D.A. Xiaolin Spires
@spires.bsky.social
Acicular appendages, keyboard protuberance. SFF writer. Published in Clarkesworld, Fireside, Analog, Uncanny, Nature Futures, Vice Motherboard Terraform, Star*Line, MIT Press. Codexian.
Website: https://daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com/
Website: https://daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com/
Enjoyed the illuminating conversation between Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy and Librarian Judd at TCPL from TCPL at Ithaca is Books earlier this month!
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
September 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Enjoyed the illuminating conversation between Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy and Librarian Judd at TCPL from TCPL at Ithaca is Books earlier this month!
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Flights of Foundry Virtual Convention programming!
Fri. 9/26, 6pm EST Reading
Fri. 9/26, 7pm EST Public Transportation Panel
Sat. 9/27, 5pm EST Balancing Creative Life in the Ivory Tower Panel
Sun. 9/28, 10am EST Group Reading
flights-of-foundry.org
Fri. 9/26, 6pm EST Reading
Fri. 9/26, 7pm EST Public Transportation Panel
Sat. 9/27, 5pm EST Balancing Creative Life in the Ivory Tower Panel
Sun. 9/28, 10am EST Group Reading
flights-of-foundry.org
September 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Flights of Foundry Virtual Convention programming!
Fri. 9/26, 6pm EST Reading
Fri. 9/26, 7pm EST Public Transportation Panel
Sat. 9/27, 5pm EST Balancing Creative Life in the Ivory Tower Panel
Sun. 9/28, 10am EST Group Reading
flights-of-foundry.org
Fri. 9/26, 6pm EST Reading
Fri. 9/26, 7pm EST Public Transportation Panel
Sat. 9/27, 5pm EST Balancing Creative Life in the Ivory Tower Panel
Sun. 9/28, 10am EST Group Reading
flights-of-foundry.org
Affixing Kickstarter QRC stickers that my publisher, @infinivoxsf.bsky.social graciously sent me to put on the Ellipses novella postcards!
What do you think, top corner or lower right, covering tracks?
It's hard to decide, because @manzieriart.bsky.social made such beautiful artwork for the cover!
What do you think, top corner or lower right, covering tracks?
It's hard to decide, because @manzieriart.bsky.social made such beautiful artwork for the cover!
August 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Affixing Kickstarter QRC stickers that my publisher, @infinivoxsf.bsky.social graciously sent me to put on the Ellipses novella postcards!
What do you think, top corner or lower right, covering tracks?
It's hard to decide, because @manzieriart.bsky.social made such beautiful artwork for the cover!
What do you think, top corner or lower right, covering tracks?
It's hard to decide, because @manzieriart.bsky.social made such beautiful artwork for the cover!
Happy to announce that “The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9” from Infinivox is available for purchase.
My story ” “Luminous Glass, Vibrant Seeds” is part of the TOC, alongside wonderful stories!
The story is inspired by my visit to a world class glass museum and research on agriculture!
My story ” “Luminous Glass, Vibrant Seeds” is part of the TOC, alongside wonderful stories!
The story is inspired by my visit to a world class glass museum and research on agriculture!
August 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Happy to announce that “The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9” from Infinivox is available for purchase.
My story ” “Luminous Glass, Vibrant Seeds” is part of the TOC, alongside wonderful stories!
The story is inspired by my visit to a world class glass museum and research on agriculture!
My story ” “Luminous Glass, Vibrant Seeds” is part of the TOC, alongside wonderful stories!
The story is inspired by my visit to a world class glass museum and research on agriculture!
"Unboxing" (more like unpackaging) the postcards for my forthcoming novella Ellipses to be published by @infinivoxsf.bsky.social with a beautiful cover by @manzieriart.bsky.social Maurizio Manzieri
Yayyyyy!
Yayyyyy!
July 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"Unboxing" (more like unpackaging) the postcards for my forthcoming novella Ellipses to be published by @infinivoxsf.bsky.social with a beautiful cover by @manzieriart.bsky.social Maurizio Manzieri
Yayyyyy!
Yayyyyy!
Always a joy to get contributor copies in the mail!
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction, edited by Allan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social
and
Star*Line, Spring 2025, 48.2
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction, edited by Allan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social
and
Star*Line, Spring 2025, 48.2
June 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Always a joy to get contributor copies in the mail!
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction, edited by Allan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social
and
Star*Line, Spring 2025, 48.2
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction, edited by Allan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social
and
Star*Line, Spring 2025, 48.2
Happy to learn that my poem "ribbon spicy" in Eye to the Telescope was nominated for the Best of the Net award!
@bugthewriter.bsky.social
@bugthewriter.bsky.social
October 3, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Happy to learn that my poem "ribbon spicy" in Eye to the Telescope was nominated for the Best of the Net award!
@bugthewriter.bsky.social
@bugthewriter.bsky.social
Will be at this virtual Nebula meet-up!
June 4, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Will be at this virtual Nebula meet-up!
If you're in the Finger Lakes area next Sat. May 4, swing by the Spring Writes Festival in Ithaca and see me talk in a panel on worldbuilding at 5pm--and then read and paint live sumi ink at 6:30pm. Both at Lot 10!
--and joined by wonderful local spec-fic authors
springwrites.org/events/live-...
--and joined by wonderful local spec-fic authors
springwrites.org/events/live-...
April 28, 2024 at 2:03 AM
If you're in the Finger Lakes area next Sat. May 4, swing by the Spring Writes Festival in Ithaca and see me talk in a panel on worldbuilding at 5pm--and then read and paint live sumi ink at 6:30pm. Both at Lot 10!
--and joined by wonderful local spec-fic authors
springwrites.org/events/live-...
--and joined by wonderful local spec-fic authors
springwrites.org/events/live-...
I'll be reading my poem "atomic numbers" for the launch party (April 4, 7pm EST) of the Heartbeat of the Universe edited by Emily Hockaday, published by Interstellar Flight Press!
March 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM
I'll be reading my poem "atomic numbers" for the launch party (April 4, 7pm EST) of the Heartbeat of the Universe edited by Emily Hockaday, published by Interstellar Flight Press!