26 Feb: Third Place Books, Seattle, 19h, with @NealStephenson (!!!)
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27 Feb: Powell's Books, Portland, 19h:
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29 Feb: Changing Hands Bookstore, Phoenix, 1830h:
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9-10 Mar: TFOB Science City:
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My paperback copies of THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS have arrived from the printer. You can get yours in just two weeks! #LovecraftCountry

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The paperback edition of THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS: A RETURN TO LOVECRAFT COUNTRY will be here on February 20:
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“MENEWOOD convinces us that the magic is embedded in history itself.” Gary K Wolfe reviews @nicolaz (@nicolaz.bsky.social @[email protected]) locusmag.com/2023/11/gary-k…

Seattle! TONIGHT!! Weds 18 Oct, 7:00 pm. Free.
I'll be at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park geeking out with Neal Stephenson about all things Menewood and Early Medieval—kings as logicians, the maps of war, roads, religion, science...

Tomorrow (Oct 3) Menewood will be available wherever books are sold. It's a book to read by the fire while the wind howls and you feel glad to alive...

The last night that MENEWOOD belongs only to me. Tomorrow it’s out of my hands and into the world. A cocktail to send it on its way…

The ebook of Matt Ruff's 2003 novel Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls (about multiple personalities) is on sale for $2.99.

This is one of his best but least-known novels, despite great reviews and three literary awards.

About the novel: bymattruff.com/set-this-house…

Interesting thought. Perhaps the kinds of people drawn to work on LLM are the kinds of people who prefer to learn in this way. Their assumption that this is universal is troubling on a lot of levels.

Congratulations to Nicola Griffith for winning the 2022 Ray Bradbury Prize, here's her SFE entry: sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/griffith…

The appearance that existing AI has such an understanding is a mere superficial effect of it regurgitating statistically likely correlations in writing or images. This appearance is then exaggerated by social media and editorial curation surfacing the most noteworthy 0.001%.

I'm in love with the jacket design for my next book, due out in June. This perfect tourist family is SO HAPPY in their Hieronymus Bosch hellscape! By the great Jaya Miceli.

ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences.

We're excited to finally share the much anticipated sequel to @nicolagriffith’s HILD: MENEWOOD is coming 10/3! Tor.com (Now at @Reactormag) shared an exclusive reveal today: 'I loved writing this book—Hild and her world are a joy to me. I can’t wait for others to read it.” bit.ly/3J2rY9L

This was very fun for me and I think you’ll like it too. Discussed: Not talking to Mark Zuckerberg; not making movies, tv shows and games out of treasured IP; not needing headsets to visit the metaverse. Full audio here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rec…

My copy just arrived. Can’t wait to return to stygian darkness so depraved that the mere description of the horrors there would surely drive me mad, and whatnot. Matt Ruff

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Don’t miss me in conversation with Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson and world renowned Wētā Workshop to discuss the #SnowCrash sale Sotheby's twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdJr… SnowCrash DAO ✨ Pleasr SNOWCASH Mister SnowCrash Snowcrash Inc. SnowCrash Seamus Blackley