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Dec 26, 2017

No essay this month. Instead, I share a new piece of short fiction that does better than the essay ever did. It explores the legal idea of personhood and what possibilities are unlocked when we apply it a little more broadly.

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Nov 2, 2017

Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the month. This month we talk about how we become attached to technology and Analee Newitz's new novel Autonomous. And there's a little piece of original flash fiction up front.

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Oct 10, 2017

Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the month. This week we talk about searching for answers in the wake of worldwide disaster and local tragedy, and N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy.

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Sep 8, 2017

Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week I visit some of the same craters that the Apollo astronauts walked on fifty years ago, and we talk about making up some history just so we can mess it up later.

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Aug 4, 2017

Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week think about what makes up a journey, and Kij Johnson's novel The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe.

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