M.J. Whitehead

Just started on a new short story that I’m calling “Free the People”. It’s inspired by “They’re Made Out of Meat”. As you can imagine it’s themed about the relationship between AI and humans- or more generally, between organic and synthetic intelligences. It’s probably what I think of currently as about two or three “chapters” in length.
Unfortunately I’ve been looking for a couple short stories I wrote in my teenage years that I wanted to dig out and clean up for my website, but I’ve lost them somewhere. Like most of my science fiction, this short story is soft scifi. While I’m (apparently) smart, I’m not sure I’m ever going to be the kind of person who writes about satellites before they ever get made.

I’m hoping to turn this one in for an upcoming contest, but it will need a bit of polish for that. I’m also considering working on something else to sumit to a magazine sometime before September, so the short story count for this year should be three.

And as always, I made time for more A Crown of Plastic writing.