kaolin fire presents :: home
apps, paintings, book covers, and some writing.
Kaolin Fire (he/him/his) has been developing software independently since the days of DOOR games, not counting hours entering machine code from the back of COMPUTE!'s Gazette. He's had fiction and poetry published in Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, and Murky Depths, among others; has taught computer science at high school and college levels; dabbles in cover art and cover design; and obsesses about the human brain. He knows whereof androids dream.
Apps I ship
Nine on the App Store, several of them still getting updates a decade after they launched.
- izzit — one word a day, three tries to draw it, an AI judge that certifies you or gets it entertainingly wrong. iOS & Android, free.
- Curiouser — a nudge to notice where you actually are. New this summer.
- FractRoam — fractals to fall into. Shipping since 2015.
- Timeful — a timer that stays out of the way. Shipping since 2018.
All nine, plus what’s coming →
Art
131 pieces: oil on canvas, digital work, and book covers for Zumaya, Renaissance E-Books and others.
Browse the paintings and covers →
Writing
Short fiction and poetry, mostly science fiction and fantasy. A few I’d point you at first:
- “Leary’s Pineal Body” — The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Harper Voyager, 2011)
- “A Guide to the Air-Dependent” — Strange Horizons
- “Credencium” — The Edge of Propinquity, a twelve-part serial (2011)
- “Hermit Soul” — Murky Depths, issue 18
Also
I edited GUD Magazine — literary and genre fiction, poetry, art — across issues 0 through 7. There are typefaces, comics, and twenty-odd years of photographs around here too.
