Darusha Wehm

@darusha

they/them Nebula Award winning SFF author A fifth of @darklylem.com Member of @manyworldsforum.bsky.social Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social Aotearoa New Zealand Books: Pic: Erica Poole

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Darusha Wehm@darusha· Jun 27

And we've reached this stage of watching football on television.

A tv showing the opening of Croatia Ghana with a tablet propped up below it showing the opening of England Panama.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Jun 20

Clem Fandango does not share my love of the beautiful game.

Close up of a brindle dog's face looking at the camera with a judgmental expression, nearly completely blocking the view of a television showing a football game.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Jun 14

I just noticed that my currently watching list pretty much sums up my personality.

Posters for the shows "Killjoys," "Twin Peaks" and "Lower Decks."

Darusha Wehm@darusha· May 23

Inevitably, at some point in the rewatch...

The DS9 title screen with "It's the baseball episode" as the title.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· May 20

And this. I'm dying and kind of want to know how that version goes, actually. Who is Robert? Why does Robert have their own Prince???

From: Avra Copeman
Subj: Hamlet, prince of Robert

Hello M. Darusha Wehm I just read the synopsis"and i instantly felt drawn into the concept.
There's something about the direction of the story that feels deeply thought-provoking...

Darusha Wehm@darusha· May 20

Two bangers from today's crop of book club spam: This from, can you believe it, Kimberly *Beers*:

Hi M. Darusha Wehm

My name is Kimberly, and I help organize a sci-fi and fantasy reading group in Texas called Books & Beers.

A few people in our group recently picked up The Department of What It (Really) Means to Be Human, and it ended up becoming one of those books that kept coming up in conversation afterward.

What people especially liked was [short personal observation].

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Mar 28

Ooh, folks are posting about wanting beautiful colourful SFF covers? Awesome.

A teal, purple and amber circular swirl with images of different landscapes (various futuristic cityscapes, an endless suburban street, a desert world) and flying whales. Text reading Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem.

An amber, orange and yellow circular swirl with images of cogs and gears, a gothic mansion with bats, a central flower and a sailboat. Text reading Transmentation | Transgression by Darkly Lem.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Mar 25

Filling in this survey I got from Amtrak about a trip I took in the before times:

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Mar 20

For the Venn diagram of kiwi accent and old musical theatre people:

The Dune 3 eye poster with "Dune is busting out all over" written in the fancy DUNC font.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Mar 14

I mean, WEIRD.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Mar 14

A highlight from my camping trip was this visit to Orakei Korako. You can get unnervingly close to the boiling mud and thermal geysers, and hot damn is this planet of our ever weird.

Orange, brown and white earth with a thermal spring running across it. Steam rises from the centre, and a sinkhole or whirlpool is to the left. Green trees surround the pool and there are hills in the distance.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Dec 30

And guess what showed up in the post today??

A hand holds two paperback copies of The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human by M. Darusha Wehm. The cover is a grey background with yellow text and line art of small, round pills. A full bookshelf is in the background.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Dec 15

So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forc’d cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall’n on the inventors’ heads. All this can I Truly deliver.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Dec 13

Ooh, my first set with the "new" paper packaging.

The box for the Sherlock Holmes book nook lego set, with a paper bag marked 1 and an instruction booklet lying in front. A flat beige 6x14 lego piece and sticker page lie beside.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Nov 11

It's just about time for the mini-conference Quasar! Among a bunch of excellent panels, seminars and workshops, you can join me this great group to chat about collaboration.

SFF Collaboration Done Right 6:30PM PST | Nov 15th
DARUSHA WEHM
-PANELIST-
M. Darusha Wehm is a Nebula Award winner and Sir Julius Vogel Award winner, the author of Hamlet, Prince of Robots, the game The Martian Job, and over a dozen other novels.
Register at events.sfwa.org

SFF Collaboration Done Right 6:30PM PST | Nov 15th
SYDNEE THOMPSON
-PANELIST-
Sydnee Thompson is an editor and writer of speculative fiction whose stories have appeared in publications such as io9, Fireside Magazine, Fiyah Lit Magazine, and Tor.com.
Register at events.sfwa.org

