This paper introduces the Creative Intelligence Loop (CIL), a novel socio-technical framework for responsible human-AI co-creation. Rooted in the 'Workflow as Medium' paradigm, the CIL proposes a disciplined structure for dynamic human-AI collaboration, guiding the strategic integration of diverse AI teammates who function as collaborators while the human remains the final arbiter for ethical alignment and creative integrity. The CIL was empirically demonstrated through the practice-led creation of two graphic novellas, investigating how AI could serve as an effective creative colleague within a subjective medium lacking objective metrics. The process required navigating multifaceted challenges including AI's 'jagged frontier' of capabilities, sycophancy, and attention-scarce feedback environments. This prompted iterative refinement of teaming practices, yielding emergent strategies: a multi-faceted critique system integrating adversarial AI roles to counter sycophancy, and prioritizing 'feedback-ready' concrete artifacts to elicit essential human critique. The resulting graphic novellas analyze distinct socio-technical governance failures: 'The Steward' examines benevolent AI paternalism in smart cities, illustrating how algorithmic hubris can erode freedom; 'Fork the Vote' probes democratic legitimacy by comparing centralized AI opacity with emergent collusion in federated networks. This work contributes a self-improving framework for responsible human-AI co-creation and two graphic novellas designed to foster AI literacy and dialogue through accessible narrative analysis of AI's societal implications.

So far, it has been an encouraging year for science fiction. My favourite new offering to date is probably Hal LaCroix's Here and Beyond, but then, I'm a sucker for a good ark-ship story. In LaCroix's take on the trope, a vessel called Shipworld is heading for HD-40307g, "a habitable Super Earth hug orbiting a simmering red dwarf star". It is a journey of 42 light years – meaning that none of the 600 souls who begin the journey will actually live to see HD-40307g. Only the Seventh Generation will make planetfall. There are rules on board.

Murder is in the air. Everywhere I turn, I see images of a robot killing machine. Then I remind myself where I actually am: in a library lecture room on a college campus in East Texas. The air is a little musty with the smell of old books, and a middle-aged woman with wavy gray-brown hair bows her head as she takes the podium. She might appear a kindly librarian or a cat lady (confirmed), but her mind is a capacious galaxy of starships, flying bipeds, and ancient witches.

In "Server," your novella, an American teaching English in Japan is drawn into an old video game, where he finds his former best friend, Vic, now dead, somehow alive and in control. Until this novella, very little of your work has included fantastical elements. What led you to incorporate this idea, and what challenges did it pose for you? It was pretty challenging: this was fairly far outside my comfort zone. Nothing I've written--book, essay, audio fiction, nothing--has taken me as long to actually finish.

Apple's Watch Ultra, with its 2000-nit digital display and GPS capabilities, is a far cry from its Revolutionary War-era self-winding forebears. What sorts of wondrous body-mounted technologies might we see another hundred years hence? In his new book, The Skeptic's Guide to the Future, Dr. Steven Novella (with assists from his brothers, Bob and Jay Novella) examines the history of wearables and the technologies that enable them to extrapolate where further advances in flexible circuitry, wireless connectivity and thermoelectric power generation might lead. Excerpted from the book The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow by Dr. Steven Novella, with Bob Novella and Jay Novella. As the name implies, wearable technology is simply technology designed to be worn, so it will advance as technology in general advances.

As children growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, the brothers were obsessed with science fiction and futurism. "Our younger selves definitely imagined that by now it would be like 2001: A Space Odyssey," Novella says in Episode 526 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "There's going to be permanent space stations in space, there's going to be an infrastructure between here and the moon, a lunar base. All that stuff, we took it for granted." The next few decades showed that futurism is harder than it looks.

While many scifi authors write serial novels to make a living specializes the Chinese-American in short stories & novellas and publishes them infrequently. In the past 28 years, he's released 17 short stories and novellas (gq.com). The frugality seems to support the quality, Chiang collected a lot prestigious awards and his novella "Story of Your Live" was turned into the movie "Arrival". Recently Chiang published his second book: "Exhalation" ( amazon). This book is again a collection of short stories like the first book "Stories of Your Life and Others" from 2002.

The new Syfy series Nightflyers is based on a novella by George R. R. Martin that was first published back in 1980. Fantasy author Erin Lindsey says that the original story feels dated, but that it displays a basic storytelling competence that the show never really achieves. "The things that I didn't like about the Martin novella were details, at the end of the day, but I thought the bones were good, and in a certain way this is the reverse," Lindsey says in Episode 341 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "Some of the details are cool, but they can't make up for the fact that the bones aren't there." Science fiction author Matthew Kressel notes that Nightflyers never really moves beyond recycling familiar elements from better movies and TV shows.

This is small of me, but I can't help myself. Someone says they're obsessed with the TV version of Game of Thrones--or The Expanse, Altered Carbon, The Shannara Chronicles, The 100, The Magicians, whatever. I tilt my head forward, peer over my non-existent glasses, and inquire, with what I like to imagine is a sparkle of menace: Yes, but have you read the books? The hiccup of guilt is so pure. Of course they have not.

On March 9, 2017, ZT, an underground technologist and writer, read his upcoming novella: Architects of the Apocalypse, to a group of his adherents in the basement of an abandoned bar in Nashville, Tennessee. The occasion was the Third Annual Meltdown Congress--an underground, invitation-only organization dedicated to the survival of the human species in the face of near certain digital annihilation. I was present, along with three of my compatriots, plus about 30 gray hat hackers (hackers or cybersecurity experts without malicious intent) who represent the cream of the American hacking community. It chronicles an age in which artificial intelligence and its adjutant automata run the world--in which humanity is free and is cared for entirely by the automata. The artificial intelligence in this novella has organized itself along hierarchical lines, and the ultimate decision-making function is called "The Recursive Decider."