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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼
@boriscrito.bsky.social
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Taínofuturist cyborg 🐚🪶🛖🤖; Award Winning Author of SORDIDEZ; ✍🏼 Science Fiction, CliFi, Fantasy, Horror 📚; SFWA; Cloud Anthropologist; RPG Nerd 🎮; Cuir Boricua migrant in Europe | He/Him/Él 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇷👊🏼
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Thanks to your support for Taínofuturism, @stelliform.press is publishing TWO standalone sequels to SORDIDEZ in 2026! 📕The first is called CACIQUES. Set in Borikén, our heroes learn how to live without the Empires that have long defined them. Can they vanquish the lingering ghosts of coloniality? 9/
Publishers Marketplace announcement for CACIQUES and MAQUECHES with Stelliform Press forthcoming in 2026.
September 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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SORDIDEZ was a child born from my imagination, lived experience & extensive research into the harrowing history of Latin America; (1) Real-life Caudillos who sought to erase Maya communities from existence, a story told with excruciating resolution in PAPER CADAVERS by @kirstenweld.bsky.social 6/
E.G. Conde reading form a copy of SORDIDEZ at a book event in New York City on his 2023 book tour.
September 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The novella SORDIDEZ tells the story of ordinary people who rise up from the rubble of environmental disaster to remake their future. It is a story of about refusing to become extinct in the face of unyielding oppression. A blueprint for how indigenous renewal can seed futures of liberation. 3/
The book, SORDIDEZ, is set atop a grassy field of white and yellow daisies and violet wildflowers. The book cover depicts a pale young woman amid abstract leaf patterns with swaths of red and blue washed out pigments. The title SORDIDEZ is written in a cursive font. The author is E.G. Conde.
September 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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SORDIDEZ began as a short story, a manuscript I nearly abandoned until @stelliform.press saw its potential. They took a chance on a new writer, mentoring me every step of the way, until we ended up with something that continues to inspire people two years later. Small presses innovate publishing. 2/
Stacks of signed copies of SORDIDEZ at Keene State College bookstore in advance of an author event.
September 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/
The Indie Ink Awards category "Writing the Future we need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author", with book covers displaye. Sordidez by E.G. Conde is highlighted as a winner, with a cover that features a pale woman amid leaves in a watercolor bleed of red and blue at the edges.
September 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The second is a Boricua speculative fiction jangueo with some badass Puerto Rican writers including @tropicaleccentric.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social @benfrancisco.bsky.social . Come for the bad bunny references & the bochinche & the Tainofuturism & also Bori Steampunk! 🇵🇷
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Puerto Rican Speculative FictionVirtual, Science Fiction, Non-Western Literature Virtual Room 1, Sat. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For Puerto Rican writers living in the archipelago or the diaspora, fiction is a vehicle for time travel. Our stories imagine alternate pasts and novel futures, drawing inspiration from the beauty and tragedy of the Boricua experience. In this panel, writers discuss how Puerto Rico (Borikén) influences their speculative imagination and writing practice. From Bad Bunny to Bomba; Carnival and Cimarrones; Taínos and Tostones, the writers on the panel draw from the rich and painful tapestry of Puerto Rican heritage to remix and remake pasts and futures. E.G. Condé (M), Ben Francisco, Carolina Cardona, Karlo Yeager Rodriguez
August 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Dearest Worldconers, I won't in Seattle but am thrilled to be on 2 virtual dream-team panels. The first is Diasporic Caribbean Science Fiction w/ @older.bsky.social @spiderlilly.bsky.social @tonyarmoore.com @fabriceguerrier.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo & Alex V Cruz on Friday @ 9AM PST
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Diasporic Caribbean Science FictionVirtual, Science Fiction, Non-Western Literature Virtual Room 2, Fri. 9–10 a.m. Diaspora is a story that is foundational to the Caribbean experience. Shaped by contact and collision, violence and exchange, migration and colonization, the archipelagos of the region are ever-evolving meshworks of languages, faiths, music, traditions, and their diverse continents of origin. For writers living in the diaspora, tenuously moored to the memory of their ancestors and the islands they called home, what is the shape of the future? This panel brings together writers from the Caribbean diaspora (Anglophone, Hispanophone, Francophone) who draw on their roots (or move beyond them) to imagine the future in their own language and aesthetics. From shape-shifters to cyborg griots, flying islands to sapient storms, these Caribbean-inspired visions of tomorrow carry traces of the islands that made them. Panelists reflect on how the diasporic Caribbean experience influences their storytelling, and worldbuilding for stories set in the “future.” E.G. Condé (M), Alex V Cruz, Fabrice Guerrier, Malka Older, Suzan Palumbo, Tonya Liburd, Tonya R. Moore
August 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Check out the teaser video for Sim Kern's badass book , "THE FREE PEOPLE'S VILLAGE". My amateur FANinations do not involve AI. They are the result of many hours of tedious and joyous work of modeling and animating key frames.
