Dad Died on Discord - Lightspeed Magazine When we moved Dad to the care facility, his only complaint was the Wi-Fi. “Laggy,” he called it when he was having a good day. “Fucking piece of shit,” he called it the rest of the time. At first I w...

Really unfair for @solarshades.club to write a story about how I'm going to do The Big Logoff

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kind of intrigued by the idea of holding global democratic votes for what we name stuff on celestial bodies and the resulting future where all the moons in the solar system are MESSI-1 through MESSI-996 and every crater on the moon is named after a kpop star

Truly the most “nailed it, wish I hadn’t” story I’ll ever write

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Projection is truly one of the strongest historical forces. The slaver acts out of fear of enslavement. The génocidaire frets about their own obliteration.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

I have a new story in @lightspeedmagazine.com! "Dad Died on Discord" is about the future fate of aging gamer millennials. It goes online later this month, but you can read it now by supporting Lightspeed and buying the ebook.

Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson Hudson (Our Shared Storm) gives a skillful metaphysical twist to a tale of apocalyptic horror in this strikingly original novel....

Congratulations to @asuenglish.bsky.social MFA soon-to-be-alum @solarshades.club on this starred review in Publishers Weekly for his debut novel ABSENCE, out in May from @sohopress.bsky.social!

Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson Hudson (Our Shared Storm) gives a skillful metaphysical twist to a tale of apocalyptic horror in this strikingly original novel....

“Hudson gives a skillful metaphysical twist to a tale of apocalyptic horror in this strikingly original novel.”

Publishers Weekly starred review!

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Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Civilizations: A Book Club (part 1), feat. Andrew Dana Hudson In which first contact between Europe and the Americas goes rather differently

What would history look like if the Inca empire conquered Europe? @solarshades.club and I went long on the alternate history novel Civilizations, and now you can read our whole book club! Part 1: Vikings, Columbus, and whether or not we have to care about germs theantiquarian.email/archive/civi...

Did the AI language generator generate the exact kind of language you requested it to generate? Should we call a press conference? Should we invite Eliza??

it’s honestly so fucked up that my novel won’t get written unless i sit down and write it. doesn’t it know i have episodes of 30 rock to rewatch and comment on

Civilizations: A Book Club (part 2), feat. Lizzie Wade Discussing Laurent Binet’s alternate history novel, in which the Inca discover the “New World”

Is there a "first mover advantage" in history? Continuing my book club with @lizziewade.bsky.social
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Civilizations: A Book Club (part 1), feat. Lizzie Wade Discussing Laurent Binet’s alternate history novel, in which first contact between Europe and the Americas goes rather differently...

What if Columbus sailed to America...and got his ass beat? Discussing one of my favorite alt history novels with @lizziewade.bsky.social

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Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude is conscious: why do you have a slave

The Future Is Here, It's Weird, It's Embarrassed plus announcing next month's book club

We're surrounded by the signifiers of futurity, and yet it seems like we feel that the real future should be shaking its head at our current moment.
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Got one of these this morning. This one even linked to a defunct book club. They said they’d make “the donation process” easy.

Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson: 9781641297585 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books In this moving, richly detailed speculative crime debut, the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing. Two novice investigators are dispatched to small-town Kansas to interview a woman ...

So you can preorder my novel...
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I remember in Oct of 24 when Tooze wrote that maybe inflation discourse was out of touch because it didn’t count grocery prices. In October of 24. That was the moment when I knew things were going to Go Badly.

That’s my theory about what’s happening to young people right now, too. It’s not one thing — it’s everything. It’s the covid years plus phones and social media plus ed grifters selling bunk curriculum plus No Child Left Behind plus the stupefying politics they’ve come of age around plus the AI slop now being shoved in their faces plus all the rest. Call it “The Wackpot”: an emergent generational crisis that may now coming to a head. Wack because most of the forces driving it are just so frustratingly dumb.

New word alert. Credit @solarshades.club
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“Pursuant to the Agreement” How might the United States manage its nuclear waste once the states are no longer united?

Two years ago, I wrote an epistolary story about dealing with nuclear waste amid the breakup of the Union. Did not think it would feel as relevant as it does today, but that's America for you!
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“Pursuant to the Agreement” How might the United States manage its nuclear waste once the states are no longer united?

@solarshades.club speculates on what will happen to our mountains of nuclear waste after the Great American Fracture.
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I've long said that living in a cyberpunk future doesn't mean you get to BE a cyberpunk—hip, savvy, empowered by bleeding edge tech. Most of us end up not hacking the megacorp but precariously working for the megacorp, or otherwise under the boot heel of the algo. We're cyberproles.

The Kids Are Not Okay (With Tech) Lessons from Teaching Analog | Welcome to The Wackpot

I had the fascinating experience the last few months of watching my students grapple with the always-online lives we've given them. For all that we olds fret about the literacy crisis and attention spans, it's the young who are really upset.
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I would go as far as to say it’s actually an important trait to being a good artist, to have a firm sense of who and what you don’t like and what you don’t want to do.

I have mostly abandoned a tbr list or looking for recommendations. I go to a bookshelf (in a bookstore, at a friend’s house, in my own home) and pull out books until I find one that sticks. Reading impulsively keeps me present and fights, a bit, the pull of other tasks/devices

Rocky Cornelius is back in a new story about friendship, three dimensional fandom hyperobjects, and trying not to die in the state of Texas!

Escape Pod 1017: The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy “What do you mean you aren’t fucking?” Rocky Cornelius demanded. “That’s terrible! This is going to throw your whole value prop out of whack!” The trio of button-cute narrative design prodigies glared...

Hail, sophonts! Today we've got a series story for you, following up on episode 941 from May 2024. "The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy" by @solarshades.club is an Escape Pod original, so go on! Witness it! What're you waiting for?

Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson: 9781641297585 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books In this moving, richly detailed speculative crime debut, the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing. Two novice investigators are dispatched to small-town Kansas to interview a woman ...

Technically the cover has been on the preorder pages for a while. But now we have the fancy graphic! And speaking of preorders...
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