mojoe

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by mojoe 11mo ago
I think your feeling is probably the most common one, which is why short science fiction readers are a vanishingly small percentage of the population. One of the reasons novels are much more popular than short fiction (orders of magnitude m
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Just confirming that yes, I chose the art. It's hard to please everyone with a project like this, I'm glad you like it!
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Thank you for offering, but I don't have any channel for donations -- I'm grateful that my software work enables me do projects like this without worrying too much about the funding part.
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by mojoe 11mo ago
I'm the editor, and I actually used LaTeX to typeset the book and wrote my own Python software to keep track of all the story metadata while I was evaluating stories over the course of the last year, I should write a post about that :)
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by mojoe 11mo ago
I did not. It should be DRM-free on Amazon as well!
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Thank you for posting a link to Neil's magazine! I think he's the best short-form editor working in SFF today.
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Thanks! I pay a fixed rate up-front for reprint rights, which is a one-time deal. This is mostly because pro rata royalties on an anthology are a pain (I've done this before, it involves sending out lots of tiny single-digit-dollar che
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by mojoe 11mo ago
There are only two stories in the collection that feel a little further out: "Best Practices for Safe Asteroid Handling" by David W. Goodman feels like a smart, polished successor to golden age space opera, it's set in a futu
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Are you referring to this? "How will it use these memories, while simultaneously protecting its young charge, in THE LARK ASCENDING by ELEANNA CASTROIANNI?" This is just a rhetorical device, I think it's called a 'hook q
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Hi, I'm the editor, I chose the stories. I read 391 short science fiction stories published last year (all the stories in the big science fiction magazines and a few smaller ones), and selected these sixteen. None of the authors I reac
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Publisher here, this link still works for a discounted DRM-free epub: https://thinkweirder.kit.com/products/think-weirder-volume-1...
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by mojoe 11mo ago
email me at joe@thinkweirder.com and I'll get you a PDF!
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Good question, original publishers (the magazines, in this case) set the terms for how long an exclusivity period they want to purchase for first print rights. It's usually a year, but many magazine contracts have a carve-out for &quot
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I Curate an Anthology(compellingsciencefiction.com)
4 points by mojoe 11mo ago|2 comments
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Think Weirder TOC(compellingsciencefiction.com)
1 points by mojoe 11mo ago|0 comments
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by mojoe 11mo ago
Exactly, in the long run it's the people who care the most who win, it's tautological
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Think Weirder Is Released(thinkweirder.com)
1 points by mojoe 11mo ago|0 comments
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Think Weirder: The Year's Best Science Fiction Ideas(thinkweirder.com)
1 points by mojoe 1y ago|1 comments
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by mojoe 1y ago
Some of you may remember me as the publisher of Compelling Science Fiction magazine (2016-2020). I missed being involved in the science fiction community, so I decided to start a "Year's Best" anthology series dedicated to fi
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Hawking Radiation Mass Energy Converter(compellingsciencefiction.com)
3 points by mojoe 1y ago|0 comments
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by mojoe 2y ago
About 1400 people have played the game in the last few days so I believe most of the big bugs have been addressed, but please let me know if you see any issues and I'll fix! Also I plan on continuing to make short science fiction games
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Dyson Swarm is finally released(compellingsciencefiction.com)
2 points by mojoe 2y ago|1 comments
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I'm making six narrative-driven hard science fiction games in six months(compellingsciencefiction.com)
4 points by mojoe 2y ago|1 comments
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Does your software package work on Arm?
5 points by mojoe 2y ago|0 comments
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Moravec's Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mojoe 3y ago|0 comments
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by mojoe 3y ago
I think in both this story and Le Guin's original the ambiguity is the point. The scenario is one that has no "solution", and pattern-seeking readers then imprint the story with their own worldview (a prime example is the &qu
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Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole(clarkesworldmagazine.com)
35 points by mojoe 3y ago|26 comments
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by mojoe 3y ago
I'm guessing this is the root cause of the 2023 Hugo nominations being weaker than I would have expected.
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by mojoe 3y ago
You said "As a developer", not "As a major developer".
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Novel Review: Foundry by Eliot Peper(compellingsciencefiction.com)
3 points by mojoe 3y ago|0 comments

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