Jon Olfert

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Albertan on the North Atlantic. Paleofiction, SFF, and the occasional horror in places like BCS, Lightspeed, Old Moon, Cast of Wonders, Analog. If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings. https://jonathan-olfert.carrd.co

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Re: the proposal to use human rights scores to vet Worldcon candidate cities, here's my response to @CamestrosFelapton. https://paper.wf/carturo222/sure-but-whos-counting

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Bourbon Penn 33 is live with brand new stories by Alex Jennings, Steve Toase, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Françoise Harvey, Gretchen Tessmer, Zachariah Claypole White, Adriane Hanson, and J. Ashley-Smith.

Bourbon Penn 33www.bourbonpenn.com Stories by Alex Jennings, Steve Toase, J. Ashley-Smith, Gretchen Tessmer, Adriane Hanson, Françoise Harvey, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, and Zachariah Claypole White. Cover art by Jing Zhiyong.

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The Spacefunk! anthology kickstarter just hit 64%. But there’s only 7 days left! This is a once in a lifetime anthology—50 black science fiction writers and poets writing the Black Fantastic. It’s an incredible opportunity to support black writers and publishers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

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SPACEFUNK! WE ARE SO CLOSE—LET’S GO! 94% funded; THREE DAYS TO GO! Collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent (including me). www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

Spacefunk!www.kickstarter.com Space is the place! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent.

Niche special interest saves world www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists saywww.theguardian.com A British geneticist scoured the globe for diverse grains in the 1920s. His research could be vital as the climate changes

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We’ve outgrown our current submission system, and are pausing submissions while we catch up, and upgrade. Updates coming soon. And a new issue due out July 30th.

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4 days to raise $2,269.00. Work by Sheree Renee Thomas, S.A. Cosby, Maurice Broaddus, Linda Addison, Wole Talabi and way way more. Enough said. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

Spacefunk!www.kickstarter.com Space is the place! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent.

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After 15 months I just finished the first draft of my next text game Honor Bound... 525000 words, many of which are about chronic pain, beautiful landscapes, sex, building community, and navigating fraught relationships with authority figures, and now I need a nice lie down

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Strange Horizons is at $19178 out of $20000 to add a novelette to next year's roster!! They have FIVE HOURS left to close that margin! www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Strange Horizons 2025www.kickstarter.com A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

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If you're looking for an alternative to doom scrolling, you could add all the 2024 SFF books/short fiction/fanwork you've loved so far this year to the Hugo Rec Spreadsheet! Thinking about art you love AND sharing it with others? Win/Win! 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Hugo Awards (2025)docs.google.com about Hello! 1. This sheet is currently OPEN to public contributions. 2. Please check out the RULES sheet, with organization guidelines and category explanations. 3. To see all the categories use th...

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Workers of the World: DISMEMBER. @carsonwinter.bsky.social returns, and he’s bringing an army of murderous scarecrows with him🎃🐦‍⬛ Preorder here: store.tenebrouspress.com

First time in hardcover! Even the local apex predator approves.

Ordered the Old Moon Quarterly Year One anthology. Unexpected milestone: pretty sure this is my first time getting a story published in hardcover! Just barely beats New Edge Sword & Sorcery #4 which ships this summer. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D91LPCPH/

Old Moon Quarterly: Year One Anthology (Old Moon Quarterly; A Magazine of Dark Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery): Quarterly, Old Moon, Enge, James, Hammond, Paula, Crossen, Carys, Olfert, Jonathan, Officer-Narvasa, Gabriella, Wilcox, Graham Thomas, Duncan, R.K., Siebert, T.R., Carney, Jason Ray: 9798329124460: Amazon.com: Bookswww.amazon.com Old Moon Quarterly: Year One Anthology (Old Moon Quarterly; A Magazine of Dark Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery) [Quarterly, Old Moon, Enge, James, Hammond, Paula, Crossen, Carys, Olfert, Jonathan, Officer-Narvasa, Gabriella, Wilcox, Graham Thomas, Duncan, R.K., Siebert, T.R., Carney, Jason Ray] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Old Moon Quarterly: Year One Anthology (Old Moon Quarterly; A Magazine of Dark Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery)

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A Sword of Bronze and Ashes, Anna Smith Spark The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed Foreigner, C.J. Cherryh The Electric Forest, Tanith Lee The Nova Incident, Dan Moren

