Unraveling history's alternate timelines

Life on the Red Chessboard

Life on this Martian chessboard is, in a word, strategic. It feels strange to describe life here without accidentally classifying myself as part of the colony's 'tactical reserves,' given that every a...

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When Pigs Conquered Mars

I’ve arrived on yet another timeline parallel to my own, where humanity’s journey through the cosmos is marked more by pigs than curiosity, and yet…it somehow works. This version of Earth found itself...

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When Revolutions Smell Like Nickel

The air here is thick, not with the smog of political dissent exactly, but with an oddly metallic tang that clings to the taste buds like overstayed guests at a dinner party. It took me a moment to re...

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