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A screenshot of the Book Riot site titled THE BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE CENTURY SO FAR, showing the cover images of THE FIFTH SEASON and THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS beside their reviews. Text versions of the reviews are available at the Book Riot site linked.

Saw over the weekend that THE FIFTH SEASON and THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS were both listed among Book Riot's "Best Fantasy Books of the Century (so far)!" Very cool! bookriot.com/best-fantasy...

Angels After Man has actually destroyed me 😭 i am not well

Hello! I just finished my book trilogy about gay angels and the end of the world :) please check it out if that sounds fun to you

Dark brown and red blood splatter to show off a snippet Sasza dons the formal wear he is least likely to mourn. The Fealty of Monsters illus. by Soren Häxan

Scratched up glass upon a painting of a ball Night falls shortly after. In what the days before the Solstice would be considered the early afternoon, aristocrats from across the Odonic Empire occupy the Palace like an infestation. Though he knows he should restrain his baser urges, he thinks of them as potential meals. There will be hundreds of pockets of fresh blood flitting past him. With each greeting and introduction, all Sasza knows is how he will drink in excess—and how feeding begets lust, and that lust begets more feeding. For his own conscience, it’s best he makes his way through the crowds of attendees like a specter, hyper aware of the meals flowing through the aristocracy’s veins. The Fealty of Monsters illus. by Soren Häxan

Krakow town square behind scratched glass The rumbling deep in his stomach comes and goes like ocean waves, part hunger, part nausea. He doesn’t want to waste the blood piled before him, like a dog sopping up its own sick. The bestiapir body requires far more blood than his wiry human frame. His stomach stays swollen like a man menstruating. He’s afraid to find out how much more vomiting lies ahead of him. The Fealty of Monsters illus. by Soren Häxan

Mockup of the paperback and hard cover Volume 1 THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS Out Now in eBook & Paperback

POV: it's the annual solstice ball and human Emperor Iwan Iwanowicz wants to declare war on the vampires

But he doesn't know you are one yourself

Find out how Sasza Czarnolaski deals with this conundrum in THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS, illus by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social

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my dnd couple, leora and absi posed to dance against a decorative border of roses blooming in different stages and a motif of waves

A Fateful Courtship. 🎨

- WTFRCH ⛪🪾🪢

a boy about to become a man, who sees the harm doctrine has done to his family, and still chooses doctrine when times get hard. because comfort is easier to build upon than freedom (for the fearful)

Finding the Heart of Your Story, a masterclass with N.K. Jemisin — Blue Stoop Building a character is building a world of one; defining them, shaping them, and changing them is what a story is for. In this craft-first virtual masterclass, award winning author N. K. Jemisin will...

I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

Digital painting of a man and a merman, sitting on a window by the beach. The merman is cupping the human's cheek and they are sharing a longing glance at each other.

a good day #MerMay

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

Cover for THE KING MUST DIE, illustrated by the amazing Eleonor Piteira.

On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising...

THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

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(A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING, 2026)

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want ✨

(Kye kicking this book off with her own death, trust her to bring the drama)

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

i love writers who truly don't give a single fuck 😭 they write what they want, how they want, and their audience finds them every time! I aspire to be that author and that audience

Fiction * "Brainstem Disco, 2191" by Angela Liu * "The Library of the Apocalypse" by Rati Mehrotra * "We, the Fleet" by Alex T. Singer * "Descent" by Wole Talabi * "Oh Time Thy Pyramids" by Ann LeBlanc * "Proxima One" by Caryanna Reuven * "Yarn Theory" by Marie Vibbert Non-Fiction * "Symbiosis and Holobionts, or Life Is a Manifold" by Gunnar De Winter * "Dialogue Only: A conversation with Jane Espenson" by Arley Sorg * "Inside the Science Fiction Studio: A Conversation with David Barr Kirtley" by Arley Sorg * "Editor’s Desk: From Unusual Places" by Neil Clarke Cover art is "Jungleman II" by Arthur Haas. An astronaut in an orange and white suit with a helmet observes and alien landscape of fungus-like green, orange, and purple life. Balloon-like shapes float in the sky and a pink-winged lifeform appears to be caught by one of the purple plants.

The May Issue of Clarkesworld features original stories by Angela Liu, Rati Mehrotra, Alex T. Singer, Wole Talabi, Ann LeBlanc, Caryanna Reuven, and Marie Vibbert.

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I love my fem!faustus wip again 🥰

"Don't speak ill of the dead" being made into an unbreakable commandment by a culture that has done so much to shame away and erase any connection to ancestors in the cultures it oppresses is absolutely infuriating.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

I won't quote-tweet our main character of the day, but if your complaint is that Charlie Kirk's words are being taken out of context, I'd encourage you to skim through the Media Matters tag for his name. They have hundreds of posts about Kirk and most have longer clips that give the full context.