Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️

Author of #LGBTQIA+ #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy #Books. Teacher of scientific writing. Lover of natural history. SFWA member. Faculty at UMass Amherst. Straw Dog Writers' Guild. #WesternMass #WesternMassachusetts (he/him)

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2024-07-25 14:51:41

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@npub10d5…vvxa There's nothing like a powerful storm to make you feel small and human. I'm glad you weathered the storm.

2024-02-22 14:49:33

#WordWeavers Joy of reading your own work?
Oh, my, yes! I wrote a whole blog post about this: https://stevendbrewer.com/i-love-to-write/

2024-02-14 11:38:36

#WritersCoffeeClub Does your work feature on Good Reads? How do you feel about the platform?
My published works appear on Good Reads and I have an author page there. I have a small number of reviews there (low 20s) that are all relatively positive.
I'm not happy about Amazon owning the site. Plus it seems buggy and poorly maintained. I've not had much success in getting any engagement there other than the handful of reviews. But I haven't seen another book review site that seems better.

2024-01-07 15:20:26

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1uul…yelz @npub1hyk…3p33 Yup, yup. I just can't stand that guy's face. My brother @npub12t8…94qp was telling me to read the book for almost a year because he knew I'd like it, but I just couldn't bring myself to get past the cover.
They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover and, in this case, it's particularly true.

2024-01-07 15:15:23

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1uul…yelz @npub1hyk…3p33 Something about the cover of Apocalypse Codex I found repellent. I checked the book out of the library TWICE but couldn't bring myself to read it, because I would look at the cover and say, "Nope." Finally, I bought it on Kindle where I didn't have to look at the cover. Great book! And maybe some people like the cover, but something about it just repulsed me.

2024-01-02 15:40:52

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@npub1u9s…4ks3 As I'm beginning to consider and look ahead to retirement, I found your reflections very interesting. They somewhat mirror my perception of what my brother @npub12t8…94qp experienced, which is that he discovered there were a lot of more interesting things to do that didn't involve sitting in front of a computer. I hope retirement doesn't make me all weird like that. 😉

2023-12-27 13:04:09

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Right. But why waste energy making bones and feathers and stuff: just meat! Glorious meat!

2023-12-27 12:22:25

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I'm more optimistic for a genetically engineered chicken breast that just has a small bag of organs to sustain it while it grows in a vat. I mean, it could be a chicken breast, or any other tasty muscle. A 3D meat printer might be OK for making chicken nuggets or hamburger — or kefta, but I don't think it could get the texture for thanksgiving turkey or steak or prime rib right. Or butter chicken or… Now I'm getting hungry!

2023-11-26 14:53:33

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub18jv…w00x The beer scene has changed so dramatically from when I was a youth. When I was in college, you had your choice of lagers: Stroh's, Miller, Bud, and PBR. Guiness, when you could get it, was an exciting, exotic treat. But over the past 30 years, there has been a true flowering of distinctive local microbrews that are a delight to the palette. I'm looking forward to coming to Glasgow and trying the local beers there.

2023-11-17 11:32:52

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1rcr…td4p I put my Powerbook 100 (and my Amstrad PCW8256) in a Living Museum of Dead Computers (two big display cases that I got the Biology Deparment to install when they did a renovation of the Biology Computer Resource Center I managed.) It also has a PDP-11, a Model 15 teletype, an original IBM PC, a NeXT Cube, a Model 100 TRS-80, a Cue Cat, an early Raspberry Pi, and many, many other wonderful oddities.

2023-11-17 09:58:04

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1rcr…td4p My FIRST experience was using RUNOFF under RSTS/E on a PDP-11 & then WORDSTAR on VAX/VMS. My brother bought one of the first Macs, but I couldn't afford one, so I got an Amstrad sold by Sears. It was surprisingly competent, but you couldn't really do anything with a document except print. I bought a Powerbook 100 when I became a grad student & wrote my dissertation with MS Word 5.0 — the last really good version of Word. (Not that it wasn't flaky. Everything was in those days.)