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August 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I'm proudly supporting The Sameer Project this month with a FANimation of THE FREE PEOPLE'S VILLAGE by @simkern.bsky.social . Join my fundraiser for a chance to win bookish prizes while supporting direct aid for Palest1nians surviving famine and horrific violence. How to participate?
August 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Last day for #hugo nominations. Please consider "SIBILANCE" @interzonemag for short story. Read it free with code: HODEI299.
Set in the nearish future, SIBILANCE follows the arrogant & poetic Dr. Ahim Hodei & his nonbinary-lover turned-drone Amaranth as they puzzle out a mystery on Jupiter. #scifi
Sibilance is near-future space opera set on Jupiter.
March 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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A NECESSARY CHAOS is getting the FANimation treatment. We are supporting @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social , a #speculativefiction magazine centering Black voices. FIYAH does so much for the SFFH community! Join me in supporting them and celebrating this amazing book by @brentclambert.bsky.social ⬛📚🏳️‍🌈🌶️
Black m+m scifi romantasy
February 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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FANimation is back with A NECESSARY CHAOS by @brentclambert.bsky.social
In observance of #Blackhistorymonth I am raising funds for @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social - they do so much for the SFFH community. Please join me in supporting them.
Teaser trailer on IG:
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The protagonists of A NECESSARY ChAOS, Althus (wearing a white beanie) and Vade nearly kissing at a night club.
February 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Award Eligibility Post: First is a short story called "Sibilance" in @interzonemagfans.bsky.social . The stunning cover artwork by @carlydraws.bsky.social perfectly captures the tense, strange, and horrific beauty of Jupiter, where this queer scifi horror story is set 1/2
#writingcommunity #sfwa
December 16, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Join @sillysyntax.bsky.social + me for a Solstice Eve 🌞 IG LIVE chat about her epic space opera novella COUNTESS. We're raffling a signed copy + download codes for my SORDIDEZ audiobook for those who participated in our fundraiser for 🍉.
#authorinterview #authorlive #scifibooks #askmeanything
IG live Event on Friday December 20th at 11AM EST
December 7, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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FANimation project 📚 launches with COUNTESS by @sillysyntax.bsky.social an Antillean space opera that @haileypiperfights.bsky.social calls "furiously compelling". To unlock the video, we ask you to support MAP or other 💧🍋 mutual aid org helping Gauze-Ahh. #Booksky www.instagram.com/p/DCozTsONoq...
A 3D version of the COUNTESS cover artwork, featuring Captain Virika Sameroo standing in front of a giant moon on a violet hued world with her cape fluttering in the wind. Fundraiser instructions: donate to MAP, DM or Email screenshot to enter book raffle, full video unlocks when $300 target ks reached.
November 21, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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It's #nativeamericanheritagemonth , if you're looking for science fiction book recs, SORDIDEZ might be for you. It's queer indigenous futurism from the Antilles & the Yucatán; so lots of Taíno and Maya connections. Thank you to everyone who has checked it out. 🙏🏼🏝️🐚🪶👊🏼 | 🇵🇷 =🚫🗑️
#scifibooks #novella
Cover of SORDIDEZ by E.G. Condé with some points of emphasis text: Antillean indigenous futurism, multi-pov novella, transmasculine main character, dark to hopeful, and anticolonial revolution In the aftermath of a category 6 hurricane in Puerto Rico, aspiring journalist Vero Diaz leads an effort to rebuild his community, reviving ancient Taíno traditions to survive the storm's aftermath and their island's new colonizers. Still gripped by tradition, many do not accept Vero, a trans man, as their leader, driving him to start a new life abroad. His new career as a reporter brings him to the Yucatán, where he finds a landscape ravaged by an ecological disaster of humanity’s own making—the Hydrophage, a climate technology warped into a weapon of war by the ruthless dictator, Caudillo. In the ruin that war carved, Vero documents the lives of the survivors, finding stories of resilience, hope, and relentless determination; a gardener who sows seeds in rubble; an amnesiac searching for purpose in the twilight of his life; and a Maya revolutionary called the Loba Roja, whose daring vision for the future both inspires and frightens him. What must they sacrifice to protect their people and way of life? What must they become to stop the colonial forces that seek the destruction of their worlds? Praise for Sordidez including the International Latino Book Award and nomination for Ignyte Award 3D concept art of an indigenous Taíno hero chieftain with traditional face paint, a futuristic harness and a medallion necklace called Gaunín
November 16, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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The Æcerbot Empire messed with the wrong Antillean. @sillysyntax.bsky.social 's COUNTESS is a gripping, kinetic read that conjures the full spectrum of emotions in just 160 pages. This 📙 is more than a retelling, it's a searing commentary on what it takes to resist & defeat Empire (within & without)
Countess by Suzan Palumbo. A woman with a cape stands in the desert against a violet sky with the moon in the background. Antillean science fiction.
