I've got some really cool programming lined up for this year's Boskone, which will be happening February 12-14, 2021. To become part of it, head on over to https://boskone.org/. The con has managed to pander to most of my obsessions this time around, so I'm looking forward to these panels. It's going to be great to be on these with old friends like...

You can read the story for free on Slate. As a bonus, journalist Anna V. Smith has written a companion piece for the story, which is here. "The Suicide of Our Troubles" is set in the same universe as my novel Stealing Worlds, and in fact happens at the same time and in the same city. I guess I'm not quite done talking about the personhood of natural...

On Sept. 22, the gracious people at Polyplexus are hosting me for a 90 minute discussion about our planetary crisis and potential solutions to it that involve systems thinking--and, potentially, a turning-away from the linear, mechanistic industrial culture we currently have. Go register on Eventbrite or Polyplexus.com to join the session. The session...

The super-cool hackers over at queeriouslabs.net have coded an experiment based on one of my stories! Back in 2014 I published "Degrees of Freedom," in the farsighted short story anthology Hieroglyph (which was edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer). The story is about indigenous rights, self-government, and new technologies for governance, and man...

The one-day (but heavy-hitting!) ReCONVene SF convention takes place this weekend. I'll be joining the above authors for the following panel:   Saturday, August 15, 2020 The AI Amongst Us Format: Panel 15 Aug 2020, Saturday 13:00 - 13:50, Earthseed Room (Online Convention (via Zoom)) AIs are here, slipping through our everyday world, crunching...

This year's Worldcon is virtual, so you can easily attend! Zip on over to the CoNZealand website to get registered and attend any or all of the events below. Particularly of note for me this year, you can come to my reading, attend my Kaffeeklatsch, or join the discussion on my idea of "thalience." Future Laws  Format: Panel 29 Jul 2020, Wednesday...