Utopia Without Us
A novella in five parts — by Hulki Okan Tabak
The novella runs from the first part to the last, and that is the order it was written to be read in. But each of the five movements is also a door — open any one below.
Read from the first →
The whole novella on one page
Each part can also be heard — a machine reading in a neural voice, the author’s words unchanged. It is an accessibility floor, not an audiobook: the written text is the book.
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1
The Old Language of Departure
She remembered the first time she saw The Matrix.
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2
The Inheritance
Two hundred years is not a long time for a planet.
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3
The Witness
The first thing he understood about this world was that it was loud.
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4
Field Envoy’s Account: Planetary Body 7743-δ
Transmitted from surface station, southern landmass, seventy-third local rotation.
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5
The Frequency of Origin
On the eighty-third day, the craft rose from the valley between the two rivers and climbed through the atmosphere in a long,…
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