‘Sci-Fi’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “The Great Work Goes On ”, Gwern 2025
- “Miscellaneous ”, Gwern 2009
- “The Diamond Earrings ”, Gwern 2023
- “A Gambler’s Verity World ”, Gwern 2024
- “Review Of The Quantum Thief Trilogy ”, Gwern 2022
- “It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World ”, Gwern 2022
- “The Gift of the Amygdali ”, Gwern 2017
- “The ‘Screwfly Solution’ Solution: Bi-Sexuality ”, Gwern 2021
- “‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF ”, Gwern 2013
- “On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages ”, Gwern 2016
- “The Ones Who Walk Towards Acre ”, Gwern 2010
- “The Palace of Wonders ”, Gwern 2011
- “The Hyperbolic Time Chamber & Brain Emulation ”, Gwern 2012
- “The Melancholy of Kyon ”, Gwern 2009
- “Men of Iron ”, Gwern 2012
- “The Erl King ”, Gwern 2008
- “Gilles Goullet, Author of the Blindsight ”, Gwern 2010
- “Aria’s Past, Present, and Future ”, Gwern 2011
- “Colder Wars ”, Gwern 2009
- “Missing Cities ”, Gwern 2009
- “The Case of PenPen ”, Gwern 2010
- Cloud Nine, Gwern 2008
- “How the Panther Got Black ”, Gwern 2009
- Links
- “Born in the Wrong Generation: You Have Gone Nowhere. There Is Nowhere for You to Go ”, Kriss 2025
- “The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi LARP ”, Hon & Kröger 2025
- “How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years § Pandora’s 1 GW Box ”, Clymer 2025
- “Thomas D. Clareson ”, Encyclopedia 2025
- “Survival without Dignity ”, L 2024
- “The Last Dangerous Visions § Ellison Exegesis ”, Straczynski 2024
- “The Later Years of Douglas Adams ”
- hannu @ "2024-06-07"
- “The Best RPG Cover of All Time [Traveller 1977] ”, Dwiz 2024
- “Harlan Ellison’s Last Words: The Ambitious Plan for Sci-Fi Writer’s Posthumous Comeback—Longtime Friend and Babylon 5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski Endeavors to Reshape the Legacy of the Late Sci-Fi Writer ”, Appleford 2024
- “Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun ”, Katz 2024
- “The Quantum Thief (Omni-Style Magazine Cover) ”, Gwern 2024
- “The Synthwave Quantum Thief ”, Gwern 2024
- “[On Gwern’s Review of The Quantum Thief] ”, Rajaniemi 2024
- stefaesthesia @ "2024-03-13"
- “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Review ”, Hon 2023
- “Ian Fleming’s Soviet Rival: Roman Kim and Soviet Spy Fiction during the Early Cold War ”, Kovacevic 2022
- “[Photograph of Beach Endorsed by William Gibson As Opening of Neuromancer] ”, Lewinsky 2022
- “Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of ‘Evil’ Monsters ”, Ferguson 2022b
- “Rare Greek Variables ”, Bayer 2021
- “J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sub-Creation Theory: Literary Creativity As Participation in the Divine Creation ”, Yohn 2021
- “Windows 11 MS Clippit Emoji ”, Microsoft 2021
- “Prophecy Anthology Volume 1, Review ”, Plowright 2020
- “I Sexually Identify As an Attack Helicopter ”, Fall 2020
- “The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons ”, Kipping 2019
- “Black Leopard Red Wolf Was Sold As an African Game of Thrones. It’s a Weirder Book Than That. Man Booker Prize Winner Marlon James Goes Genre With His Latest Novel. ”, Grady 2019
- “Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek ”, D’Oria et al 2019
- “Sort By Controversial ”, Alexander 2018
- “Loyal to the Group of 17’s Story—The Just Man ”, Wolfe 2018
- “Bakker Q&A: Would You Be Fine With the Series Ending Here? ”, Bakker et al 2017
- “Blade Runner (Typeset In The Future) ”, Addey 2016
