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I have a few upcoming appearances this month, all virtual, and I hope see you there! The two panels promise to be very interesting, and you can root for Escape Pod, which has been nominated for its first Ignyte Award!

September 4: ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE panel for FutureCon, a FREE global, virtual convention for scienc...

I am so thrilled and honored to be a double Hugo Award finalist this year! Both categories relate to my editorial work at Escape Pod - one for Best Semiprozine, which recognizes our entire crew’s efforts, and the other for Best Editor, Short Form, which jointly recognizes myself and Mur Lafferty (as we would wish).

I’m ver...

I have several live appearances coming up this month. Mark your calendar and register in advance so you don’t miss out!

April 6: Reddit AMA at r/books(9:00am Pacific) - come on over to the Reddit forums and "ask me anything" about my writing, editing, or engineering work!

April 9: Virtual Panel with Arkady Martine, Premee M...

A collection of science & technology news that I found interesting this month. Many of these relate to tech that’s covered in my stories, but some are here purely for inspiration.

In place of flying around to bookstores and doing signings, I'll be making virtual appearances on various podcasts and bookstore zoom events.

March 1: In conversation with Malka Older (3pm Pacific)
Hosted by the Strand bookstore

March 3: Escape Artists Twitch Stream (10:30am Pacific)

March 9: Worldbuilders Twitch Stream (10am Pacific)

March 14: Reading with Juliette Wade (7pm Pacific)
Hosted by FOGcon

Quail Ridge Bookin'

New Books in Science Fiction

The Chris Voss Show

Fiction Science...

We're rapidly approaching the release date for my first novel. It's such a big milestone! I was plenty excited when Runtime and my short story collection came out, but MACHINEHOOD will be my first book in hardcover and audiobook, plus it's 416 pages long and three years in the making.

I gave an extensive interview to Arley Sorg over at Clarkesworld Magazine. We talked about some of favorite authors, my short story collection, and of course, many facets of MACHINEHOOD. Check it out! 

If you've pre-...

A collection of science & technology news that I found interesting this month. Many of these relate to tech that’s covered in my stories, but some are here purely for inspiration.

A collection of science & technology news that I found interesting this month. Many of these relate to tech that’s covered in my stories, but some are here purely for inspiration.

A collection of science & technology news that I found interesting this month. Many of these relate to tech that’s covered in my stories, but some are here purely for inspiration.

Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties

Researchers at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny ...

It’s release day for the first ever print anthology from Escape Pod! Mur and I co-edited this collection of 15 stories, about half of which are originals and the other half reprints. We had to make some tough decisions on which of our many amazing authors to approach for this, and we tried our best to represent a cross-se...