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F.O.Gameiro

@fogameiro.bsky.social
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F.O. Gameiro writes essays and speculative fiction about consciousness, identity, and biology, and how their interaction gives rise to the societies we inhabit. I'm writing a speculative fiction series. substack.com/@fogameiro

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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 19h
O Sarronco substack.com/@fogameiro/n...
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O Sarronco
A little Portuguese horror
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Chapter 5 of The Grapes of Wrath fogameiro.substack.com/p/chapter-5-...
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Chapter 5 of The Grapes of Wrath
Monsters
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Living Longer fogameiro.substack.com/p/living-lon...
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Living Longer
A lengthening story
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Living Longer fogameiro.substack.com/p/living-lon...
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Living Longer
Short story - getting longer
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Smoke fogameiro.substack.com/p/smoke?r=73...
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Smoke
A Short Story
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Living Longer
Added scene 3
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Incense
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Incense
Short Fiction
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Living Longer
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Living Longer
Speculative Fiction: Redrafted Scene 1 and added Scene 2
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Living Longer
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Living Longer
Short SciFi Opening Scene
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Who’s Ezra?
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Who’s Ezra?
Short Fiction
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Honest Culture: Part 2 fogameiro.substack.com/p/honest-cul...
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Honest Culture: Part 2
Short Fiction
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Call Me Back fogameiro.substack.com/p/call-me-ba...
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Call Me Back
Short Fiction
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Arcadia fogameiro.substack.com/p/arcadia?r=...
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Arcadia
Short Fiction
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Chapter 4: A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
Systems That Stay Themselves
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I Saw You
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I Saw You
Short Fiction
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Picking
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Picking
I hate it when he doesn’t start the car.
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Flurry of Fiction fogameiro.substack.com/p/flurry-of-...
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Flurry of Fiction
Mid-August 2026
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Chapter 3: A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
Molecules That Remember
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Chapter 2: A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
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Chapter 2: A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
Chapter 2: The Cost of Erasure
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
CHAPTER ONE: A Ladder from Thermodynamics to Society
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A few thoughts on speculative fiction and sci-fi.
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Closer to Home: Rarer Science Fiction
Loud Premise: Quiet Lessions
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And, a twist.
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Schismogenesis (Novel) Chapter 5
And a twist (Draft 1.0)
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
WIP Schismogenesis Chapter 4
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Schismogenesis (Novel) Chapter 4
Draft 1.0
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New story, same world as EXAPTATION, 65 years later. I'm going to draft this one completely publicly on my Substack. SCHISMOGENESIS - CHAPTER 3 (early draft)
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Schismogenesis (Novel) Chapter 3
Draft 1.2
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New story, same world as EXAPTATION, 65 years later. I'm going to draft this one completely publicly on my Substack. SCHISMOGENESIS - CHAPTER 2 (early draft)
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Schismogenesis (Novel) Chapter 2
Draft 1.0
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New story, same world as EXAPTATION, 65 years later. I'm going to draft this one completely publicly on my Substack. SCHISMOGENESIS - CHAPTER 1 (early draft)
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Working Title: Schismogenesis (Novel) Chapter 1
Draft 1.3 - WIP
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Working Title: Schismogenesis (Novel) Chapter 1
Draft 1.2 - WIP
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'd love beta readers for my novel, EXAPTATION. EXAPTATION is a contemporary grounded speculative fiction novel built around this premise: One body. Two minds. Which deserves to live? storyoriginapp.com/betacopies/0...
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EXAPTATION
Complete at 97,000 words, EXAPTATION is a multi-POV novel which anneals character-driven emotional depth of Richard Powers' Bewilderment with the high-concept scientific suspense of Blake Crouch's Upg...
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you are a fan of literary speculative fiction - particularly the kind focused on human consciousness - you might enjoy reading my beta manuscript, EXAPTATION. I need beta readers and would welcome your help! open.substack.com/pub/fogameir...
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EXAPTATION
Speculative Fiction Beta Readers Wanted (Needed)!
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Person on the Other End of the Tech open.substack.com/pub/fogameir...
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The Person on the Other End of the Tech
"Just slow down" ain't so easy for everyone
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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THE INTERFACE STAYS
A short story about A.I.
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Language Entanglement
Over the past few weeks, I’ve (not very consciously) written out a framework that defines identity as process (transporters) → information as ontology (Atlantic response) → exaptation as mechanism → m...
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Unified theory, maybe? Of life, consciousness, and morality? open.substack.com/pub/fogameir...
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Structure Under Constraint
Life, Mind, and Value in a Non-Resetting Universe
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Consciousness: A System That Can’t Afford to Forget open.substack.com/pub/fogameir...
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Consciousness: A System That Can’t Afford to Forget
The problem before The Hard Problem
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
open.substack.com/pub/fogameir... @adamfrank4.bsky.social - your article in the Atlantic a while back kicked me off ruminating about physics and "gooey chemistry" of biology. I've written a few essays circling it since then, but here's where it landed.
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Rock I Dropped On My Own Head On Guilt - in me substack.com/@fogameiro/n...
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The Rock I Dropped On My Own Head
On Guilt - in me.
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
fogameiro.substack.com/p/where-does... Might be a little too heavy. I'm most certainly wrong about this, but here's where I've landed. Morality is neither divinely inspired nor completely subjective.
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
fogameiro.substack.com/p/a-bigelow-... A little context about the real guy who designed the space where my fictional characters, Trevor and Ellen, went for a walk.
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
fogameiro.substack.com/p/balanced-e... Trevor and Ellen go for a walk.
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
NOT FAIR THAT IT’S NOT FAIR I'm crafting short stories and vignettes within the world of my work-in-progress novel (optimistically thinking trilogy). They'll give me a chance to build the world, maybe improve my writing, and maybe enteratain a few readers. Here is one. The tragedy of Sara Blockett.
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NOT FAIR THAT IT’S NOT FAIR
Short backstory from the fictional world of Immune Exaptation.
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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It’s Basically Done…
Right?
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Why is so much writing on Substack about writing *on Substack*?
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I rewatched “Arrival" for the first time in a decade. I had forgotten how emotionally and intellectually engaging it is. Floored. Have you watched it? Or read “Story of your Life” by @tedchiang.bsky.social ? If so, what did you think?
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Every Story Has a Happy Ending (If You Stop Early Enough)
Told Through the Lens of Medicine Development
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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F.O.Gameiro @fogameiro.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Thank you, @adamfrank4.bsky.social ! Never imagined you'd have time to read it!
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