SFF Collaboration Done Right 6:30PM PST | Nov 15th
ROSEMARY JONES
-PANELIST-
Rosemary Jones writes both fantasy and science fiction. Author of multiple game-based novels, include the Drowned City duology
Register at events.sfwa.org

SFF Collaboration Done Right 6:30PM PST | Nov 15th
ANTHONY EICHENLAUB
-PANELIST-
Anthony W. Eichenlaub's stories appear in On-Spec Magazine, Little Blue Marble, and numerous anthologies.
Register at events.sfwa.org

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Sep 24

Are you going to @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social? Me, too! Join me at More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with @nassos.bsky.social, @vajra.me, and @yarntheory.bsky.social in hour 28. Then @phoebebarton.bsky.social and I talk After Capitalism, Then What? in hour 51.

More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with Natalia Theodoridou. M. Darusha Wehm, Vajra Chandrasekera, Ursula Whitcher in Hour 28 #FoNovellnStories

After Capitalism, Then What? with M. Darusha Wehm & Phoebe Barton in Hour 51 #FoFPostCapitalism

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Sep 3

If you want to catch up on this multiversal political thriller that will be complete in three books, you can grab Transmentation | Transience now. books2read.com/transmentati...

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Jun 24

40 plus appreciation post. reskeet with a pic if you're on the right side of 40. Photo from my 50th birthday.

A white person with teal and pink hair, matching cats eye specs, and pink and black Venus flytrap patterned collared shirt looks at the camera.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Jun 8

Ahhhhhhhh! It's still real.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Jun 8

Bonus with Clem Fandango.

A white person with pink and teal hair wearing a suit (trousers and blazer) that is black with lots of white cockatiels and pink flowers on. They are wearing a black short underneath, a small pounamu necklace and black and yellow Adidas. There's a blue carpet on the floor, a red sofa and white chair and they are in front of a window with rolling green hills with houses and a blue sky with clouds. Next to Darusha is an unimpressed brindle dog facing away from the camera.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Jun 8

I'm attending the Nebula Award Ceremony online, but that's no reason not to dress for the occasion. #Nebulas2025

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Jun 2

We didn't set out to write a queer trilogy, and I wouldn't really call them "queer books" but there are characters that cover the full rainbow within the trilogy. Also, have you seen the cover of the hardback??

Darusha Wehm@darusha· May 27

A Babar the Elephant stuffy looks out a window at a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. There's a speech bubble coming from his mouth that reads, "Hon hon hon... oui!" Text in parentheses labelling Babar reads (le pervers).

Darusha Wehm@darusha· May 22

"Avoiding paying attention to Clem Fandango is not an option."

Extreme close up of a brindle dog with white flash on her muzzle. Her ears are back so far they have disappeared and she looks at the camera sternly.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· May 13

*laughs in nonbinary*

A screenshot with the title "Moral Alignment Test Results" above a nine part grid with Lawful on the left, Chaotic on the right, Good on the top and Evil on the bottom. There's a dot in the upper right of the middle box and text below reads, "You are 22.5% good, 18.3% chaotic, making you true neutral."

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Apr 19

A white person with pink and teal hair and matching glasses with scrunched up eyes and tongue sticking out. Their hands are in the pockets of the overalls and gloriously skinned knees are visible above black sneakers with yellow laces.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Apr 13

As a former cruising sailor I’m bound by law (the Law of the Sea) to say Captain Ron.

Kurt Russell with long blond hair with a wee braid on the side, wearing a shell necklace, earrings and one of those white singlets that’s mostly just straps so you can see his tanned nude chest. He’s on a sailboat, with the sea in the background. He’s got an eyepatch over his left eye, zinc sunscreen on his nose and lips and he looks thoroughly unimpressed.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Mar 24

Post a warning

A black sign with a white circle with a line through it, but the line is a lightning bolt. In the circle is a red figure that I always think of as Satan, looking like they're in the throes of electrocution. Someone has handwritten "Ahhh! as if it's coming from the figure's mouth.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Mar 19

Best star trek crew, wrong answers only.

The cast of Killjoys stand in the bridge of a spaceship, looking badass.

Darusha Wehm@darusha· Mar 13

While the official Nebula Awards shortlist page is, uh, updating, here are the full finalists for the Game Writing Award.