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“Lakeside”
Issue 9 of Underland Arcana is now available and I’m pleased that my short story “Lakeside” is included. I wrote the first draft of this story for an annual flash fiction writing contest; one of the prompts involved camping. For personal reasons, I was very happy about this. My family was in the process of…
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Fediverse RSS
If you want to follow this blog’s feed on Mastodon or elsewhere in the fediverse, there’s a bot for that. Search for @aphowell@feedsin.space or go to https://feedsin.space/feed/aphowell. Many thanks to Colin Mitchell for the bot work!
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SFWA members on AI
SFWA’s posted a roundup of links: “SFWA Members Weigh in on AI & Machine Learning Applications & Considerations.” My post from a few days ago is on the list, along with opinions from folks across the field, approaching the issue from a variety of perspectives.
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Adjacent to greatness
The British Science Fiction Association announced the shortlist this year’s awards. Two of the nominees come courtesy of ParSec Issue 4. Neil Williamson is nominated in the Short Fiction category for the surveillance society story “Moment of Zugzwang” and Vincent Sammy’s cover is nominated in the Artwork category.
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First sale of the year!
The contract is signed, so I’m pleased to announce that my novelette “Adamere in Swan” will appear in ParSec. It will probably be part of Issue 8, 9, 10, or 11 (but definitely not 7), so look for a release date in 2023 or 2024. This story is set before “The Relative Positions of Dead…
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“AI” is neither artificial nor intelligent
I write science fiction and I’m a fan of science fiction. I like thinking about non-human people and diversity of cognition within and across species (real and fictional). I like playing around with how concepts of personhood are defined, expanded, and abused. (That might be the social history background talking.) I enjoy reading about the…
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2023 Astounding-eligible authors: roundup #5
These authors are in their second year of eligibility for the Astounding, meaning that their qualifying work was published in 2021. Their eligibility clocks run out after the Chendgu Worldcon ballot. Check the original post for a full(er) list of eligible authors, and the #astounding2023 tag for more of these spotlight posts. I’m focusing on…
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SFWA membership upgrade
I upgraded to a Full SFWA membership at the beginning of January. Finally. “Finally” because I’ve been eligible but under-documented for a while, under the current rules. And also because, even after I decided to just restrict myself to recent publications, I had a whole set of files sitting unsent on my hard drive since…October,…
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2023 Astounding-eligible authors: roundup #4
These authors are in their second year of eligibility for the Astounding, meaning that their qualifying work was published in 2021. Their eligibility clocks run out after the Chendgu Worldcon ballot. Check the original post for a full(er) list of eligible authors, and the #astounding2023 tag for more of these spotlight posts. I’m focusing on…
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2023 Astounding-eligible authors: roundup #3
These authors are in their first year of eligibility for the Astounding, meaning that their qualifying work was published in 2022. They’ll be eligible for the ballots at Chendgu Worldcon and Glasgow 2024. Check the original post for a full(er) list of eligible authors, and the #astounding2023 tag for more of these spotlight posts. Short…
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2023 Astounding-eligible authors: roundup #2
These authors are in their first year of eligibility for the Astounding, meaning that their qualifying work was published in 2022. They’ll be eligible for the ballots at Chendgu Worldcon and Glasgow 2024. Check the original post for a full(er) list of eligible authors, and the #astounding2023 tag for more of these spotlight posts. Short…
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A nice evening perusing a manuscript
I have had a generally lousy day, at the end of an increasingly lousy week. But I ended up finding a bit of a bright spot doing a bit of copyediting. The anthology Darkness Blooms is in the final stages of production. (It was originally slated for last fall, then delayed due to a number…
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