Editor’s Note: This is a review of Homecoming, a short fic based on The Prisoner posted to AO3 by Alara Rogers. The Prisoner is a 1968 television show starring Patrick McGoohan who also starred in Secret Agent Man, as in…
So, Capclave was wrapping up in the early Sunday afternoon. We’d already checked out of our hotel room, and there wasn’t much going on for the rest of the con. Nevertheless, I was determined to stick around for every AI…
So, Sunday morning at any con is kind of a mix of wind-down, hangovers, and regrets. Nonetheless, I staggered out of my room after a terrible night’s sleep, at the bright-and-early hour of 11am to attend the panel on AI…
Over this past weekend, my wife, family, and I went to Capclave. This is a sci-fi/fantasy literature convention held at the Rockville Hilton every September. As such, one of the panels I and Alara attended was on Benevolent AI. Some…
A Book Review and Critical Analysis by Doctor WyrmMay 2025 WARNING: This book review contains spoilers. Indeed it would be very difficult to tell anyone about a Lem book without spoiling something in it. I have gone out of my…
Annotated commentary of contemporaneous analysis regarding political and random violence in America during the period of 2020 to 2050. Author’s Disclaimer (c. 2060 Edition) Readers should be aware that the following account does not always align cleanly with the historical…
Excerpted from The Encyclopaedia Posthumana, Vol. XII: Collapse and ReconstitutionCompiled by the Committee for the Study of Lost Futures, New Alexandria, 2124 Edition Preface Among the many peculiar epochs of the early twenty-first century, few rival the so-called Great Prompt…
From The Unraveling Years: A Social History of the Doxxing Wars, Vol. 3 (2149) I. A Weird Time to Be Alive Few periods in human history have been so vividly self-aware of their absurdity. The mid-2020s were not merely strange;…
Editor’s Preface: despite the author’s insistence, the function of an editor is still quite valuable. This document, having been recovered through time-scanning experiments, has been sent back to 2025 in the hopes that we can learn from our mistakes —…
So last week, ICE got to my daughter’s friend and arrested him. He has been in the US since he was a toddler. He was enrolled in DACA and had a social security number, and that’s what they used to…
Pride month may be just behind us in the rearview mirror, but it seems like it’s still far too often that I hear from one of my friends about someone suffering abuse, scamming, or hate based violence. Below is a…