SB Morrison

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I write speculative fiction and drama about technology, capital, and what people do for a living, instead of living.

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Whispers in Chicagoland

The domes that were built to keep civilization alive, now keep people apart. Information brokers trade in captured information. When one whisper rat records something she shouldn’t, she has to fight for her life in the underworks of Chicagoland.

Novella. 25,000–26,000 words. Free to subscribers on 31 December.

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nanodome Nanobot-built domes have sealed the surviving cities off from one another. Information brokers make a living selling the secrets of their own dome to the next one. kapital A near future of market fundamentalism where a Rating prices your future net worth and decides what you’re allowed to become. A programming prodigy finds the flaw in the algorithm that issues it. found-kafka A series of plays, found and interpreted. The twenty-first century office, an airport lounge, a negotiating table, and a meeting — late twentieth-century absurdism, anticipated. speculative-dramas Imagined scenarios — how a famous screenplay came to be, how the world handles innovations around aging, desire and disorder, and other people’s children.

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  • Plot Archetypes

    sbmorrison / docs / plot-archetypes.md a partial and evolving list Introduction My philosophy about stories is one of influence, imitation, and inheritance. We start to hear stories, and…

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