Climate News
Tipping Points
The unexpected acceleration of catastrophic climate effects
OctahedronWorld
Ephemeral Thoughts about Life, the Universe and Everything.
Hermetics Tales
The Academic Council
Knowledge and Science as one of the pillars of power
Cornwall's stunning coastline.
Photography
Transspace Tales
Van Der Belt
The sphere of human life expands into the universe, while some pioneers still find undiscovered ground.
Weird Things
The Trapdoor
A hatch into a weird underworld.
Short Story
Goliath
What if we develop an AI with more than human level intelligence? And how powerful can it become? The story in this line is following that thought.
Short Story
The Bond
The great mash up between the transspace story and the study of my first alien race, the Kret.
Climate News
Big City Life
Urban versus rural areas for the environment
Mesh Tales
Root
Root, the most important node in the mesh
Kret Tales
Introducing the SPINs
About joint law enforcement and special units in the Canon
Kret Tales
Distribution of Power
Monitoring the different social balances of Earth and Kret
Vergency Hotel
The Vergency Hotel
Starting some tales from the center of the universe
Real World
AI Chauffeur
Mid 2023. Elections in important German regions with catastrophic results.
Kret Tales
On Earth
How did the discovery of the Kret change the world?
Iconic Me and the Beach
AI Worlds
Elements, Part 1
Earth
The start of a dystopian journey to hell and elysium and back.
Hermetics Tales
Puppets
Are we the toys for the Hermetic Society?
Tropes
Alien Size
Tiny aliens, tiny spaceships. What if aliens are small?
Kret Tales
Kret Tales
Some fragments about our brothers and sisters from another planet..
Hermetics Tales
Hermetics Tales
Anecdotes and rumors from the world of magic.
Tropes
Counting
How to achieve tension? Count down. Ten to one.
Transspace Tales
Intro to Transspace Tales
More anecdotes, this time about transspace, my concept for space operas
Reviews
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The 1966 novel about the mechanics of a revolution is one of the classics of sci-fi.
Real World
Mid Term Reports
Mid 2023. Elections in important German regions with catastrophic results.
Mesh Tales
The Swoosh
Tales from the Mesh, starting off with the Mesh Logo
The Fly
Photography
Shortstory
The Operator
The first deep-dive into the cyberpunk world of the Mesh and its inhabitants. We follow some hackers in Hamburg on a data heist.
Tropes
Mars
Our neighbour planet Mars is always worth a visit, at least for our sci-fi writers.
Reviews
Old Man's War
Thought-provoking sci-fi novel for an engaging exploration of ethics and mechanics in warfare
Predictions
Natural Catastrophes
We are already facing superlatives of natural catastrophes on a monthly basis.
Tropes
Types of SciFi
How do the different types of science fiction work?
Predictions
Job Markets
Automation vs. Demographic Change. Who will win?
Tropes
Superpower
Marvel, DC, Batman or Hulk. Super human power are the mega trend at cinemas.
Reviews
The Fifth Season
Reviewing the Hugo Award winning novel by N.K. Jemisin
Predictions
Metaverse
Built to fail, Facebooks metaverse. Yet it was the dream of a whole cyberpunk generation.
Tropes
Aliens
Extra terrestrial intelligent species are at the heart of many sci-fi stories.
Reviews
Ringworld
The 1970 sci-fi classic by Larry Niven
Tropes
SciFi & Fantasy - A Journey
From typical characters to shared topics and tropes.
Predictions
Self Driving Cars
When will I order a car and ask it to drive me to the supermarket?
Juan Muñoz - Centre Pompidou Málaga
Art
Reviews
Picard
The third and final season of Star Trek Picard is over. Time for a little review.
Predictions
Climate Refugees
Central Europe is the place to be in 50 years. For everyone.
Reviews
The Dispossessed
Reviewing the 1974 sci-fi novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
AI Jobs
Judges
Objectivity. A goal that notoriously biased humans may never achieve.
Predictions
TV Shows
Will there still be TV shows, when AI can produce bespoke content for everyone?
AI Jobs
Surgeon
A job that relies on precision? That's worth a look from machine's perspective.
Predictions
Augmented Reality
What could happen in the next ten years. Let's start with AR headsets
L’Hemisfèric
Photography
AI Jobs
Construction Worker
But the things you have to build with your bare hands should be safe, right?
AI Jobs
ChatGPT
Special topic about the rise of large language models and their impact
Elements, Part 2
Water
The journey continues with a boat trip and a visit of the dystopian catastrophe site.
AI Jobs
Banking
Algorithms rule investment for decades already, so where's the place for human brain?
AI Jobs
Family Physician
Yes, also the core of humanity, the doctor will be affected by AI
AI Jobs
Developers
Are software engineers optimizing themselves away one day?
Short Story
Octahedra
A mystic journey through time and space. Eight different places, eight iconic rooms, portals, aliens.
AI Jobs
Taxi Drivers
What's happening to taxi drivers as soon as cars can drive alone?
Report
The Pylons
The second spin off of the Mesh cycle. Let's have a look into the daily life and the strange characters that live in the Pylons.
AI Jobs
Designers
Dall-E and Midjourney take over many art direction tasks already.
AI Jobs
Cashiers
Will the human factor be removed one day from the supermarket checkout?
General
Political Systems
There are two main points of view in ideologies. Individual vs State.
Short Story
Simulation Theory
Are we living in a simulation? Hard to find proof, but there are a bunch of interesting thought ecxperiments out there and even more stories to spin off.
General
Space
How fictional stories can pass the vast emptiness of space.
General
Speculative Apocalypses
What is the most likely extinction e vent and how many are actually affected?
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