Anthony W. Eichenlaub

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Minnesota sci-fi author and moderately adventurous spirit. Director-at-Large for SFWA.

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Devil in the Gravity Lounge is out in ONE WEEK. A killer, a conspiracy, and one place Jude Demarco can't go in this #scifinoir: The Gravity Lounge books2read.com/u/4jYv7Z

Available now at your favorite digital store!books2read.com Devil in the Gravity Lounge by Anthony W. Eichenlaub

Devil in the Gravity Lounge is out in ONE WEEK. A killer, a conspiracy, and one place Jude Demarco can't go in this #scifinoir: The Gravity Lounge books2read.com/u/4jYv7Z

Available now at your favorite digital store!books2read.com Devil in the Gravity Lounge by Anthony W. Eichenlaub

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I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

Super excited to have a new sci-fi noir story in this. Can't wait to see the paperbacks at Gen Con

More exciting news: Did you know Atthis Arts is publishing the rebirth of the Gen Con Writers' Symposium Anthology? You can pick up a special edition paperback at Gen Con, and we'll be releasing a trade edition later this year. Check it out? genconwriters.org/anthology

Interdimensions, Vol 1: 2024 - Gen Con Writers' Symposiumgenconwriters.org The Rebirth of the Gen Con Writers’ Anthology! A prophet with mysterious abilities readies himself for the collision of Earth’s past and present. A betrayal leads an orc to break a promise she made to...

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September is closer than you think! You don't want to miss these fantastic authors and poets! magazine.trollbreath.com

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It's like Christmas here!

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I’m teaching the @apexmag.bsky.social online workshop "Writing Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers" on July 20. I wanted to talk a bit about my journey as a neurodiverse writer and what I'll be covering in the workshop. This is very personal for me. 1/ reachyourapex.com/product/writ...

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Early voting for the CD5 primary is happening now. Go vote for Ilhan.

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drew gooden put it succinctly in his video: that most AI-gen content is just sort of like something a human could do, but less good

AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns

AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warnsfinance.yahoo.com "Fake it till you make it may work in Silicon Valley, but for the rest of us, I think once bitten twice shy may be more appropriate for AI," MacroStrategy Parternship's Ferguson told Bloomberg.

#GenCon is coming up fast and there is still time to join the Gen Con Writers Symposium. Have a gap in your gaming schedule? Take a class, attend a panel, or rub elbows with some fantastic authors. (This is how I got my start writing) @genconwriters.org www.gencon.com/events?searc...

Gen Con | Gen Con Indy 2024www.gencon.com The Best Four Days in Gaming

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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SHARE, SPACE UNICORNS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN! Kickstarter is LIVE! Only *you* can make a 11th year of Uncanny Magazine happen! Help us make more magic, Space Unicorns!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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Bid on my signed book for #RomancingtheVote! www.32auctions.com/organization...

The Inn at the Amethyst Lanternwww.32auctions.com Auction item 'The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern' hosted online at 32auctions.

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...but you're ENGAGING with that NYT op-ed, aren't ya?

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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We're 344 subscribers away from where we were before Amazon pulled the rug out from under their traditional subscription program. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but still much work to do. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasyclarkesworldmagazine.com Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Jeffe is actually amazing, so go check this out

One of the most generous donations we have is for not one, not two, but SIX months of author coaching with Jeffe Kennedy. She has been writing for decades, and anyone who knows this business knows that you don’t get longevity without knowing things. www.32auctions.com/o...

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Wild that SCOTUS saying "bribes of government officials are just tips, really" is gonna end up as like the eighth-worst thing they did this month

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Men and women "convicted" of being LGBTQ and dishonorably or otherwise discharged from the military going back decades are getting pardons, opening up military health, disability, and retirement benefits in recognition of their service. Joe Biden is a good man. www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-l...

Biden pardoning LGBTQ+ service members convicted for sexual orientationwww.cbsnews.com The pardon could affect thousands of service members convicted over the six decades that military law formally banned consensual homosexual conduct.

New post about writing giant megastructures into our worldbuilding, specifically looking at the future ancient megastructure of the Old River Control project and the Atchafalaya River. anthonyeichenlaub.com/worldbuildin...

Worldbuilding: Ancient Megastructures – Anthony W. Eichenlaubanthonyeichenlaub.com

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TODAY! Welcome Thomas Ha and Naomi Kritzer to our Locus Awards reading series!! Join us as they read from their work Thursday 6/21 at 6 pm PDT. Full schedule here: tinyurl.com/locusawa... @thomasha.bsky.social @naomikritzer.bsky.social #LocusAwards2024 #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy@thomasha.bsky.social @naomikritzer.bsky.social #LocusAwards2024 #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy

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we are all calvin's dad

I am an engineer and have this same thought about the speed of work when drawings were done by hand and not on the computer and that was way less than 200 years ago.

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Looking to commission cover art from a real artist, no AI. Retro sci-fi space cowboy stuff, nice and pulpy! If that’s your jam or the jam of an artist in your Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, I’d love to see some of your work. Thanks!

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AHEM! Bear is talking about The White Space Trilogy. You want to read these books. Here's the titles. ANCESTRAL NIGHT MACHINE THE FOLDED SKY (forthcoming) Bonus points to read the distant past of this universe in PINION (US Title: Dust) SANCTION (US Title: Chill) CLEAVE (US Title: Grail)

Hell, the entire load-bearing backstory of my White Space books is "What if all the eschatological tech billionaires and millennarians fucked off into space and left a severely damaged Earth in the hands of the community organizers, who rewired our brains to be more commensal."

This is absolutely true and only one of many reasons everyone should read these books

Basically I want to wander in conversational circles about the concept of rightminding and its implications because it is THE BIGGEST MOST UNPACKABLE SPECULATIVE TECH IN DECADES and it defies a simple answer beccause everyone is simultanously intrigued and terrified by it

I like to check in on Wisconsin politics sometimes holy shit what "Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now." apnews.com/article/wisc...

Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a challenge to governor's 400-year school funding vetoapnews.com The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' partial veto locking in a school funding increase for the next 400 years.

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My poem 'After' is out in the latest issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social. Do note that the poem is about war and its aftermath, and there are content warnings available at the top of the page. strangehorizons.com/poetry/after...

Afterstrangehorizons.com I turn to where they are not, / and I nod to them, and they to me.

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people ask us why we stopped writing near-future dystopias and started writing bonkers fantasy, and it's literally to stop having people tag us when the horrifying things we found researching go mainstream 🤣😭 do feel free to tag me if you encounter any dragons, tho, horny or otherwise

We did this exact story in Season 1 of LEVERAGE:REDEMPTION three years ago. LEVERAGE -- come for the banter and heists, stay for the quick glimpses of your near future dystopia!

Sarah absolutely nailed this toast. Definitely worth reading (or watching)

This past weekend, I had the tremendous honor of hosting the 59th annual Nebula Awards. Everyone wanted to know, ahead of time, what I would wear. Here is the full fit breakdown, plus the full text of my opening remarks, which include a new toast for your dinner table.

The Nebula Awardsstone-soup.ghost.io What I Said, And What I Wore

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The word *Speed* in Norwegian is fart, leading to exactly what you imagine happened in 1994.