Finally got around to Good Omens S2 trailer and ahhhh this is extremely my kind of thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GljnUA6Ll0

My latest short story is titled JUST BEYOND JUPITER’S REACH. 🌪️

It’s part of The Far Reaches collection, “six short science fiction stories from bestselling authors James S. A. Corey, Veronica Roth, Rebecca Roanhorse, Ann Leckie, Nnedi Okorafor, and John Scalzi, curated by John Joseph Adams.”

It will be released on June 27th (on Amazon).

…And if you’ve read Binti and you read the description of my story, you may suspect that it is linked to the Binti trilogy’s universe. It is, 🦐😉.

June brings a ton of new books! Here are 19 that you should check out: https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/june-2023-science-fiction-fantasy-book-list/

Damn. I just finished Light From Uncommon Stars and that book is just ... Fantastic. Heartbreaking, lovely, occasionally triggering in its honesty and realism, yet ... somehow light. A+.

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Just finished this, utterly brilliant book

Book 17 of 2023: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I read this when it came out a decade ago and enjoyed it, but reading it now: I got a lot more out of it. It’s a fantastic critique of imperialism, disability, gender, all wrapped up in a kickass space opera.

https://www.polygon.com/23742230/good-omens-season-2-title-sequence

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One of my favorite books recently is Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea. It’s a powerful read that tackles the nature of intelligence and how we’re not equipped to handle everything that comes with it: https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mountain-in-the-sea-ray-nayler-sci-fi-book-review/

That sounds right! 🤔

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I’m not concerned about AI outcompeting competent writers or impacting my career directly. I am deeply concerned about AI swamping submission systems and destroying the ability of editors and readers to find the next generation of writers.

AI is very much a danger to the long term health of the field not because of competition for quality readable fiction but because of its ability to create dreck in previously unimaginable quantities and drown submission systems and indie publishing in shit.

NEW BOOK!

A FIRE BORN OF EXILE

Sapphic Nirvana in Fire in space.

A scholar, betrayed and left for dead, returns in disguise for revenge. She plans to bring the entire opulent, decadent society of the habitats crashing down.

Falling in love wasn't part of the plan.

Oct 12, 2023 from JAB Books/Gollancz!

Cover: @ravven (US)
Alyssa Winans (UK)

Preorder: https://geni.us/AFireBorn

A reminder that I wrote a short story about loneliness, duty and what it means to be a person.

It involves trains.

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https://garius.medium.com/the-black-line-d490b5938b1c

New author interview - today on the blog I welcome back Premee Mohamed to talk about this new short fiction collection No One Will Cone Back For Us And Other Stories, and a lot more https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2023/5/25/interviewing-premee-mohamed

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Honored that my story, "Cumulative Ethical Guidelines", originally published in the BRIDGE TO ELSEWHERE anthology, was selected for BASFF! https://www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/best-american-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2023/2023-table-of-contents/

So thrilled that my short story "The Locked Pod" - a locked escape pod murder mystery set in a research cloister space station - from Sunday Morning Transport, was nominated for an Ignyte Award!

I just read this classic short story for the first time and I'm shocked I hadn't known it existed before now

https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/

@darcysmissb I worked hard to try to capture how a real historian zooming in on events always finds hundreds and thousands of people whose actions made the difference, but it’s hard to capture that in narrative since our methods usually want to zoom in on a few people and follow them to the end, not jump from hero to hero each shaping one moment. It’s an important writing challenge, for fiction and for history.

Love this thoughtful review! "The Mimicking of Known Successes is a quiet masterpiece; an intimate character study, a tender queer romance, a satisfying mystery, and a unique take on many genre clichés in a short form. For me, its principal flaw is that it has an ending. Thankfully, there is a sequel on the cloud-mottled horizon."

https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/05/24/the-unlikely-utopia-review-of-the-mimicking-of-known-successes-by-malka-older/

So, Becky Chambers' "A Psalm for the Wild-Built". A very cozy and lovely novella set in a future where humanity has gotten a lot of things right: survived climate change catastrophes and built a society that seems compassionate and also able to meet everyone's needs like food, education and shelter easily.

This transformation was indirectly aided by a "robot uprising": robots and other machines acquired sentinence somehow, and decided to leave humanity.

(1/n)

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New Review - delighted to say New Suns 2 - Orginal Speculative Fiction by People of Colour edited by Nisi Shawl is just as good as it’s predecessor with a galaxy of great tales to explore. Out now via Solaris https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2023/5/23/new-suns-2-original-speculative-fiction-by-people-of-colour-edited-by-nisi-shawl

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