Holy shit! Researchers at U. of Minnesota just made an artificial cell from purified components that will feed, grow, replicate DNA, divide, and even evolve by natural selection. I just downloaded it; I'm about to start reading. #Writersky #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction biotic.org/research/spu...

My latest blog post includes my schedule for #Readercon. I'd especially love it if people attend my reading from "The Eliminator" on Thursday, July 9 at 8 pm. This night only is free to the public. #Readercon35 #Writersky #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/readercon

Cloud Atlas is $1.99 today on Book Bub. I consider it one of the best literary fiction books (with serious genre elements--the movie made from it, which wasn't as good, leaned into the science fiction aspects) written this century. If you've never read it, that's a really good use of two bucks.

Current stats: 41 current submissions to short story markets, 8 planned submissions, 16 stories waiting for me to search for another place to send or rejections to open a market, 1 story awaiting a critique group meeting, 3 sold stories awaiting publication. #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #Writersky

Just watched the first episode of #TheVampireLestat . Who else thinks it was totally cool? I can't believe I just watched an episode called "Detroit" and I'm psyched for the next one, even if it is called "Toledo." And no, I'm not joking.

This makes a hell of a lot of sense.

My latest blog post. Trying to shed light on issues of at least tangential relevance to the fiction I write, as always. #AmWriting #Writers #Writing #Writersky #Authorsky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Palestine #Israel #Zionism #AntiZionist www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/if-you-...

I finally realized the strategy. Exhaustion. When outrages become daily events, those who would otherwise speak out are too exhausted to do so. How long until 2028?

I like their AI policy a lot. I intend to submit something to them, and I had decided to do so even before I saw this. Wish me luck!

And bookshop.org is also carrying "The Eliminator." Same price as Amazon, but the money goes to a nonprofit that gives 80% of the take to indie bookstores. If you want to read the first scene and a half, go to Amazon and click "free sample." #timetravel #Booksky bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

And now you have your choice of billionaire to buy from. Same price everywhere, but the paperback of "The Eliminator" can be pre-ordered from Barnes and Noble and Amazon, and the digital version is also available from Apple Books, Google Play and Kobo. waterdragonpublishing.com/product/elim...

And the pre-order for the paperback of "The Eliminator" just appeared on Amazon. $5.99 for the paperback (99 cents for digital). #Booksy #Booksky #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #Grunge #GrungeMusic #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity www.amazon.com/Eliminator-A...

Coming as a standalone paperback and digitally from Water Dragon Publishing. Gabriela is an eliminator, an assassin who travels through time to spare the world devastation from bioweapons. She has an ulterior motive. And she loves '90s #grunge music. #TimeTravel www.amazon.com/Eliminator-A...

Nebula ballots due on the 15th. With a 4-day weekend from work, finally getting time to read the stories I didn't read prior to nominating ballot and reread rest. #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #Writersky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #ScienceFiction #AmReadingSciFi #AmReadingScienceFiction

AI just crossed a threshold. My latest blog post discusses the "Brave New World" in which we find ourselves. Enjoy. www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/it-happ... #AmWriting #Writersky #AI #LargeLanguageModels #AmWritingFiction #AmWritingScienceFiction #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Revising story from a Codex "contest" that capped it at 750 words. Too many inconsistencies, not enough plot, said the critics. It grew to 2000 words. Now,to go back and make the language pretty again. To send to my Zoom-based critique group. So many steps before the first market gets to reject it.

My latest blog post--a riff on something I found in a Wired Magazine article. Enjoy! #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #Techbros #Writersky #Authorsky #ScienceFiction #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #WritingLife #WritersLife #Fascism #Resist #Resistance www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/they-th...

A highly amusing alternate history/fantasy story. You think our current government is bad? See what dark arts Thomas Jefferson attempted. #ShortStory #AmReading #AmReadingFantasy #Writersky #History #HistoricalFantasy #JohnAdams #ThomasJefferson calendaroffools.com/stories/for-...