- “101 Weird Writers #39: James Tiptree Junior ”
- “Visions of the Future: 14 Space Travel Posters of Colorful, Exotic Space Settings Are Now Available Free for Downloading and Printing ”, Goods et al 2016
- “My Dad, the Pornographer ”, Offutt 2015
- Nessus: Adventures in the Dead City at the Twilight of Urth, mellonbread 2015
- “Alien (Typeset In The Future) ”, Addey 2014
- “The Story Of Thanksgiving Is A Science-Fiction Story ”, Alexander 2013
- “Flash Dance: Digital Dashboards of the 1980s (Not Every Car Could Be a Star of the Knight Rider Show, but Almost Every 1980s Car Model Sported a Flashy Disco-Lights Digital Dashboard) ”, Abrams 2013
- “Additions and Corrections for ‘Lovecraft’s 1937 Diary’ ”, Haden 2013
- “Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific ”, Tippett 2012
- “The Whispering Earring ”, Alexander 2012
- “Mind Switches in Futurama and Stargate ”, Evans & Huang 2012
- “Otaku Talk ”, Okada et al 2012
- “Talk About RahXephon: In Search of Fantasy and Details ”, Oshii & Izubuchi 2012
- “Lovecraft’s 1937 Diary ”, Faig 2012
- The Conscience of the Otaking: The Studio Gainax Saga in 4 Parts, Okada 2011
- “The Sword of Achilles ”, Asimov 2011
- “The Story of Emily and Control ”, Alexander 2011
- “The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith ”
- “Fermi Paradox ”, Alexander 2011
- “The Taxonomers ”, Alexander 2011
- “Hannu Rajaniemi: the Science of Fiction ”, Lea & Rajaniemi 2010
- “Interview: Hannu Rajaniemi; SciFiNow Sits down With a Rising Star of Science Fiction ”, Bandah 2010
- “The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover ”, Yudkowsky 2009
- “Three Worlds Collide [Index] ”, Yudkowsky 2009
- “Mars Explorers Wanted Posters ”, Center 2009
- The Secret History of Star Wars, Kaminski 2008
- “Blood’s a Rover: Harlan Ellison’s Waiting ”, Hemmingson 2008
- “Yes, Jolonah, There Is a Hell ”, Ryding 2008
- “Yes, Jolonah, There Is a Hell ”, Ryding 2008
- “Of Cinema, Food, and Desire: Franz Kafka’s ‘Investigations of a Dog’ ”, Williams 2007
- “Superman or the Fantastic Four? Knowledge Combination and Experience in Innovative Teams ”, Taylor & Greve 2006
- “Strategizing Industry Structure: the Case of Open Systems in a Low-Tech Industry ”, Lecocq & Demil 2006
- “A Science Fiction Writer of the Fifties ”, Leithauser 2006
- “The Psychologist Who Empathized With Rats: James Tiptree Junior As Alice B. Sheldon, PhD ”, Elms 2004
- Prophecy: Anthology Volume 1, Miers & Morgan 2004
- “Armor 2 [Preview Excerpt] ”, Steakley 2004
- “Headcase ”, Chivers 2004
- “Locus Mag, September 2002 (#500) ”, Locus 2002
- “FLEEP: The Collected Comic ”, Shiga 2002
- “Starfish § Bulrushes ”, Watts 1999
- Uhl Eharl Koehng, Jackson 1999
- “Story Of Your Life ”, Chiang 1999
- “Plumbing Stanley Kubrick ”, Watson 1999
- “Klingon Programmers ”, Baker 1999
- “Night Call, Collect ”, Bradbury 1998
- “The Final Exit ”, Jackson 1997
- “Learning To Be Me ”, Egan 1995
- “Bots: A Love Story And A Dream ”, Hemmingson 1995
- “Watchmaker [Watchmen, Chapter 4] ”, Moore 1986
- “The Only Neat Thing To Do ”, Tiptree 1986
- “Chance and Order ”, Lem 1984
- “The Creation of Cordwainer Smith (La Création Littéraire De Cordwainer Smith) ”
- “The Shadow Of The Torturer: The Master of the Curators ”, Wolfe 1980
- “Traveller Cover ”, Workshop 1977
- “The Screwfly Solution ”, Sheldon 1977
- The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy, Bretnor et al 1976
- “The Count of Monte Cristo ”, Calvino 1976
- “Return Match ”, Dick 1967
