Ada Hoffmann

@ada-hoffmann.bsky.social

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Spec fic writer, poet, autist. They/them. Philip K. Dick Award finalist, Rhysling & Elgin nominee, & author of the OUTSIDE series. Canadian. More about me and my books at http://ada-hoffmann.com/

A page in a paper magazine with a list of titles, authors, and short summaries for several books. The one I want you to pay attention to is, of course, Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann. The summary says, "This character-driven sf follows and autistic, queer woman who finds a comfortable place for herself fine-tuning AI prompts to create episodes about a space pirate, when her best friend reappears asking for help with a dodgy situation."
Cover of Million-Year Elegies by Ada Hoffmann. The cover art is the skeleton of a baby dinosaur curled up in a circle.
Cover of Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann. There's a sort of shiny red tree growing in the clouds and a light filled silhouette of a person underneath it.
Cover of Monsters In My Mind by Ada Hoffmann. The art is a brown silhouette face with the title words creatively typeset into the area where its brain should be. Along the neck it says "Creator of Autistic Book Party."
Cover of The Fallen by Ada Hoffmann. The cover art features some highway bridges that have come alive and started to reach into the sky with greenery-covered tentacles. They also have red eyes in them. I don't know, it's sort of hard to explain. A tiny human figure sits by the roadside looking up at them.
Cover of The Outside by Ada Hoffmann. The cover art features some really cool twisting metal tentacle sorts of things with a tiny astronaut standing on one of them sideways. A pull quote by Karin Tidbeck says "A fresh and mind-bending mix of cosmic horror and space opera."
Cover of Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann. The cover art features a big cartoon Jupiter with a little cartoon spaceship flying over it against a starry background. On the cartoon spaceship there is a tiny Jolly Roger.
An arm tattoo based on the cover art from the Outside books by Ada Hoffmann. Ominous metallic spirals swirl down the arm and transform into green, frond-like shapes in which red eyes begin to open. The tattoo was designed and inked by Jenny Grant.
Memorial day sale! 20% off May 22-25th. Use code Memorial20. Text banner over a collage of many different recent books published by Tachyon Publications.
A cardboard shipping box open with copies of "Ignore All Previous Instructions" by Ada Hoffmann inside.
Ada Hoffmann is wearing short hair, glasses, a leather jacket, jeans, and black running shoes. They are sitting in a red chair in front of a yellow wall, waving their hands in an expressive gesture. They look happy and excited. Beside them is a small table with a water bottle, copy cup, and book. On the other side of the table a man with gray hair sits. He is wearing a striped shirt, jeans, and brown shoes. He is the event host.
April 15 at 2pm. Goodwin Hall room 230. 25 Union St. Kingston ON K7L 3N6. Ignore All Previous Instructions: A Novel. "A love story and also a love letter to the power of human creativity and imagination as resistance." Dr Carolyn Lamb writing as Ada Hoffmann. Hosted by Queen's University.
A table of pull quotes. Praise for "Ignore All Previous Instructions" "A revelation... 10 out of 10." - John Joseph Adams "Thrilling, prescient, and emotionally rich." - Publishers Weekly "Intimate, hopeful, and completely charming." - Kelly Robson "A triumph." - Jordan Kurella "A delight." - Bogi Takacs "Liberating and meaningful." - RB Lemberg "Precisely the book we need right now." - Izzy Wasserstein "This is science fiction with heart, soul, and brains." - Maria Haskins
Screenshot from n.wu.reads.aloud on Instagram. Nancy Wu, a Chinese woman in a tank top, poses in front of a red backdrop with a laptop showing the cover art of Ignore All Previous Instructions. Yellow lanterns can be seen overhead. Bubbles of text in the image say: "So happy. Just starting in the booth with Ada's new book! Ada Hoffmann's writing is simply fantastic. Recording in Bangkok, Thailand. Grateful to @recordedbooks audiobooks and @vintagestudio.thailand"
Ignore this mini book tour - sneak preview! Virtual Can*Con April 18 - panelist info to come Bakka Phoenix Books - Toronto, ON Launch day event! Tuesday, May 12, 6:00pm Indigo - Kingston, ON Launch week signing event Saturday, May 16, 11:00am-3:00pm More stops to be announced Watch this space!
