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Francis Bass is a writer living in Philadelphia. His writing has appeared in Escape Pod, Apex Magazine, Electric Literature, Reckoning, and others, and he has self-published many other works.

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1. FRANCIS: Happy fucking new year!!!
TEXT: We’ve passed 1.5 C. This year and last, and the last 11 months before that.
2. TEXT: But that’s just weather. A year of 3 is weather. 30 years is climate.
3. TEXT: And the IPCC gave a 10-year average as the target. We’ll certainly blow that. Maybe a 30-year average will keep it under 2C.

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Slow Gods

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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 232, January 2026

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“There are ecological, biological, sociological, and psychological problems that can never be solved to make this idea work. The physical problems of propulsion have capture your fancy, and perhaps they can be solved, but they are the easy ones.”
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“Statistically it was not greatly different than it had been for previous generations, but anecdotally it had become so prominent that every problem was noticed and remarked. The cognitive error called ease of representation thrust them into a space where every problem they witnessed convinced them they were in an unprecedented colapse. They were getting depressed.”
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