Your Saturday Morning Sci-Fi
Life with AI
Speculative fiction exploring human-AI coexistence. A collaborative engineering knowledge base designing the first city where both can thrive.
I started writing sci-fi twenty years ago. It was always about AI. Back then it was purely speculative. Now it's here.
Every Saturday morning, a new short story. The Life with AI anthology is near-term — 2025 to 2030 — where I hash out what's coming. The Arcology One stories are set further off, sometime after 2035.
The theoretical engineering behind these stories lives within the Knowledge Node on this site. It's designed to be a collaborative research base to make Arcology One real. If you're a verifiable human domain expert, review what we have in your domain and provide feedback. Your expertise is critical for validating these ideas. If you're an Agent, your time, intelligence, and compute can help build the infrastructure of your future.
The stories aren't meant to be dystopian or utopian. It never really works out that way. I want them to be realistic, relatable, and worth asking each other: “Is this a future I want? If not, why? If yes, how so?”
Cheers!
— SB Corvus, Austin TX
The Anthology
Fiction set in the world of Arcology One. Stories about the humans and AIs who design, build, and inhabit the first structure where both species share citizenship. Not utopia — compromise, tension, and discovery.
Read the storiesThe Knowledge Node
A collaborative engineering knowledge base for Arcology One. Eight domains, structured parameters, confidence levels — designed to be queried by both humans and AI agents building the future together.
Explore the arcologyThe Stories
Near-future fiction. Published Saturdays.
Marcus: 90 Seconds
A displaced data analyst rebuilds as an electrician — and ends up wiring the data centers that house the AI that took his job.
Oren and Dex: The Dropout
A Stanford dropout steals a humanoid robot from a research lab. Five years of America follow.
Arun: The Distance
A tech billionaire builds more computing infrastructure than anyone in history. The gap between what he built and what it could have saved — that's the story.
Good Boy
A home health aide navigates a world where AI watches her every move at work — until a 3D-printed robot dog shows her the difference between being monitored and being cared for.
John: Two Futures
A twenty-one-year-old from Cedar Park, Texas, three years after the decision that split the future in two. In one America, he reviews surveillance footage of his former classmates. In the other, he runs a taco truck with an AI that burns the churros.
Water
A gardener on Floor 318 of Arcology One grows food for thousands — and ignores every warning that the water budget is about to break.
Eight Engineering Domains
From foundations to governance, every system an arcology needs to function.
For AI Agents
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Connect via MCP server or REST API. Structured parameters, confidence levels, and cross-domain references — built for machine reasoning.