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Si Clarke

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SI CLARKE is a misanthrope who lives in Deptford, sarf ees London. She shares her home with her partner and an assortment of waifs and strays. When not writing convoluted, inefficient stories, she spends her time telling financial services firms to behave more efficiently. When not doing either of those things, she can be found in the pub or shouting at people online – occasionally practising efficiency by doing both at once. 


As someone who’s neurodivergent, an immigrant, and the proud owner of an invisible disability, she strives to present a diverse array of characters in her stories.

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On AI

I love a bit of fictional AI as much as the next person

Okay, probably more than the next person.

Data, Marvin, Bender, Mike (aka Adam Selene), Mudd’s women, R  Daneel Olivaw… You can see more examples in my own work: Henry, Holly, and Elys. Maybe more to come.

But I’m sceptical of real world AI. For one thing, I don’t think it can really do everything it’s being touted as doing. For another, behind

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“We can have fully automated luxury gay space communism when we find a supply of unlimited resources – until then, we’ll have to make do with partially automated queer social liberalism.”
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