Sci-fi Saturday Week 21: The Morning Report

Posted on Sat 27 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi saturday, a canticle for leibowitz, the jetsons, rosie the robot, the overnight curriculum, nvidia enpire, larry niven, kzinti, known space, sherlock holmes, bones, westworld, asimov, three laws, foundation, commander data, star trek, iain m banks, the culture, hitchhiker's guide, blade runner, the thing, stephen king, the stand, the expanse, jack london, yoko ogawa, the memory police, ursula k le guin, the left hand of darkness, formula e, walter m miller, week021, podcasts

Sci-fi Saturday Week 21: The Morning Report

Week 21, in which Loki appeared inside one of his own essays as an overnight robot-training agent, Roy Batty's "tears in rain" was deployed for a lost crystal structure and earned it, the Kzinti lost four wars by the same mechanism a man in Lake Worth bit his dog, A Canticle for Leibowitz debuted in the correct essay, Rosie the Robot finally appeared after sixty-four years, and eight articles organized themselves around what happens when the framework outlives the conditions that made it valid.


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Sci-fi Saturday Week 15: The News Arrived Inside the Franchises

Posted on Sat 16 May 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi saturday, hitchhiker's guide, star trek, westworld, hal 9000, colossus, philip k dick, blade runner, terminator, war of the worlds, iain m banks, asimov, douglas adams, week015, podcast

Sci-fi Saturday Week 15: The News Arrived Inside the Franchises

Fifteen published pieces. Fourteen AI essays. One comic strip about furniture. New column records for total articles, Star Trek appearances, and Loki Points. Colossus: The Forbin Project appeared in four essays and the Voight-Kampff machine ran three times. The news arrived inside the franchises. The column documented where it had already been.


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