What if Tolkien started a newsletter?
That's the Spirit of the Fiction Emailer.
It aims to make sense of our chaotic world through the lens of ‘Speculative Journalism & Fiction’.
Find here long-form essays and interviews that will help you think clearer, read sharper, write better, and look forward to an optimistic future.
Because in a world where everyone can artificially create anything, the people who win are the ones who think the long-term game with skills that outlasts AI with virtues that foster impact, value and legacy.
The Fiction Emailer is not for everyone.
But it's very much for someone.You're that someone if:
You believe writing sharpens thinking, and thinking sharpens everything else
You finish novels and immediately ask "what does this mean for the real world?"
You're curious about how global creatives — writers, designers, strategists, foresight professionals — actually do their best work
You want writing to be more than a career skill — you want it to be a way of leaving something behind
If that's you, you're home.
The Fiction Emailer is a newsletter built on one simple bet: the best frameworks for making sense of our world aren't productivity systems or AI workflows.
They're Speculative Journalism and Speculative Fiction.
Here's the quick distinction:
Speculative Journalism helps you look forward — imagining what the future could look like from where we stand today, through an optimistic lens, even when the present feels grim.
Speculative Fiction drops you inside that future — through stories set in wildly imaginative worlds that let you live the possibilities, not just analyze them.
Together, they function like a cognitive GPS. Speculative journalism maps the terrain. Speculative fiction lets you walk through it.
The Fiction Emailer gives you:
Deep-dive essays that sharpen how you think, read, and write — with frameworks drawn from journalism, foresight studies, and design thinking
Stories from the Paper Chronicles Universe — speculative fiction where journalists investigate fantastical futures
Interviews with journalist-creators, fiction authors, scientists, and entrepreneurs — asking them how they capture ideas, how they communicate, how they make money, and how they've built something that lasts.