Sale announcement: my science fiction short story “Development Hell” will appear in Nature (Futures)!
The third best thing about hell is explaining to the new kids why it’s so glitchy.
This story is about being stuck in a digital hell for brain-uploaded copies… but not a good hell, the kind with bespoke torments and genuine malice. No, this is the kind of hell produced by programmers on crunch, where you might be tempted to change things up by clipping through a wall and falling until your altitude value overflows.
This story is also what happens when you open a random book to find a writing prompt and stumble upon one of the most bonkers sentences in one of Iain M. Banks’ weirder novels, and decide to turn it into a flash-length dark comedy.
Get stuck in Development Hell sometime in the next year!