Andy Dibble
@andydibble.bsky.social
What's the weirdest protagonist of a story you've written?
December 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What's the weirdest protagonist of a story you've written?
"Evil lemon" planet with carbon atmosphere! www.newscientist.com/article/2508...
Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed
www.newscientist.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Evil lemon" planet with carbon atmosphere! www.newscientist.com/article/2508...
Get your flu shot! Chance of heart attack 6 times greater in confirmed flu patients and 300,000 yearly world-wide deaths due to heart disease are a result of immune response to flu
www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential
Influenza isn’t just a respiratory disease. Measures to stop its transmission, such as vaccination, could prevent thousands of heart-attack deaths.
www.nature.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Get your flu shot! Chance of heart attack 6 times greater in confirmed flu patients and 300,000 yearly world-wide deaths due to heart disease are a result of immune response to flu
www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
My first Omelas response story is out! www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20...
So glad I could contribute to the tradition started by Ursula Le Guin and carried on in some of my favorite stories by Isabel Kim, NK Jemisin, and others.
So glad I could contribute to the tradition started by Ursula Le Guin and carried on in some of my favorite stories by Isabel Kim, NK Jemisin, and others.
The Ones Who Walk Away From New Jerusalem - Sci Phi Journal
A spiritual sequel to Le Guin's Omelas, by Andy Dibble.
www.sciphijournal.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
My first Omelas response story is out! www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20...
So glad I could contribute to the tradition started by Ursula Le Guin and carried on in some of my favorite stories by Isabel Kim, NK Jemisin, and others.
So glad I could contribute to the tradition started by Ursula Le Guin and carried on in some of my favorite stories by Isabel Kim, NK Jemisin, and others.
One of my writing groups, @calendaroffools.bsky.social, is going to be running another Kickstarter for a Missed-Fits anthology. Follow if you're interested in when it launches. If the KSer funds, there will be an open call in March or so. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cal...
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
One of my writing groups, @calendaroffools.bsky.social, is going to be running another Kickstarter for a Missed-Fits anthology. Follow if you're interested in when it launches. If the KSer funds, there will be an open call in March or so. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cal...
My saddest poem "Cultured Methodologies" is out in Worlds of IF #179. So cool to share a table of contents with @aijiang.bsky.social, Robert Silverberg, and others!
worldsofifmagazine.com/home
worldsofifmagazine.com/home
Worlds of IF
Please subscribe to email updates and follow us @WorldsofIF
worldsofifmagazine.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My saddest poem "Cultured Methodologies" is out in Worlds of IF #179. So cool to share a table of contents with @aijiang.bsky.social, Robert Silverberg, and others!
worldsofifmagazine.com/home
worldsofifmagazine.com/home
Just sold my "The Ones Who Walk Away From New Jerusalem" to Sci Phi Journal. This isn't one I expected to sell because it's probably my most blasphemous story (generally in keeping with the character of the #UrsulaLeGuin story it's a response to).
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just sold my "The Ones Who Walk Away From New Jerusalem" to Sci Phi Journal. This isn't one I expected to sell because it's probably my most blasphemous story (generally in keeping with the character of the #UrsulaLeGuin story it's a response to).
Reposted by Andy Dibble
This is my first issue as poetry editor and it features poetry by Michael Butterworth, @andydibble.bsky.social, Robert Frazier, @bugthewriter.bsky.social, @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @jennahanchey.bsky.social, Howard V. Hendrix, @aijiang.bsky.social, Lauren McBride, & John Reinhart + lots more
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is my first issue as poetry editor and it features poetry by Michael Butterworth, @andydibble.bsky.social, Robert Frazier, @bugthewriter.bsky.social, @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @jennahanchey.bsky.social, Howard V. Hendrix, @aijiang.bsky.social, Lauren McBride, & John Reinhart + lots more
I'm going to slush for UFO 10 (Unidentified Funny Objects), but only if the Kickstarter funds. So chip in if you can and you want to support an under-appreciated sub-genre of spec fic. Only 5 days left. It's going to be close!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...
Unidentified Funny Objects 10
After a three-year hiatus, a new volume of this iconic anthology series of humorous science fiction & fantasy is finally in the works!
www.kickstarter.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm going to slush for UFO 10 (Unidentified Funny Objects), but only if the Kickstarter funds. So chip in if you can and you want to support an under-appreciated sub-genre of spec fic. Only 5 days left. It's going to be close!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...
Another writing first for me: had a swear word censored by an editor!
October 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Another writing first for me: had a swear word censored by an editor!
My Bible translation into alien languages story out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social! First time that I'm #1 in a table of contents! :)
When Pius was assigned to Murk, he assumed he would be translating the Bible into the language of genius octopuses.
-from "A Word That Means Everything" by @andydibble.bsky.social, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...)
#scifi #shortstory
-from "A Word That Means Everything" by @andydibble.bsky.social, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...)
#scifi #shortstory
September 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
My Bible translation into alien languages story out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social! First time that I'm #1 in a table of contents! :)
Just received an acceptance on a story I submitted 22 months ago. Interesting year of firsts for me.