- “The Absolute Weapon: A Hypothetical Positive Eugenics Program As Used in Biological Warfare ”, McConnell 1961
- “Analog Magazine, October 1960 (V66, #2) § Pg3 ”, Campbell 1960 (page 3)
- “William and Mary ”, Dahl 1960
- “The Jet-Propelled Couch 2 ”, Lindner 1955
- “The Jet-Propelled Couch 1 ”, Lindner 1954
- “The Great Automatic Grammatizator ”, Dahl 1953
- I Remember Lemuria!, And, The Return of Sathanas, Shaver 1948
- “Giant Killer ”, Chandler 1946
- “Fifty Million Monkeys ”, Jones 1943
- “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ”, Borges 1940
- “Scunthorpe ”, Sandberg 2025
- “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis ”
- The Space Child’s Mother Goose, Regehr 2025
- “The Things ”
- “Caveman Science Fiction ”, Diaz 2025
- “Sensawunda ”
- “The Taming of the AI ”
- “2017: Universal Paperclips ”
- “Short Story on AI: ‘Forward Pass’ ”, Karpathy 2025
- “Remembering Vernor Vinge ”
- “Seduced, Shaggy Samson Snored: The Fictional Machine That Generated Poems, and the Real People Who Had to Translate Them ”
- “Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906) ”
- “Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’s Retrofuturism ”
- “Introductory Antimemetics (Abandoned First Draft) ”, Hughes 2025
- The Mongolian Wizard, Swanwick 2025
- “Samsara ”
- The Crystal Star, Wookieepedia 2025
- “Apocalyptic Log ”
- “‘Scanners Live in Vain’ (Literature) ”, TVTropes 2025
- “The Quantum Thief (SF) ”
- “Worm (Literature) ”
- “Reed Richards Is Useless ”
- “Space Madness ”
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- “WALL·E ”
- “Claude’s Dark Spiritual AI Futurism ”
- “If All Stories Were Written like Science Fiction Stories ”
- Understand, Chiang 2025
- “The Scarred Man Returns ”, Benford 2025
- “Science Fiction As Foresight ”
- “Eulogy to the Obits ”, Balwit 2025
- “Unsong Available In Paperback ”, Alexander 2025
- A Bluer Shade of White
- “The Computerized Hitchhiker’s ”
- “Lovecraft on the Tabletop ”
- “The Roentgen Standard ”, Niven 2025
- “That Alien Message ”, Yudkowsky 2025
- “AI Takeoff Story: a Continuation of Progress by Other Means ”
- “A Long-Lost Space Age Satire about What It Means to Be a Jew from One of Science Fiction’s Greatest Humorists ”
- “Coding Machines ”
- “For Sci-Fi Author William Gibson, Japan Has Been a Lifelong Inspiration. Here, the Writer Who Coined the Phrase Cyberspace ”
- “‘NASA-Inspired Works of Fiction’: the Masses Speak! ”
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia (26)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“The Great Work Goes On ”, Gwern 2025
“Miscellaneous ”, Gwern 2009
“The Diamond Earrings ”, Gwern 2023
“A Gambler’s Verity World ”, Gwern 2024
“Review Of The Quantum Thief Trilogy ”, Gwern 2022
“It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World ”, Gwern 2022
“The Gift of the Amygdali ”, Gwern 2017
“The ‘Screwfly Solution’ Solution: Bi-Sexuality ”, Gwern 2021
“‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF ”, Gwern 2013
“On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages ”, Gwern 2016
“The Ones Who Walk Towards Acre ”, Gwern 2010
“The Palace of Wonders ”, Gwern 2011
“The Hyperbolic Time Chamber & Brain Emulation ”, Gwern 2012
“The Melancholy of Kyon ”, Gwern 2009
“Men of Iron ”, Gwern 2012
“The Erl King ”, Gwern 2008
“Gilles Goullet, Author of the Blindsight ”, Gwern 2010
“Aria’s Past, Present, and Future ”, Gwern 2011
“Colder Wars ”, Gwern 2009
“Missing Cities ”, Gwern 2009
“The Case of PenPen ”, Gwern 2010
