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
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!
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:
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Thread:
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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
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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.
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.
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.
... 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
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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
(Note that sf/f always had humor in it. The willingness to lead with that in the marketing - and the willingness to acknowledge that humor in SF/F can be something other than absurdist farce - is what's changed. I feel pretty safe taking credit for much of that. That's my contribution to the genre.)
July 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
(Note that sf/f always had humor in it. The willingness to lead with that in the marketing - and the willingness to acknowledge that humor in SF/F can be something other than absurdist farce - is what's changed. I feel pretty safe taking credit for much of that. That's my contribution to the genre.)
Lots of new followers recently - hello! I write far too many sf/f books, best known for Children of Time et al.
October 21, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Lots of new followers recently - hello! I write far too many sf/f books, best known for Children of Time et al.
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...