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Mahmud El Sayed

A writer talking to their characters after starting a big structural edit. (Yes, the writer is me)

If you love short SF, or SF generally, a subscription to Clarkesworld is incredibly worth it. 50,000 words every month of stories, interviews and art for not a whole lot of money. Highly highly recommended.

Egypt 2920: The new New Administrative Capital has just finished completion. Robot President Fulan Al-Fulani has announced peace talks to halt the war between Cairo's driverless cars and Tuk-tuk gangs. In the North, the mer-people of Port Said make their plans...

Banning referees. Banning fans. Banning team members. Border police searching players' phones and subjecting them to hours-long interrogations. What kind of World Cup is this? And for all those who were outraged by Qatar, why won't you speak up now about the US? 🤔

English football commentary: Here comes the cross. Goal! Arabic football commentary: The ball is caressed into the box like a mother rocking her child to sleep. It hits the back of the net with the force of a cannon-ball, a rocket fired from the heavens. Pele, are you watching this from on high?

Had to finish reading @catamaroon.bsky.social's WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN at home. A big bearded Arab guy crying on the tube is not a good look 😂😅 What a great book and such a hopeful uplifting vision of the future.

Writing? I think of it more like editmaxxing or first-draftmogging 💀

We're excited to announce the 2026 Future Worlds Prize shortlist: A Blade Drawn from Envy by Ty Ogunade A Corruption of Death by @hadiyahsama.bsky.social A Song of Shir’ja by Harps Aujla Crooked Straits by Olivia Ho 1/2

One Thousand and One Wishes by @rakanrrk.bsky.social The Sun Wells by @aiden-ng.bsky.social There Will Come Soft Rains by Jessica Tsang Zonbi by Zarah Elouis-Ro. 2/2