Scott H. Andrews
Writer, editor, chemistry lecturer, guitarist, builder, connoisseur of aqueous solutions of malted barley.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsI think part of the reason the reaction to people arguing *for* GenAI use is so aggressive is that not a single one of these arguments bothers to meaningfully engage with the ethical problems these technologies present. And those ethical problems are monumental. They're not minor.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsI forget how many years since @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social introduced me to this technique of flash cooling hot wort in a big pile of snow
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsI'm surprised and thrilled to find my novelette "A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library" (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 443) on the Locus Recommended Reading List. Many, many thanks for the great input from @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social and @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social. locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsI signed the contract so I am utterly thrilled to announce I have sold a novelette to @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 🥳 my second appearance there, this time with a messed up unicorn time loop story! 🦄⏳ Big shout out to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE notes & edits to make this one sing!
- Cheers, all. @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net @sarahpinsker.bsky.social
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsIf you're one of the countless writers who want to learn from award-winning editor/publisher @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social , Scott is offering an Odyssey webinar, which is first-come, first-served registration. Register before we run out of spots! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwriting
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsLiberal application of sugar is the answer. Then they taste like sugar-coated styrofoam!
- I'd forgotten, from my youth, how much Weetabix taste like styrofoam. (Ain't enough milk in the world, to...)
- Clearing my parts stash--put this together for a friend's nephew and all I had to buy was the rubber feet.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsThere are so many reasons to say no to generative-AI that have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of its output, even you’ve somehow convinced yourself that its quality isn’t unacceptably low.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsDo your openings draw in readers? @Scott_H_Andrews , editor-in-chief/publisher of the award-winning fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies will teach a live webinar on 4/12. Two-hour lecture followed by one-hour Q&A. Register before we run out of spots! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...
- Enjoying National Cat Day:
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsI'm extremely grateful for patient editors like @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social — I have almost (!!!!) finished edits for an R&R and yes it has taken me months; this is due to my brain, and you know, the world being on fire etc. But srsly, Scott's comments are consistently solid and so, so helpful. <3
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsScrolling through @michaelventrella.bsky.social's Capclave photos, I stumbled on this one of the crowd on the patio late Saturday night eating my donuts and drinking @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social's stout, and it made me quite happy. I'm feel so privileged to have all you wonderful people in my life!
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsTech bros running the billion-dollar companies cramming genAI down our throats forget their positions could also be outsourced to AI. In honor of this fact, @apexmag.bsky.social and I present my humorous story "How to Install Generative AI on a Zombie CEO." 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsI think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsNew cursed magic item: Skull Lyre www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsVisited the ancient Roman walls of Lugo, Spain, yesterday. Built over 1700 yeas ago to defend the then Roman town from various European tribes, the walls are in amazing shape. Loved walking where people have lived for so many centuries.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsThe 2025 volume of BASFF once again features some great stories! Full disclosure: For the past 6 years or so, I've been @johnjosephadams.com's assistant editor for these annual anthologies. Do check out the full list of Notable Stories too: tinyurl.com/3rswhjes #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #BookSky
- Enjoying the solstice heat...
- I'm also nominating @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for editing F&SF and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social for running Mo Con. And Glen Cook for lifetime achievement (The Black Company started the whole grimdark mercenary epic F thing, in 1984).
- Pls DON'T nominate me for World Fantasy Award (Special Award Non-Professional). I'm honored to be 9x finalist & 2019 winner! I've recused from nominations. Consider other editors & people who deserve it too. (I'm nominating Jeanne Cavelos for 25+ yrs teaching & running @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social.)
- Pls DON'T nominate me for World Fantasy Award (Special Award Non-Professional). I'm honored to be 9x finalist & 2019 winner! I've recused from nominations. Consider other editors & people who deserve it too. (I'm nominating Jeanne Cavelos for 25+ yrs teaching & running @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social.)
