Futurist Letters

Imperial Flower Nails & Beauty

Fiction: A boy watches his mother at work.

Feb 4 • Lillian Wang Selonick

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January 2026

The Zoltar Scene from the Film Big

Fiction: A remix about an uncanny machine.

Jan 16 • Keith Vile

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Burn Zone

Fiction: The first chapter of the new novella from Cairo Smith.

Jan 3 • Cairo Smith

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Google Maps Tourism

Fiction: A runaway daydream.

Jan 1 • Grace Forrester-Young

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December 2025

State of the Journal V

News and reflections on Futurist Letters.

Dec 21, 2025 • Cairo Smith

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Vote in the 2025 Futurist Letters Awards

A prize in fiction and a prize in nonfiction.

Dec 11, 2025 • Cairo Smith

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A Mild European Avalanche

Fiction: Thoughts in a diary.

Dec 10, 2025 • Philip Traylen

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Current Affairs

Fiction: The first chapter of the new novel from Cairo Smith.

Dec 6, 2025 • Cairo Smith

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There and Back Again

A word on a detransition.

Dec 3, 2025 • pris86

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November 2025

Brand New God

Fiction: A disappearance in the wilderness.

Nov 26, 2025 • Arbogast

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S1E29 - Two Dicks and a Ballard

Cairo, Kenny, and Lillian book club it up on two PKD stories and one by J. G. Ballard.

Nov 24, 2025 • Cairo Smith, Kenny White, and Lillian Wang Selonick

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1:21:34

And a Nightcap

Fiction: A faltering cornucopia of dinner dates.

Nov 19, 2025 • Thomas Ellen

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