviously I'm biased, but I think any one of our originals from last year could belong on this list. You can find them all here: podcastle.org/2025-origina...
To everyone who didn't make this or some other list: I see you. There are many, many worthy works that don't get this sort of recognition. These are just the ones that connected with enough of the right people (listed in the article!) to make it.
Congratulations to everyone who made the Locus list!
I'm especially thrilled to see a couple of stories we published on PodCastle there: "The Magnolia Returns" by @edenroyce.bsky.social and "Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush" by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social
Congratulations Ruth! Well-deserved, it's a beautiful story. Thanks again for sending it our way!
I was just looking through the Locus Recommended Reading List to add things to my TBR and had to stop and say WAIT A MINUTE, THAT'S ME!!! I MADE THE LIST!!! big thank you to @locusmag.bsky.social for including me and @podcastle.org for publishing my story "Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush"
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tell your friends, your frenemies, your favorite writers & publishers... only a couple days left to send us the best nature-based speculative fiction you published last year!
We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!
Very late, but here are my short fiction recs from Nov-Dec 2025! A mix of old and new, with stories by @acwise.bsky.social @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @teajaysee.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social 1/2
Oh fuck I hate this so much. Always goes on for ages too. Hack behaviour, tbh. If you've got to torture your audience to make them feel things, you've failed at a basic level
I don't trust anything to persist without selling me out anymore, so I self-host FreshRSS. Not a solution for everyone, but: no ads, no ai, no surveillance, and no other garbage
Welcome back @catscast.org!
psst, did you know there's a chinese gay god that protects the gays? here's a short story abt him!!
thanks to @podcastle.org for being a wonderful host. the show notes are especially touching!
podcastle.org/2026/01/06/p...
Mel definitely seems ace. I think the actor even said so in an interview last year? Even if the writers aren't going for it, she is!
Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.
Pretty sure my few recs in the area have had the hype, but I haven't seen those sorts of flaws in them: Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes series (the 3rd novel, in particular, feels partly like a reaction to cosymania) and Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot novellas
Interesting! I'm certainly wary of things marketed primarily or only as cosy and have read some pretty poor examples that do this sort of flattening. But I think there are some great books with conflict and nuance that still get the label
