<story><title>Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)</title><url>https://bruces.medium.com/homo-sapiens-declared-extinct-by-bruce-sterling-1999-cc8b0f94b195</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t read or thought of this in a long time. It&amp;#x27;s a really good short story. Thank you for sharing!&lt;p&gt;Some of my other short story favorites:&lt;p&gt;- The Egg, &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.galactanet.com&amp;#x2F;oneoff&amp;#x2F;theegg_mod.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.galactanet.com&amp;#x2F;oneoff&amp;#x2F;theegg_mod.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- MMAcevedo, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qntm.org&amp;#x2F;mmacevedo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qntm.org&amp;#x2F;mmacevedo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;shsdavisapes.pbworks.com&amp;#x2F;f&amp;#x2F;Omelas.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;shsdavisapes.pbworks.com&amp;#x2F;f&amp;#x2F;Omelas.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Last Contact, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zestfullyblog.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;last-contact-by-stephen-baxter-part-1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zestfullyblog.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;last-contact-by-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mjfisher</author><text>Seems a good time to link to the well-loved short sci-fi story &amp;quot;They&amp;#x27;re Made out of Meat&amp;quot; by Terry Bisson:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;people&amp;#x2F;dpolicar&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;prose&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;thinkingMeat.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;people&amp;#x2F;dpolicar&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;prose&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;think...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>networked</author><text>Since &amp;quot;Lena&amp;quot; (&amp;quot;MMAcevedo&amp;quot;) and &amp;quot;They&amp;#x27;re Made Out of Meat&amp;quot; from this subthread are on my &amp;quot;fiction recommendations&amp;quot; list, let me share the list: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dbohdan.com&amp;#x2F;fiction-recs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dbohdan.com&amp;#x2F;fiction-recs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend &amp;quot;Basilisk collection&amp;quot; by Blackle Mori (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;suricrasia.online&amp;#x2F;unfiction&amp;#x2F;basilisk&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;suricrasia.online&amp;#x2F;unfiction&amp;#x2F;basilisk&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;), a fascinating short story written as a fictional Wikipedia page, like &amp;quot;Lena&amp;quot;. It is about a partial hash inversion anomaly. Really! I would call its genre &amp;quot;hard computer science fiction&amp;quot;. It was a delight to stumble upon after I followed a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;suricrasia.online&amp;#x2F;iceberg&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;suricrasia.online&amp;#x2F;iceberg&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)</title><url>https://bruces.medium.com/homo-sapiens-declared-extinct-by-bruce-sterling-1999-cc8b0f94b195</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t read or thought of this in a long time. It&amp;#x27;s a really good short story. Thank you for sharing!&lt;p&gt;Some of my other short story favorites:&lt;p&gt;- The Egg, &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.galactanet.com&amp;#x2F;oneoff&amp;#x2F;theegg_mod.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.galactanet.com&amp;#x2F;oneoff&amp;#x2F;theegg_mod.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- MMAcevedo, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qntm.org&amp;#x2F;mmacevedo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qntm.org&amp;#x2F;mmacevedo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;shsdavisapes.pbworks.com&amp;#x2F;f&amp;#x2F;Omelas.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;shsdavisapes.pbworks.com&amp;#x2F;f&amp;#x2F;Omelas.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Last Contact, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zestfullyblog.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;last-contact-by-stephen-baxter-part-1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zestfullyblog.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;last-contact-by-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mjfisher</author><text>Seems a good time to link to the well-loved short sci-fi story &amp;quot;They&amp;#x27;re Made out of Meat&amp;quot; by Terry Bisson:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;people&amp;#x2F;dpolicar&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;prose&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;thinkingMeat.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;people&amp;#x2F;dpolicar&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;prose&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;think...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dTal</author><text>Nitpick: the title of the qntm story is &amp;quot;Lena&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;MMAcevedo&amp;quot; - the latter is the title of the fictional Wikipedia article that is the framing device :)</text></comment>