Fiction as a question engine
Narrative can expose assumptions about settlement, contact, technology and power.
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Literature & Storytelling
Read fiction and essays as spaces for testing consequences, values and possible lives—not as substitutes for scientific prediction.
World-building and constraint
Gravity, atmosphere and distance can shape a story without determining its meaning.
curated noteWho should own the first city on Mars?
A governance prompt at the boundary of law and imagination.
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