Cloud Nine, Gwern 2008
“How the Panther Got Black ”, Gwern 2009
Links
“Born in the Wrong Generation: You Have Gone Nowhere. There Is Nowhere for You to Go ”, Kriss 2025
Born in the wrong generation: You have gone nowhere. There is nowhere for you to go
“The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi LARP ”, Hon & Kröger 2025
The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-fi LARP :
View External Link:
https://mssv.net/2025/03/19/the-collective-ambition-behind-odysseus/
“How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years § Pandora’s 1 GW Box ”, Clymer 2025
How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years § Pandora’s 1 GW Box
“Thomas D. Clareson ”, Encyclopedia 2025
View External Link:
“Survival without Dignity ”, L 2024
“The Last Dangerous Visions § Ellison Exegesis ”, Straczynski 2024
“The Later Years of Douglas Adams ”
hannu @ "2024-06-07"
“The Best RPG Cover of All Time [Traveller 1977] ”, Dwiz 2024
“Harlan Ellison’s Last Words: The Ambitious Plan for Sci-Fi Writer’s Posthumous Comeback—Longtime Friend and Babylon 5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski Endeavors to Reshape the Legacy of the Late Sci-Fi Writer ”, Appleford 2024
“Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun ”, Katz 2024
“The Quantum Thief (Omni-Style Magazine Cover) ”, Gwern 2024
“The Synthwave Quantum Thief ”, Gwern 2024
“[On Gwern’s Review of The Quantum Thief] ”, Rajaniemi 2024
stefaesthesia @ "2024-03-13"
“Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Review ”, Hon 2023
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser review :
View External Link:
“Ian Fleming’s Soviet Rival: Roman Kim and Soviet Spy Fiction during the Early Cold War ”, Kovacevic 2022
Ian Fleming’s Soviet rival: Roman Kim and Soviet spy fiction during the early Cold War
“[Photograph of Beach Endorsed by William Gibson As Opening of Neuromancer] ”, Lewinsky 2022
[Photograph of beach endorsed by William Gibson as opening of Neuromancer] :
![[Photograph of beach endorsed by William Gibson as opening of Neuromancer]](/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2022-01-06-monicalewinsky-beachphotograph-1479244468247171077.jpg){kind=link}
“Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of ‘Evil’ Monsters ”, Ferguson 2022b
Are orcs racist? Dungeons and Dragons, ethnocentrism, anxiety, and the depiction of ‘evil’ monsters
“Rare Greek Variables ”, Bayer 2021
“J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sub-Creation Theory: Literary Creativity As Participation in the Divine Creation ”, Yohn 2021
J. R. R. Tolkien’s sub-creation theory: literary creativity as participation in the divine creation
“Windows 11 MS Clippit Emoji ”, Microsoft 2021
“Prophecy Anthology Volume 1, Review ”, Plowright 2020
“I Sexually Identify As an Attack Helicopter ”, Fall 2020
“The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons ”, Kipping 2019
The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons
“Black Leopard Red Wolf Was Sold As an African Game of Thrones. It’s a Weirder Book Than That. Man Booker Prize Winner Marlon James Goes Genre With His Latest Novel. ”, Grady 2019
“Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek ”, D’Oria et al 2019
“Sort By Controversial ”, Alexander 2018
“Loyal to the Group of 17’s Story—The Just Man ”, Wolfe 2018
“Bakker Q&A: Would You Be Fine With the Series Ending Here? ”, Bakker et al 2017
“Blade Runner (Typeset In The Future) ”, Addey 2016
“101 Weird Writers #39: James Tiptree Junior ”
