I just recommended on #MetaFilter:

https://www.metafilter.com/208425/Cyberpunk-affection-green-silk-wariness-soup-danger-and-escape

"The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For" https://reactormag.com/the-girl-that-my-mother-is-leaving-me-for-cameron-reed/ , a new #scifi novelette by @LateOnsetGirl Cameron Reed, and an accompanying interview. Her first new published #sciencefiction since the 1990s.

"One can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk. The Scottish author was an outspoken socialist who could never understand why rightwing fans liked novels that were so obviously an attack on their worldview"

Excellent from Sam Freedman.

#SciFi #ElonMusk #Books #USPolitics #TechBros

The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world? | Science fiction books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world

A chilling image #Wordletrek
1984 (part 4)

That Wordle should imitate my reading Spock.Can you see it?

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” 1984

More meds needed Captain we think

Je crois que je tiens un concept.
Le cyberflunk.
C'est le cyberpunk vu par les technobros, mais raté.
Un monde ravagé par les échecs des oligarques qui croyaient trop à la SF. Les ignares qui ont cru que ce qui était une mise en garde décrivait un avenir désirable.

Ah merde, c'est pas vraiment de la SF.
Je me demande si je peux arriver à faire jouer quelqu'un là-dedans ? C'est trop déprimant…
#jdr #jeuderole #SF #scifi #cyberpunk #hopelesspunk

One of the things I enjoy most about seeing people's reactions to my books is that moment right after they've read two or three of them, when their previously-hidden connections become apparent and they start freaking out. Good times.

http://michaelshotter.com

@specfic @scifi @horrorbooks @audiobooks

Happy #MonDog! The pup is helping me spread the word: My new short story “What Kind of Bat Is This?” is available for free this week! It’s part of @susankayequinn’s Bright Green Futures anthology, which comes out on Earth Day, but you can get my story right now.

Grab the story for free here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0F3XTH5TH

And enter to win a plush bat and other prizes here: https://lnk.to/BGFgiveaway

For all Science Fiction fans out there, here’s a brand new Podcast, co-hosted by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Emma Newman. It was really good and will both remind you of books you’ve already read, and/or flag up those you’ve missed! What’s not to like? #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Bookstodon #AdrianTchaikovsky #EmmaNewman
#StarshipAlexandria

Edited to add another #

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/starship-alexandria/id1806388787

Spaceship Doodle.
Initial blockout.
Not sure where I'm going with this one yet.

Delightful conversation w/ @sarenaulibarri on the pod today about #climate #restoration vs. #rewilding & her story WHAT KIND OF BAT IS THIS? in the Bright Green Futures anthology (releases Earth Day!)

https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-29-climate-restoration-with-sarena

"A girl named Sandy."

When Paul Eric Carmichael, an older British astrophysicist, meets Sandy, a young girl from the United States, his life goes overboard in more than one way.
And what are those strange flying objects that seem to be heading towards our solar system?

Find it at https://paulkater.com/a-girl-named-sandy-science-fiction.html

Happy Birthday!
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author. His novel Islands in the Net won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1989, and was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards that same year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling
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SpaceshipADay Redux 1563. 2.5x3.5” Sketch Card. Want it? Message me! #scifi #sketch #spaceship #starship #conceptart #drawing #mastoart https://linktree.com/jeffzugale

The Guardian: The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?

Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to Thiel

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world #scifi #apocalpyse #tormentnexus

Please be good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGktlQdt0uc

But “I read half the book!” Why not everything?! #scifi #books @jenspoder @4nd3rs

1984 (part 3) Wordletrek

A bleak world in this story Spock
Not even Wordle

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” 1984
#humour #mondaythoughts #Scifi #Wordle #quotes

I’m having three book launches in June. Very grateful to these excellent writers and comrades for joining me!

Tarntanya/Adelaide - June 5
Launch with Walter Marsh at State Library of SA
Gadi/Sydney - June 12
In conversation with Intan Paramaditha at Better Read Than Dead Newtown
Naarm/Melbourne - June 19
In conversation with Jinghua Qian at Readings Carlton

All the details & booking info here: https://jennifermills.net.au/2025/04/14/salvage-launches/

Folks we are about an hour out from #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party. It's a big ol' tootstorm, so if you don't wanna join in I'd suggest filtering the hashtag.

If you DO want to join in, though, this week we're watching KRULL (1983), a sword-and-sorcery flop featuring a bunch of babyfaced future stars!

The movie's available on Tubi, or from Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/krull.-1983.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264.-yify_202408

Hit play at 9pm Eastern and toot about it with us!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Awakening-Ben-Berwick/dp/1958448141/ The sequel is due out this month, but first, discover the story of Seluban's exile, and his desperate fight to save his people from themselves, before a new enemy can destroy his empire. Fanatics, revenge and war, all in The Awakening! #Scifi #books