Tag: speculative fiction

• Better Offline: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

  November 14, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/HXT4xur This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle earlier this year with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, discussing enshittification, The… more ›

• The Cyberpunk Guide: 50 Years of High Tech, Low Life Across Literature, Film, Anime, Comics & Gaming –

  October 25, 2025

  Cyberpunk explained: the cultural movement that merged technology with rebellion, from Neuromancer and Blade Runner to global variants and modern derivatives. https://retrofuturista.com/the-cyberpunk-guide-50-years-of-high-tech-low-life-across-literature-film-anime-comics-gaming/ more ›

• Greatest Threats to Humanity, Best Sci-Fi Ever, & A Philosophy to Save the World w/ Neal Stephenson

  July 2, 2025

  Neal Stephenson: mezcal margarita (2 ounces mezcal, 1 ounce Cointreau, lime juice) Neal identifies the two greatest threats to the future of humanity, the most compelling inflection points for alternative… more ›

• Long Now: Stephen Heintz, Kim Stanley Robinson: A Logic For The Future: International Relations in the Age of Turbulence

  May 1, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/8G102Im Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson say we live in an “Age of Turbulence.”Looking around our geopolitical situation, it’s easy to see what they mean. Faced with the… more ›

• Polostan | Neal Stephenson

  April 21, 2025

  We are thrilled to be hosting the launch of Neal Stephenson’s newest book Polostan. This is the first installment in a monumental new series called Bomb Light — an expansive… more ›

• The Secret Museum of Mankind · Front Cover

  February 9, 2025

  https://ian.macky.net/secretmuseum/front_cover.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›