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✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person. https://linktr.ee/hararereviewofbooks 📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc (Incidentally, also @shonatiger.bsky.social)
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 14d
Harare Review of Books, August 2025

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Harare Review of Books, August 2025
Hiya! Where did September go??
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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2h
I have a new column up at ARB, looking at The Place of Shells and honestly this was one of my favourite reads so far this year. Absolute perfection of atmosphere and thematic journey. Hard to explain; great to experience.
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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 2h
Pilgrims of Time, Pilgrims of Memory: for the latest Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at boundaries of life, death, format, and language in and around Mai Ishizawa's THE PLACE OF SHELLS, translated by Polly Barton (@sceptrebooks.bsky.social/@ndbooks.bsky.social)
Small Press Dispatch: Pilgrims of Time, Pilgrims of Memory
Roseanna Pendlebury The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa, translated by Polly Barton, is about not one, but several journeys. Or, no perhaps not even that. It is about travel, in all of the senses—t…
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 4h
There's a steady stream of independently published SF and some of it is very good.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 4h
I have no idea what the date is
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 4h
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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 23h
Children’s books should win all the literary awards.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 23h
In bookstores today, LOA’s one-volume edition of Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, featuring the classic novels Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago. Genius works of Afrofuturism, they ask enduring questions about colonization, gender, technology, and the future of humankind.
Octavia E. Butler: Lilith's Brood—The Xenogenesis Trilogy (Library of America, 2025)
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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 13d
In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.
Understudies by Greg Egan
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d
Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤
Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major
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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 1d
SIDDHARTH KARA'S THE ZORG: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery, a 5* read!, comes out today via @stmartinspress.bsky.social #Booksky
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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 22h
I found the National Book Award-nominated cli-fi story A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF by MEGHA MAJUMDAR via @aaknopf.bsky.social really high-stakes and with solid speculative world-building. Almost all 5 stars and out TODAY: #Booksky
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A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF, FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF MEGHA MAJUMDAR Alfred A. Knopf ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available now Rating: 4.75* ...
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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 22h
Join us on 25 Oct for a two-part evening celebrating International Creole Month!
🕠5.00 pm, The Writers Centre - Palé palé-ou: Why our Patois heritage matters (discussion)
🕠6.30 pm, The Alliance Française - 📽A special film screening
Free to attend! Register at bit.ly/BLF-ICM
#bocas2025 #aftt2025
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d
Apply this attitude to, say, guitars. They're meant to be used - the point is the music, not the object that produces it, right? - but that doesn't mean you have to drag your 1965 Les Paul face-down across a gravel driveway.

Treat your things properly. (Also: academic books are bloody expensive.)
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2d
The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Tonya R. Moore @tonyarmoore.com · 22h
#ICYMI @tco-anthology.bsky.social edited by me, @babblewocky.bsky.social, @emmaliawrites.bsky.social, and @pcverrone.com; to be published by @press-android.bsky.social Kickstarter pre-launch page is up and running: www.kickstarter.com/projects/and... #spreadtheword
Coming soon: The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.
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Grist @grist.org · 1d
Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’.

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.

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Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’
A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.
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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 23h
🌌✨ Speculative conversations that expand worlds and imaginations!

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dive Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and @nisishawl.bsky.social.

@clarionwest.bsky.social

🔗Register here: secure.clarionwest.org/np/clients/c...

#SistahScifi #ClarionWest #NisiShawl #DanielHWilson
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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 23h
You should read reviews. And write them. And subscribe to publications that run them.
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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d
What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 21h
Canongate has got on board with Matt Haig's latest novel The Midnight Train, a "sibling, not a sequel" to his global hit, The Midnight Library, publishing in May 2026 📚

Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/4es7b2ku
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 21h
lol currently debating writing an op-ed about what my experience as a first time Black woman author during this political moment has taught me about how too many non-Black allies continuously fail to uplift Black women meaningfully and what that phenomenon REALLY speaks to.

#blacksky
a woman in a white and black dress is sitting in a living room talking .
Alt: a woman in a white and black dress is sitting in a living room talking .
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Juni Ba @juniba.bsky.social · 21h
The next creator owned thing I do will be a west a African sci-fantasy and a thematic, esthetic successor to Djeliya, and I’m still figuring out where to pitch it. Hope it finds a nice home quick. I’m still building the concept but I think it’ll be great and very intune with our current time
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Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · 20h
(translating Oasis's Wonderwall into Arabic and then back again)

There are numerous things that I want to say to you
But I don’t know how
Because perhaps
You will be the one to rescue me
And after everything
You are my strange wall.
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · Sep 1
Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!
A tan image includes the black Nerve to Write logo featuring a raspberry-colored neuron in the top left corner and the dark purple words “A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers” along with the raspberry words “Now open for submissions” and the purple text “nervetowrite.com.” In the top right and bottom left corner of the black neurons stretch off the image.
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Sue Burke @sueburke.bsky.social · 19h
Bright wings don't fit into dull environments, and all our lives get more drab. | Butterflies | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 4h
Feel better 🥺
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 19h
TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social in conversation with newly released flotilla captive Zukiswa Wanner. “The sooner we realize that what happens there affects the rest of us, the better.” flaminghydra.com/a-flotilla-c...
A Flotilla Captive, Released
Zukiswa Wanner is a South African writer who lives in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2020, she became the first African woman to receive the Goethe-Medaille, a prize given to “non-Germans who have performed outst...
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21h
I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.
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