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Global Dystopias

Arts in Society

Meniscus

“'I felt no hunger but the habit of food struck me intensely. My nightgown was grubby and torn. My limbs were scraped, spotted with yellow bruises, but I felt no pain.” Short Story

Theo Costantino

Arts in Society

What Used to Be Caracas

Years after an extinction event nearly wiped out humanity, a team of scientists search Venezuela for signs of life and evidence of what caused the tragedy. Short Story

Mike McClelland

Arts in Society

Memoirs of an Imaginary Country

In a lost tale of Casanova, the citizens of a country at the center of the Earth must give up their home—and their women—to colonizers. Short Story

Maria Dahvana Headley

Arts in Society

Adora

An aging AI researcher, alone with her robot companion, must make a difficult decision when the android begins to malfunction. Short Story

Sumudu Samarawickrama

Arts in Society

Cannibal Acts

In the aftermath of a flu pandemic that kills most of the population, a survivor, barricaded in Alaska, remembers her life while contemplating a grisly choice. Short Story

Maureen F. McHugh

Arts in Society

Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body

Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.

JR Fenn

Arts in Society

The Reformatory

Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.

Tananarive Due

Arts in Society

Dulltopia

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

Mark Bould

Arts in Society

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

Henry Farrell

Arts in Society

A Strategy for Ruination

An interview with China Miéville.

China Miéville

Arts in Society

Sky Veins of Potosí

“You used terms such as revolutionaries. Comrades. And, most illegally of all: lovers. Unmarried people who fuck each other without the goal of childrening. Well, I was sunk.” A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.

Jordy Rosenberg

Arts in Society

Indefinitely

Life is for living, my dead mother said.

Lindsay R. Taylor

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THINKING IN A PANDEMIC

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