Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Verne wrote political manifestos with a plot wrapped around them. The situation is strong and there is nobody inside it, so this version hands the narration to the harpooner who wants off the ship.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Wells wrote a class allegory dressed in science fiction and sent his Time Traveller forward alone, which makes the middle of the book pure narration. This version puts somebody in the seat beside him.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
The Sphere began with one rule: no faster than light travel. Remove that and humanity cannot leave, which means the only remaining direction is inward. The subject is a forty thousand year construction project, which contains no action at all,…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Gideon Spilett kept two sets of records on Lincoln Island, one for the New York Herald and one for himself. What he left out of the published account was the whole of Neb, and the reason was that an equal…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
I wrote this alongside Gettin Laid, one from each side, to see what the difference looked like on the page instead of in an argument. The distinction turned out sharper than expected: the women learn about each other, and the…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Cloudborn started with a place instead of a person. The hard part was writing a mind with no words, no bodies as we understand them, and no experience of a solid surface, without turning it into a person in a…
Critical ThinkingAugust 31, 2026
Settling the solar system is not a distance problem. It is an energy problem, a radiation problem, a gravity problem, and above all a supply chain problem, and the one that decides everything gets the least attention.
Critical ThinkingAugust 28, 2026
Jules Verne wrote three novels across eight years that turn out to be one story, with returning characters, honoured consequences, and a timeline that does not add up.
Critical ThinkingAugust 25, 2026
Deliberate human burial goes back at least a hundred thousand years. At Sungir, two children were buried with ten thousand ivory beads, each about an hour of work, by people living at the edge of their food supply.
Critical ThinkingAugust 22, 2026
H. G. Wells sent a traveller thirty million years forward to a beach under a swollen red sun where the last living thing flopped in the surf. That ending was not invention. It was the settled physics of 1895.
Critical ThinkingAugust 19, 2026
A psychiatrist at the University of Virginia spent four decades collecting cases of small children who described lives they had not lived, including 210 whose birthmarks matched wounds on the person they claimed to have been.
Critical ThinkingAugust 13, 2026
The settled answer was a head-on collision in four billion years. In June 2025 a hundred thousand simulations turned that into a coin flip. Almost nothing will physically collide when it happens, because stars are too far apart. What changes…
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