2023-11-10 22:35:41

It's grim on on a Friday night when you look forward to having a night and two days to get work done without constant meetings and interruptions.
Help me…

2023-09-14 11:09:39

Upwards of 20% of my class has come down with #COVID in the first week of the semester. #COVID19

2023-09-13 09:30:54

Most economists agree that by the time you're 40, you should:
- Have a supernatural creature that serves as your wife and mother.

2023-09-10 12:16:57

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@npub1psd…9sr7
I just ordered TWO of these bad boys: $2.88 USD each! (Tho they actually charged me in Euros and they shipped from Shatianzhen.) https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802655683071.html
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2023-09-06 17:22:20

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@npub1psd…9sr7 When @npub12t8…94qp and I attended the 100th #Esperanto Congress in Lille, we flew into Heathrow and took the Eurostar train to Lille. It was pretty nice. The customs agents took a dim view of our plan, however: "What? You're flying into England to take a train through the chunnel? Why? For the view?!?"

2023-09-06 17:11:43

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@npub1psd…9sr7 The last time I came back from MI on the Lake Shore Limited, they had assigned seating & every seat was full. They tried to jam a large person next to me, until they saw that wouldn't work, then they found some shrimpy guy. The train missed its window for the shared freight line & was delayed hours sitting on the track. A door had an electrical short, smoked for a while, then quit working. The bathrooms were swimming in urine. The car ran out of drinking water. It arrived 12 hours late.

2023-09-06 17:02:25

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Wow. It's sounding almost half as bad as Amtrak.

2023-08-26 02:02:59

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@npub1k74…dmux (I am a biology professor, you know. 🙂 You have no idea how hard I work to get students to include an object for scale in their photographs.)

2023-08-26 01:15:41

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@npub1k74…dmux (It also makes your pictures look all sciencey. 😆 )

2023-08-26 01:12:26

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@npub1k74…dmux
Cool! I spent a summer, many many years ago, doing a project as an archaeolgical faunal analyst. I saw a lot of deer bones.
It helps to include a ruler in your picture. I would have felt pretty silly if they were tiny mouse bones. 🙂

2023-08-26 01:05:14

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@npub1k74…dmux They look like white-tailed deer hoof cores, to me.

2023-08-18 14:39:55

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@npub1psd…9sr7 flrting?

2023-08-18 12:16:58

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@npub1psd…9sr7 It's only going to be practical on neonates, until we can pupate — then all bets are off.

2023-08-12 11:10:09

I'm set up at the Artisan's Alley of the Amherst Farmer's Market with books from Water Dragon Publishing and more! Stop by to get copies of Revin's Heart! #revinsheart #books #WesternMass
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2023-08-10 19:37:43

I'll be selling some books at the Artisans' Alley of the Amherst Farmer's Market on Saturday, August 12, 2023. I'll have Revin's Heart bundles and more! #WesternMass
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2023-08-07 14:08:19

#WritingWonders 7. What does your MC see when they look out their bedroom window/door?
Revin has quarters in Ravensbelth, the Belthingstone Palace, that adjoin the Queen's suite of rooms. Her suite is at the north west corner, so she can look out over the ocean to watch the sunset. Revin's quarters simply look north, over the formal gardens that surround Ravensbelth. The Queen keeps trying to get Revin and Lidja to purchase a country house.

2023-07-18 11:35:25

#WritingWonders 18 Do you have a muse in any sense of the word?
My only muse is time. I can't force my writing, but just let it happen. If I'm too busy or too stressed, then I can't write. It's only when I have blocks of unstructured time that between sleep, meals, walks, correspondence, and doom-scrolling, that the muse strikes me and I can write. And then the words just pour forth.

2023-07-07 19:19:56

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@npub1mdk…aptk
Sorry — I call bullshit. OK, there are a lot of people here doing that, but plenty of other people doing other things: promoting their books or art, posting pictures of moss, or just shitposting.

2023-06-18 10:30:38

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@npub1a4k…l47t @npub1psd…9sr7
Let's not forget that the muskrat is in a totally different situation, however. He has PLENTY o' money to pay off the loansharks. He's enshittifying the birdsite just for funsies.
I still argue that it's performance art: he's providing an object lesson to people about why you shouldn't let important things get purchased and run by billionaires and he spent $44B to show how much he meant it.
And a bunch of people *still* haven't gotten the point.