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2025

  1. My Friend, the JinnTurns out my classmate was planning to introduce me to a jinn. He’d been sending these long, breathless messages: “I have something huge to tell you,” “terrible things have happened,” “we absolutely have to meet,” blah blah blah. Honestly, I didn’t want to meet him at all. The last time...

2020

  1. You Will See (In Times Past)The hot summer days of 2050 will come—very likely the hottest not only of the last thirty years but of the years that follow. Then, little by little, the weather will cool. Scientists will claim that, at this rate, global cooling will reach a highly dangerous point: animals in Africa will freeze to death; glaciers will supplant the oceans; and if nothing is done, the entire surface of the Earth will ice over...

2018

  1. The Hero’s FearOur story's hero slouched into his high-backed, threadbare chair and powered up his computer. Before beginning the essay—on artificial intelligence—that he'd argued about with his friends all day, he meant to gather more material and trawl the internet for sources. So he skimmed what had already been written on the subject. Some pieces he abandoned partway through; a few he read to the end. When he raised his head...

2017

  1. Facebook FriendsOn the doctor's Facebook page, many people had posted on his birthday. Beyond the simple 'congratulations', there were no shortage of grand, fervent, fiery messages from his friends: most began 'my friend', 'a fine person', 'a fine doctor', and ended with wishes like 'may you live to a hundred' and 'may God not deprive us of you'. It was clear he had...