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My #Nebulas2022 Schedule

Curtis Chen
May 15, 2022
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I’ll be on two panels at the SFWA Nebula Conference (ONLINE) next weekend: “Finding the Right Literary Agent & Maintaining Your Sanity Along the Way” (Sunday, May 22, 2022, at 3:00 PM Pacific time) also with Emmeline Duncan, Stina Leicht,…

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My Norwescon 44 Schedule

Curtis Chen
March 22, 2022
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It’s been more than two years since my last in-person convention, but I’m headed back out there next month. Norwescon’s concom has been consistently transparent about their safety policies, including drawing a hard line at requiring all attendees to be…

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Lucky Thirteens

Curtis Chen
April 19, 2021
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In the spring of 2008, I changed my life. I was 34 years old, and for the previous 13 years–starting when I graduated from university with a bachelor’s degree in computer science–I had been working in Silicon Valley as a…

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My CoNZealand Schedule

Curtis Chen
July 24, 2020
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Most of us won’t be in New Zealand for Worldcon this year #becauseofthepandemic but there will still be plenty of online programming to overwhelm everyone, as per usual. Here’s what I’m up to next week (links go to Grenadine): 17:00,…

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Happy Captain Picard Day

Curtis Chen
June 16, 2020
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Roughly four years and three months ago, something happened in Portland, Oregon (and on the internet). Something… Wunderful. The Oregonian reported on it at the time: “Google Maps prank officially renames Portland’s Tilikum Crossing after Captain Picard.” And a few…

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All Words are Black

Curtis Chen
June 15, 2020
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You may have seen the #BlackoutBestsellerList and #BlackPublishingPower tags trending on social media in the past few days. TL;DR: sometime this week, buy at least two books written by Black authors to show the publishing industry that readers want more…

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In Which LOCUS Brings Me News of the World

Curtis Chen
June 3, 2020
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(The publishing world, that is.) Because I am a bad friend, it wasn’t until I got this month’s issue of LOCUS Magazine that I learned of two recent book deals involving awesome writers. But now I’m so excited I have…

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#NEBULAS2020

Curtis Chen
May 25, 2020
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This coming weekend is the SFWA Nebula Conference Online, where this year’s Nebula Awards (for works published in 2019) will be presented. The whole event is virtual this year, so we’ll all be watching the same awards ceremony livestream on Saturday night. And…

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Research Rathole: Three Hamburgers a Week?!

Curtis Chen
May 7, 2020
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Who the hell eats three hamburgers every week?

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Three Months of Free Fiction!

Curtis Chen
April 30, 2020
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Okay, don’t get too excited: I’m only posting one thing every month, so it’s just three short stories. But they are all new, original works, and explicitly in conversation with the current state of the world… February: “Cats Don’t Care…

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Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇)

Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis now writes fiction and runs puzzle games near Portland, Oregon. His debut novel WAYPOINT KANGAROO is a science fiction thriller about a superpowered spy facing his toughest mission yet: vacation. The sequel, KANGAROO TOO, sends our hero to the Moon!

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