Pedro Parrachia

“What did you find?” Genevieve was still poking at the Phoenix data, looking at the greatest needs reported in the city and the average wait times on calls to FEMA, 911, the fire department, appliance repair. 

“It’s got her dorm.” Toba sounded a little dazed. “It shows how many people are there right now — phone data, I think — and what shops are

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I love speculative fiction like Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin 's, which creates alternative versions of reality based on enormous documentary research and invents the foundations of another present, improbable and credible. I'm also constantly on the lookout for situations where reality is surreal, a kind of "magical realism". As a writer of... See more

Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”

In the world building and worlding eras, when the inhabitants of a world misbehaved and tried to smuggle their own narratives into the worldthe creators have been policing them to reestablish order. In the World Weaving era, rather than working with scripted storylines we should create lore-pills and origin myths that can be sewn together and

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