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I first read Frank Herbert's Dune when I was about eight or nine years old. It was on my older sister's bookshelf. Her room was up the steps from mine,...
I Was a Twelve-Year-Old Black Boy Who Wanted to be a Bene Gesserit
I first read Frank Herbert's Dune when I was about eight or nine years old. It was on my older sister's bookshelf. Her room was up the steps from mine,...
No matter how many write-ins you sit with, how many languorous coffee shop hours you spend pecking away with other writers, the real core action of writing happens in the...
Build Your (Weird) Community
No matter how many write-ins you sit with, how many languorous coffee shop hours you spend pecking away with other writers, the real core action of writing happens in the...
When I was in college, I took a class called "The History of Science," a survey of the lives of scientific thinkers and the progression of scientific thought and understanding....
Get Bored
When I was in college, I took a class called "The History of Science," a survey of the lives of scientific thinkers and the progression of scientific thought and understanding....
What’s a weird western? It’s a western story that incorporates strangeness—whether that be magic, aliens, or a mechanical spider—and wonder. How weird the American west must’ve been to freed slaves...
The Wonder of the Weird West
What’s a weird western? It’s a western story that incorporates strangeness—whether that be magic, aliens, or a mechanical spider—and wonder. How weird the American west must’ve been to freed slaves...
As long as I’ve been publicly writing exploratory fiction, I’ve struggled to answer a casual question often set in front of me from outside of the genre: Social change or...
Escapism is a Lie
As long as I’ve been publicly writing exploratory fiction, I’ve struggled to answer a casual question often set in front of me from outside of the genre: Social change or...
It is one of the more peculiar symptoms of those afflicted with Art that they must spend at least as much time talking about it as making it. Now, if...
Treat Em Right: Science Fiction vs Art Classification
It is one of the more peculiar symptoms of those afflicted with Art that they must spend at least as much time talking about it as making it. Now, if...
There’s no killer in the house but I’m dead tired. My neuromuscular syndrome hammers my brain with pain signals until I can barely focus enough to make a sandwich. Every...
Horror Tells Me I'm Not Alone
There’s no killer in the house but I’m dead tired. My neuromuscular syndrome hammers my brain with pain signals until I can barely focus enough to make a sandwich. Every...