Compelling SF

Compelling Science Fiction helps you find thought-provoking written SF in the hard science fiction vein.

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Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: https://t.co/rL6G5jduJD

If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!

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@DKokotajlo @slatestarcodex @eli_lifland @thlarsen This ranks among the best works of plausible near future science fiction that I've ever read, and I've read a truly insane amount of science fiction.

What probability do you give to a research slowdown due to investors losing the stomach to fund required data center expansion?

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Authors can do whatever they want, and @isabeljkim proved that with https://t.co/wj3tfOLv3X

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@Gid_Rhys @cwgabriel yeah, I remember enjoying those podcasts more than the comics themselves, sad they stopped making them!

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@BrianTMcClellan I enjoyed this story immensely, highly recommended, thanks for writing it

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Mike Adamson, a wonderful author that has multiple stories in Compelling Science Fiction, is publishing a new Sherlock Holmes novel that I'm excited to read: https://t.co/f85vulIIYq

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Just finished "Lords of Uncreation" by @aptshadow. A phenomenal finish to the Final Architecture trilogy. The pacing was brilliant -- felt like high gear for over 600 pages despite the amount of exposition. And never has a story so unmoored from reality kept me so engaged

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@LinardosAkis Absurd that a spec fic market doesn't know what a Dyson sphere is, but the second part of your tweet intrigues me -- my understanding is that the earliest proto-example of a modern Dyson sphere was in Stapledon's "Star Maker". What's the "predates capitalism" version?

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@aptshadow 1. Megastory
2. Storyarcology
3. Storyverse

These are industry standard terms originated by Chaucer, I believe

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@Stephen_GM In more recent times Obama boosted KSR's "Ministry for the Future"

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@isabeljkim type 2 fun

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@BrianTMcClellan Thanks, picked it up, looking forward to finding out about the mysterious promised blood

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I just backed Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won't sell on @Kickstarter https://t.co/fipPTQZI71

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@megelison I feel you, I'm building a house and basically every subcontractor only takes checks. I sit down every month and fill out a stack of them to stick in envelopes like I live in the 1800s

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"The SEC just cares a lot more about this than Lil Yachty does. “Securities” is right in the SEC’s name; Lil Yachty’s name is about yachts." https://t.co/Tw1lxGD0lS

@matt_levine is one of the greatest comedic writers of our time, his medium just happens to be securities law

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@cosmickhan @BrianTMcClellan 👏

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Thoroughly topical story by @aptshadow in Future SF (ed. by @AShvartsman). Love the detail about how tiny the payments start to get per story. Scariest thing about the story is that it might be the nearest of near-future science fiction

https://t.co/cSlmtmUJOR

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@KarlKGallagher I was just talking about this yesterday, but with respect to science fiction short stories. The number of people who actually subscribe to sf magazines is such a tiny fraction of a percent of the population it's essentially a rounding error

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@MickeyShaughnes @ID_AA_Carmack https://t.co/SAsSaUSU2z