T. R. Napper
@TheEscherMan
Nuance is punk. Neon Leviathan (Collected Stories) (2020) 36 Streets (2022) Ghost of the Neon God (2024) The Escher Man (2024) Repped by @jabbermaster
My Aurealis Award trophy arrived today. Gorgeous. Wrote a short article (linked) about the award, what it means to me, and included an excerpt from my acceptance speech, where I speak to the diabolical issue of AI in our art. nappertime.com/ghost-of-the-n…
Five Decembers. Absolutely gripping. One of the best noirs I have read in some time (and I read a lot). Five stars. @HardCaseCrime
Daybreak over Lake Yamanaka, by Kawase Hasui, 1931
Gandalf the Grey by Even Amundsen
Brilliant poster for Blade Runner by @Gokaiju #BladeRunner
reading was such a cornerstone of my childhood, so it breaks my heart that fewer children are reading for fun :( and will thus never experience the exhilaration that comes with staying up past your bedtime bc you can’t put a good book down
reading was such a cornerstone of my childhood, so it breaks my heart that fewer children are reading for fun :( and will thus never experience the exhilaration that comes with staying up past your bedtime bc you can’t put a good book down
No. Ignore this. You are capable of reading books again. The brain is highly malleable and you only need a few screen-free weeks to recover your focus. You will be amazed how quickly the hunger for reading returns. You will be inhaling words
If you haven’t read Proust already, forget it mate. Your brain is destroyed from short term dopamine burst addiction and algorithmic k-hole content.
Had a great conversation with Jonathan on his #Booktube channel, Words in Time (great, except for me being terrible at pitching my own work). 5 SF novel recommendations, including two of my all-time favourites: shorturl.at/bfYWz
Creators share far & wide please! A US Senator is taking a *hard* stand against AI theft of copyright & personal data No matter your party, we need to support & amplify 📢
What is AI doing with your personal information? Stealing it. Selling it. Getting rich off it. It’s time to start protecting the American people
It's not often you see a book with almost 200 reviews get this far without a single one star review and only one two-star--especially a short story collection. But there is a reason for that: @TheEscherMan is one of the best short story authors in the modern SF market. 1/2
I saw someone saying that they thought scrolling was affecting their memory formation, because it teaches the brain to immediately discard what it just saw to situate itself in a new context, over and over again. Something to this I think
No, we need human artists because the tech industry is trying to abolish creative fields entirely. Don't let them snuff the divine spark that drives you to write and create, because that is your defense against a world that's increasingly hostile to what is human in us.
it feels so crazy tryna pursue a creative career while the world is like this right now
Current read by @TheEscherMan Loving everything this book is doing with memory. Pure genius cyberpunk.
Some thoughts on generative AI, the propaganda that supports it, why we need human art, and how we fight back, "It's The People, Stupid (Human Art in a Company World)": nappertime.com/its-the-people…