Benjamin C. Kinney

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SFF writer, neuroscientist, Hugo finalist. Escape Pod 2017-2023. Short stories in Analog, Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, etc. He/him. Rep: Marisa Cleveland.

Neuroscience (not under pen name): rehabilitation, neuroimaging, hand dominance

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Have you heard about The Anvil yet? It's a virtual UnConference for creatives of color and their allies to share insights, forge connections, and talk shop about their work! Register now at dreamfoundry.org/the...!

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There's only a few more days to back this HUGE anthology of Black Sci Fi stories, poems, and art! It is not something you want to miss!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

Spacefunk!www.kickstarter.com Space is the place! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent.

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Metaphorosis is a great magazine and I’m glad I was fortunate enough to have had a story with them. I highly recommend browsing through their archives and checking out some of the great stories they’ve published over the years.

Metaphorosis' next issue will be our 100th - and last. Metaphorosis magazine closes at the end of 2024 after a nine year run. magazine.metaphorosis.com/editorial/20...

Metaphorosis’ next issue will be our 100th – and lastmagazine.metaphorosis.com The end of the story – Metaphorosis closes after issue #100.

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I've sold a novel to Tor Books! Title to come. Thank you to @ericshowers.bsky.social and @jengunnels.bsky.social for believing in it. I'm eternally grateful to @annvandermeer.bsky.social for editing the story it's based on, which you can read at @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/hold-time-vi...

Hold-Time Violations - Reactorreactormag.com Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryos...

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these deathless shores is out today! (almost) everywhere books are sold ~ deepest thanks to everyone who helped make this happen 💚

Things nobody warns you about progressive lenses: 1) Heights become scary. Downward angles are blurry! 2) Photography is tough. You're looking up at distant things but your phone screen is up-close.

Make a band more vegetable Jukebox the Ghost Pepper (My first instinct was "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club," but that is clearly illegal)

Make a band more vegetable Panic! at the Daikon

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Sweet Galactus, I hate this picture. Anyway, Rosewater is the New Scientist Book Club pick. I carry on about it here.

Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasionwww.newscientist.com Tade Thompson, author of sci-fi novel Rosewater, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on subverting the expectations of invasion narratives and writing about people not tech

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The second post in my Transgressive Science Fiction series is about whether AI, when sentient, would be rational or emotional, programmed or grow up as children do, repaired or healed: tinyurl.com/2yp2rrws The first post was about diverse hive minds. #Scifi #Writing #AI #ScienceFiction

Artificial Minds: Emotional or Rational?tinyurl.com Transgressive Science Fiction #2

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Today is the last day to bid on this signed ARC of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS in the Romancing the Vote auction! It's one of only a few signed ARCs in existence, and you'll get it 4 months before release! Plus you'll support some great voting organizations! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Signed ARC of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDSwww.32auctions.com Auction item 'Signed ARC of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS' hosted online at 32auctions.

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HELLO BLUESKY I am here from what was once the twitters, with an announcement: BITTER WATERS is out today on audio and ebook! x.com/orbitbooks/s...

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I've just learned that the International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after me. I'm... I'm a little overcome. It's out near Jupiter, so there's no danger of it hitting the Earth. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_l...

Small-Body Database Lookupssd.jpl.nasa.gov

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SPACEFUNK is live. Fund this in an hour? Wild. Deeper still: Overfund. Yeah. We funk.

Spacefunk!www.kickstarter.com Space is the place! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent.

There are no such thing as "left brain people" and "right brain people." Different functions are lateralized to the left or right brain, but they don't all move as a package. If they did, everyone good at language would also be good at math.

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

Ok, having just finished Stray, I guess I was *not* supposed to have gotten creeped out by the way the cat never needed to eat?

I was poking around Google Maps in my city and ran across the site of G'Kar's gravestone. I'm not the pilgrimage type, but still. Hmm.

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If you enjoy the stories I write, please support the magazines that publish them as you are able! Right now @morningtransport.bsky.social is having a subscription drive www.sundaymorningtransport.com/MembershipDr... so you can get a subscription at a discount.

Subscribe to The Sunday Morning Transportwww.sundaymorningtransport.com An amazing science fiction/fantasy short story each week. Click to read The Sunday Morning Transport, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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#signalboost

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are currently open for submissions on this international speculative fiction collection for Black women authors only. For more information, please go to: rosariumpublishing.com/planet-black... BRING THE JOY!!!

Cloning one of my cats. Trogdor is perfect and soft but getting old, he deserves a much much younger twin brother. The name of Trogdor's clone would be, of course, Dagron.

ok friends & Bsky strangers, tell me your FRIVOLOUS Powerball-winning acquisition goal Mine: a Studebaker that I’d take to the body shop for an Electric Mayhem paint job Another person just mentioned a Linotype machine sure, housing security, debt payoff, but what’s your ridiculous niche desire?

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When the irresistible force meets the immovable object they… get drunk together?

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I don't know who needs to see this . . . JUST KIDDING. It's you. You need to see it. It's a sneak peek of MY LADY JANE! And if you haven't gotten the book yet, you might want to before your preferred edition is out of stock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLoW...

My Lady Jane Sneak Peek - Lust At First Sight | Prime Videowww.youtube.com Lust is in the air. #MyLadyJane arrives June 27.» SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/PrimeVideoSubscribe About Prime Video:Want to watch it now? We’ve got it. This wee...

World Cliff Diving Championship warmup dives (Boston MA, about half an hour ago)

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It's the last day to apply for a first reader spot at Diabolical Plots! ("Slushreader", if you may be more familiar with the term). If it's something you're interested in, why not fill it out! docs.google.com/forms/d/15_2...

Diabolical Plots First Reader Applicationdocs.google.com Applications for our July 2024 submission window are now open to all, and will close June 3rd. Applicants must be at least 18 years old. ~ Diabolical Plots offers a small honorarium to all First Rea...

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Apologies to Garry Trudeau and the gods of typography #uspol

Quick someone photoshop that Doonesbury image so he's saying "guilty" 34 times!

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There's a @kaleidotrope.bsky.social short story by @benjaminckinney.com that manages to condense a sweeping epic fantasy into 1,475 words. I love this notion, and I tried to examine how he did it in this blog post. rajivmote.wordpress.com/2024/05/29/e...

Epic By Implication: Very Short Epic Fantasyrajivmote.wordpress.com Stories that engage the imagination are ones that invite us to fill in the gaps with our so-called headcanon, making us party in the storytelling. This can be leveraged to condensed an epic tale into ...

This story was so much fun to write, and @rajivmote.bsky.social gives it an excellent analysis here. Come see the mechanics of compressing a complete epic fantasy into <1500 words!

AI is cheap in the same way Uber is cheap. Bankrolled by investors and losing money in the short term... to drive out the competition.

This math doesn’t math. The idea that AI is “cheap” and humans are “expensive” is only happening because AI is getting massively bankrolled.

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#ThrowbackThursday “The Promise of Iron” by @benjaminckinney.com kaleidotrope.net/archives/aut...