Jessica Reisman
@jesswynne.bsky.social
I write SF&F and I like rain, animals, & some people. They/them, but not attached. Queer. Always antifascist. Repped by Prentis Literary. http://www.storyrain.com/
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Jessica Reisman
@jesswynne.bsky.social
· Nov 17
SUBSTRATE PHANTOMS
JESSICA REISMAN
July 30, 2024 978-1-958880-23-4
trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 286 pgs
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Substrate Phantoms-"This genre-expanding narrative unfolds with a distinctive writing style and voice, leaving a hauntingly memorable impression."— BookLife Prize
& my collection, The Arcana of Maps & Other Stories, are both available at Fairwood Press! fairwoodpress.com/store/p165/S...
& my collection, The Arcana of Maps & Other Stories, are both available at Fairwood Press! fairwoodpress.com/store/p165/S...
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I cannot wrap my head around how cruel and destructive this is.
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I cannot wrap my head around how cruel and destructive this is.
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
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Reminder that anyone who says "a writer must do this," "a writer cannot do that," is WRONG.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reminder that anyone who says "a writer must do this," "a writer cannot do that," is WRONG.
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Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...
Queen Demon by Martha Wells: Review by Liz Bourke
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor 978-1-250-82691-6, $28.99, 400pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Cynthia Sheppard. I’ve loved Martha Wells’s fantasy novels ever since I picked up The Element of Fire. Qu…
locusmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...
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20% off sale on all Patricia A. McKillip titles. Runs through November 25.
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"I have read everything Patricia McKillip has written. You should too.” @garthnix.bsky.social
Use the code MCKILLIP20 at checkout to get 20% off
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"I have read everything Patricia McKillip has written. You should too.” @garthnix.bsky.social
Use the code MCKILLIP20 at checkout to get 20% off
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
20% off sale on all Patricia A. McKillip titles. Runs through November 25.
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"I have read everything Patricia McKillip has written. You should too.” @garthnix.bsky.social
Use the code MCKILLIP20 at checkout to get 20% off
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"I have read everything Patricia McKillip has written. You should too.” @garthnix.bsky.social
Use the code MCKILLIP20 at checkout to get 20% off
Woohoo!!! More Deadloch!
🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Woohoo!!! More Deadloch!
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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3LBE Issue 46 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by K.S. Walker, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Corey Farrenkopf, Premee Mohamed, and Katie McIvor. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
3LBE Issue 46 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by K.S. Walker, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Corey Farrenkopf, Premee Mohamed, and Katie McIvor. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/
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Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
otherwiseaward.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
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IT'S A #BOOKBIRTHDAY!
LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY by @theodoragoss.bsky.social is now available at all finer outlets
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intro by @bluejo.bsky.social
3 #giveways
@thestorygraph.com buff.ly/fAUS9Iw
#goodreads buff.ly/055IqCm
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/HhnMtbe
LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY by @theodoragoss.bsky.social is now available at all finer outlets
buff.ly/ZeOVp7f
intro by @bluejo.bsky.social
3 #giveways
@thestorygraph.com buff.ly/fAUS9Iw
#goodreads buff.ly/055IqCm
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/HhnMtbe
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
IT'S A #BOOKBIRTHDAY!
LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY by @theodoragoss.bsky.social is now available at all finer outlets
buff.ly/ZeOVp7f
intro by @bluejo.bsky.social
3 #giveways
@thestorygraph.com buff.ly/fAUS9Iw
#goodreads buff.ly/055IqCm
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/HhnMtbe
LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY by @theodoragoss.bsky.social is now available at all finer outlets
buff.ly/ZeOVp7f
intro by @bluejo.bsky.social
3 #giveways
@thestorygraph.com buff.ly/fAUS9Iw
#goodreads buff.ly/055IqCm
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/HhnMtbe
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People don't like to talk about the time when the trees of Whirlow Wood grew wooden people to send as emissaries to Barwell village. People don't talk about the Treaty of the Axe. The ongoing offerings. – Ruth Hyde #VOH
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
People don't like to talk about the time when the trees of Whirlow Wood grew wooden people to send as emissaries to Barwell village. People don't talk about the Treaty of the Axe. The ongoing offerings. – Ruth Hyde #VOH
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Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings
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This is the Way. 😄
This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is the Way. 😄
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In November hares come to wood edge. Most say this is for cover, for food. Yet more than one old countryman has told me they come to pay tribute to the wood itself, to have one last dance with the Moss Maidens before their cold sleeping. At twilight they feed and mutter omens. - #CLNolan
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In November hares come to wood edge. Most say this is for cover, for food. Yet more than one old countryman has told me they come to pay tribute to the wood itself, to have one last dance with the Moss Maidens before their cold sleeping. At twilight they feed and mutter omens. - #CLNolan
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“Whenever I read her work, I am reminded why I read fantasy. And why—while I may take breaks, even stop reading fantasy for long periods—I always return to it, and always will.”
Revisiting Patricia McKillip's Timely, Timeless Fantasy - Reactor
A short tribute to the work of one of SFF's greatest writers and storytellers
reactormag.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“Whenever I read her work, I am reminded why I read fantasy. And why—while I may take breaks, even stop reading fantasy for long periods—I always return to it, and always will.”
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WHAT IF WE JUST INVESTED IN ARTISTS AND AUTHORS LIKE MANY OTHER COUNTRIES
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
WHAT IF WE JUST INVESTED IN ARTISTS AND AUTHORS LIKE MANY OTHER COUNTRIES
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Falling leaf and the tree from whence it rained. Go vote. We voted early, by mail, and California's ballot tracking system let us know it was counted. That's how it should be everywhere.
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Falling leaf and the tree from whence it rained. Go vote. We voted early, by mail, and California's ballot tracking system let us know it was counted. That's how it should be everywhere.
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No fucking kidding.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
No fucking kidding.
Falling leaf and the tree from whence it rained. Go vote. We voted early, by mail, and California's ballot tracking system let us know it was counted. That's how it should be everywhere.
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Falling leaf and the tree from whence it rained. Go vote. We voted early, by mail, and California's ballot tracking system let us know it was counted. That's how it should be everywhere.
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Reminder that I have a new story in this awesome anthology with awesome writers:
You can also find copies of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology at the book table near the art show (part of the main convention space)!
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reminder that I have a new story in this awesome anthology with awesome writers:
More animals. Fewer humans.
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
More animals. Fewer humans.
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Re-upping this:
I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Re-upping this:
November morning things. Autumn in the garden and poem from two years ago in the hospital.
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
November morning things. Autumn in the garden and poem from two years ago in the hospital.
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Hearty congrats to all the finalists and winners!! ✨✨✨
Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the World Fantasy Awards!
World Fantasy Awards Winners
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2024 were presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, held October 30 – November 2, 2025 in Brighton, UK. The Life Achievement …
locusmag.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hearty congrats to all the finalists and winners!! ✨✨✨
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A walk in the forgotten wetland under the overpass, a father-daughter outing to an active shooter event, plus rain lilies, film photos, and a kitchen counter moth promising a Roger Dean dream, in this week's Halloween x Todos Santos Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/an-ofrenda...
An Ofrenda for the Killdeer
No. 187
fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A walk in the forgotten wetland under the overpass, a father-daughter outing to an active shooter event, plus rain lilies, film photos, and a kitchen counter moth promising a Roger Dean dream, in this week's Halloween x Todos Santos Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/an-ofrenda...