Benjamin Rosenbaum

Are you doing enough? A proposed metric: benjaminrosenbaum.github.io/blog/archive...

autocorrect informs me that the Gays of Heaven close monday night at 6:11pm i hope they have a good rest and reopen shortly thereafter

Thank you to everyone who came out to see us! I had such a blast playing DnD live at @laworldcon.bsky.social ! Special thanks to our fearless leader @gregoryawilson.com, and the amazing cast @amalelmohtar.com, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, @cxorlando.bsky.social, @benjaminrosenbaum.com and SPAWN 💕

I'm headed to Worldcon! My schedule is here: guide.lacon.org/people/a9537... And @chronodm.bsky.social and I are also hosting a piblic-beta launch party for our cosmic SF TTRPG game, Numinous: guide.lacon.org/id/8a2fbecd-... Hope to see you there!

I'm excited to post my @laworldcon.bsky.social schedule, which not only features a reading and several amazing panels but also a Worldcon first: a live D&D actual play with @amalelmohtar.com, @benjaminrosenbaum.com, @cxorlando.bsky.social, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, and Xu Mason, DM'ed by me!

August 15 & 16 near Chicago, @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social & I are teaching a mini-workshop -- a bunch of short talks, seminars, excercises, with time to write, connect and re-energize your writing praxis. speculativeliterature.org/register/sum...

I gave this talk at Wiscon many years ago; it explains how Jewish culture arose from its millennia-long material and social conditions, as well as being an autobiographical essay on late-20th and early-21st century SF media culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PfE...

I had a great time at #readercon. "Writing from a POV that Hates You" was unexpectedly moving. It was great to be on the panel with Sally Wiener Motta, @andreahairston.bsky.social and @benjaminrosenbaum.com. Not pictured: Alexander Jablokov, moderator. Behind my papers: my novel Spider in a Tree.

The drive by calligraphy is absolutely always one of my favorite parts of being on panels at Readercon!

Readercon! What @swingingstorm.bsky.social said, except less tea and more games, robots, & Unlicensed Zones! schedule.readercon.org/people/e2884...

My story “Memeostasis” was in last month’s @lightspeedmagazine.com! I'm a slacker & also underwater with various eldercare & moving adventures so I am only posting about it now. It's a classic kinda outer-space-shenanigans/literature-of-ideas SF yarn, with a stylistic nod to Terry Bisson. Enjoy!

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Memeostasis" by Benjamin Rosenbaum www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/meme...

This story is fantastic!

I'm not a professor, but this strikes me as amazing pedagogy, a fascinating experiment... and also just a great story (I particularly like the third-act twist).

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Gruesome factory-farming bill, chilling federal overreach, macabre power grab by venal corporations. Stop this bill. benthams.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

Not every speech at the Nebulas quotes current academic philosophy, but I figure they knew what they were getting when they drafted me. (@add-hawk.bsky.social I hope I didn't misrepresent your arguments.) youtu.be/nmAxXj7-xxA?...

Hey Humans! We're back with another episode of MRAH. This episode, @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social and @benjaminrosenbaum.com are joined by V.V Ganeshananthan to discuss her novel "Brotherless Night" as well as her life and other stories. youtu.be/7A45e2Pv4QQ

in which @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social & I drop another episode of our podcast! We recorded this back in July, reeling from all the chaos, and talking about how it affects our writing. Chaos has not abated. The grappling with it still feels topical.

May 30 – June 3, 2026 Oak Park IL (near Chicago) Come write & critique fiction with us!

About the anxiety of influence, the glee of influence & even, the anxiety of *lack* of influence... & everything else that entered our lovely & distractible little heads, of course. speculativeliterature.org/ep-73-show-n... with @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social & @speclit.bsky.social

From Butler to Borges, Le Guin to Asimov—writers who have moved speculative fiction forward know that defying convention can be necessary. For the next generation of writers ready to use defiance as inspiration, Saturday's class with @benjaminrosenbaum.com is a must. Info here: bit.ly/4scjlid.

There are a lot of rules (some written, some not) for writing. But do you always have to follow them? What could be possible when you explore defiance as inspiration and subversion as structure? Explore in a virtual class by @benjaminrosenbaum.com on March 29. Register here: bit.ly/4scjlid

​​What's the price of authenticity? Sometimes it requires breaking boxes. Learn how to break the rules with the best of them in our upcoming class with the one-and-only @benjaminrosenbaum.com. Details and registration for the March 29 class here: bit.ly/4scjlid

We still have slots open for the SLF's 2026 Writing SFF Workshop. Visit speclit.org to learn more if you're interested!

"Regarding the Childhood of Morrigan, Who Was Chosen to Open the Way," as weird and cool as most of @benjaminrosenbaum.com's stuff. This one's a novelette. reactormag.com/regarding-th...

The SLF is excited to announce the return of our Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop and Retreat! Join @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social and @benjaminrosenbaum.com for a 5-day workshop or retreat to improve your writing and meet other members of the community. You can learn more at speclit.org!

Hey, if you're a writer struggling to make your next idea fully come together, this online one-off course with @benjaminrosenbaum.com looks fantastic: secure.clarionwest.org/nx/portal/ne... I have wonderful memories of brainstorming with Ben at the writing workshop where we met. He's so good at it!

Some of my favorite games that I played over the course of 2025, including works by @benjaminrosenbaum.com, @yoplatz.bsky.social, @jumpovertheage.com, and more

Our first talk is Profligacy: An Idea Jam with author and game designer @benjaminrosenbaum.com, which will be on March 15th, 9:30am - 11:30am. This is one of three as part of our Big Ideas Lab.

Enjoyed the heck out of talking to @benjaminrosenbaum.com about Laurie J. Marks' FIRE LOGIC. Which is really just supremely good fantasy, different priorities & conceptions than the swords & magics might suggest, and Ben as always is full of interesting insights:

The first is @benjaminrosenbaum.com's "Regarding the Childhood of Morrigan, Who Was Chosen to Open the Way." A very small child literally falls through the cracks in an ever-shifting, ever-strange far future. Available in Reactor: reactormag.com/regarding-th...

Thoughts on how to interact with those, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who have done harm and say that they seek to repent: benjaminrosenbaum.github.io/blog/archive...

@maryannemohanraj.bsky.social and I alternately praise, bristle at, relativize, invert, defend, and kvetch about the ancient writing norms of the Turkey City Lexicon (www.sfwa.org/2009/06/18/t...) on this episode of the podcast.

It's up! Let me know what you think!

One week until my story, "Regarding the Childhood of Morrigan, Who Was Chosen to Open the Way," edited by the splendid @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social, drops on Reactor. Check out the cover! I absolutely love it.

A million identical Shakespeares banging away at typewriters will eventually produce the complete works of any given monkey.