André Geleynse

"Firefly with firebenders" is such a satisfying sounding pitch

Can't wait to read this!

Podcastle is the first magazine I ever submitted a story to, and a big part of the reason I started writing short fiction in the first place. And as someone who reads primarily audiobooks, having my own story get the audio fiction treatment is a literal dream come true.

Contract signed! I'm IMPOSSIBLY excited to share that my story, Last Train from Deadwall, will be reprinted in audio form by the incredible folks at @podcastle.org!! 🤯

Aurora Awards nominations are OPEN! If you read & liked my novelette, Last Train From Deadwall, consider nominating it?

And if you haven't read it but would like to, you can do so here! Reviewers have said, "the ending made me say "yeah" out loud," and, "I don't really know how to describe this."

An image of thick books with an overlay of purple. At the top of the image is a white rectangle bar that reads: “New Book Club” in purple text, and in the left corner, there is a bell graphic in orange. In the middle of the image reads: “Join the Augur Society Book Shelf” in white text, and underneath it reads: “For voracious readers of SFF.” At the bottom of the image is a purple bar, and inside of it a link: augursociety.org/augur-society-launches-a-new-book-club-the-augur-bookshelf

JOIN OUR NEW BOOK CLUB: The Augur Bookshelf! 📚✨

A sci-fi, fantasy, & specfic book club that meets on the 4th Monday of each month to explore the unknown & the fantastical! 🧚🐉

Sign up on eventbrite, you'll get reminders for every session & 10% off reads thanks to @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social!

ALSO open are the Locus awards, where Last Train from Deadwall is on the recommended list! You don't even have to be a member of anything to vote here, just follow the link!

Other reviewers of my story have said, "it does make for one hell of an adventure and an excellent read," and, "WOW!!!!!!"

Aurora Awards nominations are OPEN! If you read & liked my novelette, Last Train From Deadwall, consider nominating it?

And if you haven't read it but would like to, you can do so here! Reviewers have said, "the ending made me say "yeah" out loud," and, "I don't really know how to describe this."

Augur: Review by A.C. Wise Augur 8.2 “Four Elements of the Affair” by Britt Gillman in Augur 8.2 is a flash piece capturing the essence of four love affairs and tying them to the natural world, including a relationship betwe…

My review of @augursociety.bsky.social issue 8.2 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!

locusmag.com/review/augur...

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

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welp, looks like I have my next story concept lined up

Okay but what are the four core character classes in your own fiction? For me it's:

Skeleton
Robot
Mushroom
Witch

Thanks to Netgalley for sending me the audiobook so I could savour these tasty words before it comes out next week!

Cover of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA by A.D. Sui. Bold solid yellow background with circular silhouettes like orbital patterns around the silhouette of a space station at the centre. Towards the bottom is the silhouette of a ship, entangled in red vines with a skull emblazoned on it.

So I just finished The Iron Garden Sutra by @thesuiway.bsky.social. This book rules. I love my socially awkward anxiety monk and his grumpy engineer. I love doomed expeditions and weird non-human consciousness and ghost ships in space. Highly, highly recommend getting your hands on this ASAP!!

Rough ink sketch of me, a tall man with goatee, toque, and sunglasses, holding hands and crossing the street with my daughter, a two year old who comes up a little past my knee.

Day 2: I do not like how this one turned out, but that's okay! It's practice. I like working in pen, but I have a lot of habits from working in pencil that keep tripping me up.

Rough ink sketch showing part of the pergola outside my kitchen window, bird feeders hanging from it.

More like 15 minutes for this one; the view out my kitchen window (ignore the top left lmao)

Oooh that sounds so fun! In my (very amateur) experience, ink & watercolour is my favourite medium to work with. I'd really like to get back into doing more with it, hence starting with some very low-time-investment ink sketches to get the feel for it again.

Thanks! Had to look up Herriman, but I see the resemblance 😅

Rough ink sketch of a wooden stool with child safety railing built on top, up against a kitchen island. Three pans hang from hooks on the side, and the island is covered in bowls, fruits, binoculars, butter knives, & more.

Might try to do 10-minute ink sketches every day I think of it as an attempt to have some sort of regular art practice again.

Day 1: featuring a small segment of messy kitchen

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - 2026 Awards-Eligible Stories from <i>BCS</i> by Scott H. Andrews For readers interested in nominating for awards, such as the Hugos or Nebulas, in 2026, here are the eligible stories from BCS in 2025 and which awards category they fit in. Thank you for your interes...

Nominating for Hugos? Here's all eligible BCS stories, their category, nominating links, link to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts. (Pls DON'T nominate BCS for Semiprozine; we recused. You can nominate Scott for Editor Short Form if you find him worthy.) www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2...

Hugo nominations are open! If you're looking for something to nominate in the novelette category, might I suggest my story about a very tired skeleton having a very bad day?

Digital ink+watercolour sketch of an old broken farm windmill.

It has been so long since I've attempted to draw, I feel like I'm relearning everything from scratch. Lots to work on, but nice to start getting a feel for it again.

Ugh, yes!

I, too, am so tired of techbros coopting language for their scams, making it even harder to have these actual discussions about consciousness and the nature of personhood

The difference between sci-fi AI and current LLMs is the difference between a human and a photocopier

You know it's going to be a great commute when, while inching down the highway, you pass a snowplow in the ditch

A wild rabbit sitting on our front patio, 8 feet from our kitchen window

A wild rabbit sitting on our front patio, 8 feet from our kitchen window

A wild rabbit sitting on our front patio. This time it's on top of a baby sweater we'd set on the table and hadn't brought inside yet.

A wild rabbit sitting on our front patio, 8 feet from our kitchen window

Me: "We have Bad Bunny at home"

Bad Bunny at home:

I don't think I told you this but Knucklebone and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day was literally my working title for a while

Enrich your own day by reading about Knucklebones' terrible horrible no good very bad one!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Canada is not only complicit with the presence of ICE officers but through the mass deportations that began at the end of the Trudeau government and escalated further by the Carney government. Not to mention the brutality of closing the door to asylum seekers crossing at the border through SCTA.

Fuck ICE, and get them out of our country. They have no place here or anywhere.