September 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Just received an acceptance on a story I submitted 22 months ago. Interesting year of firsts for me.
My Writers of the Future winning story "A Word That Means Everything" is out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social. New achievement for me because it's the first time my work has been first in a ToC!
Thank you to all the contributors in August's #Penumbric! @andydibble.bsky.social, @spires.bsky.social, EJ Kavounas, Ritiksha Sharma, Richard Magahiz, Carl Scharwath, @tamikathompson.bsky.social, Camellia Paul ...
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
August 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My Writers of the Future winning story "A Word That Means Everything" is out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social. New achievement for me because it's the first time my work has been first in a ToC!
My microessay "Orality and Respawn" about how oral traditions can address a problem in game storytelling is out in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social. It's one of the few works I've had two absolutely bomb titles for, the other being "Retold and Replayed"
www.patreon.com/posts/microe...
www.patreon.com/posts/microe...
Microessay: Andy Dibble | Crepuscular Magazine
Get more from Crepuscular Magazine on Patreon
www.patreon.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
My microessay "Orality and Respawn" about how oral traditions can address a problem in game storytelling is out in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social. It's one of the few works I've had two absolutely bomb titles for, the other being "Retold and Replayed"
www.patreon.com/posts/microe...
www.patreon.com/posts/microe...
When visiting family in Cally this past week I learned that there are people who refer to themselves as "coastal elites" with a straight face.
May 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When visiting family in Cally this past week I learned that there are people who refer to themselves as "coastal elites" with a straight face.
More writing news! My "Migration" (originally in What Remains anthology by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social ) is coming out again in "Win in the End" anthology by @knightwritingpress.bsky.social!
May 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
More writing news! My "Migration" (originally in What Remains anthology by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social ) is coming out again in "Win in the End" anthology by @knightwritingpress.bsky.social!
Big writing news for me. Just signed for my poem "Why We Give" to appear in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine!
Selling "Why We Give" taught me you can turn any kind of experience into saleable words, even bleeding into a bag for the @americanredcross.bsky.social!
#givingblood #poetry #scifi
Selling "Why We Give" taught me you can turn any kind of experience into saleable words, even bleeding into a bag for the @americanredcross.bsky.social!
#givingblood #poetry #scifi
May 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Big writing news for me. Just signed for my poem "Why We Give" to appear in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine!
Selling "Why We Give" taught me you can turn any kind of experience into saleable words, even bleeding into a bag for the @americanredcross.bsky.social!
#givingblood #poetry #scifi
Selling "Why We Give" taught me you can turn any kind of experience into saleable words, even bleeding into a bag for the @americanredcross.bsky.social!
#givingblood #poetry #scifi
Best line I wrote yesterday didn't drop while I was writing: "Morality's above our paygrade, isn't it?" Also perhaps my best six word story.
May 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Best line I wrote yesterday didn't drop while I was writing: "Morality's above our paygrade, isn't it?" Also perhaps my best six word story.
Have a poem coming out in #worldsofIF ! "Cultured Methodologies" is my saddest poem. Also my first anthropological piece.
Lots of impressive names in the last issue. I wonder who my neighbors will be.
Lots of impressive names in the last issue. I wonder who my neighbors will be.
May 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Have a poem coming out in #worldsofIF ! "Cultured Methodologies" is my saddest poem. Also my first anthropological piece.
Lots of impressive names in the last issue. I wonder who my neighbors will be.
Lots of impressive names in the last issue. I wonder who my neighbors will be.
Today's idea for novel in progress: crafting gear from character's own body parts.
April 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Today's idea for novel in progress: crafting gear from character's own body parts.
My take on why AI utterances don't mean anything: andydibble.com/2025/04/26/w...
What AI Say Doesn’t Mean Anything At All – Andy Dibble
andydibble.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My take on why AI utterances don't mean anything: andydibble.com/2025/04/26/w...
Today's idea for novel in progress: rebirth and self-destruct abilities.
April 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today's idea for novel in progress: rebirth and self-destruct abilities.
Today's weird idea for novel in progress: intestinal worms on hospice bed in living room in soul.
April 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Today's weird idea for novel in progress: intestinal worms on hospice bed in living room in soul.
Reposted by Andy Dibble
My "Letter to a Christian Nation Not Sworn to the Elder Dark" just dropped! www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20...
Inspired by Matt Dovey's "Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?" in @diabolicalplots.com. Also satire of some Christian apologetics.
Inspired by Matt Dovey's "Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?" in @diabolicalplots.com. Also satire of some Christian apologetics.
Letter To A Christian Nation Not Sworn To The Elder Dark - Sci Phi Journal
Take heed and flagellate like the world is ending, by Andy Dibble.
www.sciphijournal.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My "Letter to a Christian Nation Not Sworn to the Elder Dark" just dropped! www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20...
Inspired by Matt Dovey's "Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?" in @diabolicalplots.com. Also satire of some Christian apologetics.
Inspired by Matt Dovey's "Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?" in @diabolicalplots.com. Also satire of some Christian apologetics.