Category: Writing
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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?)…
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Roundup: Anthropocene Rag, Marvel, Walking Dead, Asimov’s, Dystopia Triptych
It’s been quite a while since I updated here, largely because my desire to be an active self-promoter is always undercut by my reluctance to self-promote. But today I have won that battle, so there follows a list of things I have been or will be up to: I have a loosely sequenced trio of…
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Anthropocene Rag Is Out!
O frabjous day! Anthropocene Rag is loose in the world! Thanks to everyone on the Tor.com publishing team for making it all happen, and thanks in advance to everyone who will read it. I’m grateful to be able to do this for a living, and that gratitude and excitement is renewed every time a new book finds…
Crooked House Fictions 