Fiction
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Blackout in the Brain Lab
What will happen to the organoids? A work of fiction. -
Los Angeles Is Gone
In an excerpt from his new novel, the author drowns La La Land. -
Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction
Even after you understand how an illusion operates, it continues to fool part of your mind. This is the kind of double knowledge we have when we consume fiction.Photograph by KieferPix / Shutterstock Stories, fiction included, act as a kind of surrogate life. You can learn from them so seamlessly that you might believe you […] -
The Great Silence
A parrot has a question for humans. -
Echos
What happens when a person is simultaneously lost and found?
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The Case for Treating Gatsby as a Real Person
If we lean too much on the text itself, or the history surrounding it, and view with suspicion why people read, and what happens when they do, then we threaten to ignore some of the most interesting questions this weird thing called literature poses. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a reader in possession […]
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Defy the Stars
What’s the real difference between man and machine? -
Will Lovelace and Babbage Save the Economy?
A fictional tale starring the inventors of the first computer. -
Why Do We Get Transported by Stories We Know Aren’t True?
In Jasper Fforde’s lighthearted “Thursday Next” series of books, people can use a “prose portal” to enter the world of a book, to change the plot or kidnap a character. The prose portal is an imaginative metaphor for a familiar experience: feeling taken away by a narrative, sucked into a good book so that we […] -
The Weaker Sister
When we have to evacuate Earth, only the strong will survive. -
Whom He May Devour
Saving her planet would ban her from paradise.
