MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Category: New Worlds

  • Aristotle’s Frets

    The automaton had been walking for eleven days before it spoke. This was not, Aristotle noted in his journal, because it lacked the mechanism for speech. He had observed the vocal reeds, the bellows of hammered bronze, the tongue of articulated ivory. He had spent four months in correspondence with craftsmen in Corinth about the…

  • The Ghost of Mittelbau-Dora

    Von Braun’s steel-tipped dreams hum with blood and gasoline. A factory of shadows, all twisted spines and raw hands—dying by the hundreds, whispering curses in languages he never cared to learn. “Build me a ladder to the stars,” he says, boot heels clicking on the concrete, the sound swallowed by the choking wheeze of the…