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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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2023 Astounding-eligible authors: roundup #1
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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Some Astounding Award-eligible writers
The Astounding Award for Best New Writer is sponsored by Dell, administered by the World Science Fiction Convention, and nominated by Attending and Supporting members of Worldcon. This year, members of Worldcons 80 (Chicago), 81 (Chengdu), and 82 (Glasgow) can nominate. The website for Chengdu is apparently up and taking credit cards, so if you…
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“When Mastered, a Graceful Accomplishment”
Bicycles & Broomsticks, the ninth volume in Elly Blue’s Bikes in Space series, is now out in the world. (You can buy the paperback or ebook direct from the publisher or your favored retailer.) I’m very proud that my historical fantasy “When Mastered, a Graceful Accomplishment” is part of the table of contents. I had…
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Pardon the pixel dust
I decided that I wanted to revamp my website. As always, there is a part of me that thinks “can’t I just hand code this into a table?” (The answer, of course, is “yes,” technically; but it is also 2023, so no.) So instead of doing all of the things I should be doing, I…
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