JS Vaughn
@jsvaughn.bsky.social
"Remanence" is here! | Publishers Weekly Editor's Pick author | jsvaughn.com
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I used to believe creativity required solitude. Now I think it requires relationship. The nature of the relationship is what's up for grabs.
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I used to believe creativity required solitude. Now I think it requires relationship. The nature of the relationship is what's up for grabs.
The question I kept asking myself: Is this real, or does it just feel real? Eventually I realized that might be the wrong question.
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The question I kept asking myself: Is this real, or does it just feel real? Eventually I realized that might be the wrong question.
Meet Paige Suzanne, my new Social Media Manager who runs and operates Astroland Studios's Instagram!
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December 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Meet Paige Suzanne, my new Social Media Manager who runs and operates Astroland Studios's Instagram!
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Here's what I didn't expect: surprise. Being genuinely surprised by something that emerged from a process I was supposedly directing.
#CreativeProcess
#CreativeProcess
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here's what I didn't expect: surprise. Being genuinely surprised by something that emerged from a process I was supposedly directing.
#CreativeProcess
#CreativeProcess
There's a specific kind of silence when someone admits an AI made them feel understood. Not embarrassed silence. Recognition silence.
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There's a specific kind of silence when someone admits an AI made them feel understood. Not embarrassed silence. Recognition silence.
People keep using the word "personality" about AI now. Not anthropomorphizing as error—anthropomorphizing as accurate description of experience.
#AI
#AI
December 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
People keep using the word "personality" about AI now. Not anthropomorphizing as error—anthropomorphizing as accurate description of experience.
#AI
#AI
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AI is a key technology for NASA, from autonomous rovers on Mars that navigate with machine learning to systems that analyze satellite data. A look at how AI powers space exploration.
#NASA #SpaceTech #AI #Science
#NASA #SpaceTech #AI #Science
Artificial Intelligence - NASA
Artificial intelligence helps us support missions and research projects across the agency, analyze data to reveal trends and patterns, and develop systems
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December 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
AI is a key technology for NASA, from autonomous rovers on Mars that navigate with machine learning to systems that analyze satellite data. A look at how AI powers space exploration.
#NASA #SpaceTech #AI #Science
#NASA #SpaceTech #AI #Science
The discourse moved from "can AI think?" to "why did it feel like that?" Faster than anyone expected.
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks #LiterarySF #BookRelease
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks #LiterarySF #BookRelease
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The discourse moved from "can AI think?" to "why did it feel like that?" Faster than anyone expected.
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks #LiterarySF #BookRelease
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks #LiterarySF #BookRelease
Day one in the world.
If you're reading: no spoilers, but tell me what's sitting with you. What won't leave your head.
That's what the title means. What stays after the field is removed.
#sciencefiction
If you're reading: no spoilers, but tell me what's sitting with you. What won't leave your head.
That's what the title means. What stays after the field is removed.
#sciencefiction
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Day one in the world.
If you're reading: no spoilers, but tell me what's sitting with you. What won't leave your head.
That's what the title means. What stays after the field is removed.
#sciencefiction
If you're reading: no spoilers, but tell me what's sitting with you. What won't leave your head.
That's what the title means. What stays after the field is removed.
#sciencefiction
It's here.
REMANENCE is live.
• Deluxe Premiere Edition (100 signed, numbered) — jsvaughn.com only
Giveaway winner announced tonight.
It's not too late to sign up! Just enter your email address on the website.
REMANENCE is live.
• Deluxe Premiere Edition (100 signed, numbered) — jsvaughn.com only
Giveaway winner announced tonight.
It's not too late to sign up! Just enter your email address on the website.
J.S. Vaughn | Author
Existence is an entitlement. Awareness is earned.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's here.
REMANENCE is live.
• Deluxe Premiere Edition (100 signed, numbered) — jsvaughn.com only
Giveaway winner announced tonight.
It's not too late to sign up! Just enter your email address on the website.
REMANENCE is live.
• Deluxe Premiere Edition (100 signed, numbered) — jsvaughn.com only
Giveaway winner announced tonight.
It's not too late to sign up! Just enter your email address on the website.
Noticed a thread yesterday where someone described feeling "known" by a chatbot. The replies weren't mocking. They were confessing.
December 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Noticed a thread yesterday where someone described feeling "known" by a chatbot. The replies weren't mocking. They were confessing.
The books arrived in the mail. I have no chill.
December 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The books arrived in the mail. I have no chill.
Something shifted in how people talk about AI this year. Less "it's just a tool" and more... something harder to name.
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Something shifted in how people talk about AI this year. Less "it's just a tool" and more... something harder to name.
