Lance Robinson

Five Camels for the Simplification is a near-future novelette that explores the roles of community and hope in helping us through the coming crises. www.lancerobinsonwriter.com/store#fiveca.... 📚🪐 🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪 #fivecamels #rangelands #sciencefiction #hopepunk

Overshoot. First draft of novel nearly done. Was aiming for 65k words to max 90k. Projected length: 125000 words. Oops. Deleting characters and plotlines will be painful. #iwritespecfic

Solar power $/watt. www.solarchoice.net.au/blog/news/on...

Just watched the 1936 film #ThingsToCome. It was a prescient look ahead at what happens to a society when the marvels of technology have made people too comfortable. Too much a morality play for my taste, but like all good #sciencefiction, it explores important social themes. And it’s a visual treat

Lollygagging once in a while, is good for mental health.

Am I wrong, or has the definition of #spaceopera gradually broadened to mean any story set in the far future? I hope not. The narrower definition - melodramatic adventures in a universe of galactic empires and faster-than-light travel - used to be a good indicator of stuff I don't want to read.

𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 – An accumulation of minerals in an espresso machine resulting in a blockage that, in turn, makes writing painful or impossible.

I’ve registered for #worldcon2027 in Montréal. This’ll be my first time attending. Early bird rates are valid until midnight September 30th. montreal2027.ca 🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀🛸🪐 #sciencefiction #hugoawards

Pre-orders for the paperback version of “Five Camels for the Simplification” are doing okay. Ingram/IngramSpark is my printer and distributor for the paperback. This is from their dashboard. Find where to buy your copy at books2read.com/fivecamels. 🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪 #fivecamels #sciencefiction #hopepunk

If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.

The latest issue of my newsletter muses about rangeland ecosystems in #sciencefiction. Head over to substack to check it out. lancerobinsonwriter.substack.com/p/newsletter... ✏️🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀🛸📖 #rangelands

Stepping back from the politics of the moment to take a wide view can be frightening but healthy, if you can find an honest reason for hope. Here's a sober but hopeful take on the direction we're headed: www.theguardian.com/wellness/202.... #weaponizedhope

Recently, my novelette “One Step Away”, which was originally published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, appeared in translation in Science Fiction World, the premiere SF magazine in China. Today my author copies arrived in my mailbox. ✏️🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀🛸 #iwritesciencefiction

I started writing a joke about Pandora, but I'm afraid of thinking outside the box...

Gotta feel bad for Percy Shelley. He didn't realize she was actually a fembot.

Had my first sale of the morning at Thunder Bay LitFest. 🛸🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀 #iwritespecfic #thunderbay #tbaylitfest

Keycon 42 is underway in Winnipeg! I’m in authors’ alley. #keycon42 #sciencefiction #winnipeg

CBC radio’s “Up North” did a little piece on my Thunder Bay coffee mission. I had a nice little chat with host @jonathanpinto.bsky.social . www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #upnorth #coffeelife #thunderbay #iwritesciencefiction @rnccoffee.bsky.social

Winnipeg’s premiere #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy convention Keycon is happening soon, and I’ll be there. The marketplace is open to the public; convention passes not required. Hilton Winnipeg Airport Suites, 1800 Wellington Ave. from May 15th to May 17th. @keycon.bsky.social #winnipeg #keycon42

Back in December, I embarked on a mission to do some writing in every coffee shop in Thunder Bay. Check my newsletter for reflections on the journey, and accolades for some of my favourite stops along the way. lancerobinsonwriter.substack.com/p/newsletter... ✏️🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀 #thunderbay #iwritesciencefiction

I’ve fallen behind on #Sci-fiMovies I want to watch, but I’m starting to catch up. This week I watched #Metropolis (1927, directed by Fritz Lang), and, Wow! Special effects have come a long way since Le Voyage dans La Lune. Next, I think I’ll watch H.G. Wells’ Things to Come. It’s a “talkie”! 🚀🛸🚀🛸🚀

In the best SF, the world the author creates is not just “setting”; it becomes a character in the story and vehicle for exploring ideas. I recently finished Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, which does this brilliantly. 🪐📚 #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #childrenoftime

How would you open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only.

What I'm wearing to the Oscars

"What It’s Like To … Build Space for African Speculative Fiction from Nairobi" www.okayafrica.com/what-its-lik...

This is how i access BlueSky.

Award season is upon us. And CSFFA members, Aurora Award nominations are now open (in case you’re in a nominating mood). lancerobinsonwriter.com/stories/awar... ✏️🇨🇦🚀🛸 #auroraawards #bestnovelette #canadiansciencefiction

The #PublicLendingRight program of the Canada Council for the Arts provides modest payments to creators to compensate them for their books in public libraries. I just received my very small, but very heartwarming payment for 2025. This feels like what a civilized country does. 🇨🇦 #BringTheArtsToLife

Announcements! 📣 Marketplace emails are out! If you applied, check your inbox; and your spam folder just in case. AND… exciting news! Authors’ Alley is coming to Keycon 42! 📚✨ Come meet amazing writers, discover new stories, and celebrate the literary side of Keycon. More announcements soon!

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A #speculativefiction Kickstarter to consider supporting: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey.... 🚀📖🚀📖🚀📖🚀📖 📚🪐 @nathanielluscombe.bsky.social ky.social @seraamoroso.bsky.social so.bsky.social @beyondtstarspress.bsky.social ess.bsky.social

Caine Prize submissions close soon! short fic betw 3K & 10K pub between 27 Feb 2021 & 27 Feb 2026 authored by an African Writer: "An ‘African writer’ is taken to mean someone who is a national of an African country, or who has a parent who is African by birth or nationality." www.caineprize.com

The latest issue of Uncaged Book Reviews has a review of the urban fantasy Hex and City by @markleslie.bsky.social and Julie Strauss. It also includes my column, in which I muse about short stories, Ray Bradbury, and dumplings. online.fliphtml5.com/blsto/Uncage... 🪐📚 @uncagedbooks.bsky.social

One of the basic truths of physics that struggles to find a comfortable home in my brain is that there is no such thing as cold…. I’ve been thinking about how the same thinking might apply to concepts like love and hate, justice and injustice. lancerobinsonwriter.substack.com/p/cold-doesn...

A different take on #AI #CopyrightInfringement in this Walrus article. Instead of leaning further into "my artistic creation is my private property" and fighting giant corporations on their terms, should creators instead fight to re-establish art as a public good? thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-com...

Lately I’ve been enjoying old sci-fi movies from the dawn of cinema. My favorite so far is the 1927 film Alfalfopolis, in which a coven of millennia-old beings who do not age and appear as children battle against wealthy industrialists who have taken control of the world. #fritzlang #scifimovies

A few days before Christmas I embarked on a quest: do some writing in every coffee shop in #ThunderBay by 31 Mar. ’26. I didn’t realize how many coffee shops the city has! I am now thoroughly caffeinated and feeling creative. ☕✏️🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🛸 #iwritespecfic #coffeelife

A review of the Nov-Dec issue of Analog was quite humorous in its panning of my story there, stating “Readers who love carbon taxes and/or spend their spare time breathlessly following the programming of C-SPAN will find some comfort here.” So I'm thinking, “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”

Despite its flaws (which are quite overblown), Wikipedia is amazing. It gives you a tiny hint of what some of us back in early '90s imagined the Internet could become (what it might have become if not for the Googles and Facebooks).