Lucien Telford
@lucientelford.bsky.social
Award winning author of The Sequence. Husband. Father. Aviator. Not necessarily in that order. https://substack.com/@lucientelford
@lucientelford
Hugo nominated spec fiction writer.
Working hard to get book two out before tech catches up with me.
@lucientelford
Hugo nominated spec fiction writer.
Working hard to get book two out before tech catches up with me.
Up for a short writing challenge? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 250-word Microfiction Challenge on December 5th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/250
The 250-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight
The 250-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in 48 hours.
nycmidnight.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Up for a short writing challenge? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 250-word Microfiction Challenge on December 5th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/250
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HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.
March 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.
Off to Japan soon without the famjam. Hakuba, where the west winds blow and the snow falls frantic.
January 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Off to Japan soon without the famjam. Hakuba, where the west winds blow and the snow falls frantic.
It’s a good result, but a very real wake up call. Marburg was on the list of multiple pathogens attempting to be stolen from Canadian and American BSL-4 labs.
In October, Rwanda reported its first Marburg virus outbreak, for which there are no vaccines or treatments. Following a COVID-19-style mass test, track, and trace operation, the case fatality rate plummeted, and the outbreak has now been declared over. NPR https://buff.ly/49f7esn
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
An 'unprecedented' good news story about a deadly viral outbreak
The death rate for Marburg virus can be as high as 90%. There are no approved vaccines and treatments. So how did Rwanda achieve what one doctor calls an "unprecedented" success in controlling its…
buff.ly
December 6, 2024 at 4:55 AM
It’s a good result, but a very real wake up call. Marburg was on the list of multiple pathogens attempting to be stolen from Canadian and American BSL-4 labs.
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Dropped off a copy of The Sequence in the local littlefreelibrary.org in Squamish today, chapter #92333. Free books are good!
November 11, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Dropped off a copy of The Sequence in the local littlefreelibrary.org in Squamish today, chapter #92333. Free books are good!
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Reminder to myself
November 11, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Reminder to myself
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Bluesky is now the #2 social app in the US, Canada, and #3 in the UK 🦋
On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice 🤭
On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice 🤭
November 11, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Bluesky is now the #2 social app in the US, Canada, and #3 in the UK 🦋
On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice 🤭
On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice 🤭
A 5 year recovery. My wife and I both lost our jobs due to covid, no maternity pay for our new baby. Now that I am able to repay tax dollars owed, I receive a message from Bob Hamilton, stating “we accept your payment as long as…”
Take the money and say thank you jackass.
Take the money and say thank you jackass.
recovery.my
October 28, 2024 at 6:44 AM
A 5 year recovery. My wife and I both lost our jobs due to covid, no maternity pay for our new baby. Now that I am able to repay tax dollars owed, I receive a message from Bob Hamilton, stating “we accept your payment as long as…”
Take the money and say thank you jackass.
Take the money and say thank you jackass.
Day one for this paleface
November 26, 2023 at 8:28 PM
Day one for this paleface
Haunted Girl from Image Conics looks great!
Ghosts, monsters and mental health struggles: Star Wars writer Ethan Sacks on his most personal stor...
Father and daughter team up for A Haunted Girl, coming this October from Image Comics
open.substack.com
September 20, 2023 at 9:57 AM
Haunted Girl from Image Conics looks great!
A few shots from today’s trip to Sardinia and back. Just beat those storms in to PRG this afternoon
August 16, 2023 at 9:06 PM
A few shots from today’s trip to Sardinia and back. Just beat those storms in to PRG this afternoon
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Especially useful if you are puzzled or grumpy that I'm dominating your feed...
If Bluesky seems dead or low activity on your end it might be that you haven't yet made the most of its design. It's different from Twitter in some key ways so you have to interact differently. I'm writing these tips below from my non-techy perspective, techies please weigh in if I get things wrong:
August 12, 2023 at 8:30 PM
Especially useful if you are puzzled or grumpy that I'm dominating your feed...
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Also this fabulous thread.
August 12, 2023 at 8:32 PM
Also this fabulous thread.
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Bizarre!
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Weirdest thing happened in the local bookstore today. I was walking up the stairs and saw this quote on the wall by a guy with the same name as you! Strange coincidence, eh? 😁
August 12, 2023 at 1:35 AM
Bizarre!
Speaking of not good. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/09/weather/maui-county-wildfires-hurricane-dora/index.html
August 10, 2023 at 2:08 AM
August 9, 2023 at 12:53 PM
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I wrote about how Amazon’s bookstore is filling up with deepfaked authors and AI sludge — an early warning of the challenge that text generation poses to platforms. https://www.platformer.news/p/writers-are-getting-deepfaked-on
August 9, 2023 at 12:09 AM
I wrote about how Amazon’s bookstore is filling up with deepfaked authors and AI sludge — an early warning of the challenge that text generation poses to platforms. https://www.platformer.news/p/writers-are-getting-deepfaked-on
In the consolidation wars, first came the Great Splitting, a fracturing of all social media into many smaller socialmedialets until so many exist, there is no population large enough to support them all @lucientelford.bsky.social https://lucientelford.substack.com/p/the-bang-and-smash-method?sd=pf
August 8, 2023 at 9:04 AM
In the consolidation wars, first came the Great Splitting, a fracturing of all social media into many smaller socialmedialets until so many exist, there is no population large enough to support them all @lucientelford.bsky.social https://lucientelford.substack.com/p/the-bang-and-smash-method?sd=pf
What’s up? Well Praha is what’s up, the library is where we’re at.
August 7, 2023 at 2:47 PM
What’s up? Well Praha is what’s up, the library is where we’re at.
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If you haven't heard, the 2023 Hugo Award finalists have been announced.
https://en.chengduworldcon.com/
Congratulations to all my friends and colleagues on this year's ballot and a big thank you to everyone that nominated me for Best Editor Short Form.
https://en.chengduworldcon.com/
Congratulations to all my friends and colleagues on this year's ballot and a big thank you to everyone that nominated me for Best Editor Short Form.
July 6, 2023 at 2:42 PM
If you haven't heard, the 2023 Hugo Award finalists have been announced.
https://en.chengduworldcon.com/
Congratulations to all my friends and colleagues on this year's ballot and a big thank you to everyone that nominated me for Best Editor Short Form.
https://en.chengduworldcon.com/
Congratulations to all my friends and colleagues on this year's ballot and a big thank you to everyone that nominated me for Best Editor Short Form.
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Just read this great interview with @mynachang.bsky.social about her new book and the Electric Sheep group she leads. It's been a real joy to be part of that group for a few months...lots of discussions with speculative fiction folks.
An Interview with Myna Chang
Myna Chang Welcome to The Burning Hearth and my interview with Myna Chang, which, as you will note, I wrote the intro for last month. (I knew July was going to be busy.) I'm delighted she agreed to an...
constancemalloy.com
July 13, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Just read this great interview with @mynachang.bsky.social about her new book and the Electric Sheep group she leads. It's been a real joy to be part of that group for a few months...lots of discussions with speculative fiction folks.