Short literary science fiction stories set in a near-future city where a coordinating system called Continuum smooths daily life. Each issue follows ordinary people dealing with grief, disaster and loss in the gaps that frictionless systems leave.
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A personal literary newsletter featuring close readings of science fiction short stories by writers such as Le Guin, Russ and Tiptree, alongside book reviews and occasional observations. Readers get discursive, spoiler-heavy criticism and updates on the author's published writing.
Radio Free Tomorrow is a serialized space opera set across the diaspora of human settlements, following a long-running chapter sequence in which a Jovian trade hub is attacked by unidentified armed boarders and political structures in other star systems strain under a mutual-aid treaty. It also includes occasional opinion pieces on the world, and readers get gripping narrative with careful worldbuilding around dates, politics and interstellar governance.
A weekly newsletter publishing one original science fiction or fantasy short story per issue, with a brief editors' note introducing each author. Readers get fiction from established genre writers such as James Morrow, E.C. Myers, Emma Osborne and Mur Lafferty.
Essays and updates exploring how people can live humanely amid rapid technological change, especially AI, with a mix of speculative scenarios, historical analogies and fine art. It also covers news and interviews around the author's dystopian novel The Last Upheaval.
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