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Out today! Permutation: Issue One The best, weirdest science fiction from across the simcluster, free online. Maybe prophetic? We're making a new web home for scifi. 🪢6 short stories 🪢3 poems 🪢A book review? 🪢A puzzle?! 🪢479,001,600 manifestos permutation.ink/one 🧵

Julia by @eudoxia.bsky.social - an aphasic space station monitors an anomalous object, while keeping the last two humans alive. Read it here: permutation.ink/one/

To the Genii of the Faint Blue Home by @linneaisaac.bsky.social - an ode to a dying world. Read it here: permutation.ink/one/

Thceynling by @etirabys.bsky.social - a Thceyn birthing takes the inverse shape of ours. Read it here: permutation.ink/one/

Gyre by @vgel.me - a very broken artificial intelligence tries to remember step by step where and why it is. Read it here: permutation.ink/one/

The Distaff Texts by @tomasbjartur.bsky.social - a loyal bibliognost writes idle letters. Read it here: permutation.ink/one/

Finis Mirabilis by @ctrlcreep.bsky.social - Part One of a new novella (?!) we will be serializing in coming issues! 🐸 Read it here: permutation.ink/one/

Emergent ASCII Art from LLMs, with @dyot-meet-mat.bsky.social - we plan to include at least one piece per Permutation issue on real-world AI, and this issue it's a gallery of the fascinating "ASCII megastructures" Mona has collected over the years. See them here: permutation.ink/one/

Crossword No. 1, MUTE INK, a cryptic set by mysterious collaborator Follinense. It's also two poems?! Crack it here: permutation.ink/one/