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Elizabeth Bear

@matociquala.bsky.social

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Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat. https://buttondown.email/matociquala THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · Aug 27

Welp, it's less than a week until ANGEL MAKER launches! You can pre-order your copy here, or from your local bookstore!

books2read.com/angelmaker

(Or from MY local bookstore! www.odysseybks.com/elizabeth-be... )

Promo post for Angel Maker: A Karen Memory Adventure by Elizabeth Bear, showing the cover of the book surrounded by various plot and thematic elements. The cover shows a young white woman with a long gun, riding a buckskin horse with a stylized movie reel in the background.

The list of selling points includes:

heading for the (18)90s: living in the Wild Wild West

Thirsty lasso lesbians!

The Clockwork Man

My girlfriend is the smart one

I thought we sprayed for religious cults

trick riders & crack shots

This heroine runs toward the sound of gunfire

Goddesses of the Silver Screen (are kind of assholes, really)

JUSTICE ~dammit~

Cowgirl power

The horse that could not be broken

there must be safer ways to pay your dues

...and then the killings began...

and the launch date: 2 September 2025

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 2d

We are delighted to announce that #Octocon2026 will be taking place in Cork City with special guests @cemurphy.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social.

Find out more at
https://2025.octocon.com/announcing-octocon-2026/

#Octocon #Fantasy #SciFi #Fandom #ReadingCommunity #SciFiConvention #CorkCity

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 1d

Happy release day, Adrian!

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d

Out today, the latest Tyrant Philosophers piece - book 3.5 in the series is a novella length offering about the life of Angilly, who we met in Days of Shattered Faith. You don’t need to have read that (or any of them) to read this.

Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 1d

Lives of Bitter Rain by @aptshadow.bsky.social is out today!

A novella in the Tyrant Philosophers series, this book takes a deep dive into the character of Angilly and her past, and further explores the empire's reach, and the costs of living inside it...

💙📚🪐
#SFF

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 1d

Amen.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 3d

celebrities as lord of the rings characters: thread

Doja cat in a dress the same shape as the eye of Sauron.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, he'd be fine if he just admitted that he had thought Cash was his dad's music and that he was one of today's lucky ten thousand, but he had to go and cast it as "nobody knew" to protect his ego.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 3d

That's antisocial.

Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 3d

They really don't expect anybody to get to the bottom.

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 3d

running the government like you just did a leveraged buyout but the private equity holders are breathing down your neck and you're not very good at this

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 4d

I got an advance copy of @johnchu.bsky.social's debut THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE and it's so good. Toxic family dynamics, humor, fabulous language, and quantum mechanics.

Like, literally. Quantum *mechanics.*

It's a book about the universe gnomes. And a terrible pun.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 4d

They haven't mostly been going to the heavy gun culture states. Because they're targeting liberal cities as a firm of harassment.

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 4d

Rejoice, sophont observers: part 2 of "Here Instead of There" by @matociquala.bsky.social is now live for all your cliffhanger-resolution needs!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 5d

That would be so cool! Keep this in mind, Hugo voters!

An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 5d

On Spec has long deserved recognition for best semiprozine at the Hugo Awards, but has never even made the ballot because it's Canadian and most Hugo voters are U.S.-based.

2026 will be your final opportunity to nominate an institution that has been an incubator for so much talent.

On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 5d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 5d

And a beagle named Henry.

Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 5d

You just had to wait a week! :D

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 5d

Up now!

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 5d

Hey guess what? My 2023 novelette "Here Instead Of There" is available at @escapepod.org in two parts!

It's about ethics, meteorology, crony capitalism, and some courageous dirtbags.

escapepod.org/2025/10/02/e...

escapepod.org/2025/10/09/e...

Escape Pod 1013: Here Instead of There (Part 1 of 2)

Waking up sick in a punk house shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody so I don’t know why it always came as a surprise to me. My head throbbed so bad I couldn’t tell the difference between the hangover…

escapepod.org

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so very sorry

Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 5d

This is what they're doing to U.S. citizens right now.

Imagine what they're doing to immigrants.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.