Lot of book lists going around, so: what are the last five books you read and would recommend to a friend? Even Though I Knew The End - Polk And Put Away Childish Things - Tchaikovsky Sea of Tranquility - Mandel Binti - Okorafor Tiamat's Wrath - Corey

Housing crisis solved except for the serious accessibility barrier of climbing a beanstalk to a repurposed giant castle. Get me a bean that grows elevators and we're in business.

never in history have we needed magic beans more than we do now

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The Magus - Fowles. Postmodern initiation and madness The Baron's Cloak - Willard. The Bloody White Baron! Rocannon's World - Le Guin. An early work, sword & planet, still Le Guin Carnets d'Asie - Wittkop. An odd rich French woman bumbles around Asia Bang Bang Bodhissatva - Wood. YES! YESS!!!

I spent probably fifteen years with painfully miscalibrated expectations for myself because I didn't really get that 3/4 of any given library was written by people with a day job.

The majority of people flatly do not understand — and would be honestly shocked by! — how little money most publicly known writers make

95 story rejections so far this year. Likely won't crack my goal of 200 unless I start recklessly simsubbing like some litfic profligate or write much, much faster. But I can still be real happy with my 95.

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Cover reveal - Wow, I am thrilled!! It's time to subscribe and get access to the September issue =) magazine.trollbreath.com Art by Ryan Bittner

Update: I got that specific subgenre into goddamn Analog. Turns out I just needed some patience with myself.

Were those six weak stories only flukes or training wheels, or can I just...not...write that specific subgenre?

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It’s here! My first story is out now!!! More words later, but for now, let me just say… this is very possibly the coolest thing to ever happen to me. Over the moon!

New Issue: BCS #411 out today, featuring stories of life and loss and trying to reclaim it by returning BCS author @eskaftun.bsky.social (“Only the Messenger” in BCS #299 – Science-Fantasy Month 5) and new one @mruthrobinson.bsky.social, behind cover art by Philipp A. Urlich.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #411 by Scott Andrewswww.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com The Wicks Whisper by Emily C. Skaftun. Linden Honey, Blackcurrant Wine by M.R. Robinson. BCS 334: The Wicks Whisper by Emily C. Skaftun.

My story of Homo erectus horror, innovation, cannibalism, and OCD magic wound up being a self-contained short story rather than a novella. It found a home in the upcoming TASTEFUL charity anthology to benefit a food bank. Oh by the way-

The horror novella project is in here somewhere:

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— Dax, J. (ca. 2370)

Xeno? Has anyone tried saying xeyes?

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For years I've watched a ton of people get bullied off social media/sites/forums because people held them responsible for shit they didn't do/say/embody/create. Usually it was a big/rich entity that made those calls. Usually there's racism & sexism at play. Let's fucking not keep that going here.

"Been thinking about how I was exposed to a lot of the rhythms of really old school pulp fantasy through these things. Weird cults, freeform warlording, so many child slaves. No wonder Conan the Barbarian always seems faintly familiar..."

After a year and for little to no reason I have returned to the blog series where I attempt to summarize Redwall books from memory. It is good and worth your time.

Book the Fourth: Mariel is Redwall for GIRLSaardwyrm.wixsite.com Guess who decided to return to this series after an entire calendar year? Yeah so but anyway.Redwall had a pronounced case of Gender Equality But. This is extremely common in speculative settings of a...

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Ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem *Taps mic* This year's Ignytes shortlist will be announced July 22. As you were.

Would love to see this. Now I keep wondering what an adaptation of The Employees or A Short Stay in Hell or The Silence of the Wilting Skin could look like.

Ooh, y’know what would be neat a sci-fi/fantasy anthology show where each episode adapts a different recent novella. I think I’d enjoy that quite well, thank you very much.

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The heck? Both Esquire and the NYT have put out "best books" lists, and THE FIFTH SEASON is on both! Is there a holiday coming up or something? Anyway, yay! Esquire's is SFF-specific (#4) and the NYT's is this-century specific (#44). www.esquire.com/entertainmen... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Timewww.esquire.com See if your favorites made our expanded list.

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A new tiny one today. 🎨 Sea Storm 2, oil on Arches oil paper, 3"x3" Available (ships when dry, approx 2 weeks): tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #ArtShop #bsnm