Three Short Stories I Haven't Written Yet
A glowing door in the woods, a stranger's stash in a Dubai hotel room, and a man who hears the end of the world and goes back to sleep.
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The Starship Ginsberg: A Teen Movie on a Ship That Won't Be Optimized
What my space novel about a scheduled cadet and a ship full of squatters is about, how it changed shape three times, and what the first draft still gets wrong.
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Post. Like. Rewrite.: A Techno-Thriller About Viral Challenges and an AI From the Future
Viral social media challenges keep knocking out real infrastructure in North Carolina, and the engineer who spots the pattern finds something from the future behind them.
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Story Seeds: The Ideas That Are Still a Paragraph or Two
A spaceship full of loose predators, a world where the rich run out, a trip back to 1997 to fix everything, and two seeds that already grew into something bigger.
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The Art of Wander: Things Reach a Flourish, Then We Optimize Them to Death
The idea behind the book I'm working on, where it came from, what it's shaping up to be, and the parts that still don't hold together.
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