Jakob Nielsen
@jakobgn.bsky.social
Aspiring writer, manic science fiction reader, unapologetic literary studies PhD. Based in Aarhus, Denmark.
I'm an aspiring sci-fi writer and lover of everything space travel. Which magazines should I be reading (and/or submitting to)?
August 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I'm an aspiring sci-fi writer and lover of everything space travel. Which magazines should I be reading (and/or submitting to)?
Today, I feel inspired (and maybe provoked?) by this line from Cixin Liu's postscript to The Three Body Problem: "I’ve always felt that the greatest and most beautiful stories in the history of humanity were not sung by wandering bards or written by playwrights and novelists, but told by science."
August 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today, I feel inspired (and maybe provoked?) by this line from Cixin Liu's postscript to The Three Body Problem: "I’ve always felt that the greatest and most beautiful stories in the history of humanity were not sung by wandering bards or written by playwrights and novelists, but told by science."
"After 800 years orbiting Neptune, I’m not easily surprised, but this is pretty god damn surprising. Not surprising like when you find a hair in your soup. Surprising like when you wake up from cold sleep and find a MUSHROOM the size of a refrigerator growing inside your space station."
August 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"After 800 years orbiting Neptune, I’m not easily surprised, but this is pretty god damn surprising. Not surprising like when you find a hair in your soup. Surprising like when you wake up from cold sleep and find a MUSHROOM the size of a refrigerator growing inside your space station."
A snip from my current sci-fi manuscript:
"Awoken by the pulsing substrate around it, a direclaw cracks its joints in glacial shrieks as if shrugging off the mountain behind it, and as it raises its thorax above the bedrock, its skeletal legs lunge jaggedly into slow, stomping motion."
AI visual:
"Awoken by the pulsing substrate around it, a direclaw cracks its joints in glacial shrieks as if shrugging off the mountain behind it, and as it raises its thorax above the bedrock, its skeletal legs lunge jaggedly into slow, stomping motion."
AI visual:
May 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A snip from my current sci-fi manuscript:
"Awoken by the pulsing substrate around it, a direclaw cracks its joints in glacial shrieks as if shrugging off the mountain behind it, and as it raises its thorax above the bedrock, its skeletal legs lunge jaggedly into slow, stomping motion."
AI visual:
"Awoken by the pulsing substrate around it, a direclaw cracks its joints in glacial shrieks as if shrugging off the mountain behind it, and as it raises its thorax above the bedrock, its skeletal legs lunge jaggedly into slow, stomping motion."
AI visual:
Introducing my new office buddy, The Right Honorable Rev. Spindler 🕸️
May 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Introducing my new office buddy, The Right Honorable Rev. Spindler 🕸️
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Future book news here: a new Children book next year and three other SF to come from Pan MacMillan.
It's so exciting to have acquired more Adrian Tchaikovsky science fiction for @torbooksuk.bsky.social! These will be every bit as big, bold and exciting as you might imagine - starting with the epic Children of Strife (out next spring)! trade.panmacmillan.com/tor-uk-acqui... @aptshadow.bsky.social
Tor UK acquires four stellar novels by acclaimed storyteller Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Strife is the unmissable next volume set in the Children of Time universe, featuring epic adventure, first contact and the nature of intelligence among the stars. Adrian’s fiction has ceme...
trade.panmacmillan.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Future book news here: a new Children book next year and three other SF to come from Pan MacMillan.
My current sci-fi project. Would love ideas and inspiration, so please go nuts in the comments 👇👇
What's it about:
A lone orbital technician, stationed beyond Neptune, listens for signs of life. Then the transmission begins.
What follows isn’t a message—it’s a world.
What's it about:
A lone orbital technician, stationed beyond Neptune, listens for signs of life. Then the transmission begins.
What follows isn’t a message—it’s a world.
May 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
My current sci-fi project. Would love ideas and inspiration, so please go nuts in the comments 👇👇
What's it about:
A lone orbital technician, stationed beyond Neptune, listens for signs of life. Then the transmission begins.
What follows isn’t a message—it’s a world.
What's it about:
A lone orbital technician, stationed beyond Neptune, listens for signs of life. Then the transmission begins.
What follows isn’t a message—it’s a world.