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Max Dosser
@madosser.bsky.social
Editor of Flash Point SF, Senior Lecturer at Vanderbilt University, Lover of Buffalo Chicken Dip, he/him
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Author of Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms (Rutgers University Press, 2026)
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Book announcement + cover reveal!

My first book, Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms, hits physical and digital shelves on July 14, 2026!
Book announcement + cover reveal!

My first book, Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms, hits physical and digital shelves on July 14, 2026!
November 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Today's the day! Our 2025 Kickstarter is live!

Any and all support is deeply appreciated.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
Flash Point SF 2025
An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words.
www.kickstarter.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New article out today!

“If It Ain’t Woke, Don’t Fix It” considers how (anti-)fans nostalgically appealed to imagined pasts of True Detective and Rick & Morty to justify attacking those they blamed for the original creators’ “replacement.”

No paywall!

doi.org/10.1080/1318...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The first Flash Point SF (@flashpointsf.bsky.social) audiobook is out! Edited and read by me, Tipping Point features 12 original ecofiction stories. Check out the audiobook and other formats here: t.co/gQa22lIvvu
https://books2read.com/u/meRYP9
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August 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I'm excited to announce that I contributed a short story to the new anthology Tipping Point: Ecofiction for Tomorrow's World. Thanks to editor @madosser.bsky.social, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, and the Vanderbilt Curb Center for the opportunity!
April 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Publication Day!

Flash Point SF Press’s newest anthology, Tipping Point: Ecofiction for Tomorrow’s World, is out today! Currently the eBook is available on Amazon and the paperback through Lulu. Links below and more to follow!
April 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I had such a lovely afternoon meeting up with the other authors of Tipping Point: Ecofiction for Tomorrow’s World, a flash fiction anthology. It released today, & is available in print from Lulu - www.lulu.com/shop/kevin-p... - & in ebook here - a.co/d/9lioMFl . Also, isn’t this cover rad as heck?!
April 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
My most dad story yet is out today with @100footcrow.bsky.social! Do you like zombies, babies, and/or runs to the pharmacy? If so, check it out! If not, well, it won’t take up too much of your day to read it, so check it out anyways!

100footcrow.com/please-dont-...
Please Don’t Cry - 100-Foot Crow
By: M.A. Dosser. Bringing a baby into a zombie-infested town wasn’t my best idea. But her mother needs medicine. I couldn’t leave the baby with her. Zombies don’t see well in the dark. As long as we’r...
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December 18, 2024 at 4:10 PM
The deadline for Tipping Point submissions is extended until January 1, 2025! Take the holidays to write or polish up your best flash ecofiction piece! I can’t wait to read them.

Guidelines and submission info at flashpointsf.com/fpsf-press/
FPSF Press
Call for Submissions Tipping Point: Ecofiction for Tomorrow’s World invites submissions of speculative flash fiction that imagines scenarios shaped by environmental challenges. This anthology,…
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December 1, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Enjoy free online access to my Journal of Film and Video article “According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True-Crime Documentary Series” until 12/31! Thanks @illinoispress.bsky.social! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/arti...
According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True-Crime Documentary Series
on october 3, 2014, the world was introduced to the largely unknown story of Adnan Syed, a young man who had been convicted and jailed for over a decade for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Through th...
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November 23, 2024 at 2:50 PM
My article about PuppyGate, the Hugo Awards, and Revanchist Nostalgia is officially out of early access and is now in print! This means 50 additional free eprints, so if you haven't read it yet, you can here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GP8S5...
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December 1, 2023 at 1:06 AM
My first reprint, “Out of Time,” is live at Martian Magazine! If you have a minute and are curious about the final moments of a soldier in an interplanetary war, check it out here: themartianmagazine.com/2023/11/24/o...
Out of Time by M.A. Dosser
The war had been a disaster, but this mission could turn the tide. Once the bomb detonated, we could reclaim the surrounding peninsula and have a foothold within spitting distance of the creepers’ c...
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November 24, 2023 at 1:35 PM
As 2023 wraps up, here is my #AwardsEligibility thread! I'm really proud of everything I published this year and, if you have a moment, I'd love if you check some of it out.
November 20, 2023 at 5:01 PM
The free eprints of my article “When Puppies Start to Hate: The Revanchist Nostalgia of the #HugoAwards#PuppyGate Controversy” have been used up. If you weren’t able to read it yet, you can access a free preprint version on my website or with this link: rb.gy/rj5kw
When Puppies Start to Hate (preprint).pdf
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October 26, 2023 at 4:04 PM
My article about the affective economy of the #HugoAwards' PuppyGate controversy is out for early access in CCCS! For more on the melancholy, anger, hatred, and revanchist nostalgia of the Sad and Rabid Puppies, check it out here: doi.org/10.1080/1479...
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October 24, 2023 at 3:56 PM
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One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Paloop.

-from "A Raven's Request" by M.A. Dosser, in August's #Penumbric (www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue..., p.95)

#amreading #fantasy #myth #shortstory #prose #writingcommunity #magazine
October 2, 2023 at 7:33 PM