Amazon Kindle: The Infinite, by Ada Hoffmann, £1.99/$1.99. For one week only. Ends 8th Feb 2026. Follow the link to redeem.
Book cover of Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann. Above and below the cover there is extra text, which says, "Get 25% off Indigo's most anticipated sci-fi books! Shop the pre-order sale February 2nd-8th."
Cover of the book Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann with arrows pointing to it. The text next to the arrows says: Be gay, do crimes! Trans M / cis F. New Adult. Queer coming of age. Autistic / ADHD relationship. Anti-LLM. Childhood friends to lovers / second chance. Prompt injection heist. Book bans (we're against them.) Writer MC. Sad backstory / happy ending. The power of imagination!!! Outwitting the clankers. Space colonies. Good girl / bad boy. Let me take you for a ride in my spaceship... Space media pirates.
A poster advertising an academic talk. Monday, February 9. The Place of AI in the City: Intelligent Machines and the Changing Shape of Social Relationships. 7:00-9:00 p.m. Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (290 Lieger Street) In the background there is a stock image of pedestrians on walkways linked by shining red and blue lines.
Locks on the Cataraqui River in Kingston, Ontario. The water is calm and surrounded by green forest of a northeastern US / eastern Ontario type. There are two small bridges overtop.
Text: The short guy bristles. He's got a loud voice, made even louder by the megaphone, although currently he's just holding it loose at his side and not shouting through it, per se. "We are not a diversion," he insists, [in tones of great conviction] [he says a union slogan idk what do you want from me]
Ninja, a black cat with green eyes, lounges contentedly on a pink pillow with a copy of Ada Hoffmann's book, "Ignore All Previous Instructions."
Your 2026 word is "based."
Screengrab from "Godzilla vs Mothra." We see the back of a gray haired man's head as he looks at a colored map of Japan and its surrounding area. Red letters at the top of the map say "GODZILLA DETECTION."
Tweet by a person named goth edit rosalina nintendo. It says, "working thru trauma is so goddamn goofy sometimes. like im really out here 31 years old giving myself kid's show lessons & assignments. Ok sweetie this month we're going to practice MAKING CHOICES! :) Do you know what a CHOICE is? *turns to a fuckfing puppet holding two items* 10:20am, May 2, 2022. 30 likes.
Screenshot from Disney's "Tangled." Rapunzel is lying facedown despondently in the grass, while Flynn sits nearby, exasperated, with his face in his hand.
An ad that says, "30th anniversary Year end sale! 30% off sitewide until the end of 2025. Use code YEAREND30. Tachyonpublications.com." In the background there is a collage of covers of different Tachyon books.
Cover of the book IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by Ada Hoffmann. The title is written in bright, colorful block letters and the author's name is below it in a handwriting-like font. A tiny robot peeks out from the "S" at the end of "Instructions." Below the title and author there is a cartoon depiction of the planet Jupiter, against a starry background, with a cartoon spaceship flying up from it. There is a small Jolly Roger flag on the spaceship.
Blurry picture of the box of the Curious Cat Tarot, volume II. It is teal colored and is resting on a wooden surface. It has cover art of a black cat surrounded by daisies.
A pretty large pile of books, notebooks, stickers, bookmarks, candy, magnets and accessories.
Back end of several university buildings, with a tree in the foreground.
Back view of several buildings in Barcelona.
Meet me at Can*Con 2025! Sat Oct 18, 10:00 am Slow Fiction Sat Oct 18, 5:30 pm Navigating Social Communication Sun Oct 19, 10:00 am He's Babygirl: Reclaiming the Queercoded Villain @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social
Raj Koothrappali from The Big Bang Theory
A picture of a Canadian election ballot. It's super simple and just has four names with check boxes next to thm.
