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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 25/09/2026

My latest short story Cronus Krumbach, appears today. If wealth and transhumanism scare you, see what happens when the children of oligarchs have their say. hexfiled.com

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HEXFILED — SF & Speculative Fiction

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 11/09/2026

My speculative fiction short story. Goddess Class, came out yesterday in Cetera Magazine. If you are interested in the commodification of social hierarchies and the lies we tell ourselves to go to work every day, check it out! www.ceteramagazine.com

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Cetera Magazine

Read something you didn't expect.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 12/02/2026

Veruca. It means wart in Latin.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 05/02/2026

Yeah, Ursula is my fave. I wish there were more like her.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 07/11/2025

Tell me a work of speculative fiction you've read recently that made you fall back in love with the genre. But it needs to: 1. Grapple with big ideas. 2. Not involve time travel. (I'm not feeling that one right now).

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 11/10/2025

Just finished a short story today that spans 9 years. I thought about the guideline that the timespan should be narrow for short stories, but it’s just a guideline. You may break that guideline!

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 03/10/2025

A good paragraph does a lot of things simultaneously. A great paragraph does lots of things simultaneously while the reader focuses on only one thing.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 02/09/2025

#writing I just discovered I have aphantasia. How many other of you writers have it?

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 31/08/2025

It surely is. Because of the way I process language, it is much harder for me to listen to a book than to read it. But there should be no hierarchy of reading>listening.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 31/08/2025

I have a question for neuroscientists and education specialists: Does anyone know what percentage of people can actually lose themselves in a book? What if, like dyslexia, there are a lot of people who can't do this? Maybe we should stop treating it like a moral failing.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 31/08/2025

As someone who grew up in the 80's, I have been confused about why younger people are nostalgic for them. The 80's were boring. Crushingly boring. Now I realize that the 80's were the last time society and technology were changing slowly enough for most people to keep up. And that's what we miss.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 30/07/2025

I had my grandmother’s copy of this book and cherished it. Then my husband let my toddler rip it up. I must look in to getting a new copy.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 18/07/2025

Dictatorships whose rulers rape girls on an industrial scale. Based on a true story, written by a master. Timely. Read it in Spanish if you can.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 11/07/2025

I'm training myself to stop using moral panic ("I'm outraged, heartbroken, terrified") more sparingly as a form of protest. More than just feeding the trolls, it saps our energy and signals to others that this is what "good" people are doing to resist.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 10/07/2025

Yeah, that's right. I misremembered. But it's still gross that he won't get together with his old flame because she's too old for him now. The Haydee character is stomach-turning.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 09/07/2025

Whaa? I love Vanity Fair. The end of TCOMC is pretty gross (he gets together with his lost love's daughter? Yuck!)

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 08/07/2025

Chthonic. One of my favorite words. Also, autochthonous.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 18/06/2025

So many posts about getting words in like it's physical exercise. That's not how my creative process works. When I'm on fire, I write 20,000 words a day. When I'm not, there's no point in sqeezing junk out of myself. How do you nurture your creativity? #writing

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 16/06/2025

Possibly the coolest British-Mexican cultural mashup since Boy George discovered La Lucha.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 08/06/2025

If they are vacuuming up all our data, why can't they even sell us stuff we want? I question how powerful AI has really become if it can't come up with suggestions a fraction as good as a bookstore employee's. The profit motive is enormous and yet this is all they've got.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 07/06/2025

I got KU to try to understand how the recommendation algo works. Despite having close to 1000 rated books on GR, it gives me terrible recs. AI ought to be perfect for this, right? So why can't it connect me with great authors, esp indie?

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 07/06/2025

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 06/06/2025

Is he six feet tall, airborne, and melt airplane windows?

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 02/06/2025

Today I was standing in my yard and a big garbage truck stopped. The driver got out of the cab and walked over to me. He said, "Your garden looks really amazing!" I think this is the nicest thing that has happened to me in like, ever? Hooray for sanitary waste collectors!

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 22/05/2025

You think taking a civics class would make them act better?

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 19/05/2025

First two were good. Then he repeats himself.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 13/05/2025

The Earth Abides. Solaris. Roadside Picnic.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 12/05/2025

I actually had pineapple protein disks in my dystopian novel! This one looks a lot better than what I came up with.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 09/05/2025

Read Bullshit Jobs. It's all about status and power.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 07/05/2025

My 13-year old approves of your taste.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 02/05/2025

Love it, but please check your spelling of Chekhov! (He's like my personal hero...)

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 30/04/2025

Today’s technology is tomorrow’s handicrafts. People in a rush to get the next new thing lose the secrets of old technology.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 30/04/2025

This is very interesting. I'll need to think on this.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 30/04/2025

I think it meets the criteria for dystopia better. From Wikipedia: "A dystopia is a society characterized by a focus on that which is contrary to the author's ethos, such as mass poverty, public mistrust and suspicion, a police state or oppression."

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 30/04/2025

Sounds like you're a pochemuchka.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 29/04/2025

Umm...Public health (clean water, air, vaccinations)?

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 25/04/2025

This is what an American hero looks like

Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 25/04/2025

Trump voters: Dog who caught car x2, won't take driver's ed because it's "Deep State."

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 25/04/2025

Scientists are fascinated by nature. Technologists are fascinated by power. Which are you?

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 24/04/2025

Join me this Sunday, April 27, in Kensington, Maryland! I'll be selling copies of Eusbio's Tale, the first volume of the Way of Deep Time.

Flier for the Kensington, MD Day of the Book Festival April 27.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 23/04/2025

Knowledge workers: You probably learned to stop being a know-it-all if you are an employed adult, esp if female. The corrupt use this as a wedge to keep you from calling out stupidity. Speak up! Incompetence is the flipside of corruption.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 22/04/2025

RFK Jr says he didn't know anyone with autism growing up. This is exactly like someone in 1980 saying they didn't know any gay people growing up. Does he know how much internalized self-hatred he is creating, or is this part of the plan? #autism

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 17/04/2025

The Earth Abides by George R. Stewart would be perfect if you haven't already read it. Ultimate dystopian US road trip, written in the 1940's. This guy really saw it coming.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 17/04/2025

To understand the weird nexus of wellness culture and fear of autism that is RFK Jr, read Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. Then read Neurotribes to see what fascists do to autistic children. Upshot: People who are different scare people who are afraid of their own weakness and mortality.

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Carmen Clarke @wayofdeeptime.com · 14/04/2025

May I present Clarke's razor: Never attribute to vibes what can be explained by mustering the stamina to articulate a fuzzy thought or feeling.

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