Vanessa Fogg
@vanessafogg.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy writer. Also lapsed scientist and freelance medical writer. Website: vanessafogg.com
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Vanessa Fogg
@vanessafogg.bsky.social
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The House of Illusionists – Vanessa Fogg, Writer
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New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.
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Happy 1 year book birthday to Audition For The Fox! This lil book has scampered further into the world than I could have ever hoped & I've spent the last 365 days happily overwhelmed.
Read more at the blog, enter a GIVEAWAY(!), and see my newest favorite review! 🦊💜
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Read more at the blog, enter a GIVEAWAY(!), and see my newest favorite review! 🦊💜
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September 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Happy 1 year book birthday to Audition For The Fox! This lil book has scampered further into the world than I could have ever hoped & I've spent the last 365 days happily overwhelmed.
Read more at the blog, enter a GIVEAWAY(!), and see my newest favorite review! 🦊💜
buttondown.com/mcahill90/ar...
Read more at the blog, enter a GIVEAWAY(!), and see my newest favorite review! 🦊💜
buttondown.com/mcahill90/ar...
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rip annie dillard
September 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
rip annie dillard
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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
bit.ly/LS-NM-26
bit.ly/LS-NM-26
September 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
bit.ly/LS-NM-26
bit.ly/LS-NM-26
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The Forged in FIYAH anthology releases September 29!! These next few weeks I get to gush about these incredible authors and share a fave line or two from their original short stories. To start we salute @mhayinde.bsky.social with The Clothmaker of Kehin 🔥🔥🔥
September 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
The Forged in FIYAH anthology releases September 29!! These next few weeks I get to gush about these incredible authors and share a fave line or two from their original short stories. To start we salute @mhayinde.bsky.social with The Clothmaker of Kehin 🔥🔥🔥
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the point of freeing yourself from the prison of ego is not getting there you’re not gonna do that. never gonna happen. the point is cultivating a practice of routinely asking “wait, I am too into my own shit here?” in every aspect of your dealings at least once or twice a day. anyhow good morning
September 14, 2026 at 10:14 AM
the point of freeing yourself from the prison of ego is not getting there you’re not gonna do that. never gonna happen. the point is cultivating a practice of routinely asking “wait, I am too into my own shit here?” in every aspect of your dealings at least once or twice a day. anyhow good morning
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Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... https://locusmag.com/
September 14, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... https://locusmag.com/
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Eric Primm returns to us to discuss a novella with a lot of buzz right now, SL Huang's The Language of Liars. He finds a book that "tells its story in its title."
The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang
The Language of Liars tells its story in its title.
strangehorizons.com
September 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Eric Primm returns to us to discuss a novella with a lot of buzz right now, SL Huang's The Language of Liars. He finds a book that "tells its story in its title."
"The minute you ask the machine to take over for you, you’ve given up the idea. Telling someone (or something) to make a thing for you is not the same as making that thing. In art, idea is inseparable from expression, and doing the thing is the only thing."
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-si...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-si...
A Sigilary for the Median Human in the Gearwrack - Uncanny Magazine
The Sigil of Assurance You take a bit of wax and drip it over the em dash fresh out of the printer, working it over, building it up until it’s a little caterpillar crawling on the page, nestled betwee...
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September 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"The minute you ask the machine to take over for you, you’ve given up the idea. Telling someone (or something) to make a thing for you is not the same as making that thing. In art, idea is inseparable from expression, and doing the thing is the only thing."
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-si...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-si...
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Since other people are already talking 2027 releases, guess it's time for my niche: here is a post for listing out weird fiction publishing next year. Readers, writers, presses, publicists, whoever, let me know what's what.
August 24, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Since other people are already talking 2027 releases, guess it's time for my niche: here is a post for listing out weird fiction publishing next year. Readers, writers, presses, publicists, whoever, let me know what's what.
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ICYMI,
My new story is out at Reactor!
"Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds" contains:
🧠Artificial minds
👭A broken marriage
🔎An investigation
💔A broken-hearted dating app
⚰️A grieving counseling bot
My new story is out at Reactor!
"Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds" contains:
🧠Artificial minds
👭A broken marriage
🔎An investigation
💔A broken-hearted dating app
⚰️A grieving counseling bot
A neurauditor must find out why three artifical minds–a military drone controller, a counseling chatbot, and a dating app–are failing in their jobs.
"Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds" by @renanbernardo.com is out!
Art by @mirkoilic.bsky.social
Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
"Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds" by @renanbernardo.com is out!
Art by @mirkoilic.bsky.social
Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds - Reactor
A neurauditor must find out why three artificial minds--a military drone controller, a counseling chatbot, and a dating app--are failing in their jobs.
reactormag.com
September 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
ICYMI,
My new story is out at Reactor!
"Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds" contains:
🧠Artificial minds
👭A broken marriage
🔎An investigation
💔A broken-hearted dating app
⚰️A grieving counseling bot
My new story is out at Reactor!
"Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds" contains:
🧠Artificial minds
👭A broken marriage
🔎An investigation
💔A broken-hearted dating app
⚰️A grieving counseling bot
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hm what if I did a thread of fall books I personally think you should preorder. would anyone want that.
