UC Berkeley Astronomy Professor. Author of COHERENCE (the novel). https://xitter.cf/t.co/NU1QSXxjAD
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Hi all! Breaking my social media blackout to bring you some news: I've got a book coming out 12/8/25! It's a novel (fiction!) and I think you'll like it. Check out aaronrparsons.com for details!
A big month for Coherence! I experimented with an ad that hit big. We’re up to 760 books sold, which is above the threshold of 500 I’d set for writing a sequel! Check it out if you haven’t already: amazon.com/dp/B0FVRM55NX?maa…
Sounds like the plot of a book I know. Whats the worst that could happen if AI can find havks on every major OS? nytimes.com/2026/04/10/brief…
As if we haven't already done enough damage to science, our radio telescope in South Africa (the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array) has been shut off because of fuel shortages, thanks to an international conflict that no one asked for.
Here's the April update for how Coherence is doing. 423 books sold, 51 ratings on amazon (81% are 5-star). amazon.com/dp/B0FVRM55NX?maa…
With so many zero-day exploits, if hackers ever had a plan (eg AI agentic info manipulation from my book COHERENCE), instead of launching dumb DDOS attacks and bragging online... We live in a time of unprecedented danger of runaway power grabs. wsj.com/tech/kimwolf-hack-re…
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Our work on determining the masses of the first stars, led by Dr Thomas Gessey-Jones and Prof Anastasia Fialkov, and published recently in Nature Astronomy, has just been featured in the Contact Magazine. Well done team!
Contact 19 issuu.com/ska_telescope/docs… via @issuu
Lots of people have been asking how my book Coherence is doing. The short answer: GREAT!
If you’ve read Coherence and haven’t left a rating yet, I’d really appreciate your help getting it to 50 on Amazon. And if you haven’t read it yet... maybe now’s the time to give it a try?
Quick update on my novel, COHERENCE, one month in:
- 200 sales (v. strong for an indie debut)!
- 26 reviews (4.7⭐Amazon), 16 (5⭐ Goodreads)
I'm loving hearing everyone's reactions! Here's a concept image of Ruby, our badass protagonist!
aaronrparsons.com/books-port…
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Among this year's good reads from @UCBerkeley profs, check out a newly published #scifi novel by astronomer Aaron Parsons @UCBProf. See the list news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/01… @UCB_Astronomy
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This from @davidshor made me LOL. "having wealthy people or economists be mad at you is a feature, not a bug" .... anyway, it's a very interesting conversation I recommend it.
Really excited I got to talk to @BharatRamamurti about what the polling says about AI, people’s intuitions of fairness in a hypothetical post scarcity world, and most controversially price controls
Check it out!
open.substack.com/pub/bharat…
Paperback preorders for COHERENCE just opened on Amazon! a.co/d/2KwBpgF
For fun, I asked Gemini 3 (just released today) to illustrate a scene from my book. Not exactly as I imagined, but interesting!
Final proofs are in! COHERENCE is no longer virtual. I am hoping to get to 100 ebook preorders before my 12/8 release to launch high enough for the world to start finding it. I’d love it if you can help! aaronrparsons.com/books-port…
Just dropped a new video explaining the weak link in computing security that I use in my novel COHERENCE to take over the world. It’s a real thing! youtu.be/HATbATRd5T4.
If you're impatient to read COHERENCE, I'm posting the first 4 chapters in PDF and EPUB: aaronrparsons.com/books-port…