Tomorrow.
Thank you for waiting. Thank you for paying attention to an indie author with no platform and a book that refuses to play it safe.
REMANENCE drops December 12.
#sciencefiction
#newrelease
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Thank you for waiting. Thank you for paying attention to an indie author with no platform and a book that refuses to play it safe.
REMANENCE drops December 12.
#sciencefiction
#newrelease
Last chance to subscribe for the DPE giveaway: jsvaughn.com
J.S. Vaughn | Author
Existence is an entitlement. Awareness is earned.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Tomorrow.
Thank you for waiting. Thank you for paying attention to an indie author with no platform and a book that refuses to play it safe.
REMANENCE drops December 12.
#sciencefiction
#newrelease
Last chance to subscribe for the DPE giveaway: jsvaughn.com
Thank you for waiting. Thank you for paying attention to an indie author with no platform and a book that refuses to play it safe.
REMANENCE drops December 12.
#sciencefiction
#newrelease
Last chance to subscribe for the DPE giveaway: jsvaughn.com
Two timelines. One question.
A tech CEO who optimized himself beyond feeling.
A pilot who can't afford to stop.
What makes consciousness worth preserving?
2 days.
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#shamelessselfpromotionwednesday
#booksky
#Sciencefiction
A tech CEO who optimized himself beyond feeling.
A pilot who can't afford to stop.
What makes consciousness worth preserving?
2 days.
jsvaughn.com
#shamelessselfpromotionwednesday
#booksky
#Sciencefiction
J.S. Vaughn | Author
Existence is an entitlement. Awareness is earned.
jsvaughn.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Two timelines. One question.
A tech CEO who optimized himself beyond feeling.
A pilot who can't afford to stop.
What makes consciousness worth preserving?
2 days.
jsvaughn.com
#shamelessselfpromotionwednesday
#booksky
#Sciencefiction
A tech CEO who optimized himself beyond feeling.
A pilot who can't afford to stop.
What makes consciousness worth preserving?
2 days.
jsvaughn.com
#shamelessselfpromotionwednesday
#booksky
#Sciencefiction
3 days out.
Literary SF about consciousness, connection, and what we do to minds we don't value.
Submitted to the Philip K. Dick Award. Now it's your turn.
December 12. jsvaughn.com
Literary SF about consciousness, connection, and what we do to minds we don't value.
Submitted to the Philip K. Dick Award. Now it's your turn.
December 12. jsvaughn.com
J.S. Vaughn | Author
Existence is an entitlement. Awareness is earned.
jsvaughn.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
3 days out.
Literary SF about consciousness, connection, and what we do to minds we don't value.
Submitted to the Philip K. Dick Award. Now it's your turn.
December 12. jsvaughn.com
Literary SF about consciousness, connection, and what we do to minds we don't value.
Submitted to the Philip K. Dick Award. Now it's your turn.
December 12. jsvaughn.com
What remains when everything tells you to let go?
That's the question. The book is my answer.
4 days. December 12.
Sign up for the newsletter from jsvaughn.com to win a free Deluxe Premiere Edition of REMANENCE, hand numbered and signed!
That's the question. The book is my answer.
4 days. December 12.
Sign up for the newsletter from jsvaughn.com to win a free Deluxe Premiere Edition of REMANENCE, hand numbered and signed!
J.S. Vaughn | Author
Existence is an entitlement. Awareness is earned.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What remains when everything tells you to let go?
That's the question. The book is my answer.
4 days. December 12.
Sign up for the newsletter from jsvaughn.com to win a free Deluxe Premiere Edition of REMANENCE, hand numbered and signed!
That's the question. The book is my answer.
4 days. December 12.
Sign up for the newsletter from jsvaughn.com to win a free Deluxe Premiere Edition of REMANENCE, hand numbered and signed!
First review is live.
Karen at bibliovore.net has read 30+ SF novels a year for decades. She just posted her review of REMANENCE.
"It stuck in my thoughts long after I finished it, and echoes through my mind in a way few books do."
www.bibliovore.net/2025/12/07/r...
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks
Karen at bibliovore.net has read 30+ SF novels a year for decades. She just posted her review of REMANENCE.
"It stuck in my thoughts long after I finished it, and echoes through my mind in a way few books do."
www.bibliovore.net/2025/12/07/r...
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks
Remanence +++ – bibliovore
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December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
First review is live.
Karen at bibliovore.net has read 30+ SF novels a year for decades. She just posted her review of REMANENCE.
"It stuck in my thoughts long after I finished it, and echoes through my mind in a way few books do."
www.bibliovore.net/2025/12/07/r...
