Kiss the Future Dubai...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the fate of speculative fiction over the last week, and it’s been impossible for me to consider it without also thinking about the collapse of Dubai. Take a look at these pictures and tell me that you don’t get a least a little bit of a...

Dubai—The end of the ...

There’s a pretty good article here that covers the surreal ridiculousness of Dubai, and how, in retrospect, its collapse was inevitable. What the author doesn’t mention is how this paradise was essentially an orwellian nightmare—a place where people could be detained for...