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Brian Biswas
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Fiction writer. Author of the novel The Astronomer, and the short story collections Blister and Other Stories and A Betrayal and Other Stories.

Website: http://brianbiswas.com/
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Brian Biswas @brianbiswas.bsky.social · Jan 9
Shortlisted for Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize in General Fiction (2024).

"Biswas is a master storyteller who pulls the reader into a journey of epic proportions." ~ BookLife Prize
The Astronomer by Brian Biswas | BookLife
Franz Herbert suffers from epileptic seizures; are they a curse that takes him away from his wife, family, and friends, or a gift that allows him to explore the depths of the cosmos? An exploration o...
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The AI bubble is built on ignoring this fact: language is not the same as intelligence. (Just look at my cat.)

Personal opinion: a computer is nothing like the human mind.

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Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"Self-consciousness is the one instrument that unplugs all the rest."
--Annie Dillard

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November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I loved this.

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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article)
This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"What a liberation to realize that the voice 'in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that."
--Ekhart Tolle

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November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Just in time for the Holidays. My short story collections are 40% off if ordered directly from the distributor.

A Betrayal & Other Stories:
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Blister & Other Stories:
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November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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A summary of the Anthropic AI copyright infringement court case. Authors take note. If your work was stolen, you are due monetary compensation.

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[BBN] Anthropic 101
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November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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12 short stories that paint a portrait of modern India that shimmers with psychological complexity, spirit, and wisdom. Jeyamohan is considered one of India’s finest authors writing today. This is his first work to be published in English.

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The cover of the short story collection stories of the true by Jeyamohan. A colorful portrait of an Indian man squatting, his hands upraised. He appears to be a storyteller.
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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“The reality of where you are is always more important than the ideal of where you imagine you should be.”
—Jeff Warren

Words of wisdom. Perfectionists: please heed this!

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November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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“The ocean doesn't complain about the dance of ten million waves; so don't be concerned with the rise and fall of thoughts.”
—Papaji

Writers need to remember this when our minds lead us hither and thither. Don’t panic. Resolution will come.

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November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Interesting article from today’s The New York Times Book Review on Philip Pullman’s latest.

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Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close
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November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Synchronized sleepers (they’re siblings).

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Two black and white cats sleeping on a couch. Their left front paws are extended. They look like mirror images of one another. (In point of fact, they’re brother and sister.)
October 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I’ve just set up an author newsletter. This is a new venture for me. I’ll send something out a few times a year: recent publications, events, thoughts on the writing life. And giveaways.

Subscribe by going here:

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Love to have you aboard!

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October 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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If you like suspense and noir movies from the 40s and 50s, give this one a try. A young woman is auditioning with Hitchcock for his new movie. Lots of info about the seamy side of Hollywood during the days leading up to World War II (blacklisting).

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Cover of the novel typewriter beach, by Meg Waite Clayton. A young woman is looking through an archway out at a rocky coastline.
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In my book, LeVar Burton is a hero. I don’t know anyone who has done more to promote literacy and a love of reading. Way to go, LeVar!

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LeVar Burton Named ABA’s Indie Bookstore Ambassador
As the American Booksellers Association's Indie Bookstore Ambassador for 2025-2026, Burton will champion independent booksellers, especially on Small Business Saturday on November 29 and Independent B...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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If you’re looking to get into Gene Wolfe, may I suggest starting with this. A brilliant collection of short stories (a couple are novella length) each picked out by Wolfe himself. Start with the first and read them all. His range is amazing. 5 stars.

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The cover of the book the Best of Gene Wolfe. A collection of short stories selected by Wolfe himself. Ursula K. Le Guin provides the quote, “Wolfe is our Melville.”
September 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I often figure out writing problems when I don’t consciously try to figure them out. I go on a walk instead and, voila, a solution pops into my head. This has happened too often to be mere coincidence. Relaxing the mind seems to allow creativity to flow.

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September 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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“I’d rather be happy being myself, than sad trying to please everyone else.”
—Jermaine Cole

The applies to what I choose to write about as well.

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September 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Part two of my short story “The Expansion of Space” was just broadcast on the AntipodeanSF Radio show.

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(In case you missed it, here is part 1:
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Featured on Bohrmann: The Expansion of Space - by Brian Biswas - Part Two Our Audio License by is licensed under Featured Music “Waved Oceanic Infinite Voice” - by Ovidiu Bufnila and Massimo Som...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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AntipodeanSF Issue 323 - Ionospherics

Now available on the intertubes with thirteen of the best in speculative flash fiction stories to read and enjoy.

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Home - AntipodeanSF
AntipodeanSF publishes the best short-short (flash) speculative fiction (SF, F, H) on the web.
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September 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Originally published in Italy in 1960. A prescient parable of artificial intelligence. Can a human soul be re-created?

The Tartar Steppe is Buzzati’s‘s masterpiece, but this is quite good. Sixty years ahead of its time.

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Cover of the novel The Singularity by Dino Buzzati. A pen and ink illustration of a monstrous man with two silhouetted figures looking on from a safe distance.
September 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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My short story The Expansion of Space (part one) was broadcast today on the Antipodian Speculative Fiction radio program. Part two will be next week.

This is excerpted from a novel in progress, Initial Conditions.

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A young woman is staring up a starry sky and at what looks like the Andromeda galaxy.
August 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall.

An allegory for our times.

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The cover of the novel The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. A black and white cow grazing on a plain, a white and blue background (I think the white portion represents the wall), a solitary cloud in the sky.
August 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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If you find yourself in Durham, North Carolina … *signed* copies of my novel The Astronomer are available at the New Hope Commons Barnes and Noble.

Shortlisted for Publishers Weekly BookLife Priza (General Fiction, 2024).

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My novel , The Astronomer, on the fiction shelf at Barnes & Noble. There is a gold signed-copy sticker on the top righthand corner of the cover.
August 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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First two novels by the Nigerian fantasy writer Amos Tutvola (published in 1952 and 1954). Both are considered tops in that genre. I must say, I’ve never read anything like them. It’s as if Tutuola invented his own syntax. And it grows on you.

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Abstract African artwork adorns the covers of Amos Tutvola’s novels The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
August 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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That said, if you have a wealthy and benevolent family member looking to support independent arts, please let us know. Books cost money to write and produce and especially to SHIP. And I'm working as many jobs as I can.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM