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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SpaceBnB
A national hero enters the service economy.
Everyone expects
Space travel gets cheaper.
What I found
The astronaut is cleaning up after your stag do.
Space travel becomes automated and ordinary enough to sell as an experience. The astronaut’s rare skills remain part of the attraction, but the job increasingly resembles hospitality.
A former national hero cleans up after an orbital stag party to protect a five-star rating. The extraordinary place has become somebody’s routine work.
The reversal follows cheaper access into status, labour and the customer relationship rather than stopping at the price of a launch.
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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 happenDream Advertising
She paid to be in your dreams.
Everyone expectsNeural interfaces restore lost abilities.
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.
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