mojoe

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Building a Tower Defense Game on a Conference Badge(compellingsciencefiction.com)
3 points by mojoe 3mo ago|0 comments
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The Information Theory Behind Why AI Writing Sucks(pangram.com)
3 points by mojoe 4mo ago|1 comments
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What's in the 2026 Hugo Awards Voter Packet?(compellingsciencefiction.com)
1 points by mojoe 4mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Super Mega SFF Story Ideator(compellingsciencefiction.com)
1 points by mojoe 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mojoe 6mo ago
I see this pattern a lot -- folks start a publication, publish for a handful of years, and then shutter. I did it myself with Compelling Science Fiction magazine. This is why I settled on releasing only one book per year, it's sustaina
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by mojoe 7mo ago
My reading is that OpenAI is paying lip service. Altman is basically saying "OF COURSE we don't want to spy on Americans or murderdrone randos, but OF COURSE the government would never do that, they just told me so (except for the
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by mojoe 7mo ago
nicely said. I've been thinking a lot about how the bottleneck in the limit is getting your intent into the machine. Over time as AI improves it'll get better and better at extracting your intent just from situational context, but
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by mojoe 7mo ago
I love the slash for style menu, really nicely implemented!
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by mojoe 8mo ago
And in 1925 they didn't even have the Internet
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The Isolator(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by mojoe 8mo ago|1 comments
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Intelligence Is a Landscape, Not a Ladder(compellingsciencefiction.com)
2 points by mojoe 9mo ago|1 comments
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by mojoe 9mo ago
Really nice, reducing friction when note-taking is super valuable.
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by mojoe 10mo ago
I was using my garage as a warehouse for the books, and it burned down, so I lost all the remaining copies of that first printing, unfortunately!
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Many authors can do a short story per week, I would definitely get out of bed for $30k/week
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by mojoe 10mo ago
That's really cool! Yes, it's always been amazing to me how many people will respond helpfully to a random cold email. And well-known authors are similar to other artists in the fact that they have steep rates for commissions. For
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by mojoe 10mo ago
My favorite collection recently was "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge". It spans his short fiction from 1965-2001. I've considered commissions many times, I go back and forth on it. I wouldn't want to put a commissi
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Yes, I plan on releasing one annually, based on the best concept-driven science fiction stories from the previous year. Any more than that and it would take too much time, but one per year is sustainable for me. I agree that there are many
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Makes sense! The entire section under "original short stories" is how the website used to look back when it was a science fiction magazine.
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I need to remove that submissions page altogether, the magazine has been shut down for five years and you found your way to a vestigial part of the site that almost nobody visits anymore. I wrote a post about t
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by mojoe 10mo ago
A picture of the first page of the TOC is the only one I have immediately available: https://compellingsciencefiction.com/images/toc.jpg I'm sure an excel pro would find excel much easier, I just like writing Pyth
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by mojoe 10mo ago
First I just want to say that it's an honor that you took a look, I've read and enjoyed many of your articles in the past. This anthology is actually a "Year's Best" -- they're reprints selected from a pool of
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Happy to talk about it, the TL;DR is that this is a hobby where I as the editor don't expect to make back the money I spent creating the book, but the authors get paid a fixed amount up-front. Here's a more detailed answer: https
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Thanks for your support! I believe I understand where you're coming from, some of the stories have more novel concepts than others -- Twenty-Four Hours is hard to discuss without spoilers, but I selected it because the characters and s
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by mojoe 10mo ago
This looks cool, I'll check it out!
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by mojoe 10mo ago
The reprint rights agreements were all extremely manual, I did everything through email and SignNow. Mostly payments went through PayPal, although there was one author who wanted a physical check mailed.
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Thanks, you're completely correct, rights acquisition was the most difficult part! The absolute hardest story in the anthology to get rights for was "Stars Don't Dream" by Chi Hui. It's a translation of a story that
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The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology(compellingsciencefiction.com)
215 points by mojoe 10mo ago|48 comments
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Thank you, I hope you enjoy it!
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by mojoe 10mo ago
Steam is the only reason I have a Windows desktop, I'll probably just get one of these next time I want a hardware refresh (which admittedly will probably be many years). Interesting that it uses KDE Plasma for the desktop
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by mojoe 10mo ago
All of the source references are in the section called "Permissions" at the end of the book, this is a common way that anthologies do references but I understand it is easy to miss!

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