fiction
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 […]
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?
The Cost of Blood
When corporations run the government and any crime can be bought.
The Woman Redeemed by Trees
A story about connection by the National Book Award winner.
Buying Freedom
What happens when you barter a jail break for the wrong person?
The Last Invention of Man
How AI might take over the world.
