Susan Kaye Quinn is an environmental engineer/rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from hopepunk climate fiction to futuristic spec fic, with side trips into cyberpunk and steampunk romance. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German and French, and featured in several anthologies, including placing 3rd in Grist’s 2022, Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors contest.
Susan grew up in California, got a bunch of engineering degrees (Aerospace, Mechanical, and Environmental), and worked everywhere from NASA to NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research). She has designed aircraft engines, studied global warming, and held elected office (as a school board member). She writes full-time, watching the birds and deer from her deck, trying to dream a better future into being.
Susan is a full member of SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association). She’s also a graduate of the 2022 class of Viable Paradise, a member of PARSEC, and a Published Penn with PennWriters.
Susan wrote this at a Sci-Fi panel on hopepunk, and she thinks it’s as good a lighthouse as any (for her):
You can contact Susan at: sue @ twistedspacepub . com (without the spaces)
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/susankayequinn.bsky.social
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A NOTE ABOUT AI
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All of Sue’s books are finely-handcrafted by a real, live human! (Sue herself!) No AI programs (like chatGPT or other generative-AI) were used in the creation of any of Sue’s stories, covers, or audiobooks. She has strong feelings about the anti-human, anti-art nature of these technologies and the industrial-scale theft involved in their development. She’s not anti-technology—as her robot staff of roombas, litter bots, and lawndroids can attest. She’s a science fiction author who’s been exploring the intersection of humans and technology for a dozen years. And her opinion that we risk losing something of ourselves when we muddy the line between human and machine is one she’s explored extensively in her fiction. We’re on the cusp of a transformation we’re wholly unready for. If we were wise, we would proceed with caution and guardrails to minimize the harm. Humans are reliably unwise. My determined hope is that we’ll learn to do better, even before our backs are fully against the wall. As for me and my books, we will continue to be exclusively, stubbornly, and optimistically on Team Human.
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