“Visions of the Future: 14 Space Travel Posters of Colorful, Exotic Space Settings Are Now Available Free for Downloading and Printing ”, Goods et al 2016
“My Dad, the Pornographer ”, Offutt 2015
Nessus: Adventures in the Dead City at the Twilight of Urth, mellonbread 2015
“Alien (Typeset In The Future) ”, Addey 2014
“The Story Of Thanksgiving Is A Science-Fiction Story ”, Alexander 2013
“Flash Dance: Digital Dashboards of the 1980s (Not Every Car Could Be a Star of the Knight Rider Show, but Almost Every 1980s Car Model Sported a Flashy Disco-Lights Digital Dashboard) ”, Abrams 2013
“Additions and Corrections for ‘Lovecraft’s 1937 Diary’ ”, Haden 2013
“Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific ”, Tippett 2012
Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific
“The Whispering Earring ”, Alexander 2012
“Mind Switches in Futurama and Stargate ”, Evans & Huang 2012
“Otaku Talk ”, Okada et al 2012
“Talk About RahXephon: In Search of Fantasy and Details ”, Oshii & Izubuchi 2012
“Lovecraft’s 1937 Diary ”, Faig 2012
The Conscience of the Otaking: The Studio Gainax Saga in 4 Parts, Okada 2011
The Conscience of the Otaking: The Studio Gainax Saga in 4 Parts
“The Sword of Achilles ”, Asimov 2011
“The Story of Emily and Control ”, Alexander 2011
“The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith ”
“Fermi Paradox ”, Alexander 2011
“The Taxonomers ”, Alexander 2011
“Hannu Rajaniemi: the Science of Fiction ”, Lea & Rajaniemi 2010
“Interview: Hannu Rajaniemi; SciFiNow Sits down With a Rising Star of Science Fiction ”, Bandah 2010
Interview: Hannu Rajaniemi; SciFiNow sits down with a rising star of science fiction
“The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover ”, Yudkowsky 2009
“Three Worlds Collide [Index] ”, Yudkowsky 2009
“Mars Explorers Wanted Posters ”, Center 2009
The Secret History of Star Wars, Kaminski 2008
“Blood’s a Rover: Harlan Ellison’s Waiting ”, Hemmingson 2008
“Yes, Jolonah, There Is a Hell ”, Ryding 2008
“Yes, Jolonah, There Is a Hell ”, Ryding 2008
“Of Cinema, Food, and Desire: Franz Kafka’s ‘Investigations of a Dog’ ”, Williams 2007
Of Cinema, Food, and Desire: Franz Kafka’s ‘Investigations of a Dog’
“Superman or the Fantastic Four? Knowledge Combination and Experience in Innovative Teams ”, Taylor & Greve 2006
Superman or the Fantastic Four? Knowledge Combination and Experience in Innovative Teams
“Strategizing Industry Structure: the Case of Open Systems in a Low-Tech Industry ”, Lecocq & Demil 2006
Strategizing industry structure: the case of open systems in a low-tech industry
“A Science Fiction Writer of the Fifties ”, Leithauser 2006
“The Psychologist Who Empathized With Rats: James Tiptree Junior As Alice B. Sheldon, PhD ”, Elms 2004
The Psychologist Who Empathized with Rats: James Tiptree Junior as Alice B. Sheldon, PhD
Prophecy: Anthology Volume 1, Miers & Morgan 2004
Prophecy: Anthology Volume 1 :
View PDF (944MB):
/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2004-miers-prophecyanthologyvolume1.pdf
“Armor 2 [Preview Excerpt] ”, Steakley 2004
“Headcase ”, Chivers 2004
“Locus Mag, September 2002 (#500) ”, Locus 2002
Locus Mag, September 2002 (#500) :
View PDF (267MB):
“FLEEP: The Collected Comic ”, Shiga 2002
“Starfish § Bulrushes ”, Watts 1999
Uhl Eharl Koehng, Jackson 1999
“Story Of Your Life ”, Chiang 1999
“Plumbing Stanley Kubrick ”, Watson 1999
“Klingon Programmers ”, Baker 1999
“Night Call, Collect ”, Bradbury 1998
“The Final Exit ”, Jackson 1997
