Emily Tesh

THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now! US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

The worst thing about Bioware shutting down is the shitty treatment of the people working for it. But also it's becoming clear that they had assembled an absolutely elite team of modern science fiction writers to write the next Mass Effect game, and man it hurts that we'll never get to see it.

did not have "inaugural pick for a book club featured on NHL dot com" on my author bingo card, but HERE WE ARE 🏒

Also: Dragon Age 2 is an incredible video game that took storytelling swings no one else was even considering in 2011, had one of the best ensembles in any medium, and was a goddamn feat of development that got made in A YEAR AND 4 MONTHS. Haters can get bent, Kirkwall 4 life

FYI! Tor has put up the whole first five chapters of my lesbian winter soldier book CALL ME TRAITOR for free here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

And I'LL weave 13 miles of rope And I'LL weave 14 miles more free Just to BE the man who wove authentic ROPE for Captain Jack Aubrey

you laugh but “we remembered Spain and it’s right where we left it” has saved our bacon more than once

#UKSFFBookBargains today only the rather wonderful Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net Kyr thinks she is a super heroic soldier devour to avenge the destroyed Earth, but it's more complicated than that. Deserved Hugo winner. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Despera...

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

Roseanna once again showing why she's one of my favourite reviewers.

Hugo for Best Book That Can Hold The Picnic Blanket Down Even When It's Really Windy as opposed to Hugo for Best Book That Can Fit In A Pocket Even After Taking Unequal And Patriarchal Pocket-Distribution Into Account

The new Hugo categories will continue until morale* improves. *morale of Hugo Administrators will not be considered for this metric.

I think I'm onto something.

I said it and I meant it.

must issue a tragic correction: out this month if you're in the US. not out till February in the UK. heartbreaking news for my people.

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

'Upon learning of the prize, according to her agent, Nicole Aragi, Carson said, “Yikes.”'

We got some very action-packed book mail! Galleys are in for Devouring Gods by @jedediahberry.bsky.social, a sword and sorcery heist and the sequel to Kill All Wizards! 🐸⚔️

Book review: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh This vaguely dark academia novel set in a school for sorcerers/magicians is just spectacular. Dr. Sapphire "Saffy" Walden is our protagonist. Nearly 40, a workaholic, and with good reason since she's more or less trying to personally keep a 19c magical…

Had a really great time chatting (and chatting, and chatting some more) with Casella about the Le Guin Prize shortlist. Honestly I could easily have gone on longer; it’s a list with a lot to discuss, in a great way.

As ever, we begin with the #2026IgnyteAwards winner in Outstanding Novel - Adult for novel-length (40k words+) works intended for an adult audience Congratulations to THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER (Saga Press/Titan Books) by Stephen Graham Jones!

this book is SO good

it's simply impossible to write a book. there's no way. it can't be done. stop trying to trick me into - [eats lunch] turns out books are made of scrambled eggs.

I'm done with September. I think three weeks is long enough for one month.

SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS by Kai Ashante Wilson is a fantasy novella with awesome worldbuilding, a queer love story, and beautiful writing. If you ever wanted to see dialects like African American Vernacular done well in a fantasy setting, this is your book. It's so good.

I have been reading the Anne McCaffrey Pern novels for the first time yeah I don't know why I hadn't read them before and I don't know why I'm inhaling them so fast now BUT importantly I know they're not trying to actually do linguistic worldbuilding but BOY do I have linguistics thoughts anyway

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

THE UNSPOKEN NAME by AK Larkwood. gorgeously written adventure fantasy of an orc sacrifice turned warrior fighting free of the terrible wizard mentor who saved her, takes Tombs of Atuan & blossoms open at Planeswalker scale. doomed by its Feb '20 release 😭 dead planets! fighter/mage f/f! butch mc!!