- Nominations for World Fantasy Awards close 6/1! 2 of 5 finalists in each category are fan-voted; make your voice heard! Members of WFC 2023 Kansas City, 2024 Niagra Falls, 2025 Brighton can nominate. Rules and ballot here, in WFC 2025 Progress Report PDF: worldfantasy2025.co.uk/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsReminds me of the time we had to create a counter-program item because a convention decided it was time to feature "the good things." Had to dedicate the first question on ours to correcting things they said. (Among them, correcting a false statement about my guidelines & AI.)
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsDeadline for World Fantasy Award nominations is June 1st. If you're a member of WFC 2023, 2024, or 2025, you received a ballot in March via email. If voting, Northern Nights is eligible in Best Antho category, and all the stories from it and issues 8 & 9 of Weird Horror are eligible in Short Story.
- I don't get why cons for readers & writers give air to genAI; platforming its 'benefits' or 'showing both sides'. That's mainstream chat; not discussion for creatives & attendees come to see them. Treat genAI like the environmentally destructive inaccurate plagiarism machine we creatives know it is.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsNew podcast episode! Produced and introduced by audio editor Aaron Kling, @andrewkozma.net reads his story "Exit Here" from Reckoning 3, in which a team of scientists pour their hearts (literally) into detoxifying a poisoned lake: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...
- Reposted by Scott H. Andrews1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements. AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsHappy to once again be a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form. Congratulations to all my fellow finalists and thank you to everyone that nominated me!
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsMore dreaded marketing. We really do count on our readers though. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsWhat we have here is a well-paced and entertaining fantasy novel which moves briskly from one compelling set piece to the next. This is such a rare quality that it doesn't need any ideas, so it's cool that it has some anyway.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsThe eternal question: has the quality of my writing dramatically improved, or am I just reading it in Garamond?
- Cheers, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and Mo Con!
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsAnd when you can really work as a team with an editor, when it's not just a tangential but a lasting set of shared goals, that's really special. @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social isn't the only one on that list for me, but he's high on it, and I sure am glad he is. Thanks, Scott.
- (Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo!
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsHow basic, how boring, how courageless and vapid. This is the most unsexy, unconvincing statement ever put out. It's fucking cool to care, to try to learn something new. From Shakespeare to a 4 year old writing their name for the first time yelling: I did it! That I did it demolishes this garbage.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsMills Wins Compton Crook Award locusmag.com/2025/04...
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- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsCongratulations @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social and @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsThank you! And congrats, @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social!
- A comment this day on oligarchy:
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsOk and now that I’ve calmed down a little, I want to thank editor @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social and @bcsmagazine.bsky.social for putting their faith in this story. I knew as soon as I finished it that I wanted it to find a home there. Such an honor.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsThere’s only four days left to nominate for the Hugo Awards, and we would love it if you considered us! We’re so proud of everything we’ve published this year, plus, we’re also eligible in the semiprozine category! Here are the issues we published last year 👇🧵
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsExcellent!
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- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsWhile I'm at it, check out all of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social's awards eligible works. While BCS has recused itself from the Best Semipro Magazine Hugo Award, individual authors/stories are eligible in their respective categories, and @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social is eligible for Best Editor Short Form.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsCheers! Enjoy a fun, refreshing sip from Robert Borski's new poem "Beer on the Sun." kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsAlso hum so sorry to do this but if you'd like a book please consider mine? (And if you have my book already please talk about it to friends/on social media/etc as word of mouth is the biggest book seller)
- I hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income. If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsI hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income. If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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- I want Hallmark xmas movie about movie director who goes back to hometown to shoot a Hallmark xmas movie. In July. Male lead is HS drama teacher providing extras; they met in HS doing the HS play Midsummer Night's Dream. Villain is producer who wants more cliches. Hallmark xmas movie hijinks ensue!
- Finale of the movie is at xmas in hometown when hometown has premiere of the xmas movie shot there in July.
- Reposted by Scott H. AndrewsI've said this before, but it bears repeating. If you're an author, please read submission guidelines. Guidelines tell you what the editor wants, and why would you submit something they don't want? It wastes your time and theirs.
- I like the acoustic characteristics of plywood from shipping crates (when it's 13 ply voidless birch). Kept the shipping labels, for that salvaged look.
