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  A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out Tuesday 10/6, and that's when the Slime Mold Autumn book tour starts! @chanda@blacktwitter.io praised the book as a "magnificent work of cosmic imagination" and CB Lee called it "beautiful." Yumei Kitasei said, "Single-celled eukaryotes have never been so sexy." See me in San Francisco (10/6), Chicago (10/7), New York Comic-con (10/9), Boston (10/14), Burlington VT (10/15), and in Ottawa at Can*Con (10/17-18). #books #bookstodon...

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  A sentient slime mold from beyond the galaxy meets the world of ancient Pompeii. That's the premise of my new novel A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD. If you want to know more about the bonkers research that went into my worldbuilding in this book, here's my tale ... with helpful captions and illustrations! The book comes out on Tuesday 10/6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3vEeNsb1E

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  Yes, that was me listening to literally every sound file of elephant ethograms on this site. Basically, elephants appear to communicate in part by "rumbling" to each other simultaneously. I love the idea of a language that requires multiple simultaneous speakers in order to generate meaning. https://www.elephantvoices.org/explore-the-elephant-ethogram

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  For me, Godzilla is one of the most relatable characters in film

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  My latest short story, "The Day My Clitoris Disappeared," has just gone live on Flaming Hydra! It's about a graduate student whose clitoris goes missing after the Second Comstock Act is passed. Don't worry -- the clitoris wins in the end. And it always will. (Yes, there's a paywall because Flaming Hydra is an indie collective of writers and artists, and we want to be paid! It's so cheap to subscribe! And you support creators! Who don't use AI!) https://www.flamingh...

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  Just discovered these absolutely batshit insane books by Janet Morris, a defense and psyops expert who spent her free time writing military fantasy smut that apparently sold millions of copies in the 70s and 80s. Now they are only available as print-on-demand. These original covers ... OMG WTF https://www.blackgate.com/2016/03/19/vintage-treasures-the-silistra-quartet-by-janet-morris/

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  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!!

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

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

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  Why is Vancouver, BC so good?

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  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

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  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/

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  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

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  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/

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  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...

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

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  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

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  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!)

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

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  My galaxy petunias are the greatest and I love them

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  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

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  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...

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  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/

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  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."

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  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.

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  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

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  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/

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  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

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  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/

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  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.