Hot tip #DragonCon - escalators are ok for texting. Stairs, not so much. (Oops)
Marie Vibbert
@reasie.bsky.social
Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland. Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
My fellow US Americans, I know most of our country lacks proper transportation infrastructure, but please, by all that is holy to you, ALLOW THE PASSENGERS TO EXIT before boarding the train. Thnx.
I wanted to grow up to live in Star Trek, but the tech bros chose Neuromancer.
Now I have the post-panel fear that I was off putting and loudmouthed
Sharing a favorite blurb. I'm blushing! <3 "Vibbert reminds us how very good she is at making the alien feel familiar and accessible, and teaching us something about ourselves in the process. Multitude is both witty and wise." -Michael Jan Friedman
Starting my first panel soon! Embassy EF is in the international tower of the Hyatt, not the main building
I know we need bread and circuses to distract us from the horrors, but could we get less circus and more bread?
Here's where to find me at DragonCon: Fri 11:30 am: Newbie's Guide to Writing & Publishing Fri 05:30 pm Writing for Comic Books & Graphic Novels Fri 08:30 pm Women of Science Fiction Sat 05:30 pm World-Building: Creating Economic & Political Systems
It's Cleveland Book Fest all month! Yay! So many free events for the bibliophile in the 216! www.anisfield-wolf.org/book-fest-la...
Book Fest - Landing Page
Book Fest - Landing Page
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Tuesday, you are like 24 hours trapped at 3am going over every cringe-worthy thing I have ever done or said.
It's not that all billionaires are evil... wait, it is. To become a billionaire, you have to have decided, at some point, that stockpiling resources you will NEVER BE ABLE TO USE was more important than being a moral person.
The book fair at the Cleveland Old Arcade was a delight! I swear this is me grinning ear-to-ear. I hope they do it again!
Finished revising my novel draft and sent it to a second-round (okay third-round) reader. :D I need to write an afterward for it with historical notes on the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892.
Really enjoyed this thoughtful essay on reading Mark Twain in the present moment: adimagazine.com/articles/rer...
Rereading Mark Twain While Everything Else Burns - Adi Magazine
Coffee spilled across my bedsheets as I read the San Francisco Chronicle, my hometown paper, last June. An op-ed was denouncing the Trump administration
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Revision pass on "Mars Strike" a re-telling of the Homestead Steel Strike on Mars, is at 80% complete. That said, the last 20% is probably going to take the longest. Endings. oof. #amwriting
Tragic news for the Science Fiction Poetry community: file770.com/david-kopask...
David Kopaska-Merkel (1957-2026)
SF/fantasy poet David Kopaska-Merkel died August 26 at the age of 69. He was named the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Grand Master of 2017, and SFPA presented him with the President’s Lifetim…
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Hugs to everyone heading out to WorldCon this weekend. Do something awkward and embarrassing for me. :D
When you start out receiving critique on your writing, the reaction is almost all "oh no I'm so stupid! How could I have made all these mistakes?" It's only with maturity that you switch response to "Bwa ha ha more fixes I can steal from my friends!" #amwriting
I think, for my next book-selling event, I should just get a sign that says "Get your Queer Space Communism Here!"
The only bad thing about sleep is you're never awake to enjoy it.
I read this book as a result of this tweet and had a blast zooming around with the space bandits!
Marie Vibbert@reasie.bsky.social · last mo.At the bookstore, I waved over a guy with an astronaut tattoo and a pride necklace. "I'm not your demographic," he said. "My book is about a female biker gang in space rescuing a gay prince," I said. "The sequel is about a sex-positive sexbot." "In space?" "In space." "I AM your demographic!"
Yay! Sold a reprint. See my story "Hold the Moment" about motherhood and failing to invent time travel, some day soon in an episode of StarShip Sofa!
Isn't it fascinating that humans invented numbers, and then invented stories about the numbers, making some lucky, some unlucky, some magic? There's nothing a mind won't turn into a toy if bored enough.