public
Fellowships, Stories in Context, & Punctuating Dialogue
Suyi Davies Okungbowa's inaugural Fellowship awards; how to write dialogue; and why fiction and stories matter.…
public
public
Super short stories, massive bacteria, Cixin Liu coming to Netflix
Meditative short stories by Yoon Ha Lee; Netflix & ChineseThree-Body Problem Adaptations; Thiomargarita Magnifica - the magnificent bacterium…
public
Glass Magic, Pride SFF Films, & a Kickstarter
Pride month films from DUST Films; In the Shadow of Lightning by Brian McClellan; and Strange Horizon's Kickstarter…
public
•
3 min read
•
Ensembles, Ignyte Awards, Superworms
The latest episode of Writing Excuses caught my attention around ensemble casts in stories and what that does to both…
public
Blobs and distraction
Aurealis Award winners, Onyebuchi's newsletter, and strange blobs underneath our feet.…
public
Kaijus & creating complex worlds
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi; Asian Futures without Asians via Imaginary Worlds Podcast, and Kate Elliott in coversation with Martha Wells on avoiding the monoculture in worldbuilding.…
public
South Asian SpecFic; Complex Systems; the Mediterranean Sea
Shoutout to Tasavvur, Big Idea by Juliette Wade via John Scalzi, and history of the Mediterranean Sea…
public
Abandoned futures; unpublished writers prizes; and post climate-change lives
Winner of 2021 Future Worlds Prize, Tomorrow's Parties edited by Jonathan Strahan, and notes on discarded technology…
public
Space Selfies, Messy Futures, Announcements, and more!
Ada Palmer Terra Ignota Series; Bag of Giving; James Webb Telescope sends home as selfie; Frivolous Podcast; and inaugural book give away.…
public
Systems, spec-fic spaces, and one for the kiddos!
Babylon 5 reboot, speculative spaces, and kids sharing stories…
public
Wonderwickle
KSR's interview in the New Yorker; Art by Jochen Mühlenbrink; and a heart-saddening story with bees by Kat Howard…
public
Aliens among us
Suzanne Simard on trees communicating; Marah Hardt's talk on Sex Lives of Fish; Obsidian by Sarah J Daley…