Matthew Kressel
@matthewkressel.net
Nebula & World Fantasy Award Finalist, SFF writer, coder, artist. Books: THE RAINSEEKERS, SPACE TRUCKER JESS, HISTORIES WITHIN US, KING OF SHARDS & QUEEN OF STATIC. Creator of Moksha submissions system. Co-host of Fantastic Fiction at KGB. 🥄 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
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NewScientist lists THE RAINSEEKERS as one of the best new science fiction books of ’26, along with books from Ann Leckie, Neil Jordan, Adrian Tchaikovsky and more. Out Feb 17th from @tordotcom.bsky.social
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I want all writers to be into writing as much like themselves as possible. I hate to see someone say writing's so good they wish they'd written it. You couldn't have, you're you, & they're them. That's the spirit of plagiarism behind AI. Believe in your capacity to create beauty unique to you.
February 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I want all writers to be into writing as much like themselves as possible. I hate to see someone say writing's so good they wish they'd written it. You couldn't have, you're you, & they're them. That's the spirit of plagiarism behind AI. Believe in your capacity to create beauty unique to you.
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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If you generate a book-length blob of text every day, and it takes me six months to write a SHORT STORY I still win the race because I care about art and not just volume of words.
February 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
If you generate a book-length blob of text every day, and it takes me six months to write a SHORT STORY I still win the race because I care about art and not just volume of words.
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To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...
February 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...
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Just arrived: PANDEMONIUM WALTZ, the new collection from horror & weird lit great @jeffreyford8.bsky.social! Incredible cover art by Jeff's son Derek, and closed with an interview by @kellylink.bsky.social. Beautifully designed by @lethepress.bsky.social. www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
February 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Just arrived: PANDEMONIUM WALTZ, the new collection from horror & weird lit great @jeffreyford8.bsky.social! Incredible cover art by Jeff's son Derek, and closed with an interview by @kellylink.bsky.social. Beautifully designed by @lethepress.bsky.social. www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
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🎉 A short thread of recent good #writing news 🎉
Delighted that my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" will be translated into Chinese to appear in SFWorld!
Read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
Delighted that my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" will be translated into Chinese to appear in SFWorld!
Read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War - Uncanny Magazine
Kestrel House There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement pa...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
🎉 A short thread of recent good #writing news 🎉
Delighted that my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" will be translated into Chinese to appear in SFWorld!
Read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
Delighted that my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" will be translated into Chinese to appear in SFWorld!
Read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
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NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.
www.wired.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:
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I had a wonderful time talking with Mookie Spitz on The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory podcast. We discuss writing, culture, optimism, hope, and my forthcoming novella THE RAINSEEKERS. Listen below or on your favorite podcast app. mookiespitz.substack.com/p/matthew-kr...
Matthew Kressel Seeds Sci-Fi Optimism in The Rainseekers
Prolific and acclaimed author shares his lastest novel with creative insights and inspiration
mookiespitz.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I had a wonderful time talking with Mookie Spitz on The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory podcast. We discuss writing, culture, optimism, hope, and my forthcoming novella THE RAINSEEKERS. Listen below or on your favorite podcast app. mookiespitz.substack.com/p/matthew-kr...
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Ran errands this morning while listening to Episode 17 of the Nerd Count podcast, during which @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social and @matthewkressel.net chatted with @acwise.bsky.social, and it felt as if I was hanging out on the Readercon patio again. www.nerdcountpodcast.com/2026/02/03/e...
Episode 017 – A.C. Wise – The Nerd Count Podcast
www.nerdcountpodcast.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Ran errands this morning while listening to Episode 17 of the Nerd Count podcast, during which @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social and @matthewkressel.net chatted with @acwise.bsky.social, and it felt as if I was hanging out on the Readercon patio again. www.nerdcountpodcast.com/2026/02/03/e...
