Staying Drunk on Writing | James Yu | Substack

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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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…

Oct 19, 2020

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…

Mar 9, 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…

Feb 21, 2020

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

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

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…

Jul 21, 2019

The term “hard science fiction” is misguided. Traditionally, it refers to stories that strive for scientific and technological accuracy. Many of the…

May 25, 2019

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