brownian motion (Posts about scifi)

prototype

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:05:50 GMT

The lab is large and windowless. The walls are brightly lit, bare asylum white, save for a single sagging piece of A4 holding Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. Oscilloscopes and half-finished energy drinks blanket the tables, and mounds of mechanical parts and electronics cover the floor. The floor is also currently covered with a passed-out Dreifuss. Her mouth is open. She’s snoring stiffly against a pillow of aluminum extrusions.

simulation boundary

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:51:31 GMT

This is the beginning of your conversation with Mezem.

Those Who Flee From the Sun

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:46:47 GMT

The other day I learned about sun spiders and was inspired by their namesake to write this story. This story has nothing to do with sun spiders.

“Ship ahoy!”

I rush into the bridge to see it for myself. The point-cloud of the lidar screen shows an unmistakable blip. Idas hands me the optical sights and there it is, seventeen miles in the distance: a mountain of metal jutting up from the ground, its hull resting at an awkward tilt from the desert floor. It looks like a beached whale.