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• Post #4217697

  Did you know I have a new book coming out about a graduate student who is a slime mold from beyond the galaxy? Who comes to Earth to do fieldwork and meets a badass sex worker in ancient Pompeii? It's called "A Wall Is Also a Road." You can pre-order it now, which is a tremendous help for me as the author! (https://torpublishinggroup.com/a-wall-is-also-a-road/) Also, I am going on tour in September and October, so please come say hi!!

• Post #4184731

  @kai Maybe? Depends on how you tell the story.

• Post #4184730

  Welp ... it's fire season in California again. The time of year when I consult PurpleAir every day. #sfba

• Post #4184729

  Why is Vancouver, BC so good?

• Post #3951884

  Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco is no longer a place of honor. On top of all the depressing automation of the experience and loss of what used to be amazing, beautifully curated pre-show content, the new food app seemed designed to prevent people from tipping the hard-working servers who have to run around in the dark. #sfba

• Post #3892182

  Only two more weeks to enter your sci-fi stories for the Protopian Prize, given to works that imagine positive futures for humanity, w/tech that serves the public interest. (I'm one of the judges!) Two winners get $5000 US each, and publication in an anthology from MIT Press! #scifi #future #writing https://protopianprize.com/

• Post #3879803

  You know you have cognitive overload when you look at your to-do list and realize that item number one is "do the" because you got so distracted by everything you have to do that you forgot to actually list what it is that you need to do

• Post #3685348

  Don't miss this amazing lineup of old school cyberpunks and digital weirdos whose subversive ideas still seethe beneath the AI slop and social media propaganda ... and could rise again!!! Get yer tix now for ... DELIRIA 2!! August 12-13 in San Francisco! https://www.mondo2000.com/deliria2/

• Post #3661135

  My latest essay for @flaminghydra@thelife.boats is about why I hate the phrase "we're living in the future," and why it is that we hear it so often during periods when history is being violently erased. Read this essay and many more when you subscribe to Flaming Hydra, a collective of artists and writers (yes, we share all profits equally!). It's only a few US $$ per month, and you get a daily dose of original writing and art!!! https://flaminghydra.com/the-wave-of-the-present...

• Post #3416896

  In the battle between single large hominin vs. aphid army, who wins?

• Post #3392322

  That's right, friends! STARLOG is back and I'm the editor-in-chief. We have so much good stuff for you in our first issue (PRINT ONLY), coming this November!! Space-time! Alternate worlds! The unknown! Plus you can subscribe now, and get our podcast hosted by the amazing Jordan Hoffman and Dave Gonzales! #scifi #starlog https://bit.ly/join-starlog

• Post #3383548

  Do you need a story about aliens, graduate students, ancient Rome, and ... tentacles? I'm pretty sure you do! That's a good reason to pre-order my next novel, "A Wall Is Also a Road," for 25% off at Barnes & Noble if you are a member. (Not a member? You can pre-order anywhere!)

• Post #3379066

  Made some new friends at the Succulent Expo in San Francisco today. #PlantDad

• Post #3342240

  My galaxy petunias are the greatest and I love them

• Post #3296052

  If you're in #Sanfrancisco and you want to help our city in a disaster, you can sign up for NERT training right now! Learn how to help first responders in a quake, fire, or other disaster! The classes are fun, and the current one just started. If you missed the first session, you have tons of time to make it up and you can just start with the second session next week! https://sf-fire.org/nert

• Post #3132393

  Bay Area peeps! What are you doing this weekend? Why not join me and a bunch of other amazing authors at the Bay Area Book Festival?? It's all happening in downtown Berkeley! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday! www.baybookfest.org PLUS!! If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror, there is a special @Locusmag festival for the Locus Awards on Friday and Saturday during BABF, so be sure to check that out too! https://locusmag.com/2026-locus-awards-weekend/ #books #scifi #s...

• Post #3132392

  Hooray! "We Will Rise Again," the anthology about protest and resistance that I co-edited with @older and Karen Lord won the Locus Award last night!! Thank you to all the activists and authors who contributed to this incredible anthology, and to our editor at Saga, Sareena Kamath! Also, check out all the other amazing folks who won!! https://locusmag.com/2026/05/2026-locus-awards-winners/

• Post #3132391

  I went to Pizza Hacker for dinner and now I am extremely full. I also have nostalgia for the days when social media gripes included gems such as: "tweets are just all about what someone had for lunch."

• Post #3064478

  We are not "living in the future." We are living in the present. The future is something different that hasn't happened yet. I know this sounds facile, but once you ponder it for a while you start to realize how pernicious and constraining it is to our imaginations to confuse the present with the future.

• Post #2022920

  Looking for some #SFF reads that give the same vibe as Foundation? @vulture has some recommendations, including #TheThreeBodyProblem by Liu Cixin and #TheTerraformers by yours truly! Check out the full list here. https://www.vulture.com/2023/07/sci-fi-books-to-read-like-foundation.html

• Post #1983206

  Remember Don Martin, whose bizarro, sick cartoons were always one of the best things about MAD magazine? I did a deep dive on him and his work for the latest issue of @flaminghydra@thelife.boats, on the first day of our soon-to-be-legendary MAD WEEK! https://flaminghydra.com/don-martin-mads-sickest-artist/

• Post #1871520

  Ever since playing with ChatGPT, I've become sensitized to the way false rationality sounds ... there's a particular vibe to what is basically coherent nonsense. And now I've started to notice when people do it too. I get this crawly ChatGPT feeling when somebody is obviously making up an "authoritative" answer to a question they know nothing about. #AI #chatgpt #psychology

• Post #1857713

  I am so excited to share this story with you! It's partly a response to the many people who read The Terraformers and asked me, "What happened to the worms after they were able to speak?" But it's also a standalone story about what it's like to celebrate your body, no matter what form it takes. https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-best-ever-cosplay-of-whistle-and-midnight/

• Post #1782852

  I still miss the old Mastodon default to "no quote posts only boosts" because I like boosting and I'm lazy af about adding my own pithy comment to the OP.

• Post #1577447

  As a special treat for Indie Bookstore Day, the wonderful folks at LibroFM are running a sale, and the AUTOMATIC NOODLE audiobook is available for just $4.99 until 4/26. This sale is only on Libro.FM, Nook, and Chirp. Lots of other books are on sale too! Rejoice and fill your ears with words! https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781250395627-automatic-noodle

• Post #1503267

  What are you going to read this week? Celebrate spring with Cameron Reed's new novel "What We Are Seeking," a planetary settler tale with brilliant ecosystem worldbuilding, plausibly alien intelligences, and satisfyingly complex queer families of the future. So good. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250364739/whatweareseeking/

• Post #1500655

  At last I can announce that AUTOMATIC NOODLE is a Hugo Award finalist! It's also a finalist for the Locus and Nebula Awards! This has never happened to me before, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate all you fine nerds and friends for voting for this little book about robots who just want to make noodles. I spent many late nights on Mastodon while writing, and got live feedback on some of my ideas from many of you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

• Post #1275321

  Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as "that impossible-to-use website." First of all, it's an app. C'mon. Second of all, aren't these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?

• Post #1116238

  There are so many of my signed books at Noe Valley Books in San Francisco! Stop by and grab one or order them on their website! They'll ship them to you! https://noevalleybooks.com/annalee-newitz

• Post #1087008

  Everyone is always going on about dopamine but I'm fueled by pure derpamine