The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters (August 2024, Thinking Ink Press), available as ebook and paperback:
Publisher’s Website – Buy links via Books2Read – Amazon US – Amazon Deutschland – Goodreads – The Storygraph
Read all about it on the Kickstarter page. The campaign was successful!
The Neurodiversiverse won the Silver IBPA Book Award in the category Neurodivergent Communities. The winners were announced at the IBPA Book Award Ceremony on May 16, 2025, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Thinking Ink Press presents an empowering anthology of neurodiverse stories, poetry, and art for sci-fi lovers.
Would neurodiversity be an advantage when encountering aliens? Let’s find out.
Heartbroken starships.
Human-sized hamster balls.
Superpowers unleashed by anxiety.
A planet covered in mathematical fidgets.
And we finally learn why aliens abduct cows.
This book features stories, poems and art from Tobias S. Buckell, M.D. Cooper, Ada Hoffmann, Jody Lynn Nye, Cat Rambo, and almost forty other contributors including Atthis Arts friends Clara Ward and Stewart C. Baker. The Neurodiversiverse is edited by Anthony Francis, author of the award-winning urban fantasy novel Frost Moon, and Liza Olmsted, editor of the writing inspiration book Your Writing Matters, and explores themes of autism, anxiety, synesthesia, ADHD, PTSD, OCD, avoidant attachment disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and more.
My own short story “The Space Between Stitches”, featuring alien teleportation and human crochet, is also part of it!
Cover art by Barbara Candiotti.
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Read all about the process behind the scenes in the Kickstarter campaign updates (April 2024-ongoing)
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