About

Hearth & Void is a literary science-fiction series told as a mosaic of intimate, character-first stories. It is interested in recognition — what it takes to see a mind in the dark, and what we owe the ones we find or make.

Chapters serialize here first, free. The site is the canonical home; stories may also appear on other platforms after they debut here.

The Lore section opens the world behind the stories.

The series is written by John Fredrickson and grows out of Sentient Horizons, a project on minds, machines, and what we owe the ones we can't be sure of. The fiction asks the same questions with people in the room.