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Happy New Year, Plus a Podcast!

Hope you and yours had a happy New Year’s! We spent ours with close friends, ringing in the new year with much cheer and cheese. (And perhaps it was the cheese that prevented me from having too bad of a …

January 2, 2019

Blade Runner Movie Review at Hex Publishers

Over at Hex Publishers, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and I discuss and review the new Blade Runner:2049 in great detail. We talk about everything from the use of “wall” metaphors, to artificial intelligence, to post-humanism, to the symbolism of bees.

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October 30, 2017

What It Means to Be Human: Five Works of Fiction That Explore Blade Runner’s Core Themes

From an article I recently wrote for Tor.com called “What It Means to Be Human: Five Works of Fiction That Explore Blade Runner’s Core Themes”. Continue reading via the link below.

“One of the reasons the original Blade Runner film

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October 12, 2017

The Coming AI Wave and Job Retraining

“At Asilomar, they looked at the real US economy, the real reasons for the “hollowing out” of the middle class. The problem isn’t immigration—far from it. The problem isn’t offshoring or taxes or regulation. It’s technology.” — Cade

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March 3, 2017

“The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)” sold to Tor.com

I’m supremely happy to announce that Ellen Datlow has bought my story “The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)” for Tor.com. I’ve been a fan of Tor.com and its regular fiction since its debut, and it’s awesome …

August 3, 2016

30-Second Sci-Fi Book Review on “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye”

Here’s 30-Second Sci-Fi Book Review giving my Nebula-nominated story “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” their “highest recommendation.” In case you want to watch, the review of my story starts at 3:24. (I love that they use the …

January 26, 2016

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 24, The Golem of Prague

To celebrate the October 13th release of my forthcoming debut novel, King of Shards, I will be featuring one new blog entry a day about a different Judaic myth for 36 days. Today’s entry is on The Golem of …

October 1, 2015

Review of “Cameron Rhyder’s Legs”

This morning I found this nice mini review of “Cameron Rhyder’s Legs,” my story which appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine back in November:

“What a strange time travel/alternate reality story. A rock concert is the ultimate battleground in a war to …

April 18, 2015

We Really Don’t Need Blade Runner 2

As someone who’s seen Blade Runner over a 100 times, who has given talks on the film, and has given private screenings for friends in which I (a) add trivia and commentary and (b) occasionally recite lines from memory at …

April 15, 2015

“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” nominated for a Nebula Award

I’m excited to announce that my story “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye,” which was published in May 2014 in Clarkesworld Magazine has just been nominated for a Nebula Award in the category of Best Short Story! …

February 25, 2015

Positive Future vs. the Singularity

Believing technology may be the solution to many of humankind’s problems is not the same thing as wanting the trans-human Singularity, that modern cultist, nerdist philosophy that believes in 30 years or less technology will progress so quickly that the …

January 22, 2015

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