— Arthur H. Manners — Author of science fiction

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New Story: Scarlet Tides

I’m pleased to announce that my space-horror story “Scarlet Tides” will be appearing in the 2025 anthology Songs from the Void, edited by Max Blood. The story follows exoarcheologist Ben Cohen in his struggle to decipher the language of an extinct alien species found etched onto a mysterious orbital artefact. Ben must discover what happened […]

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Books Read 2023

Continuing in the line of a similar post from last year (inspired by a similar analysis from Kate McKean’s excellent newsletter), here’s the breakdown for the books I read in 2023. The list includes things I finished, but also DNFs if I finished an appreciable portion of the book before putting it down. I read […]

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New story: Nelly’s World, published in Divergent Realms

I’m pleased to announce that my sci-fi short story “Nelly’s World” will appear in the upcoming 2024 anthology “Divergent Realms: Speculative Stories About Neurodiversity”. The story marks my fourth short story sale, but “Nelly’s World” stands out as special to me. It was the first story I wrote that I considered a “proper short story”, the […]

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Story Submissions in 2023

(This post was inspired by similar posts over at Aeryn Rudel’s excellent site, Rejectomancy. I recommended his articles about his writing journey—and his cool stories, of course.) 2023 was the first year I put serious effort into submitting short stories to markets for publication. I had sent out the odd sub every other year since […]

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