New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.

Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.

benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...

Happy Monday! Today's Classic Cover is the 1970 edition of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, originally published in 1926. This cover was illustrated by Gervasio Gallardo, who also created covers for Peter S. Beagle and William Morris.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

William De Morgan was the Arts & Crafts movement’s most brilliant and prolific ceramic artist.

This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by some of his many tile designs. 🍪

Yes I would but that's because I happen to think the Ring novels are a real slog. They bored me as a kid and are, charitably, not my cup of tea as an adult. I vastly prefer the movies, which I think work better as vehicles for the story. This is, I acknowledge, a controversial stance.

I get that the idea is for everything in a book to either further the plot or illuminate character but I have no problem reading sections of novels that are there for elegant ornamentation or 'just because'.

I like books that meander into culs-de-sac as long as I enjoy the trip and the language.

Just submitted the first draft of a new novel to my publisher so maybe I’ll finally be able to start posting here regularly

Status report: Off a Tumblr ask: "How are you coping?" *Warnings for:* Relatively unfiltered mental-health reporting, discussion of travel as therapy, upcoming convention attendance, and turning into trees. www.tumblr.com/dduane/78552...

You don't even need to translate the message to understand the video. 🥰

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

Could we—for fun, for science, darlings take your pick—but could we talk about what we’re doing in a geeky joyful nerdout way even if it’s small or is that too much like bragging or some inscrutable social code i don’t understand

things that please you inordinately. I got to try olive oil soap! 🤩

The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed.

There was a shimmer - a demon appeared.

"Curious. What ritual is this?"

"I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!"

"I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

As a SFF writer who is very interested in religion, in fiction and in real life:

Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO.

I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

The ebook of LOKA is on sale in the US this month for the super low price of $1.99. Snag a copy today!

Publishers Weekly says it has “the heartfelt emotion of Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers series and the worldbuilding and deep ethical questions of The Terraformers by Analee Newitz."

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#scifi
#books

15M people on Bluesky!!! 💫

The Verge beat us to our own announcement — that's the beauty of an open network with public stats!