J.D. Robinson - SF Author

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data LLMs memorize more training data than previously thought.

Think maybe Anthropic got off easy?

Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier.

Show of hands for SF authors who’ve hidden fun shit in the Kuiper Belt 🙋
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I’ll never get used to the alien in the mirror. I try not to think about it too much…the brain says to itself.

Probably says too much about me that I first saw this image as gravitational lensing around a black hole. #everythingisscifi

So good! Also, love publicly naming the designer/agency, particularly in this sloppy era! I’ve made an effort to call out the whole team—artists, editors, agents, etc.—by name.

So glad you enjoyed the story! Really appreciate your mind words! 🚀

Kind of reassuring that it’s really out there somewhere, IMO.

But now give me Deckard’s apartment, please? *sigh* I’ve long wished Syd Mead could have designed my home. (Or just everything.)

It’s in downtown Los Angeles, California. One might miss it from the outside, because it just looks like an old brick building. But the interior is (still!) an ornate wrought iron wonder.

I don’t suppose “people grieve in different ways” would impress your editor here. ;)

I looove the Bradbury Building! I went out of my way to visit it the first time as a kind of pilgrimage. So odd to think people are just working in (what’s become) a legendary landmark. My coworkers would grow tired of me saying, “Home again, home again…” every morning.

I look forward to sharing more! Now back to it. :)

Oh you know, a group of misfits working for a secretive agency investigating stranger and stranger incidents, all leading…well, somewhere. That’s the fun! 🤞

Trying my hand at an urban sci-fi trilogy, spooky portals in the city, with humor. A little Fringe, a little X-Files, a little Men In Black. It’s a fun sandbox to play in, with tasty group dynamics. Do you have faves in that genre?

When I learned about block universe theory, it made a lot of things I’d been thinking fall into place. I knew immediately that I had to feature it in a story, while staying centered on the human experience. (This novel got me an agent, more TBA…)

So this is my weird thing, but it makes sense IMO!

During writing breaks, I watch videos about seemingly unrelated things, like *looks at viewing history* rendering tech, higher dimensions, sound processing info, etc. But these do influence (infect?) my thinking about character development, plot structure, and social dynamics. #amwriting

Having to do an interview or any publicity. Social phobia means writing happily in darkness. (It was difficult enough uploading a photo avatar!)

Spam email screenshot

“Hi, I can’t even be arsed to link my template variables to the database of names I stole. I’m offering anything of value to the world.”

Hm, I must know of your marketing roadmap forthwith!

We’re clearly project twins. House currently looks like a disaster movie—ragged holes where walls used to be, exposed everything, dangly bits everywhere—and getting bids is my side gig at the moment.

And you know this is all working its way into the writing…

Yay, deliciously weird! And somehow reassuring.

My father was shocked that I scramble my eggs as they’re cooking rather than *waves hands* however other people do it, with 17 extra steps. I was free and didn’t even appreciate it!

I love tautology and wordplay, and my fave must be an apocryphal quote from Maynard James Keenan. Asked what his band’s name “Puscifer” means, he may or may not have responded, “‘What does Puscifer mean?’ is what Puscifer means.”

It’s such a perfect semantic recursion. Doesn’t need to be true.

(This made me wonder in passing … are introverts more inclined to use commas and ellipses, not to mention parentheses? Could be a me thing.)

Disclosure Day | Official Teaser YouTube video by Universal Pictures

Spielberg and Koepp, back at it. I like big bold sci-fi spectacle. I want to feel like I felt when I first saw Close Encounters. Not sure about the repeated references to a universal “He” but I suppose that’s how humans might respond. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6... #scifi

Fruitful conversation today, talking with the agent and a Sr. editor about craft and approach for my time travel novel, Chronophore…

…after I signed into the wrong Zoom, then earbuds failed, then reactivated, then hands shook getting them back into the damned case.

Then I apologized, like a boss.

(Gen-X slips by unnoticed, like a ghost—whee!)

Really like the lush look of new cover, definitely conveys “chronicles.” And a tip of the hat to your brother, and your lovely tribute(s) to him.

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Pretty sure it’s *not* Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). Oof.

Also makes me feel sad for email, which was a haven for wordy, nerdy introverties. Now it’s more a target for slop engines, and filters are working overtime to claw back any signal:noise.