Ivor W. Hartmann
@ivorhartmann.bsky.social
Zimbabwean publisher, editor, writer, visual artist.
Anthology series ed./pub: African Roar, AfroSF, and ZamaShort launched 1st May 2025 @zamashort.bsky.social
Anthology series ed./pub: African Roar, AfroSF, and ZamaShort launched 1st May 2025 @zamashort.bsky.social
Crop of the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. Image by: Silvia Mantovanini
#Astronomy
#Astronomy
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Crop of the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. Image by: Silvia Mantovanini
#Astronomy
#Astronomy
Massive congrats to Tendai Huchu on the (UK) release of his fifth and final book of Ropa Moyo's epic journey through the Edinburgh Nights series that has been such a supreme pleasure to read.
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Massive congrats to Tendai Huchu on the (UK) release of his fifth and final book of Ropa Moyo's epic journey through the Edinburgh Nights series that has been such a supreme pleasure to read.
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
Massive Congrats NoViolet Bulawayo! Winner of the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story 'Hitting Budapest' which won the 2011 Caine Prize. Judges were: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Tony Tagoe. There were 25 finalists.
#AfricanLit #booksky
#AfricanLit #booksky
September 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Massive Congrats NoViolet Bulawayo! Winner of the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story 'Hitting Budapest' which won the 2011 Caine Prize. Judges were: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Tony Tagoe. There were 25 finalists.
#AfricanLit #booksky
#AfricanLit #booksky
New African SF StoryBundle @storybundle.bsky.social is live, curated by Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social.
storybundle.com/scifi
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi #fantasy #speculativefiction
storybundle.com/scifi
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi #fantasy #speculativefiction
August 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
New African SF StoryBundle @storybundle.bsky.social is live, curated by Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social.
storybundle.com/scifi
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi #fantasy #speculativefiction
storybundle.com/scifi
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi #fantasy #speculativefiction
Difference in land mass size actual (dark blue) versus the Mercator projection (light blue) usually used. Yes, Africa is that big:).
April 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Difference in land mass size actual (dark blue) versus the Mercator projection (light blue) usually used. Yes, Africa is that big:).
Abigail George, winner of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award, has a new book out: Songs for Palestine: Struggle Poems. www.africanbookscollective.com/books/songs-...
April 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Abigail George, winner of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award, has a new book out: Songs for Palestine: Struggle Poems. www.africanbookscollective.com/books/songs-...
If you missed Tomorrow and I, that's some solid Thai SF right there doing what SF does best in exploring local (and universal) current and forthcoming issues with acute social commentary.
March 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
If you missed Tomorrow and I, that's some solid Thai SF right there doing what SF does best in exploring local (and universal) current and forthcoming issues with acute social commentary.
Happy Pi Day!
Artwork: Tsuyoshi Hisakado, River, 2022, Silkscreen on paper.
Artwork: Tsuyoshi Hisakado, River, 2022, Silkscreen on paper.
March 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Happy Pi Day!
Artwork: Tsuyoshi Hisakado, River, 2022, Silkscreen on paper.
Artwork: Tsuyoshi Hisakado, River, 2022, Silkscreen on paper.
Please tell me again how great genAI is.
March 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Please tell me again how great genAI is.
Palate cleanser.
March 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Palate cleanser.
StoryTime short story legends #7
'Main' NoViolet Bulawayo
African Roar 2011
"Main. Main Street standing up straight and adjusting the rainbow-coloured wrap skirt that threatens to slide down her wide waist, black blood boiling in her veins."
www.amazon.com/dp/0987008943
#Africanlit
'Main' NoViolet Bulawayo
African Roar 2011
"Main. Main Street standing up straight and adjusting the rainbow-coloured wrap skirt that threatens to slide down her wide waist, black blood boiling in her veins."
www.amazon.com/dp/0987008943
#Africanlit
February 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
StoryTime short story legends #7
'Main' NoViolet Bulawayo
African Roar 2011
"Main. Main Street standing up straight and adjusting the rainbow-coloured wrap skirt that threatens to slide down her wide waist, black blood boiling in her veins."
www.amazon.com/dp/0987008943
#Africanlit
'Main' NoViolet Bulawayo
African Roar 2011
"Main. Main Street standing up straight and adjusting the rainbow-coloured wrap skirt that threatens to slide down her wide waist, black blood boiling in her veins."
www.amazon.com/dp/0987008943
#Africanlit
"Cover reveal Monday: "Secrets of the First School", out in October, will be the fifth and final installment in the Edinburgh Nights series. Thank you for following Ropa Moyo's journey." — T.L. Huchu
This has been such an excellent series, sad and yet excited for the final book.
#AfricanSFF
This has been such an excellent series, sad and yet excited for the final book.
#AfricanSFF
February 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Cover reveal Monday: "Secrets of the First School", out in October, will be the fifth and final installment in the Edinburgh Nights series. Thank you for following Ropa Moyo's journey." — T.L. Huchu
This has been such an excellent series, sad and yet excited for the final book.
#AfricanSFF
This has been such an excellent series, sad and yet excited for the final book.
#AfricanSFF
StoryTime short story legends #6
'The Gift of Touch' Chinelo Onwualu
@chineloonwualu.bsky.social
AfroSF
"Bruno strode across the causeway, scanning the three land skimmers hanging from their docking harnesses with a critical eye."
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEUH112
#AfricanSFF
'The Gift of Touch' Chinelo Onwualu
@chineloonwualu.bsky.social
AfroSF
"Bruno strode across the causeway, scanning the three land skimmers hanging from their docking harnesses with a critical eye."
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEUH112
#AfricanSFF
January 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
StoryTime short story legends #6
'The Gift of Touch' Chinelo Onwualu
@chineloonwualu.bsky.social
AfroSF
"Bruno strode across the causeway, scanning the three land skimmers hanging from their docking harnesses with a critical eye."
