I write speculative fiction, cultural criticism, humor, and journalism, with a particular interest in retrofuturism, video games, fandom, and forgotten corners of pop culture history. My work has been published by Wired, Rolling Stone, Slate, McSweeney’s, Adventitious, The Daily Tomorrow, Alta Journal, Flash Fiction Online, and Nature: Futures. I also publish the newsletter Pop Cultural Precursors.
A selection of Angry Nerd columns and videos, 2009-2018
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Variety once dubbed me "a grumpy bald guy billed as a digital Andy Rooney." I'll take that! My bitter rants about pop culture earned me a reputation around the Wired office, and my colleagues eventually gave me a monthly column to hold forth on how comics, sci-fi, and other geeky properties were being ruined. Here's a sampling. (Video clips below these magazine excerpts.) The Angry Nerd column was eventually turned into a YouTube series. I wrote, produced, and starred in video segments in episodes that garnered 22M+ pageviews, and was a Webby Award Honoree in the Video: Variety & Reality category. A few clips below. |
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I write speculative fiction, cultural criticism, humor, and journalism, with a particular interest in retrofuturism, video games, fandom, and forgotten corners of pop culture history. My work has been published by Wired, Rolling Stone, Slate, McSweeney’s, Adventitious, The Daily Tomorrow, Alta Journal, Flash Fiction Online, and Nature: Futures. I also publish the newsletter Pop Cultural Precursors.
My story was serialized by The Daily Tomorrow. Their synopsis: "a deathbed codicil, a savage sport, a mechanical replacement, and further complications? Join us for a healthful outing in Chris Baker’s marvellous 'A Duty of Care.' Happy hunting!"Subscribers can read an afterword about the story's making. https://dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/a-duty-of-care-full-story
Everyone should subscribe to this excellent spec-fic quarterly edited by Scott Beggs. Very proud to have a short piece in it.
If you could rewind time and erase your mistakes, would you use that power responisbly? Or would you be undone by undos? Read my piece in Futures: Science Fiction in Nature, and subscribe for more sci-fi flash fiction.I wish more science mags still published speculative fiction. We didn't know how good we had it with Omni back in the day...