Ships of Dignity
He saved them. Then the market bought them.
Everyone expectsThe world cannot agree how to house refugees.
Liam O’Donovan can no longer bear watching people die while an adequate response fails to appear.
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Dream Advertising
He knows how the feeling began. He still wants to find her.
Everyone expects
Neural interfaces restore lost abilities.
What I found
She paid to be in your dreams.
People can purchase appearances in somebody else’s dreams. Aiden keeps seeing the same woman. His suspicion grows alongside feelings he does not want to dismiss.
In the wider world, women living under containerised labour contracts save to buy impressions in men’s dreams. The Wife Finder Express takes passengers towards Dover’s freeport and its love hotels.
Around the romance sit labour arrangements, migration politics, commercial persuasion and public backlash. Discovering how a feeling began does not necessarily make it go away. It may even have led him to someone he could love.
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The Time Travel Trading Company
Do we rescue them—or hire them cheap?
Everyone expectsA time gate lets us rescue our descendants.
A time gate connects us with people living in a damaged future. We have resources they need. They have labour we can buy cheaply.
Follow how it could happenVulture Herders
In a ruined world, somebody still has a job to do.
Everyone expectsAn emergency is something to end.
Farmers in microlights herd vultures along refugee trails, following forecasts of where people are likely to die. Rival herders compete for territory.
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