writer. fiction in @clarkesworld, @StrangeHorizons, @LightspeedMag + others. associate editor @escapepodcast. Clarion West '19. #1 lurantis fan. he-ish.
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it has come to my attention that the hugo award ceremony next year is the day before my birthday. do you want to give me the coolest birthday present ever? then please consider nominating my novella Between Blades for an award 🥰
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Every tweet in this long thread should be read carefully by anyone who sincerely wants to understand what’s happening in Gaza right now, what history led to it, & the disgusting, reprehensible political project undergirding it.
I think this is one of the best things I've written, but don't take my word for it: @ClowderofTwo highlighted it as "a very messy, very intimate story about identity, grief, and the falseness of binary thinking" in this month's @locusmag
BCS of 2023! "Between Blades" @Filiphdz BCS #392: "Once or twice someone had asked, after a bout, why Leris did not take her bow in her real body. How could she explain that her human form was hers but not her, not in the way the spear form was?" beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/…
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I keep vacillating between articulating my grief at this or any kind of analysis but they ultimately come to the same thing: they don't see people. They don't see human beings. They have been so separated from themselves that all they can do is kill.
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ALT Screenshot of text from article reads as follows: One of the men was carrying a stick with a white cloth tied to it and all had removed their shirts. Spotting the three, an Israeli soldier on a rooftop, however, opened fire on the men, shouting “Terrorists!”. While two of the hostages fell to the ground immediately, the third fled into a nearby building. When a commander arrived on the scene, the unit was ordered into the building where it killed the third hostage despite his pleas for help in Hebrew. It emerged too that the IDF had identified a nearby building marked with “SOS” and “Help! Three hostages” two days earlier but had believed it might be a trap.
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BCS of 2023! "The Cuckoo of Vrežna Mountain" @filiphdz, BCS #380: "I knew why we were Godless, though I felt only a shadow of the dread my father had. I knew the power we were imbued with from childhood, to detect the parasite that had destroyed our gods." beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/…
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Wrote a poem last night. It won’t all fit in alt text so will link in thread.
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If you like @filiphdz, his novella "Between Blades," in the Anniversary issue, is great too: beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/…
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✨So many good @BCSmagazine stories again this year.✨
🏅My own personal faves are probably "Merciful Even to Scorpions" by @kaychronister, "The Cuckoo of Vrežna Mountain" by @filiphdz, & "The Whisper of that Blood" by @MariaHaskins.
See all the award-eligible stories below...
Reading for 2023 awards? Here's all BCS stories from 2023, what award category they're in, and info/links. Adventure fantasy, historical fantasy, dark fantasy; all moving stories in rich settings. Thank you for reading our stories! beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/…
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An engrossing novella about gladiators shapeshifting into weapons, twins sharing one body, and friends sharing the freedom to choose how to live and who to become.
by @filiphdz in @BCSmagazine
beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/…
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It’s just been announced; HALF A MILLION PEOPLE marched in London in solidarity with the Palestinians. A historic day 🤍✊🏼🇵🇸
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oh hey while you're at it read this! which used to be titled "Why Must Palestinians Audition For Your Empathy", a question I've been screaming at people in my head for almost three decades!
nytimes.com/2023/10/25/opini…
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Congrats to the whole editorial team, especially @Monte_Lin, Uncanny’s managing editor, who is a patient and caring person, a champion for diversity in SFF, and a beloved friend 🤩🥳
Here is the @UncannyMagazine Hugo Award Acceptance Speech! youtu.be/SCtytQLbAT0?si=fS0X…
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I was asked to write a piece about the McCarthyite suppression of solidarity with Palestine in the current moment for @guardian. At the very last moment, they killed the piece. It’s now up, with a new intro, at @nplusonemag: nplusonemag.com/online-only/… – at Monterey, CA
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Cover reveal and announcement of my second novel RAKESFALL, out June 2024! Since the book is after all about the connectedness of all struggle against oppression, let me use this small platform for clarity: Palestine must be and will be free.
ALT The cover of my second novel RAKESFALL. It has a design of yellow hibiscus flowers, green leaves, a hare's skull, and worms set against a pink background.
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Rigor. That’s what I miss. That’s what we’re missing. In so many ways, at so many moments, but especially now.
Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to writing and reading deeper than what you’ve been served. Beyond escaping. Commit yourself to living your hero’s values.
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Some action for the poets, grateful for any sharing of this on/offline 💓🙏🏼
I call on all poets & writers to do this work with me: to expose the viciousness of offering Palestinians a false "choice" between slow genocide or spectacular annihilation.
The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We must refuse 🪨🌱
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