Christopher Hennessy
#queerwriting and #SFF
Hep me create a SFF writers anrd readers community! SFF writer, former poet (1 book) & writer interviewer (2 books on gay writers)
Loves #80s and #90s music, #hairlesscats, and all things #gayculture
- "You only realize that the soul is a thing when you hear something made without it." #ai reactormag.com/the-most-fau...
- SUPPORT DEBUT AUTHORS. You never know what you will help unleash! This list includes: @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social , @nnedi.bsky.social , @wiswell.bsky.social, @madelinemiller.bsky.social , @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social, @tashasuri.bsky.social , @rfkuang.bsky.social theportalist.com/best-debut-s...
- check out @katebelew.bsky.social 's substack--- wordwitchcreativemagic.substack.com
- lithub.com/mars-rainfal... Books by @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social , @matthewkressel.net , @makana-yama.bsky.social and new to me.... @thesuiway.bsky.social, whose books looks GOLD.
- www.newscientist.com/article/2513... books by @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social , @makana-yama.bsky.social , @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social , @michaelswanwick.bsky.social, @matthewkressel.net Some interesting themes here...mushrooms, mars, climate, and time travelers What are you looking for in 2026?
- Was reading this and came across new book by @justinkey.bsky.social that looks gold. bookriot.com/neuromancer-...
- www.nytimes.com/interactive/... books by @emnorth.bsky.social , @authordanifrancis.bsky.social, @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social and lots more
- Enjoying the idea of this and have dipped my two in. Now on my "to read" list. Thanks, @bdmcclay.bsky.social thepointmag.com/criticism/th...
- Men's Health does books? ok! Maybe there's hope. books by @isabel.kim , @annleckie.com , @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social , @quellist1.bsky.social , @robwhart.bsky.social , @thomas-elrod.com, @debolinunferth.bsky.social and others www.menshealth.com/entertainmen... #manopsheremustgo
- This! By @kyliu99.bsky.social bsky.social Must-read. "Science fiction....like all fantasy, it draws from the collective unconscious, giving substance to beings that have no weight, voicing thoughts that cannot be put into words, depicting forms that cast no shadow." reactormag.com/why-science-...
- Just happened across a book by @jasperfforde.bsky.social called The Constant Rabbit, described as "a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four." Childhood trauma be damned, I'm in!
- "Science fiction in the 1950s foreshadowed a future both comforting and concerning" calgaryherald.com/opinion/ford...
- "The sci-fi story asks, 'What if everything we were taught that was make-believe is actually real?'" “The island of Obscura [hides] a secret community filled with magical beings, unicorns, centaurs, and mermen, the only place on earth these creatures can be themselves." variety.com/2026/tv/news...
- I like this! Wonder Transportation Heroism magicandink.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
- Love the idea of @vitcavage.bsky.social 's debutiful site. Here is a Q&A with the author of "In The Age of Calamities" which "gives readers a collection of mind-bending, absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories." debutiful.net/2026/01/15/i...
- ok, so I love Blake Crouch and @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social , so I will have to check this out. thenerddaily.com/van-jensen-g...
- This was from my "previous life" when I wrote about #gaydesire. kenyonreview.org/2011/11/desi...
- WHO REMEMBERS THIS?!?!?! melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...
- RAY GUNS! These images bring me back to my childhood and make me want to go out to the woods out back and have all those adventures I had with my best friend, creating worlds---and feeling invincible. The screenshot is the one that I loved the most. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/ray-guns/?re...
- Amen! "But amidst the fascism, corrosive AI, and environmental collapse... [n]o one was interested in letting the billionaires or their fascist friends get away with destroying the world we’ve built...these writers invent more competent villains in their sleep." www.thestranger.com/sci-fi/2026/...
- @veronicarothbooks.com and @luckyleckie.bsky.social make this list! Both sound very deserving! The tbr list is too long and we're still in the first full week of Jan. Help! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
- Don't tell anyone but I've never read Sanderson. No shade. Just haven't read him yet. I like the music method idea here! www.polygon.com/brandon-sand...
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- What are your hopes for SFF and 2026? Me? More: Debut authors! Stories where queerness is weird in all the wonderful ways it is weird---but also more about character, less about plot/concept. Celebrations of legendary authors of the past. Settings steeped in the years of my childhood!
- Good primer on a legend. For fans of the golden age, a digestible nugget to refresh what you know about him. tumbleweird.org/mind-of-robe...
- www.grimdarkmagazine.com/2026-most-an... I think I'm most intersted in @jeremyszal.bsky.social 's book but congrats to all. As I said in an earlier post, there is nothing an author dreams of more to have readers waiting for their work. See other authors named in comment post below.
- Why did know one tell me Jan. 2 is National Science Fiction Day? I found this! What did you come across? mitpress.mit.edu/science-fict...
- Do you agree? medium.com/@cassidybeev...
- Lots of resources here. theportalist.com/writing-book...
- Every author dreams of readers waiting for their work to come out! Here are some! Includes @sunyidean.com , @isabel.kim , @johnchu.bsky.social , @acwise.bsky.social , @annleckie.com Might have to put a few of these on the tbr list. theportalist.com/most-anticip...
- MORE LISTS! www.grimdarkmagazine.com/the-best-fan...
