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Martha Wells
@marthawells.com
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SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Jul 22
Linking to this Scientific American interview again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...
We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells
Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series
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My "listening age" on Spotify is *pay bands fairly and don't platform AI slop*
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This book was incredible, y'all. Almost 600 pages, and I gobbled it up in 3 days. I quite literally could not tear myself away. 11/10.
mhayinde.bsky.social M H Ayinde 🍉 A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST out NOW! @mhayinde.bsky.social · Jun 1
HI HELLO I HAVE A MINOR BOOKISH UPDATE!!!!
A copy of A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST against an orange-red background. Somehow, the words above read, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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These were the first books I read by @aliettedebodard.com and I've loved her work ever since! It's so cool to see them released again with fabulous new covers by @fringe-element.net
Black background with white stars. Against this are three book covers: THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS, which is solid green with a crest featuring a sword lying across the image of a tall building; THE HOUSE OF BINDING THORNS, which is solid blue with a crest featuring a tree with a regal crown perched atop it; and THE HOUSE OF SUNDERING FLAMES, which is an orange-ish red, with a crest featuring a bird circling a burning building. Text on the image reads: READ THE COMPLETE TRILOGY!! AVAILABLE IN EBOOK AND TRADE PAPERBACK. MARCH 10, 2026.
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Re-upping this again:
marthawells.com Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 5d
If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
Hyperbole Bookstore
A family-owned independent bookstore in College Station, TX
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December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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“The whole plan was, we get our interview, we’re gonna come home to Connecticut to see the family, celebrate, see Wicked, and celebrate my [deceased] dad’s birthday,” said Matthew. “All that shattered.“

Help us reunite Allan with his loving partner Matthew. Sign the petition: bit.ly/FreeAllan.
A New York Marriage is Torn Apart by ICE - Documented
Matthew and Allan Marrero went to 26 Federal Plaza together to interview for a marriage-based green card. Allan never came home.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Only four new horror releases are bringing up the end of 2025, but hey, is this not the perfect season to bleed out on a snowy sidewalk, haunted by your past?
All the New Horror Books Arriving in December 2025 - Reactor
December brings a curse than spans generations, a supernatural hiking trail, and a short-story collection that's murderous and mysterious...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Wanna fully fujd two translations? Do it now. 3% more to go.

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Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I'm back with an update. We've got ourselves a Democratic mayor in Pocatello, Idaho -- and by a landslide!
rlevay.bsky.social Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 28d
Guys. The Democrat got the highest votes in Pocatello’s mayoral race last night. We are looking at a runoff in December since no one hit 50% (five candidates ran) but that’s never happened in our almost-12 years here.
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Rereading the Watch books from Discworld and remembering why they should be even more widely read…
“Down there,” he said, “are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no."
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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It's the Most Listerful Time of the Year, so if you're making reading lists for next year, might I interest you in the fact that SEASON OF THE SERPENT, the final novel in the Nameless Republic trilogy, releases on August 11?
suyidavies.com Suyi @suyidavies.com · Sep 12
Baby's first trilogy finally together. 😊
Graphic (pale yellow background) showing the 3 books of The Nameless Republic trilogy of epic fantasy novels by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. A round author photo (Black man, orange shirt, smiling) at the top, series title after, three books in the middle. Book 1 (2021) is Son of the Storm; Book 2 (2023) is Warrior of the Wind. Book 3 (2026) is Season of the Serpent. The text "Available 11 August, 2026. Preorders now open!" is at the bottom of the graphic.
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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US people: there is a Goodreads giveaway for 50 print ARCs of HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY (which releases next April so don't miss). Get your "nervous nouveau riche x flagrant con artist" Regency romance here!

(US only, not in my control, sorry.)
Book giveaway for How to Fake It in Society by K.J. Charles Dec 01-Dec 31, 2025
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Dec 01-Dec 31, 2025. Enter for a chance to win an ARC of HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY!“A...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Hey @mianomania.bsky.social, look!
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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The true Gen X reaction to being lauded as the "greatest generation" would be to narrow its eyes suspiciously and mutter "whatever" when asked about it

(gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Just 13 Prosper with Dragons decks left at this price! Thanks so much for boosting and buying, yall! 🥰

✨ Makes the perfect stocking stuffer for dragon lovers, card game lovers, and art lovers! ✨

Sale ends Dec 13th or when we run out of stock!

#stockingstuffer #dragons #cardgame
nickydrayden.bsky.social Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social · 1d
The goal of the cooperative card game Prosper with Dragons is to befriend 12 dragons while sharing resources with other players to fend off disasters together.

Here are some of those dragons. I love all the care and trust that goes into befriending them. ❤️🐉

www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Fledgling dragon nested in a child's afro Elemental (water) dragon refusing a bath in a crowded bathroom Teen getting hand nuzzled by a feathered dragon in a rooftop garden Teen being gently protected by a dragon with piercings and jewelry
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way and spreading the word about all the amazing work that came out this year!

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What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
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December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A split screen of a woman and a man talking. The top is the woman (Tina Fey as Liz Lemon) saying “What a week, huh?”. The bottom is the man (Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy) replying “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.”
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most...

"All That Means or Mourns" by @r-emrys.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
All That Means or Mourns - Reactor
Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most…
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December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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If you're an artist/crafter/musician/other creator with things that would make great gifts this holiday season, today's the Whatever gift guide day for you to share your work with thousands! Follow the link to tell people how to get what you've got!

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/03/t...
The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
The Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025 continues, and today we move away from books and focus on other gifts and crafts — which you can take to mean just about any other sort of thing a creative pers…
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December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Haven’t mentioned it in a minute but SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is still available for pre-orders. Canadians, it doesn’t say so at this link but Amazon finally has a paperback. Not sure what’s taking Indigo so long. Anyway, here are the links so far:
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl – Stars and Sabers
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by award-winning author P.A. Cornell is a sci-fi romance novelette set in a retrofuturistic Toronto, publishing February 3, 2026 via Stars and Sabers Publishing.
www.starsandsabers.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Hey @mianomania.bsky.social, look!
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Link to strike fund in the next post
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
A photo of workers at Individualized Shirts, a shirt factory in New Jersey. Each person has their fist in the air as a sign of solidarity. There's a sign behind them with photos and the words: "Fair Contract Now."
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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no notes.
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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omg o m g
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h
JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff.

GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.

(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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2025 was one for the books. Specifically the Necronomicon.
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Good advice for identifying and avoiding the kind of scams that send you bogus copyright infringement notices
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM