Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
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Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
· May 13
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
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ah, Castle in the Air, a book that makes me chuckle fondly and squint judgmentally in approximately equal measure
This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
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Castle in the Air by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
‘That djinn has taken liberties with a person's castle,’ Sophie said. 'Unless I'm entirely turned around, this used to be our bathroom.'
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Edward Said's Orientalism,...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ah, Castle in the Air, a book that makes me chuckle fondly and squint judgmentally in approximately equal measure
This may get the prize for Episode Where I Most Enjoyed The Wider Reading.
This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
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Castle in the Air by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
‘That djinn has taken liberties with a person's castle,’ Sophie said. 'Unless I'm entirely turned around, this used to be our bathroom.'
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Edward Said's Orientalism,...
zencastr.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This may get the prize for Episode Where I Most Enjoyed The Wider Reading.
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This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
zencastr.com/z/v5yFguoY
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Castle in the Air by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
‘That djinn has taken liberties with a person's castle,’ Sophie said. 'Unless I'm entirely turned around, this used to be our bathroom.'
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Edward Said's Orientalism,...
zencastr.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
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🌊 🌈 Simon Jimenez's multi-award winning novel, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, is a sweeping adventure story, an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging and a love story to its blade-dented bone.
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🌊 🌈 Simon Jimenez's multi-award winning novel, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, is a sweeping adventure story, an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging and a love story to its blade-dented bone.
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts
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Farah Mendlesohn is convening a symposium on Frances Hardinge next July at King's College London. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge
Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the Interrogative Fiction of Frances Hardinge.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Farah Mendlesohn is convening a symposium on Frances Hardinge next July at King's College London. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
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Please boost!
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
Discussing the Female Man
The Female Man is Farah Mendlesohn's favourite science fiction novel. Melanie Fishbane has been thinking about its Jewishness. Jed Hartman h
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November 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Please boost!
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
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“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
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Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
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Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”
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be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.
FWIW: Mention books you like or you think others might like. You never know what'll happen:
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.
Muttering ‘technically this is a business expense’ every time I pony up forty quid minimum for an interesting book from an academic press.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Muttering ‘technically this is a business expense’ every time I pony up forty quid minimum for an interesting book from an academic press.
Posted origfic on AO3.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Posted origfic on AO3.
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Absolutely delighted to say that I'll be next year's Guest of Honour at #Novacon 55, 6-8 November 2026! See you in Buxton!
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Novacon – The UK's longest-established science fiction convention
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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Absolutely delighted to say that I'll be next year's Guest of Honour at #Novacon 55, 6-8 November 2026! See you in Buxton!
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author rejecting an editor's note with "wontfix, working as intended," game dev kicking a bug with the comment "STET," we're not so different you & i
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
author rejecting an editor's note with "wontfix, working as intended," game dev kicking a bug with the comment "STET," we're not so different you & i
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Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
Welcome to the 1990s with Diana Wynne Jones! For the first episode of S3, Iona Datt Sharma @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us to talk about The Lives of Christopher Chant, and also Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the magical civil service.
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Welcome to the 1990s with Diana Wynne Jones! For the first episode of S3, Iona Datt Sharma @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us to talk about The Lives of Christopher Chant, and also Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the magical civil service.
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we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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WE'RE BACK (with bonus @singlecrow.bsky.social to dazzle us with wit and insight)
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
WE'RE BACK (with bonus @singlecrow.bsky.social to dazzle us with wit and insight)
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If you like Becky Chambers' writing, might I suggest Iona Datt Sharma? I inhaled all their short stories last year, and find myself not minding not being able to settle after late shifts because it means I get to read more of Division Bells.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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John, Alison, and stunt Liz @emilytesh.net are live from Novacon 54! We discuss the convention, what it’s like to be a Guest of Honour, parenting at cons and also whether or not John should read the Silmarillion. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/148-i-m-wi...
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
John, Alison, and stunt Liz @emilytesh.net are live from Novacon 54! We discuss the convention, what it’s like to be a Guest of Honour, parenting at cons and also whether or not John should read the Silmarillion. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/148-i-m-wi...
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Shoutout for teachers who hold a degree and/or QTS, and think anti-trans policies are unethical...
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Shoutout for teachers who hold a degree and/or QTS, and think anti-trans policies are unethical...
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
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Had a great time at Novacon, including seeing @emilytesh.net on the @octothorpecast.bsky.social liveshow! Renewed (and correct) push to get everyone to read Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Had a great time at Novacon, including seeing @emilytesh.net on the @octothorpecast.bsky.social liveshow! Renewed (and correct) push to get everyone to read Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson.
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Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
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This weekend saw Novacon 54 take place in Buxton, Derbyshire. I produced the cover art for the short story 'Salvage' by @emilytesh.net , which was included in members' packs.
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This weekend saw Novacon 54 take place in Buxton, Derbyshire. I produced the cover art for the short story 'Salvage' by @emilytesh.net , which was included in members' packs.
I am at Novacon! I contributed a short story set in the same universe as Some Desperate Glory to the programme and I’m very happy to see it so beautifully in print, with cover art by Alex Storer.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am at Novacon! I contributed a short story set in the same universe as Some Desperate Glory to the programme and I’m very happy to see it so beautifully in print, with cover art by Alex Storer.
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✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
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geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
I am indeed going to Novacon this weekend and I am very excited! I am ALSO going to Eastercon next April so if you miss me this time you can catch me there.
Are you going to Novacon this weekend? ( @novacon.bsky.social ) The guest of honour is
@emilytesh.net and it should be fabulous fun.
Come see us at the Iridescence 2026 Fan Table, and pick up a membership for 2026's Eastercon coming to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
@emilytesh.net and it should be fabulous fun.
Come see us at the Iridescence 2026 Fan Table, and pick up a membership for 2026's Eastercon coming to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I am indeed going to Novacon this weekend and I am very excited! I am ALSO going to Eastercon next April so if you miss me this time you can catch me there.