“These last few months have been awful, and when around five the roosters alone on neighboring small farms begin to scream like humans my heart just lies down, a stone.” —Denis Johnson, “Working Outside at Night”

In 'The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain' (Tor.com (Now at @Reactormag)), Sofia Samatar has given us a wonderful bit of science fiction that rewards close reading—lyric and mythic, but also densely realized.

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There is something rather fitting in the fact that the 'cybertruck' Elon Musk built so, in his words, 'finally the future will look like the future,' has an accelerator pedal that risks sliding off and getting stuck and endangering the lives of everyone inside

💫 URANIANS by Theodore McCombs has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 Colorado Book Awards Short Story category!

Really appreciated this thread on Uranians! Thanks for the generous read fantasypolitico!

California building 5 feet of high speed rail

Not to alarm anyone but I may have to get engaged to land

snow falling
on the bonfire
Festival of the Fox

Issa

RIP Richard Serra, an artist of uncompromising ambition and invention—monumental in every possible sense. His art is about balance and risk, conjuring drama and surprising sensuality from massive abstract forces. An era now closes.

Sierra Greer recommended a story from Theodore McCombs's URANIANS on her list of seven stories of robot-human relationships for Literary Hub.
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Immaculate vibes

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100 separate weapons deals in 150 days. One every 36 hours.

Weapons to a government starving and displacing millions of civilians. Weapons to an army that has killed 25,000 women and children according to US government’s own internal estimates.

Shocking policy from Joe Biden.

Oh Aang ATE that

Fam are we sure about the name

The 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award finalists have been chosen! One of these five works of fiction will be named 'first among equals.' tinyurl.com/3b4e89f8

I’m incredibly happy to announce that THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS has won the IAFA Crawford Award for a first fantasy novel! vajra.me/2024/03/04/the…

not in answering the question but in the care we take (or don’t take, as the case may be) to notice how we’re putting the world together when we ask one kind of question rather than another, when we structure our questions one way rather than another.

The other distinguishing feature is that 2) it focuses less on the work of ethical decision-making and more on the work of perception, empathy and imagination that necessarily undergirds that decision-making. Because that’s where most of the work of ethics takes place: