Working title. A near-future hard-SF setting for a short story collection. What this is A shared world, not a plot. Eleven modules, each deriving from the ones before it, ending in a kit for making individual stories. Nothing here is a premise on its own; everything here is a condition stories happen inside. The setting … Continue reading The Grain: A World Bible in Eleven Modules
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There Is No Junk Mail
A direct-mail man was once asked how he could live with himself, sending out all that junk. There is no junk mail, he said. There are junk people. He meant it as a defense and it isn't one, but buried in the ugliness is the only useful theory of slop I know, and it starts … Continue reading There Is No Junk Mail
