Elizabeth Bear
@matociquala.bsky.social
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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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... )
books2read.com/angelmaker
(Or from MY local bookstore! www.odysseybks.com/elizabeth-be... )
Your periodic reminder that you can order any of my in print titles, signed and personalized, from my wonderful local bookstore @odysseybks.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Bear Autographed Books
Request signed, personalized copies of Elizabeth Bear's recent work here! If you would like to request a title you don't see here, feel free to contact us t
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December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Your periodic reminder that you can order any of my in print titles, signed and personalized, from my wonderful local bookstore @odysseybks.bsky.social
odysseybks.com/elizabeth-be...
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@thedeadlands.com is open to fiction and poetry subs, so hop right on that, yeah?
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und...
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und...
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
Ooooo, Naomi is AMAZING.
The new book by @naomikritzer.bsky.social sounds like it's going to be a gut punch.
She's one of the handful of authors I would trust to handle this topic well.
Link: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
She's one of the handful of authors I would trust to handle this topic well.
Link: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Ooooo, Naomi is AMAZING.
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Reminder: My short fiction up (free) at @reactorsff.bsky.social follows an older medic with scant resources who fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
Near future, solidarity, old MC, family, hanging on to hope #booksky #sff
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
Near future, solidarity, old MC, family, hanging on to hope #booksky #sff
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
Barnacle - Reactor
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
reactormag.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Reminder: My short fiction up (free) at @reactorsff.bsky.social follows an older medic with scant resources who fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
Near future, solidarity, old MC, family, hanging on to hope #booksky #sff
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
Near future, solidarity, old MC, family, hanging on to hope #booksky #sff
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
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Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.
The common vaccines that can prevent chronic disease or some cancers
In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.
We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
They're all blood, you see.
They're all blood, you see.
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
They're all blood, you see.
They're all blood, you see.
Kate makes an excellent argument here.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Kate makes an excellent argument here.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
Grampa is not happy with how things are going for him, I gather.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Grampa is not happy with how things are going for him, I gather.
Absolutely loved "Wake Up Dead Man."
It made me want to go back and watch the other two movies and then rewatch it immediately which is something I almost never do.
It made me want to go back and watch the other two movies and then rewatch it immediately which is something I almost never do.
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Absolutely loved "Wake Up Dead Man."
It made me want to go back and watch the other two movies and then rewatch it immediately which is something I almost never do.
It made me want to go back and watch the other two movies and then rewatch it immediately which is something I almost never do.
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I'm a person who just reaches for something to read at any given time. my conscious mind won't register that the paper I've grabbed is the Onion and I'll be reading and suddenly go "wait what" because the headline is e.g. "Federal Hemp Ban Threatens Local Guy’s Whole Deal." subscription recommended
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I'm a person who just reaches for something to read at any given time. my conscious mind won't register that the paper I've grabbed is the Onion and I'll be reading and suddenly go "wait what" because the headline is e.g. "Federal Hemp Ban Threatens Local Guy’s Whole Deal." subscription recommended
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Steampunk Virtual Book Chat 2026 schedule. We’re excited for another 10 months of wonderful reads. Links to the Zoom found the day of on the group's Facebook page(www.facebook.com/groups/tempo...) or Madame Askew’s YouTube channel for past Book Chats:(www.youtube.com/@madameaskew...) Please join us!
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Steampunk Virtual Book Chat 2026 schedule. We’re excited for another 10 months of wonderful reads. Links to the Zoom found the day of on the group's Facebook page(www.facebook.com/groups/tempo...) or Madame Askew’s YouTube channel for past Book Chats:(www.youtube.com/@madameaskew...) Please join us!
Not for me! Not for me, Charlie Brown!
Bought marmalade—I call that very feeble, Charlie Brown.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Not for me! Not for me, Charlie Brown!
What does an eight thousand pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flathead V8 engine and no natural predators think about, Charlie Brown?
I am the one who knocks, Charlie Brown.
That rug really tied the room together, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
What does an eight thousand pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flathead V8 engine and no natural predators think about, Charlie Brown?
Have the lambs stopped screaming, Charlie Brown?
Never get out of the boat, Charlie Brown.
You cannot kill me in any way that matters, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Have the lambs stopped screaming, Charlie Brown?
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My darlings! Come read with us in 2026! @b1llz1lla.bsky.social and I have unleashed the reading list for our virtual book chat. From Historical Fantasy to classic Steampunk, the list is bursting with great reads, including the latest from @matociquala.bsky.social
madameaskew.com/2025/11/22/t...
madameaskew.com/2025/11/22/t...
Temporal Textual Talks: A Steampunk Book Chat
The 2026 Reading List Originally posted to our PatreonAfter gathering recommendations, hunting through our own lists, and debating, genteelly over cups of tea, Bill Bodden, our Official Buttery Goo…
madameaskew.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My darlings! Come read with us in 2026! @b1llz1lla.bsky.social and I have unleashed the reading list for our virtual book chat. From Historical Fantasy to classic Steampunk, the list is bursting with great reads, including the latest from @matociquala.bsky.social
madameaskew.com/2025/11/22/t...
madameaskew.com/2025/11/22/t...
This is your friendly harvest festival feast prep reminder to wear the fucking Kevlar glove while you're operating the mandolin, and don't leave the damn thing blade up and open when you're not actively using it.
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This is your friendly harvest festival feast prep reminder to wear the fucking Kevlar glove while you're operating the mandolin, and don't leave the damn thing blade up and open when you're not actively using it.
The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
Labyrinth
Better Off Dead
All of Me
Stir Crazy
The Princess Bride
The Terminator
Running Scared
A Fish Called Wanda
I'm bad at math.
The Blues Brothers
Labyrinth
Better Off Dead
All of Me
Stir Crazy
The Princess Bride
The Terminator
Running Scared
A Fish Called Wanda
I'm bad at math.
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
Labyrinth
Better Off Dead
All of Me
Stir Crazy
The Princess Bride
The Terminator
Running Scared
A Fish Called Wanda
I'm bad at math.
The Blues Brothers
Labyrinth
Better Off Dead
All of Me
Stir Crazy
The Princess Bride
The Terminator
Running Scared
A Fish Called Wanda
I'm bad at math.
Apropos of nothing but narcissistic collapse is a hell of a thing to observe, ain't it?
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Apropos of nothing but narcissistic collapse is a hell of a thing to observe, ain't it?
The Streisand effect but make it stochastic terrorism.
You can smell the flop sweat from here.
You can smell the flop sweat from here.
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The Streisand effect but make it stochastic terrorism.
You can smell the flop sweat from here.
You can smell the flop sweat from here.
Chocolate ration increased to 20g per individual.
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Chocolate ration increased to 20g per individual.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
I have an embarrassment of riches to choose from, and this elides excellent albums by Prince, U2, The Smiths, REM, INXS, Pet Shop Boys...
I have an embarrassment of riches to choose from, and this elides excellent albums by Prince, U2, The Smiths, REM, INXS, Pet Shop Boys...
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
I have an embarrassment of riches to choose from, and this elides excellent albums by Prince, U2, The Smiths, REM, INXS, Pet Shop Boys...
I have an embarrassment of riches to choose from, and this elides excellent albums by Prince, U2, The Smiths, REM, INXS, Pet Shop Boys...
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New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Crow’s Second Tale by Marissa Lingen
So Kiris knew, even at the age of five: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow, like in the song. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she felt down to her five-year-ol...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.