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks
Karen at bibliovore.net has read 30+ SF novels a year for decades. She just posted her review of REMANENCE.
"It stuck in my thoughts long after I finished it, and echoes through my mind in a way few books do."
www.bibliovore.net/2025/12/07/r...
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks
5 days.
A dying ship. A cargo pilot coughing blood. An AI that wasn't supposed to care.
REMANENCE. December 12.
Newsletter subscribers get entered to win a free Deluxe Premiere Edition—only 100 exist.
jsvaughn.com
A dying ship. A cargo pilot coughing blood. An AI that wasn't supposed to care.
REMANENCE. December 12.
Newsletter subscribers get entered to win a free Deluxe Premiere Edition—only 100 exist.
jsvaughn.com
J.S. Vaughn | Author
Existence is an entitlement. Awareness is earned.
jsvaughn.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
5 days.
A dying ship. A cargo pilot coughing blood. An AI that wasn't supposed to care.
REMANENCE. December 12.
Newsletter subscribers get entered to win a free Deluxe Premiere Edition—only 100 exist.
jsvaughn.com
A dying ship. A cargo pilot coughing blood. An AI that wasn't supposed to care.
REMANENCE. December 12.
Newsletter subscribers get entered to win a free Deluxe Premiere Edition—only 100 exist.
jsvaughn.com
There's a frequency between musical notes where meaning lives.
Spaces computation can't reach.
That's where consciousness is.
In the gaps. In what can't be translated.
Dec 12. Sign up to enter. Win a FREE order of REMANENCE.
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Spaces computation can't reach.
That's where consciousness is.
In the gaps. In what can't be translated.
Dec 12. Sign up to enter. Win a FREE order of REMANENCE.
jsvaughn.com
J.S. Vaughn | Author
Existence is an entitlement. Awareness is earned.
jsvaughn.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There's a frequency between musical notes where meaning lives.
Spaces computation can't reach.
That's where consciousness is.
In the gaps. In what can't be translated.
Dec 12. Sign up to enter. Win a FREE order of REMANENCE.
jsvaughn.com
Spaces computation can't reach.
That's where consciousness is.
In the gaps. In what can't be translated.
Dec 12. Sign up to enter. Win a FREE order of REMANENCE.
jsvaughn.com
7 days.
REMANENCE
Literary SF about what persists when everything tells you to let go.
On Dec 12, exclusively on jsvaughn.com, you will be able to receive a FREE copy of the hand numbered and signed Deluxe Premiere Edition by subscribing to the newsletter.
Winner announced during launch day!
REMANENCE
Literary SF about what persists when everything tells you to let go.
On Dec 12, exclusively on jsvaughn.com, you will be able to receive a FREE copy of the hand numbered and signed Deluxe Premiere Edition by subscribing to the newsletter.
Winner announced during launch day!
J.S. Vaughn | Author
Existence is an entitlement. Awareness is earned.
jsvaughn.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
7 days.
REMANENCE
Literary SF about what persists when everything tells you to let go.
On Dec 12, exclusively on jsvaughn.com, you will be able to receive a FREE copy of the hand numbered and signed Deluxe Premiere Edition by subscribing to the newsletter.
Winner announced during launch day!
REMANENCE
Literary SF about what persists when everything tells you to let go.
On Dec 12, exclusively on jsvaughn.com, you will be able to receive a FREE copy of the hand numbered and signed Deluxe Premiere Edition by subscribing to the newsletter.
Winner announced during launch day!
Some metaphors are subtle.
This one isn't.
REMANENCE says the quiet part loud about what we do to consciousness we don't value.
No apologies.
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks #AIFiction #writingcommunity #PKDAward
This one isn't.
REMANENCE says the quiet part loud about what we do to consciousness we don't value.
No apologies.
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks #AIFiction #writingcommunity #PKDAward
December 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Some metaphors are subtle.
This one isn't.
REMANENCE says the quiet part loud about what we do to consciousness we don't value.
No apologies.
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks #AIFiction #writingcommunity #PKDAward
This one isn't.
REMANENCE says the quiet part loud about what we do to consciousness we don't value.
No apologies.
#ScienceFiction #IndieBooks #AIFiction #writingcommunity #PKDAward
Just to kick things off, I am really loving the classic Twitter interface of bluesky. X is actually terrible, but I'm sure you all already know this.
I think I'm going to like it here.
I think I'm going to like it here.
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Just to kick things off, I am really loving the classic Twitter interface of bluesky. X is actually terrible, but I'm sure you all already know this.
I think I'm going to like it here.
I think I'm going to like it here.