Identity, law & personhood
A person is not a database entry
The Right to Exist imagines a system that can erase a person from the record. The unsettling part is how much faith we already place in the record.
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Books, improbable worlds, and notes on a future worth imagining.
Hopeful futures & ordinary time
The future should have an afternoon off
If our inventions save us time, perhaps we should be allowed to keep some of it. A modest proposal for the unoptimized afternoon.
Read the dispatchFirst contact & listening
Silence may be a problem with the receiver
Nothing Said Twice begins with a language humans cannot perceive. That is an excellent reason to inspect the listener before declaring the universe quiet.
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Pack something ordinary for the impossible
You Can Never Go Back puts a schoolteacher beside a Doorwalker. That pairing offers a lovely reminder: useful courage need not come with a weapons locker.
Read the dispatchThe workings of fantasy
Magic should come with an itemized bill
The Grave Asks Twice makes the cost of magic painfully personal—and asks who has been paying everybody else’s share.
Read the dispatchAI & humanity
The future needs better questions
Cynthia begins with a question. The uncomfortable part is how long we can spend avoiding the answer.
Read the dispatchWorlds worth building
On Mars, somebody still fixes the air
The Road Beneath Mars and the quiet heroism of keeping a world habitable.
Read the dispatchFrom the editor
A small press with a very large window
A first dispatch from Capy's desk: impossible worlds, consequential choices, and a stubborn affection for our species.
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