September 10, 2026 at 12:29 PM
hm what if I did a thread of fall books I personally think you should preorder. would anyone want that.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 7, 2026 at 6:44 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Some books I want to make sure y'all know exist (no particular order):
Red Ants, Kimberly Blaeser
Forged in Fiyah, DaVaun Sanders
It Looks Like You in the Dark, Mathilda Zeller
Something Followed Us Home, Cynthia Pelayo
The Killing Spell, Shay Kauwe
Just a taste of the many cool reads out there!❤️🔥
Red Ants, Kimberly Blaeser
Forged in Fiyah, DaVaun Sanders
It Looks Like You in the Dark, Mathilda Zeller
Something Followed Us Home, Cynthia Pelayo
The Killing Spell, Shay Kauwe
Just a taste of the many cool reads out there!❤️🔥
September 6, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Some books I want to make sure y'all know exist (no particular order):
Red Ants, Kimberly Blaeser
Forged in Fiyah, DaVaun Sanders
It Looks Like You in the Dark, Mathilda Zeller
Something Followed Us Home, Cynthia Pelayo
The Killing Spell, Shay Kauwe
Just a taste of the many cool reads out there!❤️🔥
Red Ants, Kimberly Blaeser
Forged in Fiyah, DaVaun Sanders
It Looks Like You in the Dark, Mathilda Zeller
Something Followed Us Home, Cynthia Pelayo
The Killing Spell, Shay Kauwe
Just a taste of the many cool reads out there!❤️🔥
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You can now read part of my short fiction review column from the August issue of LOCUS in Locus Online. Featuring stories from @lightspeedmagazine.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social and @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !
Strange Horizons 5/26, Lightspeed 6/26, and Kaleidotrope Spring ’26: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...
September 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
You can now read part of my short fiction review column from the August issue of LOCUS in Locus Online. Featuring stories from @lightspeedmagazine.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social and @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !
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Finally updated my author blog. It became too painful to contemplate writing that post I wanted to write about authorship and AI (how BIPOC/marginalised authors get continuously accused/gaslit), but I would up weaving some of those thoughts into this catch-up post.
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mythopoetica.com/2026/09/01/t...
The Forgotten Beauty of an Analogue Life – through wildwood, through water
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September 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Finally updated my author blog. It became too painful to contemplate writing that post I wanted to write about authorship and AI (how BIPOC/marginalised authors get continuously accused/gaslit), but I would up weaving some of those thoughts into this catch-up post.
mythopoetica.com/2026/09/01/t...
mythopoetica.com/2026/09/01/t...
Elder daughter just referred to the array of shampoos, conditioners, and soaps in the shower as the “shower condiments”
September 1, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Elder daughter just referred to the array of shampoos, conditioners, and soaps in the shower as the “shower condiments”
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An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock: Review by Vanessa Fogg locusmag.com/review/...
August 28, 2026 at 3:43 PM
An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock: Review by Vanessa Fogg locusmag.com/review/...
My Locus book review from July is now available online and free to read! A mesmerizing Gothic science-fiction horror which is also a contemporary tale of motherhood, marriage, and family secrets.
locusmag.com/review/an-im...
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An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock: Review by Vanessa Fogg - Locus
An Impossibility of Crows, Kirsten Kaschock (University of Massachusetts Press 978-1-62534-925-5, $22.95, 248pp, tp) March 2026. The premise for this novel is one that I found irresistible: A troubled...
locusmag.com
August 29, 2026 at 3:02 AM
My Locus book review from July is now available online and free to read! A mesmerizing Gothic science-fiction horror which is also a contemporary tale of motherhood, marriage, and family secrets.
locusmag.com/review/an-im...
locusmag.com/review/an-im...
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the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
August 27, 2026 at 6:54 PM
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Hackenburg’s paper is the latest in a string of studies showing the power of AI to sway people. “It’s a whole new field that is emerging,” says @profsanderlinden.bsky.social. “People are very interested in the persuasive powers of AI, I think, both for ethical and unethical reasons”🧪
In @science.org
In @science.org
AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?
ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans
www.science.org
August 22, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Hackenburg’s paper is the latest in a string of studies showing the power of AI to sway people. “It’s a whole new field that is emerging,” says @profsanderlinden.bsky.social. “People are very interested in the persuasive powers of AI, I think, both for ethical and unethical reasons”🧪
In @science.org
In @science.org
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Remembering how @catvalente.bsky.social turned "Jolene" into a sapphic vampire tale.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...
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August 26, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Remembering how @catvalente.bsky.social turned "Jolene" into a sapphic vampire tale.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
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I'm excited to share that The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 anthology will be published by Wyrm Publishing in November. Full details on my blog:
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Next installment in the Best Science Fiction of the Year series – Neil Clarke
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August 25, 2026 at 11:41 PM
I'm excited to share that The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 anthology will be published by Wyrm Publishing in November. Full details on my blog:
neil-clarke.com/next-install...
neil-clarke.com/next-install...
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My most recent essay, "Tempered and Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction," disappeared without much of a ripple when it came out, but I'm really proud of it, so I'll share it again now.
If you read it, I hope you like it.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
If you read it, I hope you like it.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Tempered And Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction
I have been told over and over that no one would be interested in what I have to say, that I am the “wrong kind” of minority to count. That my ancestors’ tales of enchantment and wonder—and so, min…
strangehorizons.com
August 18, 2026 at 9:46 PM
My most recent essay, "Tempered and Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction," disappeared without much of a ripple when it came out, but I'm really proud of it, so I'll share it again now.
If you read it, I hope you like it.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
If you read it, I hope you like it.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Oh wow. That ending
My literary, domestic horror flash piece "Black Envelope" is now out at "Tales from the Moonlit Path" talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/bl...
We all know the couple that stays together despite extreme ideological differences. What if that ideology was whether or not to know the date of your death?
We all know the couple that stays together despite extreme ideological differences. What if that ideology was whether or not to know the date of your death?
Black Envelope by Allison Pottern | Tales from the Moonlit Path
talesmoonlitpath.com
August 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Oh wow. That ending