10th Anviersary of SF New Year Gala

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 →

Kiting Cloud

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 →

Keynote speech at ICRES 2024

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 →

Audiobook of The Digital Aesthete is out

Alex Shvartsman announced that the audiobook of The Digital Aesthete is out. Alex Shvartsman announced that the audiobook of The Digital Aesthete is out. This anthology collects short stories about the relationship between AIs and humanity. Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most … Continue reading Audiobook of The Digital Aesthete is out →

On the long list of Millions Fishing Castle SF Awards

Becoming Martians, translated by Toshiya Kamei and contributed to Multispecies Cities, has been nominated as an overseas short story for the second edition of the Million Fishing Castle Science Fiction Awards, organised by the Diaoyucheng Science Fiction Institute in Chongqing. Becoming Martians is a short film in the form of a message sent by a … Continue reading On the long list of Millions Fishing Castle SF Awards →