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Cover art by Silas Goewey for BCS #453, featuring a tower of weird stacked blocks spilling golden liquid into a pool

Cover art by Silas Goewey for BCS #453, featuring a tower of weird stacked blocks spilling golden liquid into a pool

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by W.A. Hamilton and Justin Wesley Ferguson and new cover art by Silas Goewey. weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

11.03.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Need a non-ai-generated picture of a Terminator wearing a "human authored" sticker on its chassis as it gets curbstomped by Sarah Connor

11.03.2026 11:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Libreture for Authors How to use Libreture to show off your books, allow readers to wishlist and find out where to buy them.

I built Libreture as an alternative, independent ebook ecosystem. And as an author you can use all of Libreture's existing features to promote your own books. πŸ’œ

Here's how!

11.03.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 by Scott Andrews A third double-issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a full-length novella by multiple-time BCS Science-Fantasy Month author Jason Sanford and science-fantasy cover art β€œProject Elderidge 1...

Part 1 of my novella "Where the Dream Train Goes" is out in the science fantasy issue 452 of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, with Part 2 dropping next week. The story is a very personal secondary world fantasy about living on the autistic spectrum and how people continually steal the dreams of others. 1/

05.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 Issue #452 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, one of three special double-issues for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a novella by Jason Sanford and a short story by J.W. Halicks, behin...

And if you can't wait to read Part 2, @weightlessbooks.bsky.social has the entire novella available for purchase right now. 3/
weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

05.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

An underrated advantage of reading paper books is getting your steps in by walking to the library

06.03.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 285 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 69 Cover and Table of Contents! - Uncanny Magazine Coming March 3, the 69th issue of the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online c...

I just downloaded my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 69 from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social and went straight to @wiswell.bsky.social 's "Welcome to Heroism." It has some really funny scenes and thought provoking ideas. Another great story by John. 4/7 on the web. www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-maga...

05.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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tell us about doubt - Small Wonders A priest / of the Universe / began

We love a good erasure poem, where the poet creates a poem by removing words from an existing text. In "tell us about doubt", Rath Mercury has gifted us with a two-stranded poem about the universe.

04.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Argentina, A Tale of Two Utopias Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias takes us through the outsized and unexpected remnants of the influence of anarchist ideas and practice on modern-day Argentinaβ€”from the names of popular pastries to th...

New from our favorite radical indie press, @pmpress.bsky.social: Argentina, A Tale of Two Utopias by Tomas Rothaus takes us through the outsized and unexpected remnants of the influence of anarchist ideas and practice on modern-day Argentina: weightlessbooks.com/argentina-a-...

04.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover art for Uncanny #69, featuring a green-haired woman with a snake coiled at her brow, levitating a flower, against a background of lily pads

Cover art for Uncanny #69, featuring a green-haired woman with a snake coiled at her brow, levitating a flower, against a background of lily pads

Next up, a new issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! And would you look at that ToC weightlessbooks.com/uncanny-maga...

04.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
World War II–era U.S. War Food Administration poster reading β€œYOUR VICTORY GARDEN counts more than ever!” in large blue letters at the top. The illustration features oversized vegetablesβ€”a pea pod filled with peas, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and radishesβ€”arranged prominently in the foreground. In the background, two farmers tend neat rows of crops under a blue sky. The style is colorful and graphic, typical of 1940s American war posters.

World War II–era U.S. War Food Administration poster reading β€œYOUR VICTORY GARDEN counts more than ever!” in large blue letters at the top. The illustration features oversized vegetablesβ€”a pea pod filled with peas, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and radishesβ€”arranged prominently in the foreground. In the background, two farmers tend neat rows of crops under a blue sky. The style is colorful and graphic, typical of 1940s American war posters.

Pretty sure this is gonna be the companion image to @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's story in Issue 2.

03.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of The Green Man's Heir by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin.

The image is of a golden Green Man face against a dark green forest background.

The cover of The Green Man's Heir by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin. The image is of a golden Green Man face against a dark green forest background.

Our ebooks are now available through Bookshop.org. Go ye forth and support your local, independent bookshop!
uk.bookshop.org/p/bo...

03.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This sale is on through the end of today, and I'm very pleased to see some folks taking advantage!

02.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Seven Virtues of ChevaliΓ¨re Jacqueline Aridon - Small Wonders When Jacqueline learned she would not meet ChevaliΓ¨re Violette Montagne until the final mΓͺlΓ©e, she proclaimed, β€œThank God.”

Start your Monday off by reviewing the seven virtues and how ChevaliΓ¨re Jacqueline Aridon embodies them while taking part in mech jousting in today's story by S.β€ŠC. Mills .

02.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
Interzone 304 is out now Issue 304 of Interzone magazine is available to buy now at Scarlet Ferret.

Issue 304 of Interzone magazine is available to buy now at Scarlet Ferret.

