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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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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 12h

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 14h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 14h

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Read our cover story from 2024 about the Karankawa, the people who inhabited the coastal plains and barrier islands of Texas: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/karankawa-people-today/

The Karankawa Want You to Know They’re Not Extinct

Emerging from a long history of oppression, slanderous folklore, and rumors of their demise, the Gulf Coast people are finding a place for themselves in the twenty-first century.

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Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social · 19h

I really enjoyed my chat with Andrew Limbong on NPR's All Things Considered about ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM. Give it a listen and I hope you pick up the book.

www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

Author Ken Liu on AI, reality, and the world we're building

The American sci-fi novelist Ken Liu talks about his new thriller All That We See or Seem and the blurred lines between technology, reality, and imagination.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 18h

🚩🚩🚩 It sounds like the plot of a thriller, but clever scams targeting writers are on the rise. We’re here to explain how it’s happening—and how you can stay safe.

We’re also taking questions, which you can submit by preregistering for the event here: authorsguild.org/event/helpin...

Helping Authors Detect Cyber Scams - The Authors Guild

Scams targeting authors have exploded as criminals and disreputable companies seek to exploit the emotions and aspirations of writers. With AI capabilities making the scams smarter and more personaliz...

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Jennifer Crow @writerjencrow.bsky.social · 18h

A woman in a black cloak stands near a seashore with a full moon behind her. A seal waits near her feet. The text reads, top to bottom, “Rhysling Award Winning Poet/TAKE UP YOUR SKIN/A poetry and essay collection/JENNIFER CROW”

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 20h

Trees shed in slow striptease. Hedges offer berry buffet. Shadows stretch towards the coming of cold of twilight. Even the quietest lanes parade their phantoms. This is autumn whispering its last summer memories. This is autumn edging towards the season of the dead. – #CLNolan

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20h

Extremely satisfying and fact-filled takedown.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20h

This is bad. Share stuff from the original journalists who are putting themselves on the line, not the aggregators. ❤️

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 20h

From @dylanbaddour.bsky.social in 2024: “Many of the pieces of the puzzle have already been destroyed. This is all we have. This is our only window that’s left into this part of our history that’s not well understood. It’s our only chance to find out about ancestors.”

Defenders of the Delta: A Tribal Leader Fights for Ancestral Land in South Texas

Juan Mancias leads the Carrizo/Comecrudo, unrecognized and little-known, in a struggle against fossil fuels, SpaceX, and historical erasure.

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Suyi @suyidavies.com · 20h

Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured.

suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards

Lost Ark Dreaming wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella (full acceptance speech) — Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella. Full acceptance speech follows.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 1d

these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

In an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital, a video shows Big Ben smouldering above piles of rubbish and London crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb.

Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

(I don’t have any gender or sex-related parts (if a construct has those you’re a sexbot in a brothel, not a murderbot) so maybe that’s why I find sex scenes boring. Though I think that even if I did have sex-related parts I would find them boring.)

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Magic always exists in a cultural context because believers in it are never free from their point in time and space. Yet the cultural context of magic also comes from distant places and periods. We embrace this paradox to explore practices that are simultaneously modern and cave-old. - Dr. M. Benn

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 21h

That's really awesome.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 22h

I'm such a fan of @champwongs.bsky.social's writing. So playful, tender, hilarious and deep.
reactormag.com/where-the-he...

Where the Hell Is Nirvana? - Reactor

A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier ways to improve his karma than kind thoughts and spiritual deeds.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 1d

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

The largest demonstration during Trump’s first term was around 750 events.

“We’re now expecting about 2,500 events around the country on No Kings. So we’re talking about literally four times as many.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

Please join us on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 1d

It's YA

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Suyi @suyidavies.com · 1d

Holy shit, what????

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com

2025 Winner Outstanding Novella: LOST ARK DREAMING by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 1d

This is horrible. It appears as though the tidal gage at Kipnuk has set a record (records go back to at least 2000) and the gage on the Kuskokwim River at Bethel is at the highest level it's been this century.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 1d

There's a 2.99 ebook sale on the Emilie omnibus on online retailers today only, including Bookshop.org, kobo, Amazon, etc.

Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 1d

Kobo too! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

The Emilie Adventures ebook by Martha Wells - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Emilie Adventures Emilie and the Hollow World & Emilie and the Sky World" by Martha Wells available from Rakuten Kobo. Two novel-length steampunk adventures from the author of the wildly suc...

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Rachel Neumeier @rachelneu.bsky.social · 1d

Nine-souled Lahn was born for one use -- a use that would destroy him. Created to kill, tiger-souled Vích chose instead to defend and stole her brother away from those who had made them both.

Now their enemies have found them.

Just $0.99 for two more days --

www.amazon.com/Eight-Doors-...

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 1d

Art is resistance! A fave writer, Zin Rocklyn/teri clarke, hanging on by the shreds of her gums, just got into Under the Volcano. Everyone's going to benefit from this award storytelling growth and change, and here's their Kickstarter so we can put our money where our dreams are: gofund.me/35f5cb65e

Donate to Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey, organized by Teri Clarke

hello, all! my name is Teri Clarke and I write horror and dark fantasy under the… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey

gofund.me

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