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Allan Dyen-Shapiro
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Science fiction writer; PhD biochemist; worked in biology/environmental science; educator. SFWA/Codex. Stories in Factor Four, Dark Matter Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Small Wonders, Stupefying Stories, B-Cubed Press. allandyenshapiro.com
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Allan Dyen-Shapiro @allandyenshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 8
And now available in paperback as well as Kindle:

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The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds
The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds [Dyen-Shapiro, Allan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds
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One last #ShortStory to write about before I call it a weekend: this one is not my usual cup of tea, but it's oddness and strangeness appealed to me. It's beautiful.

@bethgoder.bsky.social

#AmReading #AmReadingFiction #Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersLife

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Arachnomorphosis
The city is no place for a spider.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I loved the format on this short story: I could see where it was going the whole time, but the step-by-step gave it an emotional punch it wouldn't have otherwise had. Recommended reading.

@jrdawson.bsky.social

#AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmReadingSciFi

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Six People to Revise You - Uncanny Magazine
A parent or guardian Someone who has known you since childhood A mentor or teacher An employer or coworker A spouse, partner, or close intimate friend Someone who does not consider themself a loved on...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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An interview with me about "The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds" that came out today on several different Facebook groups. It also has a short excerpt from the book.

#Eco-Fiction #EcoFiction #EnvironmentalRacism #Booksy #Booksky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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A story with a very cool format that imagines co-working as augmented by neural sharing. Definitely worth your time to check this out. Free click.

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#AmReading #AmReadingFiction #Dystopic #ShortStory #WriterSky #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity

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We Are Burnout
What happens when we give more than we can for productivity’s sake?
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November 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This deceptively simple-seeming short story packs a strong emotional punch. It does so by implying the emotion and never showing it, making a truly strong story. Recommended reading. @thomasha.bsky.social #AmReading #AmReadingScienceFiction #Dystopia

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In My Country by Thomas Ha
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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So, why am I getting four emails a day purportedly from Slavic girls looking for men over 40? Slavic girls looking for a Jewish guy? Do they want to apologize for the Chmielnicki Massacres?
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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And this is out, with my story, "Become the New You." The launch was at a horror convention in Utah this weekend. I look forward to reading the other 34 stories. @whisperhousepress.bsky.social‬ #WhisperHousePress #Horror #CostsOfLiving #DreadMondays #booksky #horrorsky
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Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Horror Anthology
Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Horror Anthology [Capone Jr, Steve] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Horror Anthology
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October 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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New blog post. Important #MiddleEast stuff many of you likely missed. Consequential for #ScienceFiction authors setting stories there.

#Booksy #Booksky #Israel #Palestine #Peace #E1 #WestBank #AmWriting

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THE NEW NAME FOR THE E1 AREA WILL BE TRUMP
Periodically, as someone who has set short stories in Israel/Palestine and co-edited an anthology of fiction set in the Middle East, I endeavor to explain something that the mainstream media has obscu...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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For those wondering why my posts have been apolitical, a McCarthyite witch hunt is underway in Florida that's nabbed many for social media posts. I'm still hitting anti-fascist/anti-racist themes in my fiction. The witch hunters are generally too dumb to read fiction.

#Booksky
#AmWriting
#Writesky
October 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Solved my Codex contest story no-plot problem: It's a mystery. I don't know what's going to happen yet, so neither does my protagonist. But my hardboiled attorney has met the femme fatale and she's dispensed him to deal with the big bad. Who's a bird. I'm stealing lines from Poe. Horror comedy.
September 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I got my story seed for the Codex Halloween/horror contest and liked it so much that I've coasted a while, writing on just a vibe. Humorous noir with a sentient animal protagonist. I really should figure out what the story's about soon. Readers tend to like a plot.
September 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ICE foolishly arrested hundreds of South Korean immigrants at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. Don't they know that the men are actually demons? When they start harmonizing and dancing, the ICE terror forces will be in serious trouble. Honmoon over homeland! #Huntrix will defeat Noem!

