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Staying Drunk on Writing
Thoughts at the intersection of technology, literature, and science fiction.
By James Yu · Launched 2 years ago
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020: Object Permanence
My last story for the year is “Object Permanence,” which was recently published at Fireside Fiction. Most of us would probably like for 2020 to blink out of existence as if we were infants lacking the titular concept of the piece (or would that be temporal permanence?)
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019: My Wife's Avatar, Pandemics, and Machine Creativity
During our honeymoon in Bali, my wife received a call that would change our relationship forever. It was her dream job—an opportunity to live and work…
James Yu
Oct 19, 2020
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019: My Wife's Avatar, Pandemics, and Machine Creativity
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018: Ken Liu and Fleeting Feeds
Ken Liu’s new anthology, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, has dropped and everyone should read it. I’m working my way through, and so far, it’s a…
James Yu
Mar 9, 2020
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017: Walking into 2020
Hoorah to the New Year! 2020 does feel like we're finally in the thick of the new century, not like the 00s and 10s, where no one could agree on what to…
James Yu
Feb 21, 2020
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017: Walking into 2020
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016: I'm officially published in print 🎉🎉🎉
Today marks the first time my work makes it to print! You can read "The Mummer" in Working Futures: 14 Speculative Stories About the Future of Work (get…
Oct 2, 2019
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015: Steady State and the Engagement Beast
New Story: Steady State Read the story here While working with the News Feed teams, it was fascinating how even the employees at Facebook didn’t fully…
Sep 3, 2019
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A time for stock, a time for flow
Our work can be divided into stock and flow, a metaphor that Robin Sloane expanded from its roots in economics. Flow is the work you share with the…
James Yu
Jul 21, 2019
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The Problem with Hard Science Fiction
The term “hard science fiction” is misguided. Traditionally, it refers to stories that strive for scientific and technological accuracy. Many of the…
James Yu
May 25, 2019
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