📚 **新小说集《温柔浪漫：AI与人性的故事》即将面世**：作者将于12月中旬推出首部小说集，包含22个故事，大部分为网络精选修订版，并新增了三篇新作。这本书探讨了在科技飞速发展的大背景下，个体如何努力 mempertahankan 身份认同的深刻主题。

✨ **三篇新作亮点抢先看**：集中的新故事包括《Lentando》，描绘了零知识顾问及其副本在后《Accelerando》未来中的挣扎；《The Biggest Short》，讲述了交易声誉的交易员在守护自身名誉方面的挑战；以及《Kuhn’s Ladder》，一个关于模拟乌托邦出现神秘故障的故事。

🚀 **探索故事的未来形式**：作者正在思考静态文本作为故事载体的局限性，并积极探索短篇小说的下一代叙事形式，预示着未来可能出现更具创新性的讲故事方式。

🙏 **感谢与展望**：作者对出版方Encour Press的编辑Jessy Wu和Marlene Baquiran，以及一直以来支持和鼓励他的读者表示诚挚的感谢，并期待读者能喜欢这部作品。

Published on November 10, 2025 12:36 AM GMT

It’s been eight months since I released my last story, so you could be forgiven for thinking that I’d given up on writing fiction. In fact, it’s the opposite. I’m excited to announce that I’m releasing my first fiction collection—The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and Humanity—with Encour Press in mid-December!

It contains 22 stories, most of which are revised versions of the best stories I’ve posted online. The thread that connects them is the struggle to hold onto our identities in the face of radical technological change—the same thread that winds through many of our own lives.

⁠⁠I’ve also written three new stories for the collection, which are some of my favorites:

Lentando is set in a future inspired by Charles Stross’ masterpiece Accelerando. Through it we follow Liza, a zero-knowledge consultant whose soon-to-be-deleted copies struggle to hold the world together.The Biggest Short is the story of two traders who make a fortune buying and selling reputations while struggling to preserve their own.Kuhn’s Ladder is about a simulated utopia that starts experiencing inexplicable glitches which seem designed to remain hidden.

You can preorder the book here.

Looking forward, it’s hard to say how much writing I’ll be doing over the next few years. I have a sense that static text will soon no longer be the best way to tell stories, so I want to try to figure out what the successor format to the short story will be. But I still have a few more stories in the pipeline, including one that’s my most ambitious effort so far—all of which I’ll post here when they’re finished.

Lastly, some thanks are in order. To Jessy Wu and Marlene Baquiran at Encour Press, whose efforts produced a much better version of this book (and made it possible at all). To Madeleine, who uplifts and inspires me. And to all of you who have read or commented on my writing over the last few years. I’m grateful for the encouragement that moved me to create The Gentle Romance, and I hope that you will enjoy it!