Archive - Futurist Letters

State of the Journal V

News and reflections on Futurist Letters.

24 mins ago • Cairo Smith

Vote in the 2025 Futurist Letters Awards

A prize in fiction and a prize in nonfiction.

Dec 11 • Cairo Smith

A Mild European Avalanche

Fiction: Thoughts in a diary.

Dec 10 • Philip Traylen

Current Affairs

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

Dec 6 • Cairo Smith

There and Back Again

A word on a detransition.

Dec 3 • pris86

November 2025

Fiction: A disappearance in the wilderness.

Nov 26 • Arbogast

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 • Cairo Smith, Kenny White, and Lillian Wang Selonick

1:21:34

Fiction: A faltering cornucopia of dinner dates.

Nov 19 • Thomas Ellen

S1E28 - Kamil Kazani Aftershow

Cairo and Kenny chat about their interview with Kamil Kazani.

Nov 17 • Cairo Smith and Kenny White

21:56

S1E27 - Kamil Kazani

Historian Kamil Kazani talks with Cairo and Kenny about the war in Ukraine and the nature of Russia.

Nov 17 • Cairo Smith, Kenny White, and kamilkazani

1:17:48

A film about a very misaligned LLM.

Nov 6 • Cairo Smith

S1E26 - Matthew Fairman, Luke Dimyan, and Cairo Smith

Kenny talks to actors Matthew Fairman and Luke Dimyan about their techno-thriller "Red Team," with Cairo joining in as writer-director and episode…

Nov 6 • Kenny White, Luke Dimyan, Matthew Fairman, and Cairo Smith

1:26:38

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