Yesterday “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” won the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Short Story!! Congratulations to all the winners and finalists!
I’ll be at Worldcon (in Seattle!) next week, come say hi! Here’s my schedule:
1:00pm -2:00 pm – Fairwood Press table w/Tina Connolly
4:30pm – 5:30pm (Room 435-436) – Panel: Smile for the Camera!
5:00pm – 5:30pm (Room 429) – Reading: “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read”
9:00am -10:00am (Room 443-444) – Panel: Alternate Cognitions
10:30am-11:30am (Garden Lounge, 3F) – Autographs
9:00am – 10:00am (Room 427) – Table Talk (signup required)
New story day!!! “Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War” is out in Uncanny Magazine, and I’m so excited to share it with you! Inspired by (among other things) bees, the Winchester Mystery House, and the architecture of Jeanne Gang…
Honored that my Lightspeed story “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” is a Hugo Finalist!
This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration.
I wrote this story with the deliberate goal of making your brain do a thing that human brains really do not do. Give it a try and let me teach you a whole new way to read?
I’ve gotten a bit behind on website updates, but some exciting news from a couple weeks ago:
My Lightspeed Magazine story “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death” is the debut story of Wil Wheaton’s new podcast: It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton!! Go listen!
Absolutely delighted that my Lightspeed story “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” is a Nebula Finalist!
Catching up on reading for the year? I had three stories out in 2024.
This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration.
“We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read” is the most challenging story I’ve ever attempted, and I’m really proud of how it came out. My goal was to get the reader’s brain to do a thing that human brains do not actually do. If you read nothing else from me this year, I hope that you’ll give this one a look.
(If you prefer to listen …
I will be at Readercon! Want to find me? Here’s my schedule:
11:30am (Salon C) – Reading: Caroline M. Yoachim
2:00pm (Salon 3) – Panel: Retroactive Problem Solving in SF
A lot of the more hopeful SF is written in worlds where the most urgent problems facing our society today have already been solved, and the characters face other, different problems. But by imagining futures where our current crises are of the past, are we missing out on an opportunity to blaze a real path into such futures? What does it mean to tell stories about solving …
I have a new story out today in issue 213 of Clarkesworld Magazine! Our Chatbots Said “I Love You,” Shall We Meet? Here at 123aiLOVEu, we take all the guesswork out of dating. With personalized chatbots trained on social media and chat histories, we put you in conversation with hundreds of potential matches . . . and you never have to say a thing!
I have a new story in issue 168 of Lightspeed, and I am so excited to share it with you! This is a story that I wrote with the deliberate goal of making your brain do a thing that human brains really do not do. Give it a try* and let me teach you a whole new way to read?
We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read
“This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration.”
In addition to the story, I also did an Author Spotlight interview …
