Donna Scott

The first rule of Fight Crab is... you do not little wooden fork about Fight Crab.

I posted this pretty late, so here it is again for sensible time keeping people!

Obsidian and Award News Hello everyone Long time, no post, but I am very excited to share some very exciting news with you. First of all, huge congratulations to Rick Danforth, whose short story "One Step at a Time" from The Slab Press's solarpunk anthology Vivid Worlds has been shortlisted for the BSFA Awards, so if you are a member of either BSFA or Eastercon, you will be able to vote for it.

Obsidian and Award News

Hello everyone Long time, no post, but I am very excited to share some very exciting news with you. First of all, huge congratulations to Rick Danforth, whose short story "One Step at a Time" from The Slab Press's solarpunk anthology Vivid Worlds has been shortlisted for…

One Step at a Time One Step at a Time, published in the Vivid Worlds anthology by Slab Press, has been shortlisted for the BSFA Short Fiction award. Editor Donna Scott has kindly allowed me to showcase the story here…

@theslabpress.bsky.social editor Donna has kindly let me post Vivid Worlds for free on my website during the @bsfa.bsky.social awards process.

It is a finalist for the Short Fiction, and if you would like to consider it, you can find it here. It may get weird.

www.rickdanforth.com/one-step-at-...

Neil and I will be there!

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I think I have one of those juries too. I just shush them, which is apparently quite blunt of me.

Oh yeah, and hypothyroidism also has this in case you get hit by that whammy too.

A list of award nominations that I'm not truly sure how I got but I'm eternally grateful for. Including best short fiction, best short non fiction, best audio and best younger readers categories.

I'm both overwhelmed and very grateful to have 5 items on the @bsfa.bsky.social award short list.

It's an honour to be nominated against pieces from:
@foxesandroses.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
@drfionamoore.bsky.social
@bethkesh.bsky.social
@emilyinkpen.bsky.social

Congrats all 🙌

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Congratulations! I love this novel!

Congratulations! So sorry we missed out on 100kg for Best of British Science Fiction but so happy for you that it got shortlisted.

And good morning!

This week, I have to finish This Bursted Earth (Garth Marenghi) - going to see him tonight!
Got to start Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. In my ears on the way to work I'll have Mark Lawrence's The Book That Broke the World. Gives me this morning to finish Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice.

Congratulations!

Vivid Worlds Book cover - green space ship and leaf design. edited by Donna Scott with stories by Ana Sun Cévile Cristofari David Cleden Liam Hogan Holly Schofield and many more...

Many congratulations to @rickandwrite.bsky.social whose story "One Step at a Time" from The Slab Press's anthology Vivid Worlds has been shortlisted for the BSFA Awards, Best Short Fiction.

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Woo! Having a lovely time selling books in Coventry!

That would be fab!

I'm selling books today in Coventry for @theslabpress.bsky.social !

I kind of suspected Dinosaur by @ashleystorrie.bsky.social might be fantastic and it jolly well is. 🦕🦖🪶
Apologies for being late to the party.

Table of Conundrums A month or so back, we announced the table of contents for Best of British Science Fiction on social media. I'm afraid I didn't get round t...

I've written a blog about changes we had to make with the table of contents for Best of British Science Fiction 2025.
www.bestofbritishsciencefiction.co.uk/2026/02/tabl...

No idea where you're headed, but I hear there are no Swiss Parkruns!

That's lovely!

i smoke me a ripper will be back for breakfast ALT: i smoke me a ripper will be back for breakfast

So sad to hear the news about Rob Grant.

Did a bit of a squee when I saw Lindsay Santoro was in it, mind!

I warn you, this drama is very horrible to watch because of the subject matter, but it is superbly done and essential info, so have a cushion ready to hide your eyes at the sewage shots.
Anytime you hear "unnecessary regulation", some grifter is about to make a tonne and we're going to pay for it.

Poster reads: Coventry Book Extravaganza Join us at the Albany Theatre Saturday 28th February 2026 10:30 - 16:00 Albany Theatre, Coventry www.rosiesretrobazaar.co.uk

Just two days to go!

I stood in the garden this morning and heard all the birdsong change around me. It's not March yet, but they're all convinced it is.

So sorry, Jonathan.