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Ken Schneyer

@kenschneyer.bsky.social
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Nebula-nominated writer of science fiction & fantasy, humanities professor, lawyer, amateur astronomer & genealogist, humanistic Jew. Born in Michigan but living in Rhode Island. Interested in nearly everything (except teen angst). kenschneyer.com

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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Here's the review I just posted of @matthewkressel.net 's "The Rainseekers": It would be a mistake to approach this gem of a short novel as science fiction and nothing else. (To be clear, I speak as both an SF writer and a dyed-in-the-wool SF fan, ... /1
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Marcheto @cuentosalgernon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
You can now read the Spanish translation of "Laws of Impermanence" by @kenschneyer.bsky.social in Cuentos para Algernon. First published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. Enjoy it! cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/l...
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Las leyes de la impermanencia, de Kenneth Schneyer
Cuentos para Algernon cumple hoy trece años y, para celebrarlo, tenemos un nuevo cuento: «Las leyes de la impermanencia», un estupendo relato con el que Kenneth Schneyer visita el blog por segunda …
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Marcheto @cuentosalgernon.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Our annual free anthology is now out: “Cuentos para Algernon. Año XIII”, with terrific stories by @gregegansf.bsky.social, @gemmafiles.bsky.social, @jeffreyford8.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @rachaelkjones.bsky.social, K. J. Parker, @rebelsam94.bsky.social‬, @kenschneyer.bsky.social… (1/2)
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
@alexachipman.bsky.social Is there a chance you might do a set of reaction videos to the TV show "The Prisoner"?
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Got an actual, honest-to-goodness fan letter! (Well, fan e-mail.) Whee!
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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
@kenschneyer.bsky.social recommending a story about tax accountants for dragons
Calligraphy: “how do you amortize a hoard of gold”
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Across the US, university presidents, deans, and provosts are opening the academic year with the following nuanced, complex, and inspiring address: "First, AI. AI AI: AI, AI AI AI AI. When AI, consider AI, not to mention AI, AI, AI, and AI. AI AI AI AI. "In conclusion, AI AI AI AI AI."
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My schedule for @readercon.bsky.social 34: kenschneyer.com/2025/07/01/m...
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My schedule for Readercon 34
My schedule for Readercon 34 just became official. This year’s Readercon is back where it used to be, in the Boston Marriott Burlington, July 17-20. For those who don’t already know, th…
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My take on Trump v. CASA, Inc. kenschneyer.com/2025/07/01/t...
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Trump v. CASA, Inc. (27 Jun 2025)
I’ve now read the opinions in Trump v. CASA Inc., albeit quickly. (I also listened to the oral arguments.) (As a preface, let me observe that sometimes my comments on court cases might plausi…
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Latest Mensa Research Journal contains an article supposedly describing the ways AI can be used to enhance human intelligence. About 1/3 through, I noticed that the article was unnecessarily repetitive and at a unhelpfully high level of abstraction. 1/
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A portal-fantasy, time-travel story with Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie? Jeez, it's like the studio bosses said, "Let's market this to Ken." #ABigBoldBeautifulJourney
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
With the appearance of Hishashi Kujirai's Japanese version of "Laws of Impermanence" in Babelzine vol 4., my work has now been translated into seven (7) languages.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Completing my panel-selection process for a con, and noticing how great is the temptation to opine on subjects as to which I am not remotely qualified...
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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A lot of resistance work also will not SEEM like resistance work. People have a tendency to believe everything is dramatic like movies and comics when a lot of resistance is community building. Someone feeding friends who've had their SNAP cut is still doing something critical.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. /1
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The United States might exist as a nationality or cultural identity regardless of what legal framework accompanies it. But the United States as a POLITICAL and LEGAL ENTITY does not exist without the Constitution. 1/
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
There will be moments when you wonder if it's pointless to do the right and ethical thing; to still care about justice and helping others when it seems like the worst people are getting to rob everyone else without consequences. Little actions still matter. Ethics still matter. Keep helping others.
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Alyssa MacKenzie @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Disrupt. And we disrupt by refusing to comply, pushing back against this absolute nonsense, and being vocal about what's happening, in a level that indicates how serious this moment in time is and how it is OVERWHELMINGLY unacceptable. What would YOU do to save your country? Your loved ones?
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Judging from the trailers, the production premise of "Fanastic Four: First Steps" seems to be that F4 is an artifact of the 1960s and must be presented as such. Given the failures of the previous attempts, this may be the best working theory.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The 45/47 strategy at this point is to build as much unilateral control by one man as possible. The individual policies are nauseating, but he’ll sacrifice any one of them to get more of an iron grip elsewhere. /1
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Resisters in WW2 frequently used the appearance of well-intentioned incompetence to great effect.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I have two (2) award-eligible short stories from 2024, so I'll remind you of them: -- "Tamaza's Future and Mine", @asimovssfmag.bsky.social (July/Aug 2024). -- "Winding Sheets", @lightspeedmagazine.com (#173, Oct 2024).
