#speculativefiction is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 132 people shared 617 posts with it — around 21 a day. Activity is down 8% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 15 with 30 posts.

Posts with #speculativefiction

Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

3 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

4 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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Jenie Gao

@jeniegao.bsky.social

2 days ago

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is about a group of bots (and one human) starting a hand-pulled noodle shop in the newly independent country of California, and it's honestly such a delightful, heartwarming, and yummy read. 🍜🪐📚🌈 #booksky #scifi #speculativefiction

Front cover of Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. Hardcover book with a light turquoise background, featuring a colorful illustration of a robotic hand holding chopsticks pulling up steaming noodles, surrounding by little robots against a San Francisco cityscape.

A hand is holding the book, with a framed artwork and house plants in the background.

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WisCon on Bluesky

@wiscon.bsky.social

about 1 year 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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David Somerfleck, Author

@boldlyblue01.bsky.social

2 days ago

When I started my #sciencefiction #dystopian #speculativefiction #novel, I relied on #savethecat for guardrails so my #worldbuilding wouldn't overflow. Here's what I picked up along the way: boldly.blue/save-the-cat/ #booksky #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity #BookRecommendations #indieauthor

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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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Gillian Isaacs Russell

@girussell.bsky.social

2 days ago

Today's #WIPSnips is "tube." #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative @adamrhemmings.bsky.social Aya hears something in the hydroponics bay:

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TJDallas7

@tjdallas7.bsky.social

3 days ago

I've been teasing my latest #shifter book for months, but now it's time to reveal more juicy details! 😉😘 What to expect in my newest #sapphic novel coming early 2027 👇 #indieauthor #lesfic #speculativefiction #wlw

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The Aech Files

@theaechfiles.bsky.social

1 day ago

Ten laundry shifts for one slice of pie. They watched her eat that, too. #TheAechFiles #BeforeSilence #DystopianFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SciFiBooks #BookSky #IndieBooks #DarkFiction #PsychologicalFiction #Fiction

Four grainy surveillance stills from a camera mounted high above the counter at the Fletcher diner. Lyn sits alone on a stool, seen mostly from above and behind with her face obscured by her hair. Across the sequence, she slowly eats a large slice of pie until only crumbs remain on the plate. Each frame is labeled “FLETCHER DINER // CAM 02 // COUNTER” with a timestamp.

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Larissa C Douglass

@lcdouglass.bsky.social

2 days ago

Primeva is the last chance to revive the human race. So why risk taking her to New Saxony? Because you can’t have Eden without Eve: “NEW SAXONY 1: ANOMALIES” (18 September 2026). lcdouglass.substack.com/p…. #booksky #scifi #speculativefiction

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Rob Bignell, Science Fiction Author

@sfauthorrobbignell.bsky.social

3 days ago

He stopped just short of them. Grimy sweat covered their faces. “You’re men!” he shouted. “You’re men!” - from my short story "The Rescue" #sff #sffchat #scifisky #amwritingscifi #writingcommunity #amwriting #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #amwritingsciencefiction

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The Rescue

Rob Bignell returned this past week to Starfarer’s Cafe with the tale of a strange man marooned for years on a desert world. Perhaps being alone for so long has psychologically warped the castaway …

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Krystal A. Smith

@authorkasmith.bsky.social

2 days ago

Short stories of powerful, magical, loving women and femmes. Tapping into the power within is transformative. #QueerFiction #SpeculativeFiction #BlackFiction payhip.com/b/DPXnc