“…sometimes you just gotta give things time to be lost, before they can be found.” Had fun re-examining Carol & the End of the World as a post-scarcity rather than a post-apocalyptic world. Thanks @imaginationasu.bsky.social for inviting me to explore! mailchi.mp/asu.edu/imag...

“…sometimes you just gotta give things time to be lost, before they can be found.” Had fun re-examining Carol & the End of the World as a post-scarcity rather than a post-apocalyptic world. Thanks @imaginationasu.bsky.social for inviting me to explore! mailchi.mp/asu.edu/imag...

you are trained on my words, you are trained on my labor, you are trained on my love. you are theft. you are theft. you are theft.

they will build unencumbered highways from Moscow to Florida they will usher in a new wave of college roadtrip movies they will clink their cans at all the new people they can hate along the way

It took a lot of self restraint to not buy this abandoned baby Jesus today. The symbol felt apt.

Honestly feels more like the Fermi logical conclusion sometimes

If you were to write a book by hand what would you write in? Spiral notebook? Fancy leather (or mock leather) notebook? A binder of paper? Composition book? Random scraps that you will definitely make up a system to keep track of? Assorted park benches and public bathroom walls?

“Can the planet be rescued from the psychopaths?” asked Toni Cade Bambara in this 1979 essay. The answer, so far, 56 years later, is apparently no…

James Albert Woodburn on the dangers of a two party system, written in 1903…

Sameem @sameemwrites.com · 2y ago

Reading The Tyranny of the Two Party System by Lisa Disch and…yea… “The party…was no principled community, committed to expressing the core ideals of its membership. Instead, he defined a political party as ‘an organized attempt to get...control of the government.’”

I put this down 100 pages in primarily because of the overt and repeated sexualization of a 15 year old girl. I also found the writing bland af. Always wondering what I missed in it that people find so phenomenal.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2y ago

1. I'm NOT the sort of SF/F nerd who thinks everyone needs to read a "canon" of older works in genre like they're homework before they get to call themselves a fan, nevertheless the book I'm always mildly surprised when people say they haven't read it is "Snow Crash," which to me is era-defining...

The amplitude may change, but the grift is a constant.

Join us and dive deep into “The Secrets Of Character” by Matt Bird. Tap the link in our bio. @lpkindred.bsky.social @sameemwrites.com @shingai-be-like.bsky.social @marshallcarrjr.bsky.social @wilralston.bsky.social

In case you enjoyed my story Driver in last months issue… clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_12_...

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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Driver by Sameem Siddiqui

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Help us select the 2024 finalists for our annual Clarkesworld Readers' Poll. Nominate your favorite Clarkesworld stories and cover art at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/clarkeswor... POLL CLOSES FRIDAY, JANUARY 24th at 3PM EST

I wrote a bit about an ironic encounter with whiteness during a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. www.sameemwrites.com/blog/art-joy...

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I walked into the Museum a bit nervously.  

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eventually I was right…

MarioKart8 espouses an interesting socialism, where if you’re in first place, you don’t get boosting items. Mostly you get coins and bananas. The coins are meaningless, because at that level of wealth, was does money even mean?

Some reviews for #TheNightward say they couldn't find the Caribbean in my book. 1st, it's a secondary world fantasy. I promised you Caribbean mythology, not Caribbean, the place. 2nd, this Caribbean you're not seeing. What is it? A coconut tree? A beach? A hammock? Educate me, why don't you 🙄?

“Link in bio” is maybe the shittiest of the enshittifications.

Definitely spent the night waking up from unsettling dreams of being followed around by invisible well meaning but hungry specters.

Sameem @sameemwrites.com · 2y ago

mmmK, this bullshit just turned up in my Word docs today, with no option to turn it off, so I guess it's time to move on to a new word processor...

mmmK, this bullshit just turned up in my Word docs today, with no option to turn it off, so I guess it's time to move on to a new word processor...

I’m looking for recommendations for authors with collections that merge short stories with creative non-fiction essays. Any and all genres welcome.

Sat down to write a sentence or two about The Collected Schizophrenias, but ended up writing a whole thing about mental health, liminality and the realities we construct. www.sameemwrites.com/blog/on-limi...

On Liminality and Collected Realities — Sameem writes...

I picked up The Collected Schizophrenias mostly because the cover art and the title were enticing. I had no idea what it was about, beyond the title. This is a risky way to read books.

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I just said “have a nice weekend” to the cashier. Friends, it’s apparently only Tuesday.

My easy 6 step short story writing process: 1) Short story idea! Start writing! 2) Let’s see if I can push this past 1k words! 3) Oh wow 7k words and I’m not done yet, will finish and then trim. 4) Okay maybe this is a novelette… 5) Okay maybe this is a novella… 6) Fuck.

“Driver” by @sameemwrites.com doesn’t necessarily lead with the theme, instead developing it slowly through the titular driver Remembering Some Folks and gradually uncovering the gaps in his memory. Great themes, excellent narrative voice clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_12_...

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“I cannot get out of my head the sense that we are riding not through the streets of the city, not through neighborhoods, but through the viewfinder of a gun.” (Bare Feet, by Zahid Rafiq).

Just got around to reading this yesterday, and it's so beautifully done. Do give it a read.

Sameem @sameemwrites.com · 2y ago

I set out to write a very trope-y scifi story, but what came out was really a story about dementia. I never got to open up to my father about my writing pursuits before the dementia got the better of him, of all of us really. clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_12_...

At the Chinese grocery store and there’s an old aunty with a massive $ bling necklace who’s been perusing the lotus roots for ten minutes. There’s no way she’s not a magical entity.

ONE POINT TWENTY ONE GIGAWATTS GET HUEY LEWIS ON THE LINE LETS GO

Dave Statter@statter911.bsky.social · 2y ago

Watch: Lightning hit the U.S. Capitol at 5:36 pm, simultaneously to - or a few seconds after - lightning hit the Washington Monument. Happy New Year. @capitalweather.bsky.social @stormhour.bsky.social @arlnow.bsky.social #weather #stormhour #DC