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The Fiction Emailer


A newsletter that aims to make sense of our chaotic world through the lens of ‘Speculative Journalism & Fiction’.

Find here non-fiction essays revolving around books + pop-culture + media, and ideas that turn complex realities into optimistic ‘What if?’ scenarios.

Also dive into monthly fictional stories set in ‘The Paper Chronicles Universe’ where journalists & writers live in a
retro-futuristic sci-fi fantasy world.


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How I'm Using Imaginative Worlds to Make Sense of the News

Sep 7, 2025

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4 min read

How I'm Using Imaginative Worlds to Make Sense of the News

Welcome to Fiction Emailer: a newsletter that aims to make sense of our chaotic world through the lens of ‘Speculative Journalism & Fiction’. By rayaan_writer.

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan

Quick Reads:🪙Scroll Gold + 💌Happy Inbox Series

🪙Scroll Gold

A not so ‘Merry Christmas’ in India + Curation of Best 2025 Books

Dec 28, 2025

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4 min read

A not so ‘Merry Christmas’ in India + Curation of Best 2025 Books

🪙Scroll Gold: The State of MAGA-USA, Jeffrey Epstein, TikTok & More

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan
Messy Messi Tour & Indian Football + Epstein's Wealth Empire + LitRPG Author & His Crazy Fans

Dec 21, 2025

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3 min read

Messy Messi Tour & Indian Football + Epstein's Wealth Empire + LitRPG Author & His Crazy Fans

🪙Scroll Gold—Your weekly antidote to info overload. Articles, books, insights that actually mattered—handpicked and ready to read.

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan
The Newsletter That Reads 1,000 Articles Daily So You Don't Have To

Dec 19, 2025

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4 min read

The Newsletter That Reads 1,000 Articles Daily So You Don't Have To

💌Happy Inbox Series—Weekly Newsletter picks that'll make you actually want to check your email

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan
The Harvard-Backed Newsletter Decoding Journalism's Future

Dec 13, 2025

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5 min read

The Harvard-Backed Newsletter Decoding Journalism's Future

💌Happy Inbox Series—Weekly Newsletter picks that'll make you actually want to check your email

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan

🪙Scroll Gold

Dark Feature on Bleak Tech Future & Indian Football, Musk's Cheap Net + Leftist Crime Books

Dec 11, 2025

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4 min read

Dark Feature on Bleak Tech Future & Indian Football, Musk's Cheap Net + Leftist Crime Books

🪙Scroll Gold—Your weekly antidote to info overload. Articles, books, insights that actually mattered—handpicked and ready to read.

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan
How Simon Owen's Media Newsletter Decodes Publishing & Money

Dec 7, 2025

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4 min read

How Simon Owen's Media Newsletter Decodes Publishing & Money

💌Happy Inbox Series—Weekly Newsletter picks that'll make you actually want to check your email

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan
Netflix Eats Hollywood, The Typewriter Doctor + Sanchar Saathi App Breakup

Dec 6, 2025

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2 min read

Netflix Eats Hollywood, The Typewriter Doctor + Sanchar Saathi App Breakup

🪙Scroll Gold—Your weekly antidote to info overload. Articles, books, insights that actually mattered—handpicked and ready to read.

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan

Featured Articles

What Will Happen If Our World Flips Like Apple TV's Pluribus?

Dec 16, 2025

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10 min read

What Will Happen If Our World Flips Like Apple TV's Pluribus?

When an alien virus turns humans into a non-violent hivemind in the sci-fi series (by 'Breaking Bad' creator), it feels dystopian. But real-world evidence from Costa Rica, 7th Century Arabia, and neuroscience tells a different story: perhaps we don't need struggle, we just need safety?

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan
How Stranger Things Got Made: Writing is like Pulling Teeth, and that's Normal

Nov 30, 2025

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9 min read

How Stranger Things Got Made: Writing is like Pulling Teeth, and that's Normal

The Duffer Brothers' Masterclass reveals the unglamorous truth of crafting a fictional world: discipline creates conditions for creativity.

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan
This Movie Made Me Understand How Deepfakes Could Start Nuclear War

Nov 22, 2025

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7 min read

This Movie Made Me Understand How Deepfakes Could Start Nuclear War

Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite shows what Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War book only described: the suffocating terror of making life-or-death decisions when you can't verify anything. And we're living in that world right now.

Mohammed Rayaan
Mohammed Rayaan

Guest Essays

How India's 2025 Cricket Win Can Transform Women's Sports

Nov 18, 2025

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6 min read

How India's 2025 Cricket Win Can Transform Women's Sports

India has the blueprint for sporting success. The question is whether we'll use it beyond cricket

Tusshotopia
Tusshotopia
The Nitish Paradox: Bihar’s Politics and the Theatre of the Absurd

Nov 13, 2025

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6 min read

The Nitish Paradox: Bihar’s Politics and the Theatre of the Absurd

Will Bihar join Maharashtra as a state of permanent political confusion?

Bavaria
Bavaria

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