#KpopDemonHunters
September 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Friends at #WorldCon, especially those I haven't yet crossed paths with, I have a table talk from 3-4 today in room 427. Anyone who liked (or didn't like) what I said on any of my panels this weekend, feel free to come by and chat, too. Or anyone else. #Worldcon83 #seattleworldcon2025
August 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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New flash fiction humor piece out today. Enjoy!
#aliens #alienconquest #satire #humor #sciencefiction #anticapitalist #scifi #Booksy #WritingCommunity #oligarchy #writers #writing #amwriting #amwritingfiction #amwritingscifi #amwritingsciencefiction

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“Glossary” • by Allan Dyen-Shapiro
Glossary of Archaic Terms used in Monograph on Human Culture During the Period of Conquest (Kindle Edition) colonist (ˈkälənəst) The humans’...
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August 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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My WorldCon Panels:

Wed 6:00pm: Interesting Energy for Future and Fiction

Thu 9:00am: Why you wearing riot gear? Politics in Horror

Fri 9:00am-10:00am: Plagues and Pestilences

Sat 10:30am: What if everyone had a roof and two meals?

Sat 4:30pm: You Ask, We Build

Sun 3:00pm: Table Talk
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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An interview with me done on the podcast 2 Black Critics Minus One where I talk about The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds.

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#Booksy #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #ScienceFiction #ReadMoreBooks #BookLover #EnvironmentalRacism #EcoFiction #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook
2BC Minus One Keep Writing, Flash Fiction, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, Interview with Allan Dyen-Shapiro, Best Movies of 2025 and 28 Years Later Review by 2BC Minus One
2BC Minus One Keep Writing, Flash Fiction, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, Interview with Allan Dyen-Shapiro, Best Movies of 2025 and 28 Years Later Review from 2BC Minus One on Podchaser, aired Saturday, 28...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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I just submitted a short story I've been trying to sell since early 2020 to yet another market. My world had a pandemic, climate-related population displacement, and refugees placed in a concentration camp to die. But my camp was in Georgia rather than Florida. So, I guess it's still near-future SF?
August 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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For those of you going to WorldCon, my book will be on sale at the Liminal Fiction table. If you'd like me to sign a copy, I'll be at the table Thursday 2-3, Friday 12-1, and Friday 3-4.

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#Booksy #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #ScienceFiction #ReadMoreBooks #BookLover
The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds
“Genocide Joe” is a marked man. Once a highly respected corporate microbiologist, now the scapegoat for a GMO-caused ecological disaster that’s turned San Francisco Bay toxic and poisoned thousands, J...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The scammers are going to need to up their game a bit. I just got a friend request on Facebook from Cormac McCarthy. Not only did the scammer not know McCarthy was deceased, the scammer didn't realize he was male.
July 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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And guess whose book is featured in the #SFWA New Release Newsletter this month?

#Booksky #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books #Writer #Writing #AmWriting #ReadEveryDay #read #Reading #AlwaysReading #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook #BookLover

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NRN 2025 JULY CATALOG.pdf
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July 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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First #ReaderCon selfie, with
‪ @karchwrites.bsky.social. Awesome time catching up before programming began. Other members of Aurora Street critique group are also here (@bethanypowell.bsky.social and @larkmorganlu.bsky.social). Former member ‪ @willmcmahon36.bsky.social is here too.
July 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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#ReaderCon attendees, I will be in the Dealers Room, at one of the Authors Alley tables, from 3 - 7 pm on Friday. If you'd like me to sign a copy of The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds, that would be the best place to find me.

#Booksky #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction
July 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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A scene in which two Ph.D.s talk to each other required me to to Google to establish that a drug released in your eye could reach your leg muscles. Retinal vein to cavernous sinus to jugular vein to heart to arteries. If I'd made the characters mail carriers, "This shit works!" would have sufficed.
July 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Random fact of the day. Obtained via Googling as a double-check on the plausibility of a line in the story I'm working on. China is the world's largest producer of apples, with an output of ten times that of the US. So, it appears fine to have my Chinese character in Shanghai eat an apple.
July 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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When I resubmit a previously rejected story to a new market, I don't always reread it first, but when I do, especially one I haven't read in a while, it can put me in a good mood. The feeling that it is awesome and deserves acceptance is worth the time. #WritingCommunity #Writersky #Writesky
July 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM