Only Human · Collection
Deus Ex
Humana
Frank Gullo
A Collection
Thirty years of speculative fiction and thought, spanning alien worlds, a quarterback who refuses to quit, surveillance states, and programmed afterlives.
Contents // Manifest
01
How a 1988 arcade game about robot football became the story that wouldn't let go.
02
The Girl and the Alien
Story · 1997
A human teen on Cranarr faces her beliefs about the alien Cranans.
03
Only Human
Novella · 2017
Mark Borraisle. The last human starter in a robot-dominated football league. He isn't done yet.
04
A college entrance essay from the future.
05
Freedom Insurance
Short Story
A sales pitch for a product that guarantees your safety. All it costs is everything.
06
A man volunteers to die for science. He returns. Something about his awakening feels wrong — and now it's spreading.
07
The Essential Asimov in the Age of AI
Essay
Asimov started these conversations in 1942. We're finally ready to have them.
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The original 1997 publication — the story that became The Girl and the Alien, with an author's note on why it changed.