Dearest Mastodonians, if you're reading for awards season I ask you to consider my only eligible work of 2023, my Taínofuturism novella SORDIDEZ. It's a queer science fiction about indigenous peoples working together to battle future colonialisms and involves giant 3D printed robots, genetically engineered wolves, and cyberpunk Vejigante masks that wreck things. Also, coquí frogs...lots of them 🐸🐸🐸.
#nebulas2023 #hugos
#bookstodon #indigenous #ScifiLit #taino
Reading for awards eligibility? Some things you might like about my novella SORDIDEZ:
🇵🇷🇲🇽 Near-Future Setting
🌀 Climate Fiction
🔬 SciFi Concepts
🏦 Worldbuilding
🌞 Latin American Mythology
🪶 Taínofuturism (Caribbean Indigenous)
🤖 3D Printed Nightmare Fuel Bots
👊🏼 Revolutionary, anti-colonial
👤 Ordinary people are the heroes
🏳️🌈 Trans & Deaf Rep
✍🏼 Grounded in Historical Research
🗣️ Multilingual (English/Spanish/ASL/K'iche'/Yucatec Maya/Arawak)
Very much recommend making time this Saturday for SFWA's Romancing SFF event. Leslye Penelope will drop EXPERT advice on writing multi POV successfully. Open to all SFWA and #Nebulas2023 members (yes, you can still sign up: https://events.sfwa.org)!
If you’ve watched my #NEBULAS2023 monologue and you’re inspired to learn more about some of the topics I mention from my book #DesignBeyondDevices, you can find it here: #UXDesign #nebulaAwards
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I’m still getting a lot of folks curious about how to find my #NebulaAwards opening monologue about my path through game design, UX, acting, #StarTrek, #JurassicPark, and how it all speaks to the power of science fiction and fantasy to inspire us. 🖖
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/uMrWwYAK1F8
A week ago, I had the lifetime honor of hosting the #NebulaAwards presented by @[email protected]. The stream glitched halfway through my opening monologue, which I'd written to tell the story of how sci-fi and fantasy have impacted my writing, technology, gaming, and acting careers. The FULL ceremony is now available on YouTube, so if you'd like to check it out sail on over to the Airship Nebula at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrWwYAK1F8&t=425s There is a HEAVY dose of Star Trek. 🖖 And my husband plays the computer voice!
#nebulas2023 was absolutely wild in the bestest of ways!
To the winners, a big big congratulations—I’d teared up during so many speeches😭🤍🔥
To new frens, y’all made the whole experience above and beyond special, and I’m going to miss y’all so much🥺🫂
Pics coming soon! 👀🫣
Mein sonstiger Vorschlag wurde nicht angenommen. Verstehe gar nicht wieso. 😇
Me: "Has anybody yet thought about greek chorus karaoke?"
Me: "Doom! Doom! Doom! Sudden Doom!"
Teilnehmerin: "We hadn't any Disney- Songs yet. What about "Surface Pressure" from Encanto?"
Me: "Or maybe 'We don't talk about Bruno'?"
Teilnehmerin 2: "Surface Pressure might be more applicable to a group of writers."
Me: "Let Bruno be the darling you had to kill."
Teilnehmerin 3: "Mela, are you saying they shouldn't sing about Bruno, no no no?"
Ja, der hat ... Layers und ich glaube nur Autoren verstehen wirklich, wie viele. ;)
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