D.A. Xiaolin Spires

@spires.bsky.social

Acicular appendages, keyboard protuberance. SFF writer. Published in Clarkesworld, Fireside, Analog, Uncanny, Nature Futures, Vice Motherboard Terraform, Star*Line, MIT Press. Codexian. Website: https://daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com/

Happy to announce that the Issue 61 of Eye to the Telescope is live, featuring 21 wonderful poems about sentience and aliens. I really enjoyed guest editing this issue—and am honored to see it come to life! Thanks to the poets, (Terran or non-Terran) readers and staff of the Eye to the Telescope!

SF & F Poetry Assn@sfpoetry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are pleased to announce that Issue 61 of Eye to the Telescope is live! ALIENS, edited by @spires.bsky.social read the issue here: eyetothetelescope.com/archives/061...

We're on track to earn over payment costs for '26 🥳 (thank you subscribers 🫶🏾). But, planning for next year, we're reconsidering how to boost support so we can boost its lineup (translation: poems say yes to) and stay consistent. ✌🏾 ways you can help 🧵: 🛣️1️⃣$3-5/month www.patreon.com/c/speccolorw...

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5) Chip by D. A. Xiaolin Spires: passenger takes sentient low-cost cab and gets taken for a long ride with many detours and advertisements to subsidize fare. Passenger talks cab into a form of emancipation. Good dialogue and extrapolation of current trends

Splendid praise from Dafydd McKimm for my SF novella ELLIPSES "A somersaulting hard-SF novella with 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞, made all the more joyful by Spires's uniquely acrobatic prose.”—Dafydd McKimm, author of MY HEART AND OTHER PLANETS & "The Colossus Stops"

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