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Brief thread on how we got here: Since the GOP won control of the House 2 years ago they have not passed a single appropriations package into law. Government has operated at funding levels set by Dems 2 years ago via continuing resolutions every few months. This is not normal.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Just for the record: I am *not* going to read every story ever written on/with a given theme, topic, setting, trope, technology, character quirk, magic system, or gimmick before writing one myself. I am not even going to read the "essential" ones. "This has been done before" is okay with me.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
December 8 again. The anniversary of the deaths of my father, my grandfather, and (yeah) John Lennon. Not my favorite day. *sigh*
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It doesn't matter that you're a lousy poker player, if everyone else at the table is worse.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I am now being followed by more people than I am following (and I haven’t been stingy with following people). This is the first time it’s happened to me, and I don’t quite know what to make of it.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is the problem: No more vice-presidential nominees named Tim.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The cats and I continue to have disagreements about the lox.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I cannot tell you the number of times a writer, teacher, or other artist has recounted a moment when a stranger (or apparent stranger) told them that some fragment of their work had been crucial, life-changing (even life-saving) for that person. It even happened to me once. /1
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Power was out for about one hour and 45 minutes. From the “bang“ I heard just as it went, I’m guessing a transformer blew.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I seem to have a lot more followers than two days ago. 😉 Welcome, everyone! The content of these posts will be variously literary, political, personal, astronomical, culinary, and sometimes shameless self-promotion. These will land in no reliable order. 😂 I have no patience with sloppy thinking.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If one more person tells me that the SCOTUS decision that the president is immune from CRIMINAL PROSECUTION is the same thing as saying the president's actions are LEGAL, I'm going to throw something. /1
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Economically, we are almost exactly on track for a Great Depression to hit 100 years from the first one. Think of the election of 2024 as the election of 1924, and extrapolate. Look at US foreign debt and the prospect of substituting tariffs for high-income taxes.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
While it’s entirely possible that Trump is serious about Gaetz, look for a bait-and-switch: Senate Repubs get ornery & outraged about MLG2, 45/47 withdraws him & substitutes someone just as scarily compliant, but -- (cont'd) /1
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
All opinions expressed herein are STRICTLY AND ENTIRELY MY OWN, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, any organization to which I belong, my relatives, or the nice lady who sells flowers downtown.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I feel like an idiot, but I can't find the button that allows me to pin a post to the top of my feed. (I need a these-opinions-are-solely-mine disclaimer so my employer doesn't freak out about all the political posts I'm going to make.)
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I do not offer comfort. This is going to be bad, and in some ways, very bad. And yes, we all need to be planning and strategizing, protecting ourselves and trying to protect others, and, oh yeah, trying to save the country while we're at it. /1
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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The Mythic Delirium Zoom reading on Saturday 23 November is a who's who of SFF voices over the past 2+ decades--take a look at the list of participants! One or several of your faves will be there. Come join us! (list of participants in the replies) www.eventbrite.com/e/mythic-del...
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Mythic Delirium's 26th Year Anniversary Reading
Mythic Delirium is a quarter of century... plus 1!... years old! Join poets & writers to celebrate 26 years of the beautiful and strange!
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Marcheto's anthology "Cuentos para Algenon: Año XI" has won the Ignotus Award (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo, I'm told) in the Best Foreign Collection/Anthology category. It contains Marcheto's translation of my story "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition…[etc]". Delighted.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Horrified for the future of my country, frightened for the safety of millions of people here and around the world, angry at half my countrymen for actually wanting this, and ashamed for having failed. More coherent thoughts later.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Not sure whether to call this Keating's Law or Lupin's Law, but: . "The students who need the most individual attention from you will always have commitments during your posted office hours."
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
I'm delighted to report that my new short story "Winding Sheets" has just become available on @lightspeedmagazine.com! It includes an audio version read by the incomparable Stefan Rudnicki! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/wind...
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Winding Sheets - Lightspeed Magazine
Gallam didn’t look at the clothes the family provided until he had already prepared the body. “Prepared” was putting it mildly: the man was covered in wounds---blade wounds? Bite wounds? Gouges, rips,...
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
One marker of a good panel is that is makes you want to write something new, or in a new way. #readercon
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Boston-area peeps: The first night of @readercon.bsky.social (tonight) is open to the public and free of charge! One of those free events will be my reading of my story ”Tamaza’s Future and Mine”, 8:00 p.m. in Salon C. The convention takes place at the Marriott Boston Quincy, Quincy MA.
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
This is Manoug, the new kitten. He has taken to launching himself onto my shirt from various positions, then clawing his way around until he gets comfortable.
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Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine @asimovssfmag.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
Get to know Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social in our latest blog post. The humanities professor and amateur astronomer makes his long-awaited Asimov's debut in our July/August issue with the story "Tamaza's Future and Mine" [asimovs.com/store] fromearthtothestars.com/2024/07/09/q...
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Q&A With Ken Schneyer
After thirty-three rejections, Ken Schneyer makes his Asimov's debut with the story "Tamaza's Future and Mine" in our [July/August issue, on sale now!]. In the following Q&A, discover more about Ken's...
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Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
My schedule for Readercon: kenschneyer.com/2024/07/02/m...
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My schedule for Readercon 33, Boston Marriott Quincy, July 11-14, 2024
I'll be at Readercon for roughly the twelfth (12th) time this year. Here's my schedule: Reading: Salon C Thursday, July 11, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT I'll be reading from my story "Tamaza's Future and Mine", ...
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
@asimovssfmag.bsky.social #FavoriteStories Jul/Aug 2024 #Fantasy #SF Tamaza’s Future and Mine by Kenneth Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social A deep, deep undercover agent confronts moral quandaries and questions about her very being—a more thoughtful and contemplative riff on “The Americans” narrative
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