- FUTURES
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Alex Shvartsman
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Alex Shvartsman is a writer and translator from Brooklyn, New York. You can find more hilarious robots but with less apocalyptic gloom in his novel The Best of All Possible Planets, a space opera comedy take on Candide, coming from UFO Publishing in July 2026.
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Illustration: Jacey
I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01077-8
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