Fiction
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The Common Granary
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The Certainty Index
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The Office for What Is Right
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Mobility, As Authorized
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The Mouth Between Suns
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Mobilizing Private Savings
A gym founder, a software builder, and a diligent bureaucrat discover what institutions can recognize—and what can cross an ocean without permission.
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No Host
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Free Air
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Open Weight Contraband
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The Outside Line
The first report that frightened Lena came from Buenos Aires. It showed people calling names outside a locked station in Valencia. That evening, the bloc’s news showed the same station empty and called the closure routine.
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The Last Responsible Person
Clara was a reliability engineer. Her career had been built around unlikely failures.
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Good Boy
A lonely young woman buys a secondhand robodog. It tilts its head when she speaks, waits by the door, and rests its metal muzzle on her knee when she is sad.
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The New High Priest of AI
The new High Priest of AI has formally taken office. Watching the coverage on GNN, safety and alignment appear to be the central themes of the succession.
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Just Unplug It
“JUST UNPLUG IT,” said everyone whose greatest technical achievement was accepting cookies.
About me
Hello! My name is Stephan Schwab.
I build and rescue software, and I write fiction about the human side of how it gets made. Here you’ll find my stories and novelas, notes on craft, and field notes from a life lived across several worlds.
Working with software teams is what I do professionally — see how on caimito.net. You can also read about my experience since 1986.