I didn’t grow up on io9, but I became me through it, if that makes sense. I know there are a lot of us that had our worldviews changed by the stuff you did here, not just reflecting sci(fi) but contributing to it, too. You helped create the culture the future generation of creators was steeped in. And it’s a GOOD…

Finishing off the formatting on a book called “Martian Idiots”, writing an episode of Shutterbugs (my preschool show) about blood moons, and ramping up to write a story about two ronin hunting a power-mad kappa in China. Strangely, there is actually overlap there...

I’ve got a decent prototype working now... a few features left to figure out, but it does a good (alpha) job of things. If anyone wants to give it a go, it’s at http://stent.1889.ca

I am procrastinating on another project, so here’s a rough approximation of a massively incomplete alpha version! Yay!

That idea (Goodreads for short stories) sounds great to me! Easy enough to build, too. Doesn’t it seem strange there isn’t already something like this out there already? To the right audience, it could be fantastically useful.