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Science fiction novelettes by Lance Robinson in 2025. Interconnections and Porous Boundaries, published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, May/June 2025. One Step Away, published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2025.
Award season is upon us. And CSFFA members, Aurora Award nominations are now open (in case you’re in a nominating mood).
lancerobinsonwriter.com/stories/awar...
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#auroraawards #bestnovelette #canadiansciencefiction
Logo for the Public Lending Right program of the Canada Council for the Arts
The #PublicLendingRight program of the Canada Council for the Arts provides modest payments to creators to compensate them for their books in public libraries. I just received my very small, but very heartwarming payment for 2025. This feels like what a civilized country does.
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#BringTheArtsToLife
Announcements! 📣
Marketplace emails are out! If you applied, check your inbox; and your spam folder just in case.
AND… exciting news!
Authors’ Alley is coming to Keycon 42! 📚✨
Come meet amazing writers, discover new stories, and celebrate the literary side of Keycon. More announcements soon!
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A #speculativefiction Kickstarter to consider supporting: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey....
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Of those two choices, I prefer "Recommended Reading". But now suddenly I'm wondering about coming up with a unique phrase. "Other Noteworthy Stories"? (I'm not recommending that--just thinking out loud.)
"Recommended Reading" feels like it lacks oomph.
Caine Prize submissions close soon!
short fic betw 3K & 10K
pub between 27 Feb 2021 & 27 Feb 2026
authored by an African Writer: "An ‘African writer’ is taken to mean someone who is a national of an African country, or who has a parent who is African by birth or nationality."
www.caineprize.com
The latest issue of Uncaged Book Reviews has a review of the urban fantasy Hex and City by @markleslie.bsky.social and Julie Strauss. It also includes my column, in which I muse about short stories, Ray Bradbury, and dumplings.
online.fliphtml5.com/blsto/Uncage...
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Canadian writers! Please do this. Help others discover your work. Stephen’s Best of Volumes are an amazing snapshot of not just the best short fiction out there but also a great summary of the previous year in publishing.
One of the basic truths of physics that struggles to find a comfortable home in my brain is that there is no such thing as cold….
I’ve been thinking about how the same thinking might apply to concepts like love and hate, justice and injustice.
lancerobinsonwriter.substack.com/p/cold-doesn...
And I also love that the article also mentions Reboot.
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Another example to complement the reference to Red Green.
Tchaikovsky does deep-time worldbuilding on the same level as Asimov, Herbert, and Brin.
The first four are worth reading. But if you enjoy Dune, then some of Herbert's non-Dune work are worth a read: The Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment, Destination Void, and The Jesus Incident.
A different take on #AI #CopyrightInfringement in this Walrus article. Instead of leaning further into "my artistic creation is my private property" and fighting giant corporations on their terms, should creators instead fight to re-establish art as a public good?
thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-com...
Poster for the 1927 movie Alfalfopolis
Lately I’ve been enjoying old sci-fi movies from the dawn of cinema. My favorite so far is the 1927 film Alfalfopolis, in which a coven of millennia-old beings who do not age and appear as children battle against wealthy industrialists who have taken control of the world.
#fritzlang #scifimovies
Thunder Bay Writer's Challenge: Write in Every Coffee Shop in the City by 31 March 2026.
A few days before Christmas I embarked on a quest: do some writing in every coffee shop in #ThunderBay by 31 Mar. ’26. I didn’t realize how many coffee shops the city has! I am now thoroughly caffeinated and feeling creative.
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#iwritespecfic #coffeelife
A tree that looks like a woman.
Please enjoy this lady tree stretching after getting out of bed.
This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
This bit of fan art is by Abiogenisis: www.deviantart.com/abiogenisis.
Reading Children of Time and enjoying how Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social) uses a rigorous and detailed imagining of the psychology, culture, and social structures of intelligent spiders to turn a mirror on human psychology, culture, and social structures.
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Sometimes, after a rejection, you need to resist the misguided urge to second-guess yourself and keep tweaking the story, and instead just turn around and submit it to the next market.
Cover of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November-December 2025
A review of the Nov-Dec issue of Analog was quite humorous in its panning of my story there, stating “Readers who love carbon taxes and/or spend their spare time breathlessly following the programming of C-SPAN will find some comfort here.”
So I'm thinking, “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”
I'm looking forward to getting my copies. Our Canadian postal workers are in the midst of a labor action right now, so I may need a heroic level of patience as I wait.
With stories from @gregegansf.bsky.social , @davegoodman.bsky.social, @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social, and others (including me).
Think Weirder: the Year’s Best Science Fiction Ideas, Volume 1, is now on sale. It’s billed as the year’s “sixteen best concept-driven, near-future ideas about people interacting with technology.”
thinkweirder.com
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#thinkweirder #sciencefiction #shortstories
Despite its flaws (which are quite overblown), Wikipedia is amazing. It gives you a tiny hint of what some of us back in early '90s imagined the Internet could become (what it might have become if not for the Googles and Facebooks).
“He’s heading for that small museum dedicated to the history of American democracy.”
“I think I can get him before he gets there. He’s almost in range.”
“That’s no museum!”
That is a fun story!