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A very cool flash piece by Ian Li: "The Memory Technician." Enjoy!

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https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-memory-technician/

A story with a very cool format that imagines co-working as augmented by neural sharing. Definitely worth your time to check this out. Free click.

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https://www.phano.co/articles/we-are-burnout

This deceptively simple-seeming short story packs a strong emotional punch. It does so by implying the emotion and never showing it, making a truly strong story. Recommended reading. @ThomasHa #AmReadingScienceFiction #Dystopia #AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Clarkesworld #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #AmReadingFiction

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

More Codex2024 reading: Ída Hennessy's RoxysMakeupMoxy6 Gets Real" was very funny. A makeup tips influencer doing her last show before the apocalypse. Strongly recommended flash piece.

https://flashpointsf.com/2024/09/20/roxysmakeupmoxy6-gets-real/

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More Codex 2024 reading: "Eternity is Moments" by RP Sand traces the relationship between a woman and her grandfather with ecological themes as the backdrop. Strongly recommended.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219709480-asimov-s-science-fiction-september-october-2024

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Fiona Moore's "What Happened at The Pony Club" has a cool premise--Y2K knocked out all computers worldwide and the world reverts to depending on smart people. Cool characters--girls at a private high school for these "computers." Cool format--an FBI case file.

https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-22/

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Continuing with Codex 2024 short fiction catch-up, Angela Liu's "Before We Were Born" uses a near-future, cyberpunky conceit to examine tensions within a modern family. The twist at the end was terrific. Strongly recommended.

https://logicmag.io/issue-21-medicine-and-the-body/before-we-were-born/

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Cécile Cristofari's braided narrative, "Down the Waterfall," uses a time travel conceit to allow her protagonist to examine her life, live out fantasies, and find what is important to her. Very interesting. Strongly recommended.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cristofari_01_24/

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Andrew Sayre's "You Look a Lot Like Aton Fuller" is a perspective I haven't seen: an adult clone, grown for spare parts for a rich man, freed when that practice became untenable, musing about this man upon his death. Definitely thought-provoking. Highly recommended.

https://aurealis.com.au/store/aurealis-174/

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Renan Bernardo's "A Theory of Missing Affections" has an Ursula Le Guin vibe. A home planet, a distant planet with the ruins of an ancient civilization, a gate that connects them, and sisters on either side: one a historian, one viewing the ancients as gods.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bernardo_09_24/

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Spencer Nitkey's "Eternal Recurrence" blends musing on Nietzche, comments on the unreality of advanced technology, and grief into a beautiful paxtische. Strongly recommended .

https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-113a-eternal-recurrence-by-spencer-nitkey/

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The latest from a press that has published a couple of my stories recently. This looks very good. I know a lot of people in the table of contents--you won't go wrong with this one if you enjoy speculative fiction.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1146079317527909&set=a.454423286693519

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It's out, today. The episode of the Shining Moon Science Fiction #Podcast where @brentclambert , Leigh Harlen and I talk with host @dldavitt about the six stories up for Nebula Awards this year in the novelette category. Great discussion, lots of fun to do. Enjoy!

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https://shiningmoon.buzzsprout.com/2222860/15009824-shining-moon-episode-41-reading-the-nebulas-ii

Had a terrific time last night recording an episode of @dldavitt 's Shining Moon Speculative Fiction podcast last night along with Leigh Harlen and @brentclambert We were talking about the 6 Nebula-nominated novelettes. Drops Wednesday. Will post link then.

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Last thing I'm reading before submitting Nebula ballot: The Sauútiverse Anthology, edited by Wole Talabi, is a shared world based on African cultures. Some excellent stuff in here--stories range from borderline horror to think pieces. I'm enjoying it.

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https://www.amazon.com/Mothersound-Sau%C3%BAtiverse-Anthology-Wole-Talabi/dp/1958121606

I did not anticipate the twists in this one. An idea-driven story from Tia Tashiro, replete with tension that drives it forward at a breakneck place. And this is the author's first published story. Color me impressed.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_11_23/

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If among the writer-things friend and critique partner Anna Zumbro is terrific at, one stands out above the others, it's doing bittersweet. This story is one of her best. Enjoy!

https://www.castofwonders.org/2023/04/cast-of-wonders-532-the-hidden-forests-of-earth-and-mars/

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"I Promise I'll Visit, Ma" by @KanishkT in Dark Matter Ink's Monstrous Futures has a wonderful twist at the end. Excellent dystopic fiction. Recommended.

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Dark, climate-fiction by @ronfein set in near-future Israel/Palestine with a hopeful and very human message. Loved it.

https://407546.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/407546/3003_NPQ%20Fall%202023_WEB_FINAL.pdf#page=118

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This was unusual in a good way. A short story by @ephiny presented as plot summaries from a fictional TV series. Climate fiction about survivors traveling between alternate universes. Recommended.

https://utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/la-vie-en-mer-by-ephiny-gale-f32c0e2b1954

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2023 #ShortFiction catch-up: This is part 2 of hard #ScienceFiction written by a biologist who goes under the pen name MKRNYILGLD. It expresses anger many of us feel about creeping US #fascism, specifically body autonomy. Recommended.
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https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-crispr-cookbook-chapter-two-a-guide-to-biohacking-your-own-eggs-into-weapons-of-destruction-to-be-forcibly-implanted-into-one-patriarchist-at-a-time/

2023 #ShortFiction catch-up: Neat story by @DJ_Cockburn that uses ancient DNA and artificial wombs to create #Denisovan children and do the classic "forbidden experiment" of watching development sans adults. Recommended.

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https://waterdragonpublishing.com/product/denisovan-harmony/

More 2023 #ShortFiction reading: Brutal #Cyberpunk by @liu_angela that resolves more gentle and bittersweet than expected. Quite immersive. Recommended.
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https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_06_23/

New blog post. I jump from other peoples' ideas on racism in a popular #TV show to my own ideas on what to do differently. Enjoy!

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https://www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/your-dystopia-has-problems

2023 #ShortFiction catchup: This one by @drfionamoore went in unanticipated directions. The billionaire met his deserved fate; I'd have recommended it for that alone.

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https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_03_23/

A touching story out now from critique partner and friend @silo34 (Sam Pisciotta). He does bittersweet superbly. Free click.

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The Rail Gun I designed for the cover art of The Planetwalker. I think it became pretty cool.

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Need a hug in a military SF wrapper?

I recommend KB Wagers's A PALE LIGHT IN THE BLACK and HOLD FAST THROUGH THE FIRE.

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Eurovision in Space, written like Hitchhiker's Guide but more coherent.

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Hidden Figures if a meteor took out DC and the Mercury 13 had better luck.

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