Okay, finally back to finishing up my 2025 short fiction reading before submitting a Nebula ballot. I really liked this one. A bittersweet cli-fi relationship story by @chrisblake.bsky.social #Eco-fiction #Writersky #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #ShortStory www.tractorbeam.earth/story/in-eve...

Scott reviews "The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds" by Allan Dyen Shapiro: "I recommend this story for its incisive details, its well crafted character studies, and its ultimately hopeful tone." www.queerscifi.com/review-the-d... #SciFi #ScienceFiction #BookReview @allandyenshapiro.bsky.social

And if you're in the mood for a totally creepy and wildly creative sci-fi/horror flash piece: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/ #Booksy #Booksky #AmReading #AmReadingHorror #AmReadingSciFi #AmReadingFiction

And I'm back to my catch-up on 2025 short fiction reading. This one, by Lawrence M. Schoen is fun. A human librarian who shares Earth's literature with the universe's other sentient races and a pirate. A not-very-concealed comment on digital piracy. Recommended. www.amazon.com/Librarian-Pi...

Reminder: I'll be on B-Cubed Press's Facebook page at noon today as one of the guests on a show about why Americans are rejecting science and accepting nonsense. It should be a good discussion. If you can't make it, it gets archived. #Writersky #Booksy #Booksky #AmWritingFiction #AmWriting

"The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds" is finally on the new SFWA Recommended Reading List. Any SFWA members who'd like to read it in advance of the March 1 Nebula ballot deadline, here's a direct link to the .pdf (works only when you are logged in to the SFWA site). www.sfwa.org/wp-content/u...

Sunday, February 8, noon (EST), I'll be one of two guests on B Cubed Press's weekly Facebook-based show. Our topic: why people believe RFK instead of actual scientists and their studies. B-Cubed has published me twice. I hope to see some of you in the chat! www.facebook.com/bcubedpress

My theory: Trump viewed the invasion of Minneapolis as preparing his shock troops for cold weather combat to be anticipated in Greenland. We'll see what happens. If he can't defeat Tim Walz and Jacob Frey, I'm not sure how well he'll do against the French and German defenders now heading north.

Amazon Prime has a really good, twisted horror movie: Good Boy. Not the 2025 American movie--totally unrelated. A 2022 Norwegian movie with subtitles. The acting was wonderful. I anticipated the penultimate scenes. The last scene was a total shocker. For those who like horror, enjoy!

Dark Rapture by Robert Gillham in the March 2025 issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly: Structured like the transcript to a biopic on a post-punk band that got deeply into eldritch pursuits, it was dead-on in format. And the horror builds in the way you'd expect with a Manson-like cult.

Another great 2025 short story well worth reading. Effie Seiberg is terrific at funny stories that nonetheless have a message to them. This one is a superhero story that focuses on disability accommodations. Enjoy! #Writersky #AmReadingFiction #AmReading www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

More 2025 short fiction: this one reimagines the life of Alan Turing if he crossed into the fairy world and had a life long affair there. Gorgeous prose. Structured only by the events of Turing's life. Strongly recommended. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

A very cool flash piece by Ian Li: "The Memory Technician." Enjoy! #AmReading #AmReadingScienceFiction #AmReadingSciFi #AmReadingFiction #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Writing #Writers #ScienceFiction #ShortStory #FlashFiction smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-me...

Okay, I'm back to catching up on 2025 short fiction reading. Zach Shephard's "From Darkness, Awake" ran in this anthology about Circe and has her taking on a drug lord in present-day Miami. I thought the blending of myth with crime fiction was creative. www.amazon.com/Circe-Ancien...

Latest on my blog. #AmWriting #Booksy #Booksky #Bookstodon #ShortStory #ShortStories #AmWritingFiction #ScienceFiction #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Writers #Writing #WritersLife #WritingLife #AmWritingHorror #AmWritingScienceFiction www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/awards-...

