The world they inhabit, for sure. This novel, though, was an extension/precursor of a rather tight short story. It probably just needed to stay there.

Thanks. My gut tells me that it's the former rather than the latter, but walking away from something with that many months of writing is a hard pill to swallow.

How do you know if a book has the right legs? I’ve recently put a book into "cold storage” and switched to a book that flows more. I love the characters and plot in both stories, but one is much more laborious to write. I can’t tell if that’s because it’s got issues or it’s just a harder subject.

Definitely Weaponised Archaeologists. I need to know if they have been given tools of destruction or if they are themselves the tools of destruction. Regardless, I need to know to what end.

Congrats

Charles Yu Is Adapting Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas for Amazon MGM Studios - Reactor We're going to space! We're going to space!

Charles Yu and Chloe Zhao are bringing Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas to TV!! 🌌

reactormag.com/charles-yu-i...

Went to my first school board meeting this evening for a district my family loves, and it was actually lovely and community driven. Kids presented projects, the business of running the district was presented and public commentaries were sane and caring. In such tumult, it was actually hopeful.

One a Day This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock’s Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking…something&#8230…

Listen to Aggressive Steven by Aesop Rock, reread Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky. Voila, my brain makes up a little allegory about how the current world works.

#writing #writingcommunity #fiction
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One a Day This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.

One a Day

This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.

It was a great episode and the very thorough breakdown of how it fits into this moment in society was extremely well done.

We’re big hockey fans here and the amount of betting ads makes us sour. Feels like a hijacking of something I’ve loved for over 40 years. No one needs to know the line, ever.

Yuntian Deng @yuntiandeng•7h For those curious about how 03-mini performs on multi-digit multiplication, here's the result. It does much better than 01 but still struggles past 13x13. (Same evaluation setup as before, but with 40 test examples per cell.)

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

Nooooooooooo

My wife might not like it, but I think it's time to introduce them to this glittering masterpiece as well. Thanks for the idea. They've taken kindly to everything else I've introduced them to, so we shall see.

Aww, man. Amazing game. I like their Into the Breach game as well, but FTL will always be the gold standard.

A Magnum Opus if ever there was one.

I can't even get my family to watch anymore, since it's a 50/50 chance it'll be sad. Let alone buying tickets to a game.

A mood board featuring rural decay alongside technology-filled cities and industry. A robot hand reaches for a human hand at the center.

AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON

Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF

Images of Peaky Blinders, man & woman kissing, two women kissing, WWI soldier

#MiseryPit #Q #A #HM
I, SAID THE SPARROW

♦️Peaky Blinders vibe
♦️1920s
♦️Slow burn romance
♦️Dysfunctional family
♦️LGBTQ+ FMC
♦️Seaside setting
♦️Secrets & lies
♦️Dual timeline & PoV

Six black and white, polaroid photos are arranged against a dark green background. Clockwise from top left, the images are as follows: A front view of a Vauxhall Viva car with the numberplate BR872. Text below it reads ‘Out of Time’. A head and shoulders shot of a man in profile, wearing a coat with the collar turned up and a trilby hat. Text below reads ‘Espionage’. The Big Ben clock tower in London. The silhouette of a man on his knees in a dark alley, with his hands behind his head. Text below it reads ‘Thriller’. A travel alarm clock. Time reads 3.40. Text below it reads ‘Time Travel’. A semi-automatic pistol, dice and a hipflask. Across the centre of the collage of photos is a red stamp which reads ‘Classified’. Images by Pixabay.

The Ipcress File x Life on Mars

🔫 High-stakes thriller
🔫 Time travel twist
🔫 Stale beer espionage
🔫 Weird science
🔫 Cold War subterfuge
🔫 Working class hero
🔫 Hunter to hunted
🔫 Antagonist from the future
🔫 Enemy turned ally
🔫 Proles vs privilege

#Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #editors #litagents 🦋

JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY
Corporate espionage is a dangerous business and Evelyn just gave Francis the power to steal secrets from a target’s mind. Little did they know it would start the first Corporation Wars. Prequel to this novelette: a.co/d/eGrsL2h
#SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP

JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY
Francis will do anything for Evelyn. Evelyn will do anything to survive, so when she is pushed, Francis agrees to become the first acquisition specialist and acquire secrets from the last unprotected place his targets have, their minds. #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP

Part 1 – The Man in the Bowler Hat “It smells, you know that.” The man, not known for his oratorical skills, took a deep breath through his nose and grunted in the affirmative. He couldn’t shake his head because it was held fast in …

I've been working on a prequel novel to this story I wrote years ago for the last couple of months. It's nice to sink back into a few of my favorite characters: robotissmiling.com/2016/04/29/t...

Uber's Bastards On the ride-hail model and the gig economy's metastasis.

Wrote about the gig economy ride-hail model, its metastasis across the economy, and a brilliant Roosevelt Institute report on gig nursing that came out last month. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...

Shhhh

Once the news came out about Deepseek, my first thought was that it will be a great next episode.

Holy geez. I had no idea and now I must find it.

Sign in Italian and English that says to beware of the pickpockets. A green blocky figure has a bag that a red blocky figure reaches into. The red figures reaching arm looks abnormally long.

Magnificent 7 stocks poised for $1 trillion rout as DeepSeek rattles AI market China's DeepSeek model shows all that massive AI spending might not be necessary.

Investors worldwide stand to lose more than $1 trillion today because of the sudden fear that the market-sustaining AI spending boom might have been for nothing.