Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

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warhammer 40k was born in 1992 when a man in surrey took a truly startling bong hit and promptly belched the words "mecha space pope"

Sense8. Instead of the wrap-up movie, a whole third season.

When I wrote for @johnjosephadams.com’s Dystopia Triptych about AI taking over education, didn’t think the concept would be pushed so soon. In my 3 stories the development meant bad actor influence because of course politics. F*ck AI in the classroom. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/lyce...

I made this book and you can read it now! It's cool! It's a raucous lesbian wild west adventure comedy with mechanical men and murder mysteries! books2read.com/b/angelmaker

@johnjosephadams.com and I wrote a couple of the adventures in this! Do your players want to help a gnomish inventor rebuild his clockwork phylactery? Or restore the fading glory of a duergar temple? Maybe they do and you just don't know it yet! As always, preorders are love.

There's a biography of Octavia E. Butler that just came out called POSITIVE OBSESSION by Susana M. Morris. Immediately moved that to the top of my TBR list. Just wanted to spread the word! www.harpercollins.com/products/pos...

Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen

Someone who I assumed was in their early 30s noted in a post elsewhere that they were a full decade beyond that age, which reinforced the idea to me that I can no longer accurately assess anyone's age anymore, adult humans exist only in two categories: "My age and older," and "indeterminate young."

After being missing since June 3, my cat Bender finally came home last night! We saw him in our driveway on July 23 and have been seeing him around now and then since, but he wouldn't come inside. Last night he finally did. And boy did he want pets.

One like = One thought about D&D

"We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" is one of the best stories I've ever read. It's one of only a very few stories that I would give a 10/10. (Yes, I'm very stingy with 10/10s.) At the very least, please make sure to read it! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

I have no choice but to repost someone talking about "Ratatata" and/or Electric Callboy.

My 3-5 key metal bands Dark Tranquillity Dream Theater At the Gates Lamb of God Protest the Hero

Here's your periodic reminder that I'm not really posting on social media anymore, so if you want to keep up with me, LIGHTSPEED, my other projects & stuff I think is cool, subscribe to my newsletter, ROBOT WIZARD ZOMBIE CRIT! You get a free ebook anthology for signing up. robotwizardzombiecrit.com

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. ”Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel)

I've never won an award. But! I've been a finalist 21 times, including SIX times for “We Will Teach You How to Read...” which is a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, & Eugie Awards. I'm proud of this story and deeply honored. I'd love for you to read it: tinyurl.com/mry6kpx6

I don't know these people, but I love bookstores and hey, I had a twisted spine once and they've got one of my books on their table in that photo (well, it's mostly Jordan Peele's book, but still).

The GIRL IN THE CREEK book tour is coming up! Find out where I'm headed. winniewoohoo.com/the-gitc-boo...

Honored that “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” is amongst the finalists for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. Congrats to all the finalists! www.eugiefoster.com/eugieaward

Christie (Yant) & I will be at the Nebula Conf on SAT (6/7/25) for that day only. We will only be barconning instead of part of the actual event. I'll be there to accept for Caroline Yoachim if she wins. So if people want to see us, we'll be hanging in the lobby &/or hotel restaurants. Come say hi!

Check and MATE! Your move, robot.

The Kickstarter for @koboldpress.com's Tales of the Valiant: Player's Guide 2 (compatible with D&D 5e) is now live. I contributed more than 30 magic items, 10 subclasses, 20 talents (feats), and ~1500 words of non-magical equipment to the book. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...

The narrator of my newest story did an INCREDIBLE job on the voice of a grown-up fat kid who survived his tour of the chocolate factory. It’s a five minute listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

My @lightspeedmagazine.com story "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" is a finalist for the Sturgeon Award!

This is a friendly reminder that the @locusmag.bsky.social crowdfunding campaign is ongoing. Locus is such an important resource for the SFFH community, and I hope you'll support them. I've offered a few perks for backers, including a deleted scene and a Zoom call. www.indiegogo.com/projects/loc...

