Ghosts – Believer Magazine
Last year I became fascinated with an artificial intelligence model that was being trained to write human-like text. The model was called GPT-3, short for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3; if…
There Will Be No Alien Invasion
That’s right. Bleach kills all things, even alien eggs. The duct tape of death. No invasion is coming from those eggs.
Traces of Us
who could pass up even the slimmest chance to reunite after life, death, and a million miles of empty space?
Across the River, My Heart, My Memory
I didn’t choose to be born, my consciousness squeezed into meat, but since it happened, I might as well get as much use of it as I could.
Empty Space
Nothing’s an exact science. It never has been.
The Census Faces Unusual Challenges on Audvarn-3
as Treye drew closer, the Auddids retreated inside.
Modern Promethea
I was thinking about how not all women bear children, and some of us make people in other ways.
How to Survive Underground
Faced with the unthinkable, we hoard, grow suspicious, act on fear; we also reinvent, build community, and create new conditions for surviving.
Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In
The esteemed science fiction author on how we may never go "back to normal"—and why that might be a good thing