#speculativefiction is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 111 people shared 534 posts with it — around 18 a day. Activity is down 2% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 10 with 28 posts.

Posts with #speculativefiction

Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

about 2 months ago

Science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born #OTD in 1947. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). #booksky #litsky #scifi #SpeculativeFiction

A color portrait of Octavia Estelle Butler (1947–2006), the visionary Black science fiction author and pioneer of Afrofuturism. She looks directly at the camera with a calm, deeply thoughtful, and serene expression. Resting her chin on her right hand, her fingers curl gently beneath her jaw. She wears thin, metal-framed glasses and a colorful, multi-patterned blazer featuring bold geometric blocks of red, yellow, purple, blue, and black. The foreground features a neatly arranged horizontal line of books facing forward. Prominently displayed are four teal spine copies of her acclaimed trilogy compilation, Lilith's Brood. To their left are other sci-fi and speculative titles, including Bitten and Catch the Lightning. The background is softly out of focus, revealing tall library bookshelves tightly packed with vibrant book spines. The vertical composition, rich colors, and academic setting create a warm, intellectual mood. This emphasizes her historical significance as a ground-breaking, award-winning literary figure.

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Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

2 months ago

#OTD in 1979, American author Octavia E. Butler's breakout novel "Kindred" is published. Her most famous novel, it’s a harrowing "time-travel" story where a Black woman from the 1970s is repeatedly pulled back to a plantation in the antebellum South. #booksky #litsky #scifi #SpeculativeFiction

A composite image features a soulful portrait of Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) and an inset of her seminal 1979 novel, Kindred. Butler, the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, is shown in a close-up, leaning her head thoughtfully against her right hand. Her expression is one of calm, profound contemplation, with a faint, knowing smile playing on her lips. She has short, salt-and-pepper hair and wears a vibrant, patterned purple and blue garment with a long, slender gold earring.

Layered on the right is the original book cover of Kindred. The cream-colored cover displays the title in bold, black lettering above a surreal illustration of two Black women's profiles facing away from each other, joined at the neck to form the shape of an hourglass. This imagery perfectly captures the book's themes of time travel and the inescapable ties between the past and present. The overall composition is warm and intellectual, honoring a literary giant whose work used speculative fiction to explore the complexities of race, power, and human survival.

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WisCon on Bluesky

@wiscon.bsky.social

11 months ago

Who are the women spec fiction writers who shaped your world? Tag them or share their work. Here is one of ours. Photo Credit: Nikolas Coukouma #OctaviaButler #WisCon #SpeculativeFiction

Quote from Octavia Butler: "When I was a kid and read science fiction, the science fiction available for kids at the library that I went to was all boys books and you get tired of reading boys books where the girls just kind of sit on the sideline and cheer the boys on and I think one of the things I wanted to do when I began writing my own was […] being the one who’s actually doing instead of the one who’s standing off to one side watching." Portrait of Butler with book. Cartoon dragon-like creature reading the book, "Kindred."

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Inner Worlds

@innerworlds.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

We're open for submissions to our sixth issue through January! 🌟 Read the guidelines and submit here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g... #SFF #SpeculativeFiction #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Photo of a moody red lit corridor overlaid with text reading speculative stories about our inner lives, 500-2,500 words, £0.02 per word £20 minimum

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Michael Brachman Author 🚀

@mlbphd.bsky.social

1 day ago

Sally warms up to Rei tomorrow. Love is coming! #BookSky #ScifiSky #WritingCommunity #WritersofBluesky #IndieAuthor #IndiePublishing #SciFi #Fantasy #SpeculativeFiction #wildlife #StarTrek #Trekkie #StarWars #DarkTower #Tolkien #robots #selfcare #empathy #action #adventure #sciencefiction #robots

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Paul Semel

@paulsemel.bsky.social

6 days ago

Finished reading Samantha Mills' "Rabbit Test And Other Stories." amzn.to/4sU6e4N 📖🐇 Enjoyed a lot of these #ShortStories, especially the #SciFi ones. #books #reading #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #ShortStory @samtasticbooks.com @tachyonpub.bsky.social #BookSky

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Stacia Joy

@stacia-joy.bsky.social

5 days ago

Hi booksky! I’d love to connect with other readers and writers interested in non-spicy speculative fiction. Romance is fine and all, but I am a WOMAN of ACTION. #booksky #speculativefiction #scifi #fiction #bookworm

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tiffunnireads 📚

@tiffunnireads.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

I just started this #scifibook set in the future, and you wanna why I’m loving it so much so far? Because the MC loves to read and refers to authors like #NKJemisin and books like #Legendborn as classics and I absolutely love that. #BlackAuthors #Blackbooksky #speculativefiction

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The Aech Files

@theaechfiles.bsky.social

about 7 hours ago

Personnel records have been updated. #EatingLife #TheAechFiles #BookSky #SciFi #Dystopian #Books #SpeculativeFiction

A dark, teal-accented personnel management dashboard displays a detailed employee record within DEP-Viogenix’s internal HR system. The record shows a facilities employee whose badge has been suspended, facility access disabled, payroll placed on hold, and employment marked as under review. Attendance for the current shift remains pending, while recent activity logs reference temporary access to Loading Dock B, unanswered contact attempts, and escalation to Human Resources following Security Incident IR-2243. The interface is divided into clean information panels with status indicators, timelines, notes, and access permissions, resembling a modern corporate personnel database recovered from an internal network.

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Kelsey Ketch 🕊️🌻🫒🐈‍⬛

@kelseyketch.bsky.social

1 day ago

This is it. This is our defining moment. 🏛️🌆 🫂🫂 ⛓️‍💥🫰 Teen | Dystopian Fantasy | 1 of 1 Links in comments. ⤵️ Cover by Under Cover Designs. No generative AI was used. 💙📚 🪐📚 🤏📚 #Books #YA #SpeculativeFiction #Friendship

Arrow teaser for Son of Set by Kelsey Ketch. Text: GENDER NEUTRAL MC, PRESENT TENSE, SPECULATIVE FICTION, FIRST PERSON POV, FINDING ONE'S SELF, 14 PAGES. Graphic and cover by Under Cover Designs. No generative AI was used.

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

@inventingreality.bsky.social

1 day ago

5 Writing Prompts For Science Fiction #amwritingsciencefiction #speculativefiction #writingprompt #StoryStarter #amwriting inventingrealityediting.c….

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5 Writing Prompts For Science Fiction

Science fiction stories typically revolve arise from a novum, a scientifically plausible concept that is a “reality” in the tale. The novum might be an mechanical device like robot servan…

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