Category: Writing
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Samson: A Tyndalston Story
One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had working in games was the time I spent building the world and background story for Samson: A Tyndalston Story in 2023 and ’24. And finally it’s announced! Check out the trailer: Looks pretty rad, right? I helped build that city brick by brick, and it’s amazing…
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Avengers Alliance Redux
Marvel: Avengers Alliance has been shut down for 9 years now, but it will always be one of my favorite experiences writing a game. Amazing to see that after all this time, a group of fans has created Avengers Alliance Redux, a playable recreation of the original game. I’ve only dipped into it a little,…
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Anthropic Thievery
A searchable database of one of the pirate websites Anthropic used to train its product lists 67 works under my name. 67. Books, short stories, some nonfiction…there’s a fair bit of duplication, but that’s a lot of my words and sentences stolen to train these things. (Apart from the sort of helpless anger one feels…
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Two New Stories at Reactor and Bourbon Penn
“Shorted,” at Reactor. This one started as a thought experiment: “What if people got royalties for corporate use of their data, and that became a Universal Basic Income?” Great idea, right? Unless it results in the further commodification of human beings, which, well, read the story. (And how about that art by Erin Jia?) “Employee…
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New Story at Tor.com: FORM 8774-D
It’s business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employee for the government agency begins to wonder if work is following her home. . . Hope you have as much fun reading this one as I had writing it! (And don’t you love the art by Zoë van Dijk?)…
Crooked House Fictions 