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I hereby propose a new Grand Unified Theory of Books (GUTB™)- that all books (& literature) be considered as consisting of fundamental elements called strings which vibrate at different frequencies called "vibes" & all properties of books arise from the interaction of vibes.

The protagonist, a young woman named Tao-Yi and her partner Navin live in Southbank, Melbourne, where the average outdoor temperature is too hot for prolonged exposure. Grace Chan (she/her) Affirm Press bitly.ws/3cUud

As always, about love and its limits and letting go 💞 (Thank you @hexagonmagazine, you're the best!)

Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn and Mascara Literary Review, I'm honoured by your review of EVOY. Thanks for noting the book's "tactile fleshiness" and Matrix allusions, and for this wonderful quote: "This idea of reinvention as self-obliteration is a recurring duality in Every Version of You."

W/ less than 4 days left for the Twisted Folklore Histories StoryBundle, Spotlight #8: The Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award-winning BLACK CRANES edited by @leemurraywriter & @FlynnGeneve! W/ tales by Elaine Cuyegkeng [email protected] Nadia Bulkin Grace Chan (she/her) more storybundle.com/folklore

my farewell editorial to Going Down Swinging, from the hell & high water edition ❤️‍🔥 t.ly/zvY2m

"…one of my favourite tropes is the male sidekick paired with a female protagonist." - Dr Tansy Rayner Roberts begins her essay series on Pratchett's Men! speculativeinsight.com/essays/men-who…

“We think the brain-cleaning process is similar to washing dishes,” neurobiologist Jiang-Xie explained. “You start, for example, with a large, slow, rhythmic wiping motion to clean soluble wastes splattered across the plate...” medicine.wustl.edu/news/neurons-h… via Test Account

Contract signed! My cyberpunk space adventure tale, "Nobody Ever Goes Home to Zhenzhu", will appear on Escape Pod in May!!! 🚀 "Zhenzhu" was originally published in Lightspeed Mag (Bluesky: @lightspeedmagazine.com): lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/nobody…

I just signed the The Authors Guild's Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders calling on them to compensate writers fairly for the use of copyrighted materials in their AI programs. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/auth…

My short fiction recs for Feb-March! With stories from Isabel J. Kim | 김지영 Tia Tashiro wen-yi lee 🦋 @ouibrandi Avra Margariti Diana Dima Tara Campbell Brian Evenson @FlynnGeneve Fatima Taqvi and Katherine Karch itsajumble.blogspot.com/2024/04/short-…

Thank you ever so much to Escape Pod for podcasting "Nobody Ever Goes Home to Zhenzhu", my bounty-hunter-saves-her-sidekick space adventure tale about who gets to write (and rewrite) history 🚀 & 🙏🙏 Isabel J. Kim | 김지영 for the coolest narration!! escapepod.org/2024/05/09/esc…

This is not one of ours, but contains great stories by many authors we've worked with before, including Clare Rhoden, Nikky Lee Is Not Really Here – SFFH Author, Grace Chan (she/her) Leanbh Pearson (Any), Tee Linden ☕️, A Perez de Vera, Rebecca Fraser: Writing & Moonlighting ✍️📚, Louise Zedda-Sampson/@louisezed on other platforms and Austin P. Sheehan. A great read and well worth supporting!

Clarkesworld is amazing.

"With a protagonist you can’t help but root for, It’s Only a Game keeps the twists coming! Yu keeps you guessing in the best of ways, with likable characters, fully-realized settings, and surprises behind surprises. The perfect read for anyone who likes psychological games..." 🧵

I'll be reading my little poem, MOTHERTONGUES, at the Meanjin launch next Wednesday!

A thought-provoking and far-ranging discussion with Mark van Rijmenam @the_digital_speaker on the Synthetic Minds podcast! We talked about the ethics of mind uploading, the intersection of virtual reality and human experience, and the implications for society.

Belatedly venturing into bluer skies. I'd love a follow! You can find me under the same username. I also update via my newsletter and the gram. I'm hardly here anymore.