Exciting News! My #ShortStory "The Eliminator" sold to Water Dragon Publications. It will come out as a standalone both digitally and in paperback through all the usual outlets, likely in February. #TimeTravel #Booksy #Booksky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFiction #WritersLife #SciFi

As I do every hundred new followers I get, here's celebrating follower #1400 (actually 1404 as of today). Here's the gif from Three-Body Problem (not my sentiment, but sort of what the universe tells us some days):

Just watched #strangerthings latest episode. Vecna's defeated not only the Soviet army but now, the US army. Eventually he'll lose to Winona Ryder and a bunch of teenagers. No, no relation to typical #fantasy here. The '80s after the mall is destroyed, on the other hand... Very imaginative.

The scammers will have to up their game. I got an email that seemed to draw from blurbs and/or social media posts either I or my publisher wrote about my book. It was written to sound like someone who enjoyed the book. I guess my book appeals to bots, as a detector judged the message 100% AI-written

One last #ShortStory to write about before I call it a weekend: this one is not my usual cup of tea, but it's oddness and strangeness appealed to me. It's beautiful. @bethgoder.bsky.social #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersLife strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I loved the format on this short story: I could see where it was going the whole time, but the step-by-step gave it an emotional punch it wouldn't have otherwise had. Recommended reading. @jrdawson.bsky.social #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmReadingSciFi www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

An interview with me about "The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds" that came out today on several different Facebook groups. It also has a short excerpt from the book. #Eco-Fiction #EcoFiction #EnvironmentalRacism #Booksy #Booksky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity www.facebook.com/groups/22086...

A story with a very cool format that imagines co-working as augmented by neural sharing. Definitely worth your time to check this out. Free click. @renanbernardo.com #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #Dystopic #ShortStory #WriterSky #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity www.phano.co/articles/we-...

This deceptively simple-seeming short story packs a strong emotional punch. It does so by implying the emotion and never showing it, making a truly strong story. Recommended reading. @thomasha.bsky.social #AmReading #AmReadingScienceFiction #Dystopia clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

So, why am I getting four emails a day purportedly from Slavic girls looking for men over 40? Slavic girls looking for a Jewish guy? Do they want to apologize for the Chmielnicki Massacres?

And this is out, with my story, "Become the New You." The launch was at a horror convention in Utah this weekend. I look forward to reading the other 34 stories. @whisperhousepress.bsky.social‬ #WhisperHousePress #Horror #CostsOfLiving #DreadMondays #booksky #horrorsky www.amazon.com/Dread-Monday...

New blog post. Important #MiddleEast stuff many of you likely missed. Consequential for #ScienceFiction authors setting stories there. #Booksy #Booksky #Israel #Palestine #Peace #E1 #WestBank #AmWriting www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/the-new...

For those wondering why my posts have been apolitical, a McCarthyite witch hunt is underway in Florida that's nabbed many for social media posts. I'm still hitting anti-fascist/anti-racist themes in my fiction. The witch hunters are generally too dumb to read fiction. #Booksky #AmWriting #Writesky

Solved my Codex contest story no-plot problem: It's a mystery. I don't know what's going to happen yet, so neither does my protagonist. But my hardboiled attorney has met the femme fatale and she's dispensed him to deal with the big bad. Who's a bird. I'm stealing lines from Poe. Horror comedy.

I got my story seed for the Codex Halloween/horror contest and liked it so much that I've coasted a while, writing on just a vibe. Humorous noir with a sentient animal protagonist. I really should figure out what the story's about soon. Readers tend to like a plot.

ICE foolishly arrested hundreds of South Korean immigrants at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. Don't they know that the men are actually demons? When they start harmonizing and dancing, the ICE terror forces will be in serious trouble. Honmoon over homeland! #Huntrix will defeat Noem! #KpopDemonHunters

Friends at #WorldCon, especially those I haven't yet crossed paths with, I have a table talk from 3-4 today in room 427. Anyone who liked (or didn't like) what I said on any of my panels this weekend, feel free to come by and chat, too. Or anyone else. #Worldcon83 #seattleworldcon2025