Compelling Science Fiction helps you find thought-provoking written SF in the hard science fiction vein.
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Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com…
If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!
Authors can do whatever they want, and @isabeljkim proved that with clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim…
Mike Adamson, a wonderful author that has multiple stories in Compelling Science Fiction, is publishing a new Sherlock Holmes novel that I'm excited to read: kickstarter.com/projects/160…
Just finished "Lords of Uncreation" by @aptshadow. A phenomenal finish to the Final Architecture trilogy. The pacing was brilliant -- felt like high gear for over 600 pages despite the amount of exposition. And never has a story so unmoored from reality kept me so engaged
I just backed Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won't sell on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/doc…
"The SEC just cares a lot more about this than Lil Yachty does. “Securities” is right in the SEC’s name; Lil Yachty’s name is about yachts." bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
@matt_levine is one of the greatest comedic writers of our time, his medium just happens to be securities law
Thoroughly topical story by @aptshadow in Future SF (ed. by @AShvartsman). Love the detail about how tiny the payments start to get per story. Scariest thing about the story is that it might be the nearest of near-future science fiction
future-sf.com/fiction/silico…
Compelling SF retweeted
Eliezer: *screaming*
Greg Brockman: " So we'll copy paste this generated code and just run it. Oh, error message. So we'll just paste that error message back into the machine and it'll give us some new code. Then we just copy paste that—"
Eliezer: *scream goes ultrasonic*
Compelling SF retweeted
hey guys, data scientist here. Seeing a lot of terminology being misused. how it works is: anything *before* 1701 is technical a "Bayesian prior" (bec it's prior to Bayes) anything *after* 1761 is known as a "Bayesian posterior".
I don't believe that anyone really has good intuition for how far away the moon is.
Even @TheRealBuzz. Of course he understands it intellectually. I just mean...
he spent over 4 days in that capsule to get to the moon, which is equivalent time to a cross-country road trip. But he was going 25,000 miles an hour at top speed, and those are just not speeds our brains are built to comprehend viscerally.
Tech progresses in overlapping sigmoid curves, the singularity is a myth
I hope an AGI throws this tweet in my face before I die
Wonderful story by @kyliu99 from over a decade ago:
escapepod.org/2013/01/03/ep3…
Thanks to @nealagarwal for neal.fun/absurd-trolley-prob…, which inspired compellingsciencefiction.com….
Thanks also to @DocEon and Josh Thomas for their insightful editing!
Top science fiction short stories published in December!
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5th is nature.com/articles/d41586-0… by @FilipWiltgren. It's a fun one to think through (feels a little like the brain teasers that used to be used in tech interviews long ago). I love the concept.
@sl_huang please DM me with a mailing address and size if you'd like your t-shirt! The shirts are a comfortable Next Level 60/40 blend, no Gildan nonsense.