Backstory: Invisible Aliens in the EM
The élan vitals–the invisible aliens that inhabit the slow waves of the electromagnetic spectrum and some part of physics we’ve yet to understand–were my invention to play with the notion […]
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Science in the Fiction: Nonlinear Dynamics and Memes
My doctorate is in systems science. I study general ways to make sense of things that are too complex for the usual analytical approach of “let’s take it apart and […]
A Walk through Red City
Red City, in my novel Hoshi and the Red City Circuit (among other tales), takes its diversity and streetwise from New York, its green-space-urban-planning from left-coast Portland, and its waterfront […]
Cassiopeia Prime, Eden with a Price
Hoshi and the Red City Circuit is set on the exoplanet Cassiopeia-Prime. The Mem’s Public Pedia has the following facts to present about it: Star System – Cadmus Natural Satellites […]
Nemeses, Frenemies, and Kinda Creepy Social Workers: the Antagonists of Daily Life
When I have frustrations I can’t resolve, and don’t know what to do with, I put them into story. In story they can be fixed, or at least examined in […]
Power, Allies, and Friendship in Hoshi and the Red City Circuit
Protagonists are defined as much by their interactions with other characters as they are by their own actions. Work-shopping the rough “draft zero” of Hoshi and the Red City Circuit […]
Reading at Another Read Through 9/20/2018: Neurodivergent Queer Heroes
Join me at Another Read Through for a reading from my science fiction mystery novel Hoshi and the Red City Circuit, as well as conversation about my neurodivergent, disabled, and […]
Accessible Detectives and Recasting the Noir Investigator as a Tiny Espresso-swigging Woman
I created Hoshi Archer because I was in trouble. I wanted to write the two-part epic of the end of Operator enslavement, narrated by an unreliable, drugged-up, mega-star anti-hero, but […]
Heroes Like Me: Neurodivergent Protagonists in Hoshi and the Red City Circuit
Growing up, the closest thing to a hero like me was Charles Wallace in Madeline L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time. Outsider characters sometimes came close–psychics and rebels, like Katie in Willo […]
My Novel is Released!
OMG YOU GUYS! I released a book today!!! I am HOLDING a copy of a novel I wrote and some fabulous people (thank you Autonomous Press and Argawarga Press!) liked […]