It’s OK to Say if You Went Back in Time and Killed Baby Hitler — Big Echo
Primer was a film about a start-up …and time travel. This is a short story about big tech …and time travel.
Salvage (Upsideclown)
A tale of the Fermi paradox featuring data preservation via tardigrade as a means of transmitting information beyond the great filter.
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The Future History of the Nuclear Renaissance With Isabelle Boemeke
I really like the format of this bit of journo-fiction. An interview from the future looking back at the turning point of today.
It probably helps that I’m into nuclearpunk just as much as solarpunk, so I approve this message.
Atomkraft? Ja, bitte!
Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors | Fix
Twelve short stories of solarpunk cli-fi “envisioning the next 180 years of equitable climate progress.”
Whether built on abundance or adaptation, reform or a new understanding of survival, these stories provide flickers of hope, even joy, and serve as a springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality.
Blackout in the Brain Lab - Issue 98: Mind - Nautilus
Black Mirror meets Henrietta Lacks in this short story by Erik Hoel who I had not heard of until today, when I came across his name here and also in a completely unrelated blog post by Peter Watts about the nature of dreams.
A beautiful day on Colony 12
A very affecting short story by Ben. I look forward to reading more of these.
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Mirrorworld
A tale of two Kevins.
2001 + 50
The fiftieth anniversary of the greatest film ever made.
A minority report on artificial intelligence
Revisiting Spielberg’s films after a decade and a half.
Seams
There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Living Through The Future
William Gibson, Arthur C.Clarke, Daniel Dafoe, Stephen King, Emily St. John Mandel, John Wyndham, Martin Cruz-Smith, Marina Koren and H.G. Wells.