science fiction writing, where to go
On the SF writer's retreat at Kyoto, Haruna Ikezawa; the SF writer who’s been rethinking her workspace environment, was using a trackball. Like anyone who takes on new challenges, she enthusiastically extolled the virtues of the trackball to me. “You won’t get tendinitis, you can use it on your lap, and with this type, you … Continue reading Trackballer is back
Sci-Fi Spring Festival Gala (科幻春晩) is an online Spring Festival sci-fi event organized by the Beijing-based sci-fi agency Future Affairs Administration (未来事務管理局) since 2015. The event features podcast updates, reader-participation voting sessions, red envelope (hongbao) giveaways, and, most notably, daily releases of sci-fi short stories. Each year, around ten stories are written based on a different theme, … Continue reading 10th Anviersary of SF New Year Gala
I started a GitHub sponsors, a support service run by Github. https://github.com/sponsors/ttrace The tires are $1 per month and one-shot support of $5 per month. Of cource you can pay up more(or less?), and I have already received support from three people. Those who support us will be listed in the README of novel-writer repository … Continue reading GitHub Sponsors
On August 31st, I contributed a 5,000-character short story titled “Raising Clouds” to the Hokkoku-Shimbun. The story is set five to eight years in the future in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture. It follows “me” and my wife visiting Mount Hakusan, where we encounter a woman named Rokuka Suyama. She is dedicated to protecting the ever-shrinking … Continue reading Kiting Cloud
I participated in ICRES 2024, the conference about ethics around robotics and AIs. The president of SFWJ, Dr. Osawa, introduced me to a keynote speech. I titled my speech The Dignity of Silicon: Envisioning a Future of Respectful Synergy with Artificial Beings. As an SF writer who writes about AIs, I am interested in how … Continue reading Keynote speech at ICRES 2024