Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, I was unnerved to visit Central Park in New York and see buildings three times the height of the trees. Not the usual order of things at all.
Tachyon Press are having a year end sale for the rest of 2025, 30% off sitewide with the code YEAREND30 tachyonpublications.com including wonderful books by Theodora Goss, Patricia McKillip, Jane Yolen, me, Peter Beagle, Michael Swanwick, James Morrow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, etc
Cover of 2025 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing, edited by Susan Orlean. The cover illustration is an organic looking pattern of pine green and aquamarine with pink dots - it could be a maze or a William Morris wallpaper design.
Today is publication day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing!
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
BEADS!
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Totally thrilled that Letters from an Imaginary Country got a starred review from Library Journal. :)
"VERDICT: Goss’s writing begs to be savored, blending wonder and heartache in perfect proportions and sprinkling in literature, science, and folklore."
Now Everybody's Perfect is available for preorder on bookshop.org! Coming in June next year to a great local bookstore near you! bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
In her latest reading list, @bluejo.bsky.social sings the praises of Hilary Mantel, exciting new work by Naomi Kritzer, and the joys of romance/romantasy done right, along with some interesting but odder reads...
reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...
Photo of Ada Palmer and Jo Walton holding the advanced release copy of the book, sitting in front of a bookcase covered with science fiction and action figures.
The book cover. It shows stacks of old and much loved paperback books with classic science fiction and fantasy fonts, stacked so their titles spell out the title of the book. The mood is cozy, warm, and bibliophilic, like curling up in a corner overstuffed armchair to look over a friend’s bookcase and smile at the mixture of familiar and new book friends.
The back of the book. The blurb reads: “in “Trace Elements”, Jo Walton and Ada Palmer have come together in a supremely entertaining look at modern science fiction and fantasy, at how out genre is written and how it is read, that will join nonfiction works like Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Language of the Night,” Samuel R. Delany’s “The Jewel-Hinged Jaw”, and “Understanding Comics” by Scot McCloud, on the short shelf of titles essential to all readers of our genre.” ☺️😅
The ARCs are here!! “Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy” coming out Tor Books in March 2026 from me and @bluejo.bsky.social
Wow! Brilliant for writers!
Another gargoyle reading in the wild.
Am going to miss the old LAC. In a city full of construction, it’s a bunker of quiet. Even blasting next door just sounded like someone had dropped a really big book in the back!
Wroclaw, Poland, each cathedral, even the rivers have a tactile model nearby for blind people to also experience them.
More of this kind of thing, please?
My new consulting company now has a website! www.tikanuconsulting.com
I was hearing “Empty chairs and empty tables” in the final moments.