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEUH112
#AfricanSFF
'The Gift of Touch' Chinelo Onwualu
@chineloonwualu.bsky.social
AfroSF
"Bruno strode across the causeway, scanning the three land skimmers hanging from their docking harnesses with a critical eye."
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEUH112
#AfricanSFF
Alain Mabanckou's @mabanckou.bsky.social 10th novel released today: Dealing with the Dead. "A phantasmagorical tale of ambition, community and forces beyond human control...a scathing satire on corruption and political violence."
serpentstail.com/work/dealing...
#AfricanLit
serpentstail.com/work/dealing...
#AfricanLit
January 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Alain Mabanckou's @mabanckou.bsky.social 10th novel released today: Dealing with the Dead. "A phantasmagorical tale of ambition, community and forces beyond human control...a scathing satire on corruption and political violence."
serpentstail.com/work/dealing...
#AfricanLit
serpentstail.com/work/dealing...
#AfricanLit
Debut FicSci#1 now out, available to read digitally for free or purchase print edition. www.africanminds.co.za/flow/
FicSci is a not-for-profit academic research project that aims to produce and support experimental interdisciplinary encounters between science and creative writing.
#AfricanSFF
FicSci is a not-for-profit academic research project that aims to produce and support experimental interdisciplinary encounters between science and creative writing.
#AfricanSFF
January 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Debut FicSci#1 now out, available to read digitally for free or purchase print edition. www.africanminds.co.za/flow/
FicSci is a not-for-profit academic research project that aims to produce and support experimental interdisciplinary encounters between science and creative writing.
#AfricanSFF
FicSci is a not-for-profit academic research project that aims to produce and support experimental interdisciplinary encounters between science and creative writing.
#AfricanSFF
StoryTime short story legends #5
'Notes from Gethsemane' Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
AfroSF
"Tosin’s last stroke closed the curve of the horizon, separating meadow from sky, completing the drawing."
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEUH112
#AfricanSFF
'Notes from Gethsemane' Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
AfroSF
"Tosin’s last stroke closed the curve of the horizon, separating meadow from sky, completing the drawing."
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEUH112
#AfricanSFF
January 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
StoryTime short story legends #5
'Notes from Gethsemane' Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
AfroSF
"Tosin’s last stroke closed the curve of the horizon, separating meadow from sky, completing the drawing."
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEUH112
#AfricanSFF
'Notes from Gethsemane' Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
AfroSF
"Tosin’s last stroke closed the curve of the horizon, separating meadow from sky, completing the drawing."
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEUH112
#AfricanSFF
If you missed it, @chrismlalazi.bsky.social Christopher Mlalazi's Langabi: Season of Beasts is an epic African fantasy novel.
A kingdom in crisis, a brutal king, a missing ruler. Owethu, from a family of ironworkers is thrust into a battle for his kingdom and the lives of his family.
#AfricanSFF
A kingdom in crisis, a brutal king, a missing ruler. Owethu, from a family of ironworkers is thrust into a battle for his kingdom and the lives of his family.
#AfricanSFF
December 30, 2024 at 12:11 PM
If you missed it, @chrismlalazi.bsky.social Christopher Mlalazi's Langabi: Season of Beasts is an epic African fantasy novel.
A kingdom in crisis, a brutal king, a missing ruler. Owethu, from a family of ironworkers is thrust into a battle for his kingdom and the lives of his family.
#AfricanSFF
A kingdom in crisis, a brutal king, a missing ruler. Owethu, from a family of ironworkers is thrust into a battle for his kingdom and the lives of his family.
#AfricanSFF
Got round to putting up my micropress StoryTime here
@storytime-afrika.bsky.social
Since 2007 StoryTime has been dedicated to publishing fiction by emerging and established African writers, championing and adding to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence.
#AfricanLit #AfricanSFF
@storytime-afrika.bsky.social
Since 2007 StoryTime has been dedicated to publishing fiction by emerging and established African writers, championing and adding to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence.
#AfricanLit #AfricanSFF
December 27, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Got round to putting up my micropress StoryTime here
@storytime-afrika.bsky.social
Since 2007 StoryTime has been dedicated to publishing fiction by emerging and established African writers, championing and adding to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence.
#AfricanLit #AfricanSFF
@storytime-afrika.bsky.social
Since 2007 StoryTime has been dedicated to publishing fiction by emerging and established African writers, championing and adding to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence.
#AfricanLit #AfricanSFF
StoryTime short story legends #4
'A Cicada in the Shimmer' Christopher Mlalazi @chrismlalazi.bsky.social
African Roar
"It was trapped inside his mind, which was a world falling away into a darkish-greyish, shimmering soot. He opened his eyes."
www.amazon.com/dp/B003VIX16I
#AfricanLit
'A Cicada in the Shimmer' Christopher Mlalazi @chrismlalazi.bsky.social
African Roar
"It was trapped inside his mind, which was a world falling away into a darkish-greyish, shimmering soot. He opened his eyes."
www.amazon.com/dp/B003VIX16I
#AfricanLit
December 27, 2024 at 12:20 PM
StoryTime short story legends #4
'A Cicada in the Shimmer' Christopher Mlalazi @chrismlalazi.bsky.social
African Roar
"It was trapped inside his mind, which was a world falling away into a darkish-greyish, shimmering soot. He opened his eyes."
www.amazon.com/dp/B003VIX16I
#AfricanLit
'A Cicada in the Shimmer' Christopher Mlalazi @chrismlalazi.bsky.social
African Roar
"It was trapped inside his mind, which was a world falling away into a darkish-greyish, shimmering soot. He opened his eyes."
www.amazon.com/dp/B003VIX16I
#AfricanLit