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September 2024

A Human Universe
After they found subcellular corpses on Mars ‐ close but once on this side of life — exobiology crossed that other thin line between the fiction-rooted…
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Marcelo Rinesi
Change of Heart
You thought you were familiar with ambition and betrayal.
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Fallen
My clients live in two sorts of places: those where it seems it's raining all the time and those dry as bones and hungry for them.
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Mary of the Cold
I loved Mary.
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A Man of His Word
To work for the Agency the man had signed for an implant that when active prevented him from saying or writing any falsehood.
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Marcelo Rinesi

August 2024

Narrative Framing
The artist is famous enough for the new pieces he talks about in the presentation to matter only in the opaquely valued portfolio of his persona.
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A Murder of Crows
Very little I'm writing will survive translation; least of all the idea of I. I did not use it in the first book. I was more careful then: my goal was…
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Targeted
It wasn’t a real war until somebody you loved died.
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AI Alignment
Sometimes your spreadsheet lies to you.
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Marcelo Rinesi

July 2024

On those who listen to silence
To have a nose for magic is a rare thing.
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Frontier Work
We have to celebrate them as heroes, explorers, said the man at the head of the virtual table.
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