Ann Leckie
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Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
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beyond thrilled to have an essay out in the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social about the women who profoundly impacted the works of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, and Lev Tolstoy, and the archival evidence they left behind:
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Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women li...
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February 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
beyond thrilled to have an essay out in the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social about the women who profoundly impacted the works of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, and Lev Tolstoy, and the archival evidence they left behind:
publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...
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A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
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Non-Canadians! Feel free to pre-order The Subtle Art of Folding Space, too!
Secret cabals! A wise mentor (or is he?) A sister who keeps trying to assassinate you!
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Secret cabals! A wise mentor (or is he?) A sister who keeps trying to assassinate you!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Subtle Art of Folding Space
The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Non-Canadians! Feel free to pre-order The Subtle Art of Folding Space, too!
Secret cabals! A wise mentor (or is he?) A sister who keeps trying to assassinate you!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Secret cabals! A wise mentor (or is he?) A sister who keeps trying to assassinate you!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Canadians! This week (2/2-2/8) Indigo has a 25% sale their Most Anticipated Sci-Fi books, which includes The Subtle Art of Folding Space!
Bugs in physics! Fraught family relationships! Equivalence reports in the form of egg tarts!
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-su...
Bugs in physics! Fraught family relationships! Equivalence reports in the form of egg tarts!
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-su...
The Subtle Art Of Folding Space Book By John Chu, ('tc') | Indigo
Buy the book The Subtle Art of Folding Space by john chu at Indigo
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February 2, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Canadians! This week (2/2-2/8) Indigo has a 25% sale their Most Anticipated Sci-Fi books, which includes The Subtle Art of Folding Space!
Bugs in physics! Fraught family relationships! Equivalence reports in the form of egg tarts!
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-su...
Bugs in physics! Fraught family relationships! Equivalence reports in the form of egg tarts!
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-su...
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The Greeks were the barbarian periphery of complex and long-established states, a system of diplomacy between rich kings that encompassed Egypt & Nubia (modern Sudan) and extended across Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf. More eastern states had ongoing contacts with the states of the Indian littoral.
February 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
The Greeks were the barbarian periphery of complex and long-established states, a system of diplomacy between rich kings that encompassed Egypt & Nubia (modern Sudan) and extended across Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf. More eastern states had ongoing contacts with the states of the Indian littoral.
Not gonna link the thread, because it's embarrassingly flattering, but specifics of it have led to thoughts.
I absolutely believe that things come out "around the words" in your writing. Tiny details of word choice convey things.
I absolutely believe that things come out "around the words" in your writing. Tiny details of word choice convey things.
February 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Not gonna link the thread, because it's embarrassingly flattering, but specifics of it have led to thoughts.
I absolutely believe that things come out "around the words" in your writing. Tiny details of word choice convey things.
I absolutely believe that things come out "around the words" in your writing. Tiny details of word choice convey things.
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Sacramento friends: we're launching the Notes from a Regicide paperback at Capital Books on February 17, 7:00 p.m. If you're thinking of investigating the Locus list, well -- it's a good time for it.
February 1, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Sacramento friends: we're launching the Notes from a Regicide paperback at Capital Books on February 17, 7:00 p.m. If you're thinking of investigating the Locus list, well -- it's a good time for it.
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Me too, kid, me too...
February 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Me too, kid, me too...
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I don't think there are good arguments against this position
legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
January 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I don't think there are good arguments against this position
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The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.
January 28, 2026 at 1:35 AM
The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.
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January 28, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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I was lucky to receive an advance copy of this book, and all I can say is if you’re a sci-fi fan, put this on your calendar for May when it comes out!
What you’ll get: religion, politics, suspension pods, onions.
(Set in Leckie’s Imperial Radch universe, but standalone - no prior reading needed)
What you’ll get: religion, politics, suspension pods, onions.
(Set in Leckie’s Imperial Radch universe, but standalone - no prior reading needed)
Radiant Star
An electrifying new space opera of power, politics, and faith, set in the world of the Imperial Radch, Ann Leckie's ground-breaking, Hugo Award-winning scien...
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January 28, 2026 at 12:52 PM
I was lucky to receive an advance copy of this book, and all I can say is if you’re a sci-fi fan, put this on your calendar for May when it comes out!
What you’ll get: religion, politics, suspension pods, onions.
(Set in Leckie’s Imperial Radch universe, but standalone - no prior reading needed)
What you’ll get: religion, politics, suspension pods, onions.
(Set in Leckie’s Imperial Radch universe, but standalone - no prior reading needed)
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David’s a friend so I’ve heard rumblings of his argument here. It’s a good one. The DHS was not a great idea from the start; we can do without it and do the necessary things it does in a better way.
Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
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January 27, 2026 at 12:57 PM
David’s a friend so I’ve heard rumblings of his argument here. It’s a good one. The DHS was not a great idea from the start; we can do without it and do the necessary things it does in a better way.
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"The DFLer in 47A is unopposed, can't I skip?"/ "64A is a super blue district, do I really need to worry about this one?"