LitHub is showcasing this year's class of Best American anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (for which I'm series editor). lithub.com/here-are-the... If you visit my website, you can see the full TOC and list of Notable Stories. www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...

In my Robot Wizard Zombie Crit! newsletter, I've been posting a bunch of capsule reviews of books I've been reading lately. I'm going to post a bunch of them in this thread. If you sign up for the newsletter, you get a free ebook anthology. johnjosephadams.com/newsletter

My D&D origins story: In middle school, I was so nerdy that I had no friends and knew no one who played D&D, so I read my Monster Manual like an encyclopedia. In high school, I yearned to date a long-haired poet nerd, and when I finally found one, he was sorely lacking. Insecure, awkward. But.. 1/

If you’re a reviewer, here’s how you can get a review copy of my new novel!

Drumroll, please! Our 2025 IndieGoGo fundraiser is now live!! You can check out the bounty of donation perks available at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 (link in bio) We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!

I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life

@un-manuscripts.bsky.social What you're doing is incredibly mean-spirited and cruel. You might think it fun to laugh at bad submissions, but consider how it makes the authors feel to see their work not only rejected but publicly held up for ridicule. Please stop doing this and delete this account.

My story, Shadow Films, has been nominated for an Aurealis Award for best novella. It’s not a novella, but the category includes novelettes. Anyway, lots of fine ppl were also nominated, so please check them out. Shadow Films was originally published in Lightspeed, edited by @johnjosephadams.com

I just published a 5e-compatible D&D adventure I wrote on @roll20.net and @drivethrurpg.com! "Ascendancy of Nur'Ry'Za" is a monk-centric adventure designed for 5 PCs of 5th or 6th level. Included with the adventure is an original Way of Control monk subclass. www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/asc...

Thrilled to see that this story is also a Nebula and Hugo award finalist!

Delighted that this story is nominated for both the Nebula AND the Hugo! Read it here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

Here's your periodic reminder that the best way to keep up with new LIGHTSPEED content (and other geeky stuff) is to sign up for the 🤖🧙‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎲 Robot Wizard Zombie Crit! newsletter by LS editor @johnjosephadams.com. It's free and you get a free ebook anthology for signing up!

The perfect depiction of a D&D monk making an unarmed stunning strike doesn't exi--

Absolutely DELIGHTED to see that this incredible story is a finalist for the Nebula Award!. Read it here! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

So thrilled to see this fabulous short-short get some Nebula love! Read it here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...

This is the webmaster for LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE and also my personal/anthologist site. Highly recommended!

Here's a link to my latest newsletter, in which I explain how FREAKING AMAZING the Oscar-nominated short films are this year. (With links to where you can watch most of them online!) preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Help us shape the future of Lightspeed by taking this 10-minute survey. You'll also be entered in a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card! Thanks to the Mizzou School of Journalism students working on this project! #ScienceFiction #LightspeedMagazine qualtricsxmcx343vvlk.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

ICYMI, here are the details about my recently launched newsletter. It's the best way to keep up with me and my projects these days, rather than social media, where I am only poking up my head occasionally.

OK! I added a math CAPTCHA to my TTRPG survey, so hopefully that will allow it to work properly now. Anyway! As I was saying, I'm doing a TTRPG survey. Let me know if you play D&D, Cypher, PF2e, Tales of the Valiant, etc., if you GM, and if you play using VTTs! forms.gle/wTvGcE9pGTrk...

Well, never mind about that TTRPG survey I guess. As soon as I posted it, it got deluged with spam entries. Like 9000 over the span of a couple minutes.

Hugo nominations open soon, and Nebula nominations close a month from today! Catching up on your 2024 reading? I'd be honored if you consider my @lightspeedmagazine.com story "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

We at LIGHTSPEED are absolutely gutted by this news. Laurel worked with us for nine years, so this is like losing a member of the family. RIP to her and condolences to her non-LIGHTSPEED family.