November 15, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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ANNOUNCING the FANimation Project: human-made (no AI 🚫🤖) 3D shorts 📽️ to promote 📚 Indie/BIPOC/LGBTQIA+/marginalized authors & small presses. New episodes will coincide w/ fundraisers for just causes relevant to selected books. VOTE on the next 📕 on IG 👇🏼 #bookish
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Project Fanimation. I AM AI, a cyberpunk novelette The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older The SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, Fantasy novel
November 8, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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My response to Jennifer González on the matter of Puerto Rico's political status and future. #PNP
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"Equal" part of the Union? Ask Hawai'i how equal they are. You so gleefully serve the Empire that oppresses us, that you fail to notice how disposable we are to them🗑️. For years you went to Congress on our behalf, what did you achieve? Where was your 'Union' 🇺🇲 during 🌀 María?
November 6, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Stills from my IG FANimation for GREEN FUSE BURNING by Tiffany Morris @stelliform.press
In a remote wetland, Rita Francis is grieving. She creates paintings inspired by the pond & the creatures that inhabit it, while navigating her fraught connection to the Mi'kmaq culture of her ancestors. #horror
Lichen Woman encounters Rita Francis in the swamp. Lichen Woman emerges from the swamp with glowing yellow eyes and a body composed of rotting wood, mushrooms, and mud. Rita Francis paints her masterpiece. Lichen Woman rises up from the pond.
October 31, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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JD Vance thinks it's divisive to NOT celebrate a genocidal rapist & human trafficker because he is too much of a ❄️ to handle the brutal truth that Columbus was a villain. Fake news? Woke propaganda? Read his diary. He brags about murd3r, mutilation, & kidnapping my 🪶ancestors. #indigenouspeoplesday
Screenshot of original tweet with post replying to JD Vance
October 14, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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I wrote a 'propulsive' indigenous futurism (Taíno🪶) novella inspired by the heroism of my people in the aftermath of Hurricane María. It's called SORDIDEZ. It's a story about cultivating hope in ruins: planting seeds in the rubble wrought by Empire & climate change. 💯% BORICUA DIRT. 🚫 #Tinderpress
Sordidez is a finalist for the International Latino Book Award in the LGTBQ+ Category
September 21, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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SORDIDEZ is a finalist for the INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDS for BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK & is an honorable mention for BEST NOVEL: SCIENCE FICTION!!! 🫨😲🫨😲🫨😲🫨🤯 I am so deeply grateful for this incredible honor. Gracias. Hahóm. Thank you to everyone who supported this Taínofuturism 📕! 👊🏼🎉🕺🏽🥳🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈🪶🙏🫂
Indigenous futurism book SORDIDEZ with International Latino Book Award medal for BEST Science Fiction book (honorable mention) Indigenous futurism book SORDIDEZ with International Latino Book Award medal for BEST BOOK LGTBQ+ THEMED
September 6, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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Feeling grateful to have my copy of SHE WHO KNOWS signed by @nnedi.bsky.social : one of the greatest storytellers of our time. This little book brims with the whirling wonder of deserts 🌪️. It's a story about knowledge & a pioneer in a world that overlooked her fathomless potential. 🧂🐪🏜️✨ #bookreview
A jar of salt on a white bookshelf framed by Nnedi Okorafor's WHO FEARS DEATH and SHE WHO KNOWS
August 30, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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My schedule for WorldCon is pretty packed! 🤓📕🐉🚀 I'm excited to connect with readers, writers, creatives to talk revolution, diasporas, Weirding, indigenous futurisms, + clifi. I will have signed copies of SORDIDEZ + giveaways with me. Hope to see some of you wonderful nerds there! #SFFH
August 6, 2024 at 10:33 AM