“Learning To Be Me ”, Egan 1995
“Bots: A Love Story And A Dream ”, Hemmingson 1995
“Watchmaker [Watchmen, Chapter 4] ”, Moore 1986
“The Only Neat Thing To Do ”, Tiptree 1986
“Chance and Order ”, Lem 1984
View HTML:
“The Creation of Cordwainer Smith (La Création Littéraire De Cordwainer Smith) ”
The Creation of Cordwainer Smith (La Création littéraire de Cordwainer Smith) :
“The Shadow Of The Torturer: The Master of the Curators ”, Wolfe 1980
“Traveller Cover ”, Workshop 1977
“The Screwfly Solution ”, Sheldon 1977
The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy, Bretnor et al 1976
The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy :
“The Count of Monte Cristo ”, Calvino 1976
“Return Match ”, Dick 1967
“The Absolute Weapon: A Hypothetical Positive Eugenics Program As Used in Biological Warfare ”, McConnell 1961
The Absolute Weapon: A hypothetical positive eugenics program as used in biological warfare
“Analog Magazine, October 1960 (V66, #2) § Pg3 ”, Campbell 1960 (page 3)
Analog Magazine, October 1960 (v66, #2) § pg3 :
View PDF (24MB):
“William and Mary ”, Dahl 1960
“The Jet-Propelled Couch 2 ”, Lindner 1955
“The Jet-Propelled Couch 1 ”, Lindner 1954
“The Great Automatic Grammatizator ”, Dahl 1953
I Remember Lemuria!, And, The Return of Sathanas, Shaver 1948
“Giant Killer ”, Chandler 1946
“Fifty Million Monkeys ”, Jones 1943
“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ”, Borges 1940
“Scunthorpe ”, Sandberg 2025
“Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis ”
The Space Child’s Mother Goose, Regehr 2025
“The Things ”
“Caveman Science Fiction ”, Diaz 2025
“Sensawunda ”
“The Taming of the AI ”
“2017: Universal Paperclips ”
“Short Story on AI: ‘Forward Pass’ ”, Karpathy 2025
Short Story on AI: ‘Forward Pass’ :
View External Link:
“Remembering Vernor Vinge ”
“Seduced, Shaggy Samson Snored: The Fictional Machine That Generated Poems, and the Real People Who Had to Translate Them ”
“Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906) ”
Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)
“Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’s Retrofuturism ”
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’s Retrofuturism
“Introductory Antimemetics (Abandoned First Draft) ”, Hughes 2025
The Mongolian Wizard, Swanwick 2025
“Samsara ”
The Crystal Star, Wookieepedia 2025
“Apocalyptic Log ”
“‘Scanners Live in Vain’ (Literature) ”, TVTropes 2025
“The Quantum Thief (SF) ”
“Worm (Literature) ”
“Reed Richards Is Useless ”
“Space Madness ”
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“WALL·E ”
WALL·E :
“Claude’s Dark Spiritual AI Futurism ”
“If All Stories Were Written like Science Fiction Stories ”
Understand, Chiang 2025
“The Scarred Man Returns ”, Benford 2025
“Science Fiction As Foresight ”
“Eulogy to the Obits ”, Balwit 2025
“Unsong Available In Paperback ”, Alexander 2025
A Bluer Shade of White
“The Computerized Hitchhiker’s ”
“Lovecraft on the Tabletop ”
“The Roentgen Standard ”, Niven 2025
“That Alien Message ”, Yudkowsky 2025
“AI Takeoff Story: a Continuation of Progress by Other Means ”
AI takeoff story: a continuation of progress by other means :
“A Long-Lost Space Age Satire about What It Means to Be a Jew from One of Science Fiction’s Greatest Humorists ”
“Coding Machines ”
“For Sci-Fi Author William Gibson, Japan Has Been a Lifelong Inspiration. Here, the Writer Who Coined the Phrase Cyberspace ”
“‘NASA-Inspired Works of Fiction’: the Masses Speak! ”
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