Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?
May 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?
Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
SF/F art by Philippe “Manchu” Bouchet (b. 1956).
October 11, 2026 at 6:27 PM
SF/F art by Philippe “Manchu” Bouchet (b. 1956).
I've donated and encourage other sf/f professionals and fans to do the same
Sheila Williams, the editor who ran Asimov's magazine for decades and nurtured countless new talent, needs our help.
Thread:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...
Thread:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...
Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce
Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care
www.gofundme.com
August 10, 2026 at 4:35 AM
I've donated and encourage other sf/f professionals and fans to do the same
It’s almost 100 F with 100% humidity 🥵 take me back to SF please 🌁
July 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It’s almost 100 F with 100% humidity 🥵 take me back to SF please 🌁
Really happy to see folks in the SF/F community here stepping up and donating to food banks and organizations that feed people. This is @adapalmer.bsky.social's doing, and it's making a difference. You can donate too, even if you're not on the Bluesky SF/F community. Need is everywhere.
Just now donated to casamariatucson.org, a group whose approach to hunger is to give people food.
Homepage - Casa Maria Soup Kitchen
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? – Dorothy Day Who are we Casa Maria is a Catholic Worker House...
casamariatucson.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Really happy to see folks in the SF/F community here stepping up and donating to food banks and organizations that feed people. This is @adapalmer.bsky.social's doing, and it's making a difference. You can donate too, even if you're not on the Bluesky SF/F community. Need is everywhere.
Over on the former Twitter I am still being blamed by certain dudes for SF/F going “woke,” and all I have to say to that is that if you think a middle-aged cis straight white man is largely responsible for the (in my opinion quite excellent) state of modern SF/F, you’re telling on yourself a lot.
October 22, 2023 at 5:56 PM
Over on the former Twitter I am still being blamed by certain dudes for SF/F going “woke,” and all I have to say to that is that if you think a middle-aged cis straight white man is largely responsible for the (in my opinion quite excellent) state of modern SF/F, you’re telling on yourself a lot.
The SF/F genre wants to support Asimov's, Analog and F&SF. The genre understands that there will be issues with a new owner taking over the magazines.
But Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the genre with secrecy, bad contracts and silence. 4/
But Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the genre with secrecy, bad contracts and silence. 4/
October 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The SF/F genre wants to support Asimov's, Analog and F&SF. The genre understands that there will be issues with a new owner taking over the magazines.
But Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the genre with secrecy, bad contracts and silence. 4/
But Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the genre with secrecy, bad contracts and silence. 4/
It's interesting to me that when I and other authors suggest starting people new to SF/F on contemporary titles as an easier step-in to the genre, there are people who seem to think this means we think no one should read anything in SF/F that's more than 20 years old, EVER. This is, uh, very silly.
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's interesting to me that when I and other authors suggest starting people new to SF/F on contemporary titles as an easier step-in to the genre, there are people who seem to think this means we think no one should read anything in SF/F that's more than 20 years old, EVER. This is, uh, very silly.
SF/F art by Don Maitz (b. 1953).
April 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
SF/F art by Don Maitz (b. 1953).
SF/F drawings by Mike Butkus.
June 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
SF/F drawings by Mike Butkus.
fellow authors/artists, stay the hell away from Must Read Magazines (Asimov's, Analog, F&SF)
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art.
And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
October 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
fellow authors/artists, stay the hell away from Must Read Magazines (Asimov's, Analog, F&SF)
People will do what it is allowed to them. For a very long time in SF/F it was allowed. Now it is explicitly forbidden - nearly every convention in SF/F has a harassment policy. Now the question is whether those policies will be enforced and enforced equally.
God dammit. It is just endemic isn't it.
February 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
People will do what it is allowed to them. For a very long time in SF/F it was allowed. Now it is explicitly forbidden - nearly every convention in SF/F has a harassment policy. Now the question is whether those policies will be enforced and enforced equally.
Jeremy Szal isn't the only SF/F author or fan no longer coming to Worldcon or other U.S. conventions b/c of Trump's actions. I know of many other people doing the same.
U.S. fandom has yet to truly process how all this is harming and changing international connections in the SF/F genre.
U.S. fandom has yet to truly process how all this is harming and changing international connections in the SF/F genre.
March 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Jeremy Szal isn't the only SF/F author or fan no longer coming to Worldcon or other U.S. conventions b/c of Trump's actions. I know of many other people doing the same.
U.S. fandom has yet to truly process how all this is harming and changing international connections in the SF/F genre.
U.S. fandom has yet to truly process how all this is harming and changing international connections in the SF/F genre.
