Hilariously, my last news post was my 2021 eligibility post. It’s not that nothing has been happening — I’ve apparently just gotten very bad at updating here. Huh, I suppose I should do a post soon about preorders for The Water Outlaws now being available…
But that post is not this one!
In 2022, I had three publications available for awards consideration.
BEST RELATED WORK / NONFICTION
The Ghost of Workshops Past: How Communism, Conservatism, and the Cold War Still Mold Our Paths Into SFF Writing (Tor.com, 7,000 words, August 2022)
A deep dive into the history of SFF workshops and their pedagogy that sparked a lot of discussion in genre.
I wrote about 60,000 words while putting this piece together (even if only 7k ended up in the final product), and interviewed over 80 people. I also posted a little more about the process and extra community and historical information on Twitter here.
This article has now been BSFA longlisted!
NOVELETTE
“Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” (7850 words, Clarkesworld)
This is a short near-future SF novelette. It won top story of the month from Compelling SF, with the commentary “It’s rare that I see near-future AI stories that really feel true-to-life and are also page-turners, Huang knocked this one out of the park.” Reviewer Vanessa Fogg recommends it with “A truly thought-provoking piece on automated chatbots, healers, and trolls. And our own culpability in the birth of technology’s demons.”
Content notes (ROT13): Unenffzrag/fgnyxvat, fhvpvqr (aba-tencuvp, abg ol n cebgntbavfg be CBI punenpgre)
SHORT STORY
“The Ship Cat of the Suzaku Maru” (4700 words, Outland Entertainment)
This story appears in Outland Entertainment’s Bridge to Elsewhere anthology. It’s about a cat on a ship. A most excellent cat. Who has an adventure…