Edward Austin Hall
@edwardaustinhall.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, and editor (co-editor of /Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond/); my recent work includes /Gesticulating Riffraff/ and /Dread Isle/, both published by Gumbohaus.
Banner caption: Outline of Navassa Island; design by Jennifer Smith
Banner caption: Outline of Navassa Island; design by Jennifer Smith
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This morning, my novel /Dread Isle/ is #83 on Amazon's list of bestselling Black & African American Science Fiction. As often happens, one of its neighbors is an Octavia Butler book. As has never happened—to my knowledge—this time it's a Spanish-language version of her work (See #81)!
Congratulations, @silviapark.bsky.social! I learned just last night about the coming /Luminous/ adaptation! How thrilling!
variety.com/2022/tv/news...
variety.com/2022/tv/news...
Media Res to Adapt Silvia Park’s Sci-Fi Novel ‘Luminous’ for Television (EXCLUSIVE)
Media Res has optioned the rights to 'Luminous,' the Korea-set sci-fi novel from debut author Silvia Park.
variety.com
October 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Congratulations, @silviapark.bsky.social! I learned just last night about the coming /Luminous/ adaptation! How thrilling!
variety.com/2022/tv/news...
variety.com/2022/tv/news...
Peaceable kingdom vids always brighten my day.
October 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Peaceable kingdom vids always brighten my day.
Shades of Deanna Sirlin!
Rachel Hayes, contemporary artist who creates textile based largescale outdoor, site specific installations #WomensArt
September 17, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Shades of Deanna Sirlin!
Gorgeous ceramic works!
Lucy Ogden, ceramic artist living and working in Shoreham by Sea on the south coast of the UK #WomensArt (via Instagram)
September 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Gorgeous ceramic works!
Deep cut. Paint. Whatever.
Coyote vs ACME is now out in theaters! (At least for the US) Go and see the movie, one of the best films of the year!
August 28, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Deep cut. Paint. Whatever.
Well, @scalzi.com, I don't think I've ever laughed harder or longer while reading a novel than I did throughout the first dolphin scene in /Starter Villain/. Hats off, sir.
August 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Well, @scalzi.com, I don't think I've ever laughed harder or longer while reading a novel than I did throughout the first dolphin scene in /Starter Villain/. Hats off, sir.
Atlantans, full-time or transitory, please join me, noon–3p Saturday, 25 July 2026, at Offbeat Books for a six-year-late in-person bookstore event for my 2020 novel, /Dread Isle/. You might recall that a pandemic made such events tough at the time . . . .
www.offbeatbooks.com/events/dread...
www.offbeatbooks.com/events/dread...
Book Signing: Edward Austin Hall — Offbeat Books
Come check out Dread Isle , an atmospheric work of speculative fiction by Atlanta author Edward Austin Hall.
www.offbeatbooks.com
July 11, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Atlantans, full-time or transitory, please join me, noon–3p Saturday, 25 July 2026, at Offbeat Books for a six-year-late in-person bookstore event for my 2020 novel, /Dread Isle/. You might recall that a pandemic made such events tough at the time . . . .
www.offbeatbooks.com/events/dread...
www.offbeatbooks.com/events/dread...
Clearly, jazz great Mel Brooks missed his calling.
He could've been a comedy legend!
He could've been a comedy legend!
Melvin James Kaminsky: the 100 year old man. Actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, drummer - and now, centenarian. I've rarely laughed quite as hard as I did the first times I watched The Producers and Blazing Saddles.
Happy Birthday Mel Brooks, King of Comedy.
"It's good to be the King"
Happy Birthday Mel Brooks, King of Comedy.
"It's good to be the King"
June 28, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Clearly, jazz great Mel Brooks missed his calling.
He could've been a comedy legend!
He could've been a comedy legend!
Wait for the punchline!
Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks
June 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Wait for the punchline!
Hey, @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social! Your novel /Summerlong/ saved me from rafts of nonstarters. Can hardly wait to see where it goes!
May 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Hey, @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social! Your novel /Summerlong/ saved me from rafts of nonstarters. Can hardly wait to see where it goes!
Congratulations to @silviapark.bsky.social, who is among the finalists for the 2026 @locusmag.bsky.social award in the First Novel category! If you haven't yet read /Luminous/, I urge you to do so. It was my favorite book of 2025!
locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...
locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...
2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists
Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…
locusmag.com
April 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Congratulations to @silviapark.bsky.social, who is among the finalists for the 2026 @locusmag.bsky.social award in the First Novel category! If you haven't yet read /Luminous/, I urge you to do so. It was my favorite book of 2025!
locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...
locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...
GYFMB
February 28, 2026 at 1:37 AM
GYFMB
What a pleasure it was to again hear you talking books, @katekilla.bsky.social! That hour of you and Bill Nigut on WABE-FM made my Saturday.