There's a whole self-congratulatory myth in the DNA of SF/F fandom that in the mid-20th c., SF could Ask The Hard Questions by sneaking it in with spaceships and ray guns, but it's led to the notion that SF/F *should* try to teach a Very Valuable Lesson about a contemporary issue. But that's 1-d!
October 2, 2026 at 6:17 PM
There's a whole self-congratulatory myth in the DNA of SF/F fandom that in the mid-20th c., SF could Ask The Hard Questions by sneaking it in with spaceships and ray guns, but it's led to the notion that SF/F *should* try to teach a Very Valuable Lesson about a contemporary issue. But that's 1-d!
... and then the distribution to those drugstore racks consolidated, dropping SF/F, and chain bookstores took off and books that could be sold as hardcovers that looked good on shelves were in demand, and then you started getting longer novels in the SF/F genre. Market imperatives always matter.
October 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
... and then the distribution to those drugstore racks consolidated, dropping SF/F, and chain bookstores took off and books that could be sold as hardcovers that looked good on shelves were in demand, and then you started getting longer novels in the SF/F genre. Market imperatives always matter.
Jesus F. Christ, I am SMITTEN. @sf-bdn.bsky.social is my #DailyCrush!
May 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Jesus F. Christ, I am SMITTEN. @sf-bdn.bsky.social is my #DailyCrush!
Again, humor has always been in SF/F lit. The issue is the marketing. Also, re: humor in SF lit, it's important to note an epochal dividing line, especially in the US: Before Hitchhiker, and after it. No exaggeration to say the impact of Hitchhiker on humorous SF lit was like Star Wars in film.
Surely humour in SF/F has been a thing since the early 80s which is when the first Discworld novel came out. Granted it is more F than SF (which is what this discussion is largely about)
July 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Again, humor has always been in SF/F lit. The issue is the marketing. Also, re: humor in SF lit, it's important to note an epochal dividing line, especially in the US: Before Hitchhiker, and after it. No exaggeration to say the impact of Hitchhiker on humorous SF lit was like Star Wars in film.
SF&F Story Prompt: Ranger Rick Goes Rogue
February 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
SF&F Story Prompt: Ranger Rick Goes Rogue
(additional caveat: SF/F lit. SF/F successfully marketed as comedy was already a thing in film/tv/comics.)
a man in a suit and tie is walking down a wet street at night
Alt: Will Smith about to Neuralyze you in Men in Black
media.tenor.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
(additional caveat: SF/F lit. SF/F successfully marketed as comedy was already a thing in film/tv/comics.)
the crushing realisation that trying to write any Māori SF/F has to write around US conceptions of whiteness
September 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
the crushing realisation that trying to write any Māori SF/F has to write around US conceptions of whiteness
SF/F writer has no idea wtf Beyoncé could be talking about.
“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”
February 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
SF/F writer has no idea wtf Beyoncé could be talking about.
October 1, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Mystery solved:
Analog, like Azimov's and F&SF, was recently acquired by a predatory acquisitions company called (cue the Irony Bell) "Must Read Magazines."
MRM is revising their "terms" so as to acquire as many IP rights as they can gank.
Fuck 'em. Boycott.
locusmag.com/2025/02/anal...
Analog, like Azimov's and F&SF, was recently acquired by a predatory acquisitions company called (cue the Irony Bell) "Must Read Magazines."
MRM is revising their "terms" so as to acquire as many IP rights as they can gank.
Fuck 'em. Boycott.
locusmag.com/2025/02/anal...
Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF Under New Ownership
We have posted a new story with additional information here. The “big three” digest magazines Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF are under new ownership, confirming recent rumors, as …
locusmag.com
October 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Mystery solved:
Analog, like Azimov's and F&SF, was recently acquired by a predatory acquisitions company called (cue the Irony Bell) "Must Read Magazines."
MRM is revising their "terms" so as to acquire as many IP rights as they can gank.
Fuck 'em. Boycott.
locusmag.com/2025/02/anal...
Analog, like Azimov's and F&SF, was recently acquired by a predatory acquisitions company called (cue the Irony Bell) "Must Read Magazines."
MRM is revising their "terms" so as to acquire as many IP rights as they can gank.
Fuck 'em. Boycott.
locusmag.com/2025/02/anal...
Asimov's better off being called IASF or similar, and slick it up.
F&SF should be a $25 quarterly bound tête-bêche with one F cover and one SF cover--more McSweeney's than anything else.
F&SF should be a $25 quarterly bound tête-bêche with one F cover and one SF cover--more McSweeney's than anything else.
October 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Asimov's better off being called IASF or similar, and slick it up.
F&SF should be a $25 quarterly bound tête-bêche with one F cover and one SF cover--more McSweeney's than anything else.
F&SF should be a $25 quarterly bound tête-bêche with one F cover and one SF cover--more McSweeney's than anything else.