Consider what it means to write speculative fiction under the eye of a world-machine — a system that treats people (perhaps people like yourself) as cogs and parts and things to be controlled.

Consider what it means to write speculative fiction under the eye of a world-machine — a system that treats people (perhaps people like yourself) as cogs and parts and things to be controlled. Consider what hope or change might be accomplished without the speculative imagination — not just writing and art, but any sort of societal or systemic change.