I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
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I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
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The fault lies in our brain, not in boogeymen, that we feel creepy
At least, according to the accidental discovery that stimulating a part of the brain called the left temporoparietal junction caused a young woman to believe a strange, shadowy young man was standing just behind her…when there was really no one there at all.
Or was there? says the science-fiction/fantasy writer part of my brain, which, when stimulated, causes me to dream up strange stories, like one about a woman who undergoes just such a procedure…but the shadowy figure she sees and no one else sees turns out not to be a product of her brain at all, but an alien life form/ghost/time traveller/interdimensional pilgrim/what have you…something that is real…and dangerous…
Hmmm…
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2006/09/the-fault-lies-in-our-brain-not-in-boogeymen-that-we-feel-creepy/
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How very Cassandra-like a story – I like it!