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The human being is fascinated by stories; it seems like we can’t get enough of them. Stories are a great medium for communicating complex ideas. By putting the concepts to work, showing examples, creating situations, using similes and metaphors, the writer has an arsenal of tools to work with.
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The wail of alarm sirens sliced through the silence, followed by scattered screams and distant explosions. Just for a heartbeat, I couldn’t tell if this was real or just a nightmare. My eyelids fought to stay shut, still heavy with sleep, resisting the madness unfolding probably somewhere outside
Congratulations! You won, you did it, you have everything. Literally everything. Turns out unlimited growth works when there are no checks and balances to stop it. Well, for a while, right? You made The Company. The one that owns everything because you just bought everything until there was no competition. For decades you were able to just build and grow and acquire everything in the world.
Exit moved in silence through the black zone. The road beneath his boots was fractured and blistered from a century of stress fractures, chemical erosion, and neglect. Every surface held the residue of failure. Surveillance nodes blinked faintly in the walls above him. Pale red eyes stared from cracked housing. They still tracked motion and still read heat. Power to the district had been cut hours ago. The Network never really died. It idled, quiet and watchful. It waited for patterns to reestablish.
Two cypherpunk brands announce strategic partnership to promote freedom stories and non-kyc bitcoin
Those discussing literature on the internet usually fall into two camps: One side defends reading “real books” about facts that really happened, as a way of educating oneself; The other side defends fantasy literature, novels, and fiction, as a way of elevating our intellect.
Stories are more important than ever to show us the worlds we do not want to inhabit
We caught up with KNW editor Philip Charter to talk about his new book
21 Futures, a freedom-fiction project, is now OPEN to submissions of books and stories.
A major shift is happening in the world of publishing platforms
