Sophie Burnham
@sophieburnham.bsky.social
sff novels & weird seagull noises 👽 🌈
rep: maria napolitano // kt literary
books: sargassa, bloodtide (daw)
https://linktr.ee/sophieburnham
rep: maria napolitano // kt literary
books: sargassa, bloodtide (daw)
https://linktr.ee/sophieburnham
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Sophie Burnham
@sophieburnham.bsky.social
· Oct 14
Bloodtide - Astra Publishing House
The fate of the empire hangs in the balance in the second installment of the genre-bending Ex Romana trilogy Perfect for readers of Saara El-Arifi and C. L. Clark and stories with strong, queer voices...
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BLOODTIDE, the second book and feral middle child of the Ex Romana trilogy, hits shelves today! Read more queer, anti-fascist books!
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awards eligibility post 🔥🔥 if you haven't read Bloodtide yet, she's got a 4.6 on goodreads and my mom thinks she's pretty cool 🥰
December 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
awards eligibility post 🔥🔥 if you haven't read Bloodtide yet, she's got a 4.6 on goodreads and my mom thinks she's pretty cool 🥰
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Has there been a Lancet study on whether everything written by or for women will eventually be called YA?
SCREAMING at these headlines calling Heated Rivalry a YA series.
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Has there been a Lancet study on whether everything written by or for women will eventually be called YA?
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Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
@princejvstin.com has our review for your Friday
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/revi...
"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."
@princejvstin.com has our review for your Friday
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/revi...
"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."
Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
Sophie Burnham’s Bloodtide continues the Ex Romana trilogy started in Sargassa, peeling back more the story of Selah, her companions and ri...
www.nerds-feather.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
@princejvstin.com has our review for your Friday
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/revi...
"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."
@princejvstin.com has our review for your Friday
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/revi...
"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."
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Gender criticals: "Listen to women! Unless you're Girlguides or the Women's Institute or you disagree with the male judge who wrote this decision or if you don't 'look like a woman' or if you're a trans man because then you're definitely a man."
Everyone will suffer from this madness. Everyone.
Everyone will suffer from this madness. Everyone.
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender criticals: "Listen to women! Unless you're Girlguides or the Women's Institute or you disagree with the male judge who wrote this decision or if you don't 'look like a woman' or if you're a trans man because then you're definitely a man."
Everyone will suffer from this madness. Everyone.
Everyone will suffer from this madness. Everyone.
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Before the Christianization of Europe, Die Hard was actually a Yuletide movie
December 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Before the Christianization of Europe, Die Hard was actually a Yuletide movie
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How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
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ANNOUNCING...THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2025 POLL!!
Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Video games! MORE!!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year!
Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Video games! MORE!!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year!
Favorite SFF Stories of 2025
Reactor Magazine wants to know: What were YOUR favorite scif-fi/fantasy/horror/romantasy genre books, movies, and television shows of 2025??
We’d like you to share your favorite genre fiction books, m...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
ANNOUNCING...THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2025 POLL!!
Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Video games! MORE!!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year!
Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Video games! MORE!!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year!
the one (and ONLY) perk of being a chronically ill author is the divine visions
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
the one (and ONLY) perk of being a chronically ill author is the divine visions
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AH does have a lot of those stories, but over the past few years there’s a strain of the genre that has gotten more diverse, more anti-racist, and more feminist.
I’ll flag @wtalabi.bsky.social’s work, and @annaleen.bsky.social’s work, and @sophieburnham.bsky.social’s work.
I’ll flag @wtalabi.bsky.social’s work, and @annaleen.bsky.social’s work, and @sophieburnham.bsky.social’s work.
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
AH does have a lot of those stories, but over the past few years there’s a strain of the genre that has gotten more diverse, more anti-racist, and more feminist.
I’ll flag @wtalabi.bsky.social’s work, and @annaleen.bsky.social’s work, and @sophieburnham.bsky.social’s work.
I’ll flag @wtalabi.bsky.social’s work, and @annaleen.bsky.social’s work, and @sophieburnham.bsky.social’s work.
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
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One of my favorite things is pre-ordering a friend's book from a small store and then going to pick it up and seeing three more copies on the shelf on publication day. It feels like magic.
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One of my favorite things is pre-ordering a friend's book from a small store and then going to pick it up and seeing three more copies on the shelf on publication day. It feels like magic.
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
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“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
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In other words if you don't use your brainpower you lose it
Which is like muscles really
Which is like muscles really
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In other words if you don't use your brainpower you lose it
Which is like muscles really
Which is like muscles really
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Crawling out a five day migraine hole
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Crawling out a five day migraine hole
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Found myself thinking about this piece again. Inspired by Cattle Decapitation' Just another body
May 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Found myself thinking about this piece again. Inspired by Cattle Decapitation' Just another body
smacked heads with someone at my first ever ceilidh last night so I'd call it a rousing success
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
smacked heads with someone at my first ever ceilidh last night so I'd call it a rousing success
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Sargassa and Bloodtide are must-read books filled with political intrigue, villains you can’t resist, and vivid and fleshed-out worldbuilding. We guarantee that these sweeping books will have you craving for more history and politics!
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buff.ly/SEjjlDZ
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sargassa and Bloodtide are must-read books filled with political intrigue, villains you can’t resist, and vivid and fleshed-out worldbuilding. We guarantee that these sweeping books will have you craving for more history and politics!
buff.ly/SEjjlDZ
buff.ly/SEjjlDZ
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TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
entirely misread that as "into the sheets, and beyond"
not incorrect, though 😌
not incorrect, though 😌
BLOODTIDE by @sophieburnham.bsky.social
- queer MCs
- Rome never fell, but the end is coming
- and now fractures spread across their client state in North America
- into the hinterlands, the libraries, the streets, and beyond
- 2nd in EX ROMANA trilogy
- queer MCs
- Rome never fell, but the end is coming
- and now fractures spread across their client state in North America
- into the hinterlands, the libraries, the streets, and beyond
- 2nd in EX ROMANA trilogy
Bloodtide
Check out Bloodtide - <b>The fate of the empire hangs in the balance in the second installment of the genre-bending Ex Romana trilogy<br> <br>Perfect for readers of Saara El-Arifi and C. L. Clark and&...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
entirely misread that as "into the sheets, and beyond"
not incorrect, though 😌
not incorrect, though 😌
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Right? Like, solve for capitalism first, and then things will be free, instead of screwing over the folks who are also just trying to get by.
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Right? Like, solve for capitalism first, and then things will be free, instead of screwing over the folks who are also just trying to get by.