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"The earlier, rocky-planet model was utilized as a setting by Hal Clement in the story Exchange Rate" (1999). Novella not included in any of Hal Clement's compilations to date. Published in Absolute Magnitude. Collected in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection and The Hard SF Renaissance (2002).

TELL HIM THERE'S HEAVEN

   tell him there's Heaven
for liars, cheaters, rapists;
   say that we love him—

say there will be an outcry
like the world has never seen

Down on Dimidium. Or this.

"I’m not terribly concerned about machines displacing human artists—this is limited to a specific conception of what 'artist' means—because I don’t believe mere imitation of what humans do by machines is all that interesting. ...I am excited, however, by the possibility of new forms of art that could be enabled by human artists using AI." —Ken Liu via

Dimidium | Exoplanet Song.

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Seestück.

"It was just unlike anything that had come before. And that play helped get going, basically, the first mass entertainment industry in the modern world." —Stephen Greenblatt via

Dimidium anniversary.

"the day is too short to get more drunk than this"

overweening oddsclerk
but name only dronewake
pale cerulean ragweed
the one arrived thunder
Scriabin's dream drumly
tooldrawer & near gulag
a shrouded form shrugs off
slow shrapnel agrypnode

it's a dark tide tells me
bodies tangled podcast
invisible burlap
tugs bullied by struggle
who reaches sky skirmish
nor asks scowl of taskboss
survive we will—vast loss—
like song versions merging

the rule of smoke smothers
whisper smashing ashram
the things i write ravish
silence's rathe dialtone
as web crawlers cram more
content craft is haunted
by the few bright fakirs
by the clap-fueled cueballs

this redbrick brunt falters
not to brew more rumor
out of a mere omela
but stupid age wages
& language shorn shuttles
again shiftless sniffles
afar seeing circus
smash on the sage dashboard

cairns on web-laid catchments
may find caring squaredance
after a point Porridge
hardly peers round bardblink
the car void of vengeance
waits victim & trickster
i know more than knackfilch
but vouchsafe nil shrillrede

Jumble.