The engineer’s future

At its end, we find that the arc of history is that of a sub-orbital rocket. Once we climbed, further and further from the Earth and soil that birthed us, ever closer to the world of abstracted physics, of photons gleaming on ice-rimed steel, endless orbits and the eternal vacuum.

Laepuria

The existence of the city of Laepuria is first felt in the marketplaces of Alexandria and Suakin. Ask a silk merchant in either city of the origin of his goods, and he will tell you of the Saharan city of weavers, whose shallow pitched workshops lie buried beneath the dunes. Life, he will tell you,…