GO VOTE OUT OF SPITE.
GO VOTE TO SHOW THAT OUR STATE VOTES NO MATTER WHAT.
GO VOTE OUT OF SPITE.
GO VOTE TO SHOW THAT OUR STATE VOTES NO MATTER WHAT.
January 26, 2026 at 7:40 PM
"The DFLer in 47A is unopposed, can't I skip?"/ "64A is a super blue district, do I really need to worry about this one?"
GO VOTE OUT OF SPITE.
GO VOTE TO SHOW THAT OUR STATE VOTES NO MATTER WHAT.
GO VOTE OUT OF SPITE.
GO VOTE TO SHOW THAT OUR STATE VOTES NO MATTER WHAT.
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In fact the pundit’s job depends on never fighting alongside you. The work of the pundit is only to shift & secure the borders of punditry, maintain allegiance to nothing material, & make rhetoric of people’s lives & deaths.
January 26, 2026 at 5:36 PM
In fact the pundit’s job depends on never fighting alongside you. The work of the pundit is only to shift & secure the borders of punditry, maintain allegiance to nothing material, & make rhetoric of people’s lives & deaths.
True Holiday Spirit.
I bought a large potato the size of a small potato in honour of it 😌🙏
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
True Holiday Spirit.
Yep. And you've gotta DO IT. Commit, lean into it. Make it the best darn (metaphorical or otherwise) bagpipe break you can possibly manage.
Don't wonder if you can or should. Wonder how anyone can even begin to stop you (they can't).
Don't wonder if you can or should. Wonder how anyone can even begin to stop you (they can't).
Protip for writers: you want to do the weird thing, you gotta just *do it*
If AC/DC can pull off a *bagpipe break* in It's A Long Way To The Top, you can get us to care about your weird little thing
If AC/DC can pull off a *bagpipe break* in It's A Long Way To The Top, you can get us to care about your weird little thing
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Yep. And you've gotta DO IT. Commit, lean into it. Make it the best darn (metaphorical or otherwise) bagpipe break you can possibly manage.
Don't wonder if you can or should. Wonder how anyone can even begin to stop you (they can't).
Don't wonder if you can or should. Wonder how anyone can even begin to stop you (they can't).
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I think there’s a difference worth pointing out between a person you know changing their mind (welcome) & a pundit feeling the wind shift on their spit-slicked finger as they declare it’s now correct to call something fascist (fuck off into the sun).
One of them will never fight alongside you.
One of them will never fight alongside you.
January 26, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I think there’s a difference worth pointing out between a person you know changing their mind (welcome) & a pundit feeling the wind shift on their spit-slicked finger as they declare it’s now correct to call something fascist (fuck off into the sun).
One of them will never fight alongside you.
One of them will never fight alongside you.
Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.
January 26, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.
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Interview with me about Murderbot and the upcoming Platform Decay at www.space.com/entertainmen...
Martha Wells' next 'Murderbot Diaries' book is 'the family roadtrip from hell on Ringworld' (interview)
In an exclusive interview, bestselling author Martha Wells talks "Platform Decay," from its moral stakes to Murderbot's bitter humor.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Interview with me about Murderbot and the upcoming Platform Decay at www.space.com/entertainmen...
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All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.
I have never witnessed such a spiderweb of collective action, just average everyday people showing up. Not the heroism we’ve been sold by the movies but collective heroism, a fabric of care and resistance to fascism.
January 25, 2026 at 1:52 PM
All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.
It's been clear to me for a while that ICE thinks that if they shoot some people, we will cower in fear and let them do what they want.
It has also been clear to me for a while that they will be surprised at the actual outcome.
Someone's gonna get their asses kicked and it won't be Minneapolisans
It has also been clear to me for a while that they will be surprised at the actual outcome.
Someone's gonna get their asses kicked and it won't be Minneapolisans
January 24, 2026 at 8:30 PM
It's been clear to me for a while that ICE thinks that if they shoot some people, we will cower in fear and let them do what they want.
It has also been clear to me for a while that they will be surprised at the actual outcome.
Someone's gonna get their asses kicked and it won't be Minneapolisans
It has also been clear to me for a while that they will be surprised at the actual outcome.
Someone's gonna get their asses kicked and it won't be Minneapolisans
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You don't need to watch the video of someone being killed to know that someone was killed.
On an emotional level, your amygdala can't really tell the difference between the video and being there.
Depending on your personal history, this could be mildly shocking or enduring trauma.
Why bother?
On an emotional level, your amygdala can't really tell the difference between the video and being there.
Depending on your personal history, this could be mildly shocking or enduring trauma.
Why bother?
January 24, 2026 at 7:52 PM
You don't need to watch the video of someone being killed to know that someone was killed.
On an emotional level, your amygdala can't really tell the difference between the video and being there.
Depending on your personal history, this could be mildly shocking or enduring trauma.
Why bother?
On an emotional level, your amygdala can't really tell the difference between the video and being there.
Depending on your personal history, this could be mildly shocking or enduring trauma.
Why bother?