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Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Debut novel SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (DAW Books 2024). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell

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Posts: 78

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Published: May 17, 2026 15:06

We've all heard commencement speeches that were only tenuously connected to graduation. They're mostly what's interesting to the speaker, and we put up with that. But the speakers who have humped GenAI to graduating classes who are about to get hosed byā€¦

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Published: May 16, 2026 18:41

Say a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.

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Published: May 16, 2026 14:36

Top 100 Lists repulse my sense of order. If you understand both Octavia Butler's Kindred and George Eliot's Middlemarch, you know you can't rank them. They excel differently. But a good list rekindles our desire to celebrate widely. It reminds us whatā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/wiswell.bsky.social/post/3mlvyrjuav22c

Published: May 15, 2026 18:50

This is my bugbear with "all time" lists, too. Maybe your chili is the best chili up to now. That's great. But "all time" includes the future, which hasn't happened. Venusian Future Chili may just top it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 14, 2026 21:07

I don't put my foot down a lot, but I will kill any audiobook deal for my work where they try to slap an AI narrator on it. Narrators are artists. The greats have filled my heart with light on countless nights. They will not be replaced with slop. ā€¦

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Published: May 14, 2026 19:42

Literally LLMs use that rhetorical structure because it's common. There are ways LLMs generate text that is recognizable, but them using common language patterns is not one. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 14, 2026 07:33

I got to see The Human Vapor (1960) for the first time recently. It's a remarkable Showa scifi crime film that belongs alongside The Invisible Man and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 13, 2026 14:23

I am reading @naomikritzer.bsky.social's Obstetrix every night. It's a chewy thriller about a doctor who is kidnapped to deliver babies at a Christian Fundamentalist compound. Tense, deeply human, with Kritzer's knack for plotting and character. Drops inā€¦

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Published: May 13, 2026 05:48

It should be said that "uncomplicated heroes" are a pretty rare phenomenon. The modern standard of the morally pure hero is something Gilgamesh, Hercules, Odysseus, King Arthur, and Robin Hood would all fail to meet. Many modern anti-heroes are justā€¦

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Published: May 12, 2026 19:07

Some Redditor did a thread asking what Horror movies people thought they could survive in. Smarties started rules-lawyering what they thought were easy movies. The real fun started when other users started poking holes in their escape plans.ā€¦

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Published: May 12, 2026 16:01

Literally one of my favorite parts of book signings is that I get to roam around the store and take shelfies of every book by an author I know. Who doesn't love sending shelfies? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 12, 2026 14:19

I have a very complex emoji system. If I like what you said, Iā€™ll reply with a purple heart, a reference to a color in the ace pride flag that means a lot to me. But other times Iā€™ll reply with a standard red heart, because Iā€™m tired and canā€™t find theā€¦

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Published: May 11, 2026 18:59

This is my very professional post promoting the very professional giveaway for my real book for adults about a deranged dragon whose heads canā€™t stop arguing with each other. Damn it, I was almost normal for a whole sentence. Anyway! Here is a giveaway!ā€¦

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Published: May 10, 2026 22:37

Having grown up with a similar toxic masculinity to many of these guys, I feel a mixture of disgust and pity. They made up a way to get MORE MANLY without checking if anybody wanted it. They are destined for underwhelming outcomes, and destined to blameā€¦

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Published: May 10, 2026 20:13

What tickles me is that even the most biased headline can't describe the rich in terms that doesn't give away they don't deserve sympathy. "Elite." "The wealthy." "Billionaires." Their masters long for a sympathetic euphemism. But they've hurt so manyā€¦

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Published: May 10, 2026 19:33

The shrinking mid-list, along with even the biggest publishers giving mid-lists less support than ever, is chewing up carriers. I'm basically constantly worried that I'm one book away from getting dropped. Our fates are in the hands of readers. Readersā€¦

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Published: May 10, 2026 15:40

My Mass Effect take is that even though I'm aro, I just can't comprehend wanting to romance any of the options in ME1. It's got to be FOMO. It's like picking which brand of white bread you want to marry. In 2? Okay, yeah, that's a spread of personalities.ā€¦

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Published: May 10, 2026 15:24

When I was a kid, my mother drove me from specialist to specialist trying to find a way to keep me alive. She had basically no support. Since then, she's kept me alive in numerous other ways. She's a giant heart. If you like something about me, itā€¦

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Published: May 10, 2026 03:39

There's X, which is if Twitter was a bot hive. There's Threads, which is Twitter if Mark Zuckerberg decided what you could see. There's Bluesky, which is Twitter if journalists couldn't get away with boths-sidesing fascism. What is a person to do??? ā€¦