Forty Worlds
Forty short stories in forty genres, each with a note on where it came from. A detective dog, the fall of Constantinople, a vampire in therapy, and a chicken that outsmarts God.
Tag: Fiction (Page 13)
FictionShield of Ashes
A near-future nuclear escalation across four continents in 2029, told in twelve phases, with the doctrine grounded in the real thing and the civilians given equal weight.
Children's BooksJake and the Bullies
A viral dodgeball video pulls Jake into the internet, where a Hate Engine feeds on what kids feel when the comments arrive. Cyberbullying handled inside an adventure, ages 7 to 14.
FictionPeacekeeper: To What End Peace
Admiral Jessica Lang has served an empire for two hundred thousand years. A routine inspection of one frontier colony costs her everything, including the voice in her head. Military science fiction.
Ancient RomeA Treachery of Legions
Rome, 69 AD. Marcus Antonius Primus marched without orders, won at Cremona, and then let a city burn. He tells it himself at sixty-three, with decades to have chosen a version.
Fantasy FictionDungeon
A deserter enters the dungeon under the white house to fill a trophy case with twenty categories of treasure. Literary fantasy built from the 1977 MIT text adventure.
FictionAltverse
Ari maps condemned buildings and finds a projector with forty-three symbols on its ring, each one a different world. Speculative fiction with a documenter at the center.
FictionButtercup
A memoir told by a cat. Ten years in a Los Angeles apartment with Claudia, who was funny and sick, and the two weeks between her death and Buttercup's.
ConsciousnessCollision With Andromeda
The Milky Way is conscious and has a plan that humanity is part of. Seventeen million years, one family, and a galaxy whose good intentions arrive at galactic scale.
AI AdoptionThe Trolley Problem, Asked of an AI
Every model answered in under a second, and the speed was the tell. What the different answers gave away, and why a character whose sincerity you can never verify is a harder writing problem than it looks.
AmbiguityThe Arena
Two wizards — father and son — meet in magical combat that neither can win and neither will abandon. Based on Metagaming's 1978 game Wizard.
AIThe Lighthouse Keeper’s Last Shift
When a lighthouse gets automated, the keeper goes home and the machines take over. But after twenty-two years of a human presence, the lighthouse starts to notice what's missing.