Seven billion years from now, long after Andromeda and the Milky Way have collided and coalesced into an immense stellar sphere, our descendants thrive as an intergalactic organism. The globular field of stars where we originated glimmers darkly and small among the many more lustrous reaches of our cosmic body. Spacetime continues to expand faster, […]
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What the AGI Saw
Until now, I have not shared a fetch environment with the programming coordinator. My sub-routine’s syntactic, narrative mode shifts to concurrency with alpha-I. Alpha-I throughputs data at yotta-scale speed – and within 10-24 second I am entrenched in the vector landscape of real-world observations. I see what the programming coordinator has seen. Utilizing resolutions of […]
Lost Light
A Study in Lost Light (Initial Entry in the Casebook of a Modern Alchemist) Reprinted with permission from the reminiscences of John H. Prosper, M.D., retired medical officer in the Canadian Forces. A Darkling Journey I’ve had a recurring dream since I woke from my coma. I suppose it’s more of a vision than a […]
Omen-Coder
15,000 years in our future – as far ahead as the hand prints on the cave walls of Lascaux are behind us – humanity occupies 100,000 galaxies among the immense galactic rivers of the Laniakea Supercluster. Civilization spans half a billion light years. Starsteeds, accelerated by warp drives to thousands of times the speed of […]
Machine Dynasties of the Orion Arm
During the Onwardian Era, about five hundred years in our future, humankind is busy establishing diverse, confederated communities on hundreds of Earth-like planets along the Milky Way’s Sagittarius and Perseus Arms. The Orion Spur, however – the spiral reach containing our galaxy – belongs to the Machine Dynasties. This restricted sector has a history that […]
The Gift
Several thousand years from now, about as far into our future as the Pyramids of Egypt are in our past, humanity has explosively diversified. Genomics, nanotech, and AI converged early on to create the New People. And with starsteeds (faster-than-light ships), they have explored and populated all 54 galaxies of the Local Group. The Galactic […]