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monthly digest: june 2026
I had this amazingly detailed dream about my book recently when I’d given it this crazy conceit of setting it in a boarding house or hotel or something where the various authors lived, and Tiptree could see the ghosts of people before they...
new writing: love and marriage (taylor's version)
All is chaos—usually the monthly digest would go out today—but instead you have this and the June digest goes out in July. All the clocks are broken, as Auden said I think, about death but also he would have said it about my normal schedule...
when I became a man, I put away childish things
There’s a kind of science fiction that appeals to me because it courts my rejection, even my repulsion. It lines up things that matter to me, things that we could line up under the general category of “being human,” but at least under “huma...
the predominant mode of fandom is whining
Because “following pop music” became my hobby when I was in and out of the hospital in 2022 and 2023, I spend more time than I should reading pop music forums.1 As far as these places go, all you really need to know is… well, you don’t real...
when exactly was science fiction about jacked bros in space?
There is a kind of promotional copy for anything science fiction related that’s aiming at a slightly bigger audience and it goes like this: science fiction used to be about muscle-bound heroes shooting bug-eyed aliens and rescuing half-nake...
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