Allan Dyen-Shapiro
Your Dystopia Has Problems
I recently broke down and paid for Hulu as part of the Disney Plus package that the BBC sellout to The Mouse necessitated if I was going...
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Allan Dyen-Shapiro
Science Fiction Author
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Oct 20
A Different Take on Gaza/Israel
I skipped the rallies—the stand-with-Israel as well as the stop-the-bloodshed ones. I neglected to gift the planet with self-righteous...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Jul 26
I Finally Read Darko Suvin. Now, I Can Explain How Some Fantasy Resonates with Me and Some Doesn’t.
My Ph.D. is in biochemistry, not in literature. Although science fiction writers without any advanced degree abound, and some are...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Jul 19
My Schedule for NASFIC
I sit in Minneapolis as I write this, planning to leave pre-dawn on Thursday morning and drive to Winnipeg for NASFIC. Here's what I'll...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Jul 5
Where to Find Me at Readercon
I figured I’d do this as a blog post as then I can link to it from all of my social media. This is in a little over a week—I’m very much...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Jun 24
Stories That Tell Lies
Fair warning—this post will go myriad places before making its point, but the journey is necessary. I promise it will return to science...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- May 6
THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
From time to time, I see an environmental science story where sufficient details are missing to make it unintelligible or, more often,...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Mar 17
A Really Amazing Use of Artificial Intelligence
I get a lot of science-related stuff in my email inbox. Only occasionally is it so cool that I’m willing to wade through a technical...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Feb 26
Breaking Better: Six Seasons, and I Didn’t See it Coming. Why?
Like many of you, I watched every episode of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, as well as El Camino and all of the web-and-DVD extras...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Dec 10, 2022
Thoughts on Farha: Why 850,000 Versus 800,000 is a Dumb and Destructive Argument
I watched the Jordanian candidate for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Farha, a few nights ago on Netflix. It personalizes the Nakba, the...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Aug 27, 2022
Biden Just Gifted the World Access to Science
Biden has demanded all scientific journals publishing papers with US government support provide the papers and all supplementary data for...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Aug 12, 2022
Someone Must Want to Hear Me: My WorldCon Schedule
I feel incredibly fortunate right now. With all the grumbling I've heard on social media of people being slighted for spots on...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Jul 7, 2022
When Somebody Else Achieves Your Life’s Goal and It Still Comes to Nothing
For fifteen years, from my submitting applications to fund my postdoc through my first faculty position, through political change leading...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Jun 10, 2022
John and Don: Lessons for the Future
The public phase of the Congressional hearings on the January 6th insurrection began yesterday. I saw a few clips and had to look away,...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- May 9, 2022
Counters and Typicals—Thoughts From The Candy House
I'm midway through reading a book whose publication date I noted on social media the day it was announced. I never do that. Even with...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Mar 25, 2022
GOPU Versus the God of Earthseed
I finally got around to reading Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. They had been hanging out on my Kindle...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Dec 22, 2021
A Letter to Joe Manchin
Hey, Joe. Allan here. Not one of your constituents, but we've got many West Virginia transplants living near me in Florida. I met one the...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Oct 2, 2021
Hope Signifies Something Different to the Privileged and the Marginalized
Melvin Van Peebles' obituaries finally prompted me to watch the classic movie that started Black independent cinema in the 1970s, Sweet...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Sep 19, 2021
Extending an Insight into Climate Denialism
I am writing this during the "lunch break" on the last day of FIYAHCON. Reading my own story at the virtual "tea house" last night was a...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Sep 4, 2021
Resisting the Urge to Get "Karbonned"
Karbon allows the user's body to function in autopilot mode, performing all the routine tasks expected of them while leaving the person...
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