T.R Napper

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T. R. Napper，科幻作家。

更新：WorldCon、新书合约与一些好评

科幻作家 T.R Napper 记录 WorldCon 参会见闻：连续五次上台、与多位知名作者交流、现场购书售罄等；并提到新书 This Machine Kills Billionaires 在 Goodreads 上为其评分最高作品。他还透露正有两部书在投稿——一部科幻、一部超过 20 万词的奇幻长篇，后者被他寄予厚望；另有五篇短篇小说约稿已完成三篇，一部中篇接近签约。文章夹带了对 Philip K Dick 的访谈和 BookTuber 书评视频的推荐。整体偏作者个人更新与作品推广，对科幻读者有一定信息量，但讨论入口有限。

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收藏19 天前

是人，笨蛋

AI没有意识，科技巨头正通过窃取艺术构建公司世界。作家T.R Napper以参与澳大利亚国防军创伤康复艺术项目为证：创作本身具有疗愈力量，AI无法替代。他建议艺术家在出版合同中加入反AI条款，并通过法律、政治、个人和文化四方面抵制科技公司的艺术窃取。

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收藏42 天前

成为更好作家的黄金法则

全职作家T.R Napper提出：成为更好作家的唯一黄金法则是大量阅读。他指出许多 aspiring writers 以"太忙"为借口不读书，但日均屏幕时间两到七小时的人完全有精力阅读。阅读不仅传授写作技法、激发灵感，还会改变大脑结构——数字成瘾正在削弱这种能力。他引用Maryanne Wolf的研究，建议每晚放下手机读一小时书，几周就能重塑大脑。

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收藏45 天前

《银翼杀手》的视觉美学：Syd Mead的设计与Ridley Scott的细节偏执

《银翼杀手》上映35年后仍被奉为视觉经典，美术设计由未来学家Syd Mead操刀，Ridley Scott对细节近乎偏执——连道具咖啡杯都要准备足够多的款式供选择。片中Deckard的枪由双管猎枪和手枪拼接而成，实际发射.44马格南子弹，重量是普通手枪的两倍。

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收藏45 天前

My Books – Where to Start Reading

Every time I’m guest at a Comic-Con or equivalent, someone will walk past my desk, see my array of cyberpunk books, and ask me where they should begin. My short answer is always this: anywhere you lik...

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收藏77 天前

This Machine Kills Billionaires – Where to Get Your Copy

Audible, eBook, and physical versions of This Machines Kills Billionaires are available everywhere. United States My agency has consolidated the US links all in one place. Click here for B&N, Kobo, Go...

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收藏99 天前

Surprise New Release – This Machine Kills Billionaires

I’ve got a surprise new release coming out. Let me tell you about it. This Machine Kills Billionaires is a new collection, centred around my award-winning novella, The Hidden God. The Hidden God first...

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收藏107 天前

Interview with the British Fantasy Society (plus two YouTube videos)

I did an interview with the British Fantasy Society podcast in December last year which I had completely forgotten about until a few days ago, when it was published. But you get it: December is a blur...

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收藏184 天前

Ditmar Voting is Open (and you can nominate)

Ditmar Awards Voting is open. For the uninitiated, the Ditmars are the annual Australian peer-voted awards for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. What does peer-voted mean? Well, that you are eithe...

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收藏211 天前

My Favourite Reads of 2025

Hit my target of 52 books read for the year. You know what? I love reading. Completely trite to say so, but there it is. Several times throughout 2025, while I was lying on my couch (a battered yet fi...

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收藏291 天前

Two-for-One Sale – Multi-Award-Winning, Acclaimed Australian SF

This year, Ghost of the Neon God won both Best Science Fiction Novella at the Aurealis Awards, and Best Novella at the Ditmars. The Aurealis is a juried award, and genuinely features the best of Austr...

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收藏295 天前

Creativity as Healing – Trauma Recovery Through Art

Art is not a luxury, it is a necessity. Let me show you why. I write full time, which is another way of saying I’m broke. As such, I work several extra jobs (three, currently) to feed my writing habit...

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收藏300 天前

When a Character is a Weapon (Featuring Chrome Lin Vu)

I recently watched a thoughtful, interesting YouTube on ‘Writing Characters Who Are Weapons,’ by Tim Hickson. He’s a New Zealander who runs the channel HelloFutureMe, which deals with both writing as ...

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收藏317 天前