February 18, 2026 at 2:42 PM
What a pleasure it was to again hear you talking books, @katekilla.bsky.social! That hour of you and Bill Nigut on WABE-FM made my Saturday.
Consider giving, sharing, or both, won't you?
This man was murdered by an off-duty ICE agent and he has two young daughters who will not have the support of a father ever again. We can't raise even $300k for these girls?
February 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Consider giving, sharing, or both, won't you?
Yep. The man in the mirror.
January 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Yep. The man in the mirror.
/The Only Plane in the Sky/ by @vermontgmg.bsky.social proved to be the book I needed amid trying times. You might think that an oral history of 9/11 would be the last thing to read during an extended period of mourning. Not so for me. For hours at a time, I could not put the book down.
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
/The Only Plane in the Sky/ by @vermontgmg.bsky.social proved to be the book I needed amid trying times. You might think that an oral history of 9/11 would be the last thing to read during an extended period of mourning. Not so for me. For hours at a time, I could not put the book down.
Hats off to @silviapark.bsky.social, whose first novel left me bedazzled.
www.artpapers.org/shining-appy...
www.artpapers.org/shining-appy...
Shining, Appy ‘People’—Silvia Park’s Luminous Transpositions - Art Papers
Park animates the tug-of-war between pareidolia and paraphilia that would reasonably beset a society populated by androids who can pass for human, humanoid robots that cannot, some humans whose bionic...
www.artpapers.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Hats off to @silviapark.bsky.social, whose first novel left me bedazzled.
www.artpapers.org/shining-appy...
www.artpapers.org/shining-appy...
Heh.
January 14, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Heh.
My latest book review (and probably my last ever for ART PAPERS) just hit the web:
www.artpapers.org/shining-appy...
www.artpapers.org/shining-appy...
Shining, Appy ‘People’—Silvia Park’s Luminous Transpositions - Art Papers
Park animates the tug-of-war between pareidolia and paraphilia that would reasonably beset a society populated by androids who can pass for human, humanoid robots that cannot, some humans whose bionic...
www.artpapers.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
My latest book review (and probably my last ever for ART PAPERS) just hit the web:
www.artpapers.org/shining-appy...
www.artpapers.org/shining-appy...
A waft wafted purely for numerical symmetry: As I key it in, I am following 119 Blue Skyers.
This waft is my 119th.
This waft is my 119th.
December 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A waft wafted purely for numerical symmetry: As I key it in, I am following 119 Blue Skyers.
This waft is my 119th.
This waft is my 119th.
A spectacular shot, @glendunlap.bsky.social!
Here's a shot I got this year that I like a lot. I'm pretty sure this was on Trona Road on the way to some legit Milky way action in the desert! #Photography
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A spectacular shot, @glendunlap.bsky.social!
/Bizarro/ might be the thing I miss most about not seeing newspapers anymore.
The little bit of this Piraro web comic that I've read so far goes a long way toward filling that void!
See for yourself?
The little bit of this Piraro web comic that I've read so far goes a long way toward filling that void!
See for yourself?
Dan Piraro (of Bizarro) -- his online graphic novel.
HOME - PEYOTE COWBOY
Somewhere in the Old West, a cowboy and his son stumble into a world they don't understand… Introducing PEYOTE COWBOY a graphic novel by Diego Piraro creator of Bizarro.
peyotecowboy.net
December 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
/Bizarro/ might be the thing I miss most about not seeing newspapers anymore.
The little bit of this Piraro web comic that I've read so far goes a long way toward filling that void!
See for yourself?
The little bit of this Piraro web comic that I've read so far goes a long way toward filling that void!
See for yourself?
What? You haven't read /Infomocracy/!?!
Whatever are you waiting for?
Whatever are you waiting for?
real talk though if you follow me you probably know SOMEONE who will say "this book was written for me?!" And that's an awesome feeling to give someone ☺️
If you're looking for a quick present for someone, ebooks are always great, and I've got a great one for the poli-sci, cyberpunk, big data nerd, and/or sci fi political thriller fan in your life.
www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...
www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...
December 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What? You haven't read /Infomocracy/!?!
Whatever are you waiting for?
Whatever are you waiting for?
This morning, my novel /Dread Isle/ is #83 on Amazon's list of bestselling Black & African American Science Fiction. As often happens, one of its neighbors is an Octavia Butler book. As has never happened—to my knowledge—this time it's a Spanish-language version of her work (See #81)!
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This morning, my novel /Dread Isle/ is #83 on Amazon's list of bestselling Black & African American Science Fiction. As often happens, one of its neighbors is an Octavia Butler book. As has never happened—to my knowledge—this time it's a Spanish-language version of her work (See #81)!