Two stories by Sam Hughes. Sam Hughes writes and blogs at qntm.org, and may be best know for Ra. Note: I AM PUBLISHED!! Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Feb 2015 issue. The story is “Red Legacy” on page 48. Some notes, as well as links to different e-formats, are over at my personal blog.… Continue reading

Jan 7, 201520 min

Essays 4

Strengths and Weaknesses Full Text: Your Strength as a Rationalist Universal Fire Fake Explanations Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) Continue reading

Dec 17, 201424 min

Words of Love, Soft and Tender

Strange new creatures in the forest Original Text   Continue reading

Dec 3, 201422 min

Nineteen Neighty-Four (part 2 of 2)

Everything Falls Apart Hear more of Ginny’s singing here (see production notes for more details). Original Text Continue reading

Nov 19, 201428 min

Nineteen Neighty-Four (part 1 of 2)

Seeds of Insurrection As mentioned in the episode – Floornight, by nostalgebraist. Original Text Continue reading

Nov 5, 201437 min

Essays 3

The Measure of All Things The Worm Audiobook Project! Joy In The Merely Real complete text Mundane Magic complete text Thou Art Godshatter complete text Continue reading

Oct 22, 201425 min

Trust In God, or The Riddle of Kyon (part 2 of 2)

Forcing the Hand of God Original Text Continue reading

Oct 8, 201439 min

Trust In God, or The Riddle of Kyon (part 1 of 2)

An existential problem Original Text Continue reading

Sep 24, 201431 min

Bloopers

Screwin’ up our lines. Warning: bad language, and juvenile humor. Continue reading

Sep 10, 201411 min

Voice Actors Panel

Recording of the Voice Actors Panel from MALcon 2014, with the voices of Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, and myself. Still no production notes this week. I finally got moved into the new house. Half the work is complete… Continue reading

Sep 3, 201447 min

102 – Caring

The Long Price Original Text Continue reading

Aug 20, 201437 min

Essays 2

On Gods – real and otherwise Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable complete text An Alien God complete text Continue reading

Aug 6, 201431 min

Comes The Huntsman

Comes The Huntsman Original Text Rachael Acks blogs at katsudon.net. She was most recently published in LightSpeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction issue. She is currently working on a short film she wrote the script for, here. ETA 7/23 11pm: It slipped my mind that this was a gift story, so there’s… Continue reading

Jul 23, 201411 min

The Study of Anglophysics, part 2 (of 2)

The Doom That Came to Adwellia Original Text Scott Alexander blogs at SlateStarCodex.com, and it’s still my favorite blog. Amazing insights, sharp humor, and excellent writing. Continue reading

Jul 9, 201430 min

The Study of Anglophysics, part 1 (of 2)

The Language of God Original Text Scott Alexander blogs at SlateStarCodex.com, and it’s currently my favorite blog. Amazing insights, sharp humor, and excellent writing. Continue reading

Jun 25, 201429 min

Three Dialogs

Original Texts: Use The Try Harder, Luke The Vulcan Your Vulcan Could Sound Like, If He Wasn’t Made of Straw The Last Temptation of Christ Continue reading

Jun 11, 201416 min

Earthfic

It’s not about people in 2026, or skinks, or Martians. And the dog does NOT talk. Original Text Earthfic was written by Alicorn. It can be found at her website, alicorn.elcenia.com, which contains quite a few works by Alicorn, all freely available. They include Luminosity a rationalist Twillight fanfic, and Elcenia an original fantasy fiction… Continue reading

May 28, 201426 min

Essays 1

And that’s why we have Methods of Rationality. Expecting Short Inferential Distances complete text Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism complete text Continue reading

May 14, 201418 min