Scott Steensma

Cover of the March/April 2026 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact: an illusion of a girl holding a floating fruit to her lips, surrounded by planets with a light shining from her forehead

My novelette "False Light" is in the March/April issue of @analogsf.bsky.social !

If you like post-Earth stories or toxic relationship stories or mad-world-drives-girl-mad stories, then you might like this! And an excerpt is free to read online at analogsf.com/current-issue/story-excerpt1/ 📚🪐💙

More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

historical inaccuracies in fiction make people on the internet really, really angry, so you should include as many as you possibly can

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

My story The Pearl Divers of Connell-B is in the March/April @analogsf.bsky.social ! I'm beyond stoked to have work in the magazine that has published so many of my heroes, and I love the art that Eldar Zakirov created for it. analogsf.com/current-issu... #scifi #SF #writing

can't stress about all the problems with your first draft if you never read it again

Blurred image of a grassy cat chunder on an expensive mechanical keyboard.

If you have a cat, and you have a pot of indoor grass for that cat to munch on, and you have a nice mechanical keyboard... The three may meet in all sorts of fun, vomit-y ways. Blurred cleaning-panic photo, but that's probably for the best. #cats #writing #fml #catsofbluesky

Big congrats to @trnapper.bsky.social for taking out the Aurealis for the best SF novella! #scifi #sciencefiction #books @aurealisawards.bsky.social

Some big personal news: they’ve put me in charge of XBox!!! Microsoft LOVED my pitch for an XBox console that’s also a sandwich press

ok its time for the feelings post:
folks the show Strip Law comes out tomorrow on Netflix

i never thought id get my own thing to show everyone what i think is funny. i spent the last 2.5ish years (along with tons of other creatives to be lauded later) putting my entire being into this show...

Picture of a dropped meat pie smashed on a concrete train station staircase.

Today's found art in Melbourne. Title: Australian Tragedy. #art #Australia #meatpie #disaster

Dr Pepper was invented as a low-cost rat poison

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Absolutely devastating. Jon was a wonderful guy and the best political cartoonist Australia ever produced

Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

Thanks Alice! It has made my year so far :)

Thanks mate! It was a lovely surprise :)

Nice work, mate!

2025 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement We congratulate the Aurealis Awards finalists for 2025! The 2025 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, attracted more than 775 entries across 14 categories, including reco…

The Aurealis Award shortlist just dropped and I'm thrilled to receive two nods - SF Short Story ('Deja Vecu' - Austral 2025) and SF novella ('The Hidden God' - Asimov's).

It's a juried award and represents the best of Oz spec-fic. Congrats to all the nominees: aurealisawards.org/2026/02/01/2...

A brand new year goes well with a brand new story!
My latest story, “The Stars You Can’t See by Looking Directly,” is out now at Clarkesworld!
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Thanks! It has made my year :)

2025 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement We congratulate the Aurealis Awards finalists for 2025! The 2025 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, attracted more than 775 entries across 14 categories, including reco…

HONEYEATER is on it, but that Best Novel category is a killer selection!
aurealisawards.org/2026/02/01/2...

I'm beyond ecstatic to have been nominated for an Aurealis award! My SF short story 'Full Term' is up in the sci-fi short story category. Super stoked to be on a list with some of my favourite writers. #writing #sciencefiction #aurealisawards #scifi #writers #books

TO: World’s Biggest Pedophile
FROM: Elon Musk
SUBJECT: RE: Pedophile party on your pedophile island

Any other famous pedophiles going to be there? Looking forward to doing a bunch of pedophile stuff btw.

telling my adorable daughter i'm not putting the drawing she made on the fridge because it's toddlerslop

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

Elon Musk @elonmusk Hitler was a far left socialist. His party was called the national socialists. HotSotin @HotSotin North Korea is a democracy. Its name is Democratic People's Republic. B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny urinal cakes are for eating, it has cake in the name

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history