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Joe Pitkin has lived, taught, and studied in England, Hungary, Mexico, and at Clark College in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. His short stories have appeared in The Boston Review, Analog, Black Static, Cosmos, and other magazines and podcasts, as well as on his blog, The Subway Test. He lives in Portland, Oregon, in the shadow of a small extinct volcano. His most recent novel, Exit Black, will be published by Blackstone on 20 February 2024. ...more

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	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (Editor), Eleanor Arnason, Madeline Ashby (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exit Black 3.36 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il futuro di vetro e altri racconti by David G. Hartwell (Editor), Marcello Jatosti (translator), Annarita Guarnieri (translator) 3.69 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 by Rich Horton (Editor), Linda Nagata (Goodreads Author), Xia Jia 3.75 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May/June 2017 by Trevor Quachri (Editor), Howard V. Hendrix (Contributor), Michael Carroll (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2015 by Trevor Quachri (Editor), Stanley Schmidt (Contributor), Alec Nevala-Lee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2013 by Trevor Quachri (Editor), Martin L. Shoemaker (Contributor), Alec Nevala-Lee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranger Bird 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Exit Black: Thriller \| Actionreicher Science-Fiction Thriller im Weltraumhotel by Joe Pitkin (Goodreads Author), Jürgen Langowski (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Joe Pitkin answered John Kropewnicki's question: Exit Black was very cinematic: Who do you imagine a cast for Exit Black the movie? Hi, John! I guess if there was an unlimited budget, and I could just cast whoever I wanted, I would choose America Ferrera or Ana de Armas for Chloe. I'd love to have Jeffrey Wright play Dion, though Idris Elba would also be great. Maybe Christian Ba See Full Answer
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“It wasn't that he seemed at all violent - rather, he had a peculiar unhinged intensity that told her that to challenge him would mean hearing him defend his hypothesis for the next forty minutes.”
― Joe Pitkin, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

tags: overconfidence, social-anthropology

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“Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.”
― Joe Pitkin, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

tags: civil-engineering, mating-ritual, mating-rituals, perspective, social-anthropology

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“A supposedly daring insight came up, disguised as a question: Dr. Cole, aren't humans the most invasive species of all? She'd fielded that one many times before, during public lectures and even in her days as a teaching assistant [...] 'I'm not unsympathetic to that line of thinking,' she answered, 'but even if it's true, we're also the only species in any position to do anything about it.”
― Joe Pitkin, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

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