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Ignore All Previous Instructions By Ada Hoffmann Imprint: Tachyon Publications, Recorded Books Author of THE OUTSIDE Ada Hoffmann's IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, a light sci-fi novel pitched as a queer coming-of-age with an autistic main character and a cutting satire about AI in publishing, conglomeration of corporate ownership in media, and censorship and book banning, by Jacob Weisman at Tachyon Publications, with Jaymee Goh editing, for publication in spring 2026, by Hannah Bowman at Liza Dawson Associates. Audo rights to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books. Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy April 8, 2025
Picture of Ada Hoffmann. They are standing in front of a brown closet door, wearing a blue tank top and blue baseball cap.
Screenshot of a paragraph from the zero draft of some story or other, with a lot of placeholder brackets where words are supposed to go. The full text of the paragraph reads: “[mc],” [guy] says, extending his hand, “meet Dr. [li] and Dr. [extra]. [li first name] just won this year’s [a fancy chairship] and [name] works with her in [some capacity]. [both first names], meet [mc now with bonus last name!], one of my best and most reliable [polite word for assassin.]”
Fanart of Dr Evianna Talirr from THE OUTSIDE, drawn by criptidmar. A grumpy looking middle-aged woman with large glasses, a lab coat, a book in one hand and a lot of eldritch horrors clustered around her.
Screenshot of Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico in The Last Jedi saying, "I could put my fist through this whole lousy beautiful town."
Pterodactyl in a defiant pose on a tree branch. Text says "Come at me extinction."
[Ev's like "hi I'm here to fix your problem"] [Yasira and the others have complex reactions] [Ev hamhandedly apologizes] [complex reactions] [actual pran is explained] [Eva sks Yasira to stay behind] [Tiv leaps to Yasira's defense] [Yasira waves her off]
Your Result: [insert character] needs a hug. frown emoji. you poor poor thing.
Get to know my writing. For every like, I will post one piece I wrote.
A pile of books, coffee, cat toy, post-it notes, bottle of something sparkly, and a postcard that says "Has the world ended yet?"
A black cat sits on a brightly colored rug in a bright sunbeam with a copy of Ada Hoffmann's book, "The Outside." She is looking slightly away from the camera to avoid getting sun in her eyes.
Get to know my music taste. For every like, I will post one song I love.
1. Who's your favorite character you've written? 2. What book has had the biggest influence on your writing? (not counting craft books) 3. Which of your characters is the most like you? 4. Which of your characters is least like you? 5. What is your Big Author Dream? 6. Which do you like best: plotting, drafting, revising, or editing? 7. What is the genre of your current WIP? 8. What was the genre of your first WIP? 9. What do you do when you get stuck in your plot? 10. What is your ideal writing environment? 11. What author's style do you most admire? 12. Can you read and write at the same time? 13. Do you write every day? Why or why not? 14. What's your average word count in a day? 15. What time of day do you like to write? 16. What is the hardest part of starting a new project? 17. How do you get inspired when the well is dry? 18. If you want, tag three people to do the prompt!
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A yellow box with text that says, "I love reading your science fiction, appreciate you and authors you respect subverting the dominant paradigm. Thank you! - Nisia Thornton, Subscribed"
A suspension bridge with A-shaped white towers, with a forested hill in the background. The sky behind them is blue with some puffy clouds.
List of the Most Requested Books in this week's SFWA NetGalley program. In order, the books on the list are Novus Monstrum; Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann; Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács; Shapers of Worlds Volume IV; and Obsecration. Other writing on the covers of the books is too small to read.
The beginning part of an entry from the Feedly feed reader. The post being read is from Bret Deveraux's blog, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, on Nov 24, 2023 at 1:20pm. The title of the post, at the top, is "Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?" Underneath the title, author and date, Feedly has inserted an ad that says, "Upgrade to Feedly for Threat Intelligence to automatically tag CVEs, Threat Actors, Malware Families, TTPs, and IoCs referenced in this article using AI." At the bottom of the ad is a button that says "Learn More."