Frank Wu

Thank you!

Hey Michael - I just emailed you at uncanny at gmail.com. If that's not the best email address, please let me know!

Michael! Am I trying to get in touch with Galen Dara! Are you in contact with her? Can you pls ping her for me? Or ask her to check her email? Thanks!

Oh! You're right! Sorry!

Hey Michael - are you in contact with Galen Dara? I really need to get a hold of her. If you are, can you pls ask her to check her email for a message from me?

Yikes. This is terrible! I passed this along to Brianna. I'm so sorry!

While the world turns to crap... Personally things are going well. BIG NEWS! Amazing Stories has accepted ESPionage 2: JAZZ AGE! This is the sequel novel to our acclaimed ESPionage: REGIME CHANGE, co-written with Tom Easton. https://www.amazon.com/ESPionage-Regime-Change-Psychic-Novel/dp/B0CGG6GH5G

In the Star Trek: DS9 episode "In the Pale Moonlight", Sisko gets his happy ending - but there's a cost. A Romulan ambassador, a forger, Garak's friends. And the cost to Sisko is not a physical death but the death of idealism about the institution he works for - and idealism about himself. /2

Boskone! Wu's first principle of storytelling: You can't get something for nothing. Somebody (not necessarily the "hero/ine") has to pay for the happy ending. Sometimes it's a death. But a death doesn't necessarily have to be physical. It can be a spiritual/emotional death/1

URL should be: http://www.frankwu.com/Poison.html

Aaaaand more art for the story by Tomislav Tikulin. Check out the cool spaceship and the gutpunch of the statues.

I think it's the best thing (short of a novel I've ever written) and it means a lot to me. There's a ton of stuff in there beyond stuff blowing up. But there is a lot of stuff blowing up, too.

It's award season! I would really appreciate it if y'all check out "Poison" - the military SF novella @JayWerkheiser and I had in Analog in May/June 2023. Read it for free at frankwu.com/Poison.html and if you liked it pls vote in the Anlab Awards

We desperately need to understand it. Trump '24 voters are driven by REVENGE. They chose him in '16 and see every lawsuit or trial as a personal attack. They LOVE lies about Dems bc it re-affirms that Trump (and they) were right all along. They want him to be a DICTATOR who crushes everyone else.

Last part of the review:

Excellent review of my novel "ESPionage: Regime Change" with Tom Easton from Kirkus Reviews. Yeah us!!! https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tom-easton/espionage-regime-change/

If two of your superiors - with the exact same data - come to completely opposite opinions on the course of action, who do you follow?

"A story of friendship and betrayal with a final twist at the end. Great story with well-drawn characters." -- Sam Tomaino, SFRevu

Is you learned a truth that would cause millions to die, would you cover it up? Is your duty to the Truth or to Peace?

If your boss orders you to do something nonsensical (but not immoral or illegal, you just don't to know the WHY) are you still obligated to do it?

The full text of "Poison" is now available for free at: http://www.frankwu.com/Poison.html This is the novella I wrote w @JayWerkheiser from the May-June 2023 Analog. It's military SF with lots of action but more than that -

If you've read our new novel "ESPionage: Regime Change" pls leave a rating on amazon - if we get only 10 more we will start to show up in "you might also like" lists! CIA psychics vs Russian assassins! Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CGG6GH5G/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

If US and Israeli intelligence failed, partly because Israelis were hesitant to work with the US after the Trump-Putin mtg, well... that's what it seems happened.

Hmm. Trump is possibly indirectly responsible for this war in Israel. Remember that private mtg with Trump and Putun where no transcript was provided and no (US) press allowed and military secrets of a US ally were discussed? Who was that ally? Israel. https://tinyurl.com/45tpvkxv

Patrick McHenry once went to Baghdad, IDing US facilities and filming an enemy missile missing said facilities. The enemy used his video to actually hit the target. Here's a petition for US Congress to investigate McHenry's role in the death and injury of 19 Americans. https://tinyurl.com/2pevyjrr

9,000 authors rebuke AI companies, saying they exploited books as 'food' for chatbots A letter signed by 9,000 authors calls out AI companies for allegedly using the writers' books to train chatbots without consent, credit or compensation.

Hello #Bluesky #authors #writers. You have been an amazing support of the SAG-AFTRA strike, & against AI misuse. Perhaps you might lend your signature to the letter against Data3, which unlawfully used thousands of books (including mine) to train AI. (Link to open letter in article)

Um, wow. Our first full review of "ESPionage: Regime Change". Paul Di Filippo LOVED it. https://amazingstories.com/2023/08/a-review-of-espionage-regime-change-by-paul-di-filippo/

9 years ago: after a lifetime of trying, it was now or never. I gave writing one last try. That novelette became my 1st pro sale. Since then: 2 novellas, 4 stories, 1 novel, 2 Anlab Awards. Never give up on your dreams. They are one of the few things that are truly yours.

My 1st novel, with Tom Easton (his 13th!), is out TODAY!

"ESPionage: Regime Change" from Amazing Stories
tinyurl.com/596r3avp Paper or ebook. Cover by Maurizio Manzieri!

CIA psychics battle Russian assassins!

Buy, gift, signal boost or review it!

David Gerrold:
"A crackling good page-turner."

If you're a progressive, one thing you could do to support those fighting the good fight (that's free and easy) is to reply to their tweets/skeets, etc., or DM them and tell them you support them and appreciate their work to save the world. People are burning out and 2024 is a long way a way.