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"Now" articles
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"Beyond" articles
Articles in the "Beyond" section explore speculative concepts: faster-than-light propulsion, terraforming, megastructures, machine consciousness, and similar ideas. These articles are thought experiments, not forecasts. Where a concept is compatible with known physics we say so. Where it requires physics we do not yet have, or physics that may never turn out to be realisable, we say so. Where an idea is a pure literary device, we say so.
Readers should not interpret a well-written speculative article as a claim that the concept will be realised, or that anyone knows how to realise it. In many cases, the honest answer is that nobody does.
Library fiction
Everything under /beyond/library/ is fiction. Characters, dialogue, quoted logs, in-universe organisations, and timeline details are invented. They are not statements about the real world, about real people, or about specific real organisations. Where fiction uses the name of a real agency or technology as background flavour, it is used in the loosest possible sense and should not be read as reporting on that agency or technology.
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Last reviewed on 2026-10-03.