02.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Here's that Interzone 304 cover again, this time with much more detailed alt text from the artist, Emma Howitt

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Cover art for Interzone 304, featuring a rattlesnake and a jackrabbit facing off across fissured desert ground

Cover art for Interzone 304, featuring a rattlesnake and a jackrabbit facing off across fissured desert ground

And now, all-unexpected, we have a new issue of INTERZONE! weightlessbooks.com/interzone-304/

02.03.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Cover art for Clarkesworld #234, featuring a green person sitting atop a red machine against a yellow sunset

Cover art for Clarkesworld #234, featuring a green person sitting atop a red machine against a yellow sunset

Cover art for Forever #134, featuring red concentric circles

Cover art for Forever #134, featuring red concentric circles

Cover art for Luna Station Quarterly Issue 065, featuring a nude woman leaning on a sword at the edge of a pool, with glowing green water cascading from her hair down her back

Cover art for Luna Station Quarterly Issue 065, featuring a nude woman leaning on a sword at the edge of a pool, with glowing green water cascading from her hair down her back

Continuing with new March/spring issues, this morning we are sending out @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever, and @lunastation.bsky.social to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2026/03/

02.03.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

#booksky #xl8

01.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my new story is in @foofarawpress.bsky.social β€˜s Mindlessly Massive March issue! check it out if you love the speculative and surreal.

01.03.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Weightless!! If you all are looking for some good reading subscribe to any number of quality fiction journals via Weightless 🫢

01.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

March is going to be a huge month for us. Double the stories, triple the word count compared to a typical month. Welcome to the inaugural Mindlessly Massive March!

01.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am tremendously fond of this weird little book and you should grab it.

(Rights are reverting to the Gorodischer estate; I’d be shocked if they didn’t put it back in print again at some point. Still.)

01.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great deal from Small Beer Press & @weightlessbooks.bsky.social! TRAFALGAR was the first of Gorodischer’s books I translated, will always hold a special place for me.

01.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover art for Quotidian Bagatelle 003, featuring a field of poppies below snow-covered crags

Cover art for Quotidian Bagatelle 003, featuring a field of poppies below snow-covered crags

Cover art for Lightspeed issue 190, featuring a girl looking up at a menacing alien robot

Cover art for Lightspeed issue 190, featuring a girl looking up at a menacing alien robot

Cover art for the March issue of Locus, featuring a huge moon over a misty woods where the trees look like women.

Cover art for the March issue of Locus, featuring a huge moon over a misty woods where the trees look like women.

Cover art for Small Wonders #33, featuring a boy and a small dragon walking on a path through the snow

Cover art for Small Wonders #33, featuring a boy and a small dragon walking on a path through the snow

New spring issues at Weightless continue with @nightmare-magazine.com, Quotidian Bagatelle, and @smallwondersmag.com, and there are quite a few more forthcoming! Get them here: weightlessbooks.com/2026/03/?ord...

01.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover art for Lightspeed issue 190, featuring a girl looking up at a menacing alien robot

Cover art for Lightspeed issue 190, featuring a girl looking up at a menacing alien robot

Cover art for the March issue of Locus, featuring a huge moon over a misty woods where the trees look like women.

Cover art for the March issue of Locus, featuring a huge moon over a misty woods where the trees look like women.

Cover art for Quotidian Bagatelle 003, featuring a field of poppies below snow-covered crags

Cover art for Quotidian Bagatelle 003, featuring a field of poppies below snow-covered crags

Cover art for Small Wonders #33, featuring a boy and a small dragon walking on a path through the snow

Cover art for Small Wonders #33, featuring a boy and a small dragon walking on a path through the snow

New spring issues at Weightless continue with @nightmare-magazine.com, Quotidian Bagatelle, and @smallwondersmag.com, and there are quite a few more forthcoming! Get them here: weightlessbooks.com/2026/03/?ord...

01.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover art for The Dark #130, featuring a hooded figure standing in an arched passageway

Cover art for The Dark #130, featuring a hooded figure standing in an arched passageway

Cover art for Dirty Magick #19, featuring a rainbow hitting a pot of gold in a dark wood

Cover art for Dirty Magick #19, featuring a rainbow hitting a pot of gold in a dark wood

Cover art for Flash Fiction Online #150, featuring an abstract pink and brown pattern

Cover art for Flash Fiction Online #150, featuring an abstract pink and brown pattern

Cover art for Foofaraw 006, Mindlessly Massive, featuring an abstract image combining a hand, a face, a train tunnel, a sword, a curtain...

Cover art for Foofaraw 006, Mindlessly Massive, featuring an abstract image combining a hand, a face, a train tunnel, a sword, a curtain...

March issues are here, and they are numerous! Alphabetical by title, Weightless now has available to subscribers and well-wishers new issues of The Dark, Dirty Magick, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, @foofarawpress.bsky.social Zine, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @locusmag.bsky.social, (continued) ...

01.03.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

Every time more of Gorodischer's work appears in translation, I buy it. I have not once been disappointed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%...

01.03.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover art for TRAFALGAR by AngΓ©lica Gorodischer, translated by Amalia Gladhart, featuring a stylized comet striking the earth under a full moon

Cover art for TRAFALGAR by AngΓ©lica Gorodischer, translated by Amalia Gladhart, featuring a stylized comet striking the earth under a full moon

Angelica Gorodischer's TRALFAGAR, translated by @amaliag.bsky.social, an excellent, weird, subtle book, is going out of print from Small Beer Press, so they've put it on sale for just $1.99 thru Monday! Get it if you haven't: weightlessbooks.com/trafalgar/

01.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 Issue #452 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, one of three special double-issues for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a novella by Jason Sanford and a short story by J.W. Halicks, behin...

The new science-fantasy issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is available on @weightlessbooks.bsky.social. The issue contains my complete novella "Where the Dream Train Goes," a secondary world fantasy about living on the autistic spectrum and how people continually steal the dreams of others. 1/

27.02.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0