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Your mountainish inhumanity
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Your mountainish inhumanity
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again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
February 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
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I signed the contract so I am utterly thrilled to announce I have sold a novelette to @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 🥳 my second appearance there, this time with a messed up unicorn time loop story! 🦄⏳
Big shout out to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE notes & edits to make this one sing!
Big shout out to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE notes & edits to make this one sing!
thor is wearing a helmet and holding a shield and a sword .
Alt: Thor, from the third movie, shouting "yessss!"
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February 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I signed the contract so I am utterly thrilled to announce I have sold a novelette to @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 🥳 my second appearance there, this time with a messed up unicorn time loop story! 🦄⏳
Big shout out to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE notes & edits to make this one sing!
Big shout out to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE notes & edits to make this one sing!
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The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
February 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
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My review of @khoreo.bsky.social issue 5.3 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!
locusmag.com/review/khore...
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khōrėō 5.3: Review by A.C. Wise
khōrėō 5.3 ‘‘Symbiote’’ by T. Chiu-Chu in khōrėō 5.3 parallels the narrator’s relationship with their friend Eli and their increasing conviction that there’s a parasite living in their water bottle…
locusmag.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
My review of @khoreo.bsky.social issue 5.3 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!
locusmag.com/review/khore...
locusmag.com/review/khore...
Next Wednesday, join us with Michael Cisco & Tim Chawaga for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @michaelcisco.bsky.social @timchawaga.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Next Wednesday, join us with Michael Cisco & Tim Chawaga for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @michaelcisco.bsky.social @timchawaga.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social
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New Interview: A. W. Prihandita by Caroline M. Yoachim! buff.ly/crBpNe4
February 3, 2026 at 10:15 PM
New Interview: A. W. Prihandita by Caroline M. Yoachim! buff.ly/crBpNe4
I have just learned today that Gmail will no longer support fetching emails from external accounts via POP3. This will break so many things for myself and for my clients and millions of people. All in the name of more profit for $$$.
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I have just learned today that Gmail will no longer support fetching emails from external accounts via POP3. This will break so many things for myself and for my clients and millions of people. All in the name of more profit for $$$.
SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME
There's more adult science fiction than fantasy this February; we've got cybernetic prizefights, a library of human consciousness, and a brand-new Nnedi Okorafor novel 🌌 What are you reading first?
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in February 2026 - Reactor
This February brings AI-controlled worlds, rain on Mars, a thousand-year-old space ship, and more...
reactormag.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME
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This piece is thorough and persuasive. It has always seemed clear to me that the real catalysts for political support are the 3 Cs: conviction, consistency, & the credibility those bring. Together they spell good faith.
As regards this claim the authors make toward the end, it's highly perceptive.
As regards this claim the authors make toward the end, it's highly perceptive.
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
This piece is thorough and persuasive. It has always seemed clear to me that the real catalysts for political support are the 3 Cs: conviction, consistency, & the credibility those bring. Together they spell good faith.
As regards this claim the authors make toward the end, it's highly perceptive.
As regards this claim the authors make toward the end, it's highly perceptive.
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Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
February 3, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
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I had a delightful time talking with @matthewkressel.net and @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social about books, reviewing, writing, and all things genre!
In our 17th episode of The Nerd Count Podcast, we welcome guest A.C. Wise to talk about writing, editing, reviewing, rowing, cocktails, con parties & more! Link in thread. @acwise.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I had a delightful time talking with @matthewkressel.net and @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social about books, reviewing, writing, and all things genre!
In our 17th episode of The Nerd Count Podcast, we welcome guest A.C. Wise to talk about writing, editing, reviewing, rowing, cocktails, con parties & more! Link in thread. @acwise.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
In our 17th episode of The Nerd Count Podcast, we welcome guest A.C. Wise to talk about writing, editing, reviewing, rowing, cocktails, con parties & more! Link in thread. @acwise.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social
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They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.
February 3, 2026 at 4:15 AM
They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.
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Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
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We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Statement on ICE Operations in the USA
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US facing these conditions.
strangehorizons.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...