Andy Dibble
@andydibble.bsky.social
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!
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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!
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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 ...
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#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
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#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"
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Microessay: Andy Dibble | Crepuscular Magazine
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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"
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
I've determined that in hell's zoo, people are in cages and animals *are* the cages.
March 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I've determined that in hell's zoo, people are in cages and animals *are* the cages.
Reposted by Andy Dibble
ok sincere post: im so fucking pumped to be able to post that im a nebula finalist. look at my boy go.
by boy, i of course mean my "scathing critique" and "short story" and "riff on ursula k le guins the ones who walk away from omelas"
by boy, i of course mean my "scathing critique" and "short story" and "riff on ursula k le guins the ones who walk away from omelas"
March 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
ok sincere post: im so fucking pumped to be able to post that im a nebula finalist. look at my boy go.
by boy, i of course mean my "scathing critique" and "short story" and "riff on ursula k le guins the ones who walk away from omelas"
by boy, i of course mean my "scathing critique" and "short story" and "riff on ursula k le guins the ones who walk away from omelas"
Good advice for writing fiction: "If We ever abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten, We replace it with a better or similar one." (Qur'an 2:106).
Reminds fiction writers that we can break promises made to readers and expectations set up, but only if we give the reader something better.
Reminds fiction writers that we can break promises made to readers and expectations set up, but only if we give the reader something better.
March 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Good advice for writing fiction: "If We ever abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten, We replace it with a better or similar one." (Qur'an 2:106).
Reminds fiction writers that we can break promises made to readers and expectations set up, but only if we give the reader something better.
Reminds fiction writers that we can break promises made to readers and expectations set up, but only if we give the reader something better.
Contract signed! My "Parent Reborn in a Hell Realm?" is coming out in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this spring! This is my first time getting a second acceptance in just a few days, and this one is a pro-rates :)
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March 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Contract signed! My "Parent Reborn in a Hell Realm?" is coming out in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this spring! This is my first time getting a second acceptance in just a few days, and this one is a pro-rates :)
Contract signed! My "Letter to a Christian Nation Not Sworn to the Elder Dark" is coming out in SciPhiJournal! Most significant inspiration for this is Matt Dovey's "Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?" @diabolicalplots.com www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-5...
DP FICTION #50A: “Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?” by Matt Dovey – Diabolical Plots
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March 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Contract signed! My "Letter to a Christian Nation Not Sworn to the Elder Dark" is coming out in SciPhiJournal! Most significant inspiration for this is Matt Dovey's "Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?" @diabolicalplots.com www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-5...
Just got a major poetry acceptance! Just waiting for the contract.
January 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Just got a major poetry acceptance! Just waiting for the contract.
My story "Pro-Vote" set in an automated future where the only job left for the common man is voting is included in the Inner Workings anthology in this bundle put out by Writers of the Future and Arc Manor press. It's a great deal 14 books for the suggested price of $20 www.arcmanorbooks.com/bundle
Bundle | Arc Manor
ARC MANOR
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December 6, 2024 at 10:57 AM
My story "Pro-Vote" set in an automated future where the only job left for the common man is voting is included in the Inner Workings anthology in this bundle put out by Writers of the Future and Arc Manor press. It's a great deal 14 books for the suggested price of $20 www.arcmanorbooks.com/bundle
I just bought a lifetime license to software and in a confirmation email it informed me that the it would expire "November 2064." Which is insulting because I only buy this stuff because I plan on living forever. I worry it's more prescient than I like to imagine.
November 30, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I just bought a lifetime license to software and in a confirmation email it informed me that the it would expire "November 2064." Which is insulting because I only buy this stuff because I plan on living forever. I worry it's more prescient than I like to imagine.