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David Anaxagoras (he/him)

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Author of The Tower (Recorded Books). https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798892746618/ SFFH & TV writer. Shows on Amazon, Netflix. Fiction in Lightspeed, Worlds of Possibility, Factor Four, et al. UCLA MFA. Codex. https://davidanaxagoras.com

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 4d

Happy October everyone. My #horror #audiobook The Tower is shelved as middle grade, but it’s no more a kids-only book than Lord of the Flies.

It's horror for anyone who’s ever felt trapped by a system that feeds on them.

Grab your next scary October read wherever you get your audiobooks. #booksky

RBmedia | The Tower

Listen to the audiobook The Tower, written by David Anaxagoras, narrated by Christopher Gebauer.

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 18h

It's my one-month-a-versary of starting my 10,000 word novelette that is now over 15,000 words and not stopping. With every word I type, I feel like I'm burning another potential story market to the ground. Not enough places to send longer works. Which is odd in the digital age--no printing costs!

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 1d

Who can I piss off today?

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 1d

Oh. I'm sorry. You don't deserve that.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 1d

I love that you had that in your back pocket.

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 1d

LOL the original poster has blocked me. Which is fine. Even though they were judgy about Ray Bradbury, at least they took his advice, picked up their toys and went home.

But for context, they referred to Bradbury's work as "breathless sentimental slop."

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 1d

I am so tired of people equating "edge" with "good" writing, and people implying I can't be a serious writer because of the things I love. Bradbury himself inoculated himself early against such foolishness. Love what you love. Write what you love. Tell everyone else to fuck the fuck off.

“Friends made fun. I tore up the Buck Rogers strips. For a month I walked through my fourth-grade classes, stunned and empty. One day I burst into tears, wondering what devastation had happened to me. The answer was: Buck Rogers. He was gone, and life simply wasn’t worth living. The next thought was: Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies.
I went back to collecting Buck Rogers. My life has been happy ever since. For that was the beginning of my writing science fiction. Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

Ray Bradbury. “Zen in the Art of Writing.”

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 1d

"You want me to touch that? It's been in your mouth."

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 1d

It should be illegal for an entire page of search "results" to be sponsored placements.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 2d

It's not what we have become, it's what has been revealed. ICE agents didn't suddenly poof into existence yesterday. Those dragon teeth were planted long ago and carefully cultivated for generations. Not new. Only their hoods have changed.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 2d

We all know this is the endgame but Dems have been too cowardly to say it. We are flat out in the middle of a fascist takeover but everyone wants to wait until the boot is on their own neck (as opposed to trans or brown people) to admit it.

And even then...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 3d

How does a pretty boy, mama's son, runner in the night
Wrapped in shadows and sunglasses protect him from the sunlight
And hungry for his brother's blood just a little bite
Become a fighter and a killer of vampires on sight

Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 3d

The Lost Boys is taking to the stage with THE LOST BOYS: A NEW MUSICAL, and it's set to debut in April 2026:

‘The Lost Boys’ Musical Takes to the Broadway Stage in March 2026; Cast Has Been Revealed

While we wait for the franchise’s return to the screen, The Lost Boys is taking to the stage with The Lost Boys: A New Musical, and we’ve now got a Broadway premiere date. Deadline reports, “The Broad...

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 3d

Added 512 words to the novelette/novella/novel/trilogy or whatever this thing turns out to be. 13,334 words total so far of ???????

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 3d

My novelette is being very mean to me right now.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 3d

I am suspicious of glowing author photos. Can't relate. You're a writer? I want to see you in a tatty bathrobe, baggy-eyed, permanently bed-headed and clutching a barrel of coffee to your breast like it was your last friend on Earth.

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 4d

And finally a reminder: If you are nominating for SFWA or HWA awards next season, I have free review copies of The Tower available. Just DM.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 4d

The Tower is about fear that keeps people compliant. A structure that rewards complacency. It's about systems that chew up the gentle ones first. And it's about a different kind of boy whose power isn't magic or being demigod. It's empathy—and empathy terrifies the machine.

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 4d

When I was a kid, “books for kids” or "juvenile" books were mostly issue books or history lessons. I tapped out and skipped straight to Stephen King.

Middle grade is marketing label, not a boundary. There's no barbed wire around the MG section in the bookstore. The story decides who it’s for.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 4d

RBmedia | The Tower

Listen to the audiobook The Tower, written by David Anaxagoras, narrated by Christopher Gebauer.

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 4d

I'd like to complain about my boss, but my boss is me. Still a jerk though.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 4d

Added 685 words to the novelette. 12,815 of 15,000(???) words total so far.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 4d

You don't know me. You don't know what I've been through. Don't presume unless you too have tried to tape a song off the radio without the DJ blabbing over the intro or fading too quickly into the next song.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 5d

Wow. I clicked all the way back through the quote posts and he's such a smug little pedant. Quibbling about the technical definition of fascism tells me one thing: we don't need to quibble about the meaning of "privilege" because he embodies it.

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 5d

He goes well with SFF!

David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 5d

I have entered the David-Bowie-Only writing music playlist segment of my novella.

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 5d

Discovered while browsing LA in google maps: One Piece Cafe. Yes. That One Piece.

Screen shot showing partial section of google maps page featuring One Piece Cafe with a photo of what looks like the entry area made up like the interior of a wooden ship with portholes.