Douglas A. Van Belle
@dougvanbelle.bsky.social
New Zealand Science Fiction author and Senior Lecturer in Media and the Politics of Crisis, My Latest Novel, A World Adrift, is now available from Wordfire Press in the U.S.
https://wordfirepress.com/books/a-world-adrift/
https://wordfirepress.com/books/a-world-adrift/
September 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Hey Chuck, my kids are big fans and would be over the moon if you gave their radio drama podcast a listen. It's a whole new genre, Customer Service Dystopian Satire. Cheers. Doug
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September 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Hey Chuck, my kids are big fans and would be over the moon if you gave their radio drama podcast a listen. It's a whole new genre, Customer Service Dystopian Satire. Cheers. Doug
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Episode 4 of the kids' podcast just dropped! I'm writing Ep 7 for them right now
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September 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Episode 4 of the kids' podcast just dropped! I'm writing Ep 7 for them right now
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My poster at the Penn State SETI symposium
August 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My poster at the Penn State SETI symposium
Worldcon 2025. This is the most magnificent convention space I have ever seen
August 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Worldcon 2025. This is the most magnificent convention space I have ever seen
For those of you with kids at WorldCon, I'll be bringing some copies of my young reader's book, which is almost impossible to get outside of New Zealand, to my Autograph Session on Friday 10:30-11:30. Free for kids.
July 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
For those of you with kids at WorldCon, I'll be bringing some copies of my young reader's book, which is almost impossible to get outside of New Zealand, to my Autograph Session on Friday 10:30-11:30. Free for kids.
The best part is that plate tectonics move us farther from the US every day.
July 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The best part is that plate tectonics move us farther from the US every day.
June 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Just FYI for anyone wondering if the Exoplanet images being posted are AI. Here are the best, highest-resolution images to date. 9 pixels.
June 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Just FYI for anyone wondering if the Exoplanet images being posted are AI. Here are the best, highest-resolution images to date. 9 pixels.
The Dezombinator 750 EH
June 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The Dezombinator 750 EH
My office manager
June 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My office manager
Pretty damn chuffed to announce that I have officially been appointed as the Academic Track Convenor for the 2026 World Science Fiction Convention in LA.
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May 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Pretty damn chuffed to announce that I have officially been appointed as the Academic Track Convenor for the 2026 World Science Fiction Convention in LA.
www.lacon.org
www.lacon.org
I sent out emails to all the people on the academic track today. If you were expecting one and didn't receive one, check the good old spam folder and if not there, email me.
Doug
Doug
May 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I sent out emails to all the people on the academic track today. If you were expecting one and didn't receive one, check the good old spam folder and if not there, email me.
Doug
Doug
Welcome to Bad Bunny Blue-Bury'um, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Possum Corpse Citrus, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dead Possum Orchards, the world-wide leader in sustainable necro-culture farming.
May 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Welcome to Bad Bunny Blue-Bury'um, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Possum Corpse Citrus, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dead Possum Orchards, the world-wide leader in sustainable necro-culture farming.
The average American has three friends.
The above average American has these three friends.
The above average American has these three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The average American has three friends.
The above average American has these three friends.
The above average American has these three friends.
I would like to thank the Trumpster student who so thoughtfully took the time to send me a lengthy email explaining why and how FDR was a failure as a president. I feel so enlightened and at your insistence, I will surely correct that for the next edition.
April 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I would like to thank the Trumpster student who so thoughtfully took the time to send me a lengthy email explaining why and how FDR was a failure as a president. I feel so enlightened and at your insistence, I will surely correct that for the next edition.
April 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
HooDoo Gurus in Wellington last night.
Bit of an odd show and not their best performance to be honest. Celebrating the anniversary of their first album, they opened by playing it straight through. From there, a bunch of B sides and rarely played songs, with just a scattering of their hits.
Bit of an odd show and not their best performance to be honest. Celebrating the anniversary of their first album, they opened by playing it straight through. From there, a bunch of B sides and rarely played songs, with just a scattering of their hits.
April 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
HooDoo Gurus in Wellington last night.
Bit of an odd show and not their best performance to be honest. Celebrating the anniversary of their first album, they opened by playing it straight through. From there, a bunch of B sides and rarely played songs, with just a scattering of their hits.
Bit of an odd show and not their best performance to be honest. Celebrating the anniversary of their first album, they opened by playing it straight through. From there, a bunch of B sides and rarely played songs, with just a scattering of their hits.
My agent decided that me holding a pair of my Dezombinator 700, 'kitchen knives' was a good cover photo for my info-packet for the post-apocalypse draft. I was leaning toward something trebuchet-themed.
April 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
My agent decided that me holding a pair of my Dezombinator 700, 'kitchen knives' was a good cover photo for my info-packet for the post-apocalypse draft. I was leaning toward something trebuchet-themed.
This is why AI cannot be trusted, not even to touch up a photo for a pitch deck. The sunset is all wrong!
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is why AI cannot be trusted, not even to touch up